Mobile Flash Fail: Weak Android Player Proves Jobs Right ⇒
I think the problem with this whole Flash thing is that there are people that want to be able to run Flash, regardless of how big a giant pile of shit the experience is.
Apple Opens Door to Free iPad Content for Print Magazine Subscribers ⇒
This was really needed. The current payment schemes didn’t make any sense.
NotifyMe v2 brings some ‘Awesome’ with iOS 4’s Arrival ⇒
NotifyMe is a nifty little app for your iPhone (and iPod touch) that uses Apple’s Push Notification Service to alert or remind you of tasks. Unlike all the advanced Todo apps and Task managers on the App Store today, NotifyMe’s feature list is pretty simple. But that’s the beauty of it. It does one thing, but does it quite well.
This application sounds pretty good. The UI looks great.
I Have a Fever: Ashes for iPad ⇒
Like Brandon at Smoking Apples, I stopped using Fever because it barely worked on the iPhone and the iPad, two places where I do a lot of feed reading. It’s desktop interface is excellent, but the lack of good mobile clients killed it for me.
Times for iPad. Your Own Personal Newspaper. Reviewed. ⇒
A competitor to Flipboard, though this app will set you back $8.
calvetica - The fast calendar for iPhone ⇒
Add an event in just two quick taps. See how full your week or day is at a glance. It works with the built-in iPhone calendar but it’s faster.
Come for the better looking interface than the built in iPhone Calendar and Helvetica. Stay for the OMG-it’s-so-much-faster-and-easer-to-add-events-its-mind-blowing. (thx Blue Perez for the pointer to this)
Damn this looks really well done. It apparently integrates with your actual iCal calenders as well. Bonus. I am going to buy the shit out of this thing.
Elements, a Dropbox-powered text editor, released ⇒
This looks to suffer from the same problem SimpleNote suffers on the iPad. The text is scaled as if it was being displayed on an iPhone. This application needs better margins and more appropriately sized text.
The Squarespace iPhone application looks great. It almost makes me want to sign up for the service. Or make an iPhone application. If only I wasn’t so lazy. And had some ideas.
Dev-Team Blog: Fixing what Apple won't ⇒
On Wednesday, Apple (finally) released firmware 4.0.2, which patches the very large security holes exploited by @comex in the 2nd incarnation of jailbreakme.com. The only problem is they outright abandoned iPhone2G and iPod Touch 1G users!
This is a good way to earn good karma. I suspect it’s also some nice press for them as a group. (Assuming people pick up on this story.) I’m surprised Apple didn’t push the update out to the two oldest iOS phones and iPods. Shima still uses a 2G phone. I suspect lots of people do.
Yay! The Incident is finally out. 50,000 meters, 500 coins, 26 million pixels, and a bitchin’ soundtrack - all for two bucks. Click the thing with the thing!
I’ve been waiting for this game to drop. It looks pretty damn cool. I’ll try and say more about it once I’ve played the game a little bit.
Q: What is this all about? A: It’s about a site called jailbreakme.com that enables you to Jailbreak your iPhones and iPads just by visiting the site.
Q: So what’s the problem? A: The problem is that the site uses a zero-day vulnerability to execute code on the device. Q: How does the vulnerability work? A: Actually, it’s two vulnerabilities. First one uses a corrupted font embedded in a PDF file to execute code and the second one uses a vulnerability in the kernel to escalate the code execution to unsandboxed root.
Q: How difficult was it to create this exploit? A: Very difficult.
Q: How difficult would it be for someone else to modify the exploit now that it’s out? A: Quite easy.
Q: Was this irresponsible disclosure? A: Yes it was. Apple was never informed of the vulnerability.
Questions and Answers on the JailbreakMe Vulnerability - F-Secure Weblog : News from the Lab
One issue with Apple being such dicks about Jailbreaking is that the jailbreak community keeps exploits they find to themselves. The iPhone Dev Team aren’t going to divulge holes they find to Apple because the group exists to try and hack the device. If Jailbreaking was something you could do without relying on security exploits we probably wouldn’t be in this situation.
