Learn how take a screen shot on iPhone 4, iPhone 3G S . To be honest this method applies to all the iPhone series. You can take screenshot of your sms,photos, contact, web browser , literally any thing which comes up on your screen. Have Fun
When I had reported the breaking news of the 3G iPhone launch on June 9th, readers had commented and emailed that they plan to sell their older but soon to be obsolete iPhone to buy the latest and greatest version. If you are one of them then the post earlier this week regarding iPhones sold as refurbished unit revealed previous owners personal data could definitely be one of your concerns.
A Video tutorial on how to erase your personal data before you sell it
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Rich Mogull over at Securosis.com has come to the rescue and has published a method that should wipe out almost all your personal data to prevent it from being recovered later.
Before I get into the details I must warn you that the method is nowhere close to the "Full iPhone format function in iTunes" iPhone Hacks reader Kane2007uk wanted to see Apple implement nor is it foolproof or thoroughly tested.
Here are the steps that you need to follow:
1. Restore the iPhone from within iTunes.
On the “Info” tab, un-check all options so you don’t synchronize calendars, email, bookmarks, and contacts.
2. On the Photos, Podcasts, and Video tabs, uncheck “Sync …”. 3. Create 3 big playlists at large as the storage capacity of your iPhone. 4. On the Music tab, select the first of your 3 playlists to sync. Make sure the storage bar at the bottom looks full after syncing. 5. Sync your iPhone, change to the next playlist, sync again, and repeat one last time.
This method should help in hopefully overwriting any of the free space on your phone and thus preventing any of your personal data once stored on your iPhone to be recovered by the new owner.
Or you could simply use this method that iPhone Hacks reader louis had mentioned in the comments:
"Just remember before you sell your phone to use cyberduck to go into the phone trash all the files contact, email folders etc, reboot the phone, restore the phone (but not from backup)."
I liked Kane2007uk's idea of the "Full iPhone format function in iTunes", lets hope Apple implements it in the near future or a native iPhone application by the enterprising iPhone hacking community.
If you have put this method to the test or have an even better method to do this then do let us know in the comments.
Update:
While we are on the subject of personal data of previous owners being available on the iPhone it is also important to note here that the data was recovered using forensics software. It is not easy for an average user who bought a refurbished iPhone to gain access to the previous users data. I also don't think this is is an issue with the certified refurbished iPhones sold by Apple or AT&T as I am sure they would be using some internal tool/s to format the iPhone. It is a something you should be aware of and take precaution to avoid your personal data being recovered by someone with the proper expertise if you are planning to sell directly on sites like eBay or Craiglist.
The user interface is refined in many ways across the system, making it easier to learn, faster to use, and more power-efficient. A simplified visual theme of colors against black brings vividness and contrast to the notification bar, menus, and other parts of the UI. Changes in menus and settings make it easier for the user to navigate and control the features of the system and device.
Faster, more intuitive text input
The Android soft keyboard is redesigned and optimized for faster text input and editing. The keys themselves are reshaped and repositioned for improved targeting, making them easier to see and press accurately, even at high speeds. The keyboard also displays the current character and dictionary suggestions in a larger, more vivid style that is easier to read.
The keyboard adds the capability to correct entered words from suggestions in the dictionary. As the user selects a word already entered, the keyboard displays suggestions that the user can choose from, to replace the selection. The user can also switch to voice input mode to replace the selection. Smart suggestions let the user accept a suggestion and then return to correct it later, if needed, from the original set of suggestions.
New multitouch key-chording lets the user quickly enter numbers and symbols by pressing Shift+<letter> and ?123+<symbol>, without needing to manually switch input modes. From certain keys, users can also access a popup menu of accented characters, numbers, and symbols by holding the key and sliding to select a character.
One-touch word selection and copy/paste
When entering text or viewing a web page, the user can quickly select a word by press-hold, then copy to the clipboard and paste. Pressing on a word enters a free-selection mode — the user can adjust the selection area as needed by dragging a set of bounding arrows to new positions, then copy the bounded area by pressing anywhere in the selection area. For text entry, the user can slide-press to enter a cursor mode, then reposition the cursor easily and accurately by dragging the cursor arrow. With both the selection and cursor modes, no use of a trackball is needed.
Improved power management
The Android system takes a more active role in managing apps that are keeping the device awake for too long or that are consuming CPU while running in the background. By managing such apps — closing them if appropriate — the system helps ensure best possible performance and maximum battery life.
The system also gives the user more visibility over the power being consumed by system components and running apps. The Application settings provides an accurate overview of how the battery is being used, with details of the usage and relative power consumed by each component or application.
Control over applications
A shortcut to the Manage Applications control now appears in the Options Menu in the Home screen and Launcher, making it much easier to check and manage application activity. Once the user enters Manage Applications, a new Running tab displays a list of active applications and the storage and memory being used by each. The user can read further details about each application and if necessary stop an application or report feedback to its developer.
New ways of communicating, organizing
An updated set of standard applications lets the user take new approaches to managing information and relationships.
Internet calling
The user can make voice calls over the internet to other users who have SIP accounts. The user can add an internet calling number (a SIP address) to any Contact and can initiate a call from Quick Contact or Dialer. To use internet calling, the user must create an account at the SIP provider of their choice — SIP accounts are not provided as part of the internet calling feature. Additionally, support for the platform's SIP and internet calling features on specific devices is determined by their manufacturers and associated carriers.
Near-field communications
An NFC Reader application lets the user read and interact with near-field communication (NFC) tags. For example, the user can “touch” or “swipe” an NFC tag that might be embedded in a poster, sticker, or advertisement, then act on the data read from the tag. A typical use would be to read a tag at a restaurant, store, or event and then rate or register by jumping to a web site whose URL is included in the tag data. NFC communication relies on wireless technology in the device hardware, so support for the platform's NFC features on specific devices is determined by their manufacturers.
Downloads management
The Downloads application gives the user easy access to any file downloaded from the browser, email, or another application. Downloads is built on an completely new download manager facility in the system that any other applications can use, to more easily manage and store their downloads.
Camera
The application now lets the user access multiple cameras on the device, including a front-facing camera, if available.
If Apple launches its iPhone 5, complete with a Near Field Communications chip (the technology that allows wave-and-pay) in September, and does some form of payments deal with PayPal, it will represent a “perfect storm for disruption” of the global payments market and force local banks to rethink their strategies a financial forum was warned this morning.
Speaking at an AIIA organised event in Sydney this morning, Rod Farmer, director of research and strategy for Mobile Experience, said that such a combination would be far more disruptive than Google Wallet given that it would be an open system and could be used for just about any form of payment.
Andrew Henderson, chief information officer of ING Direct, however said that the arrival of such alternative payments mechanisms did not spell disaster for the banks. “The question for me is whether payments is a core system for a bank,” said Mr Henderson.
He said that other payments models, which were not cash based, were starting to emerge, such as Facebook credits. “What Facebook credits could do to cash is what online banking is doing to the branch.”
Rather than focussing on the payments platform, banks would be wise to concentrate on their position as a trusted broker.
Speakers at the event also lamented the relative lack of progress from the Mambo group which is a coalition of the major banks and BPay which have been working on a hub based retail payments system which would see individuals assigned with a BPay number allowing peer to peer payments.
In the US in May Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo announced clearXchange which allows the three banks’ customers to move funds directly from their existing cheque accounts using an email address or mobile number. That according to Dr Farmer meant that the Mambo initiative has effectively been “leapfrogged”.
A new report has suggested that Windows Phone's forthcoming new ranges of mango-powered handsets will correspond with the alleged September arrival of Apple's highly anticipated iPhone 5.
According to a report from the Digitimes a slew of new handsets running off Windows Phone's new mango operating system are planned for release in September.
The report indicated that these would include mango-smartphones from HTC, Samsung and LG -- the recently unveiled Nokia handset was not included in the report.
The new smartphones release, if true, would mean that the new mango-phones release could potentially correspond with that of Apple's iPhone 5. Despite the lack of official word, next to every media agency in the world has pegged the new iPhone's release date as being sometime in September.
The Digitimes did not list its source for the alleged mango-phones release and neither Apple nor Windows Phone have commented on the authenticity of the report.
New update on iPhone 5 Release According to China Times, the iPhone 5 is set to be launched in the second week of September with an first launch of 4 million units. This speculation lines up with current predictions.
According to suppliers, 400,000 trial units are currently being prepared. The news report goes on to say that the next generation iPad may be delayed until Thanksgiving due to component shortages…
There has been a shroud of mystery surrounding the features and appearance of the iPhone 5, but recent leaked case designs suggest a curved, tapered down look— while others have said that it will resemble the iPhone 4 design.
While the track record of the China Times has been a little shady, they do seem to be close to Apple’s suppliers in China and could very well have knowledge of the production plans. Reuters had reported eariler that the iPhone 5 would have a September release and start production in July.
Recently Apple is announced the wealthiest company on earth with loyal customers. Fans are awaiting the launch of iPhone 5 and therefor it’s jailbreak. however Apple also said its going to make the jailbreaking tougher for new iPhone 5.
(via idownloadblog.com)
It’s been little over a week since Apple scrambled to release iOS 4.3.4 to plug the easily jailbreakable 4.3.3, and already another update has surfaced which addresses "certificate validation" vulnerabilities, and unfortunately, just like iOS 4.3.4, those of you that own an iPad 2 on iOS 4.3.5 can no longer jailbreak, not even tethered like other devices.
Although the PDF exploit made 4.3.3 very simple to jailbreak over at JailbreakMe.com, it also left non-jailbroken users susceptible to exploits of more sinister overtones. Now, two updates later at 4.3.5, it seems now that any pre-iOS 5 untethered jailbreak for those of you on 4.3.4 or 4.3.5 is about as likely as Apple releasing one itself. It wouldn’t be worthwhile for the hackers who have spent in excess of six months searching and testing a fully operational iPad 2 jailbreak, and who now will probably be focusing their efforts on the forthcoming iOS 5, a much improved and updated operating system.
If you have currently jailbroken your iPad 2 on iOS 4.3.3, DO NOTupdate to 4.3.4, 4.3.5 or any subsequent updates. Apple has now had two opportunities to patch the software so stay exactly where you are. If you have updated, you’re only saving grace is if you have backed up your SHSH blobs on 4.3.3. If so, and you own the WiFi model iPad (doesn’t work on the 3G model, sorry!) then you can downgrade now by following this guide. If you’re unsure if you have, Cydia may have come to your rescue and backed them up for you, (recall selecting a "make my life easier" option?), so it’s definitely worth checking if they have been saved. If they haven’t, then unfortunately you’re going to have to persevere with what you have until the next untethered jailbreak is released.
With the clock ticking ever closer to iOS 5, many thought that 4.3.4 would be the final installment of iOS 4 updates. With the jailbreak community well and truly rocked by these last couple of updates, it seems now we can safely assume that we will not be seeing anymore. Although the Cupertino company always has a surprise or two up its sleeve and always likes to keep the jailbreaking community on its toes, so we shall see. One thing is for certain, we can’t wait for a proper notifications system!
For devices other than iPad 2, you can use Redsn0w to tether-jailbreak iOS 4.3.5 on iPhone 4, 3GS, iPad 1 and iPod touch 3G/4G.
Apple's iPad 2 is the second coming of the tablet that defined the genre. It's thinner, lighter and faster than its predecessor, but otherwise essentially the same, so can it keep its place on the cutting edge in a world packed with awesome Android interlopers?
Good
Thinner and lighter than ever
Plenty of apps available
Front and rear cameras
Easy to use
Bad
No Flash support
Complex tasks are fiddly and take time
Difficult to transfer non-iTunes content back and forth
One of the most impressive things about the iPad 2 is its price. In the US, it will cost the same as the first iPad, but here in the UK it will be £30 cheaper than the original iPad was when it launched. You'll pay £399 for the 16GB Wi-Fi-only iPad 2, £479 for the 32GB model and £559 for the 64GB version. For the iPad 2 with both Wi-Fi and 3G connectivity, you're looking at an extra £100 across all models.
Check our roundup to see which operators will be selling the iPad 2. It will be available on 25 March in the UK.
We're going to take a fresh look at the iPad 2, so you don't have to refer to our review of the original iPad. If you have read that review, or are familiar with the iPad already, you may want to skip ahead to the 'Should I upgrade?' section.
Simple is as simple does
Lacking a built-in physical keyboard or mouse, Apple's wisely aimed to keep the iPad 2's interface simple -- small icons and fiddly tasks aren't welcome on a tablet, because you have to control it with your blunt, fleshy fingers. With the same touch-friendly user interface as the iPhone, but a bigger screen, even babies and cats could use the iPad 2.
If you've ever used an iPhone or iPod touch, the iPad 2 will feel immediately familiar. A single button below the screen brings you back to the home screen, and the main menu consists of a bunch of rectangular icons that you press to run various features and apps.
The iPad 2's simplicity means it isn't as customisable as its Android competitors, like the Motorola Xoom. Apple's device lets you change the wallpaper and sort the icons into categories, but that's about it. With Android, you can pack the home screen full of shortcuts and widgets, but such flexibility comes at the price of simplicity. You'll have to decide which quality is most important to you.
Although we love the iPad 2's simplicity, it can prove a serious drawback in a few situations. For example, you can swap between two apps that are running at the same time by double-clicking the home button, but you can't look at the apps side by side in two different windows. That means that the iPad can struggle with any task more complex than surfing the Web.
Let's say you want to write an email. If you simply create the message and start typing, everything works like a charm. But, when you want to do more, like paste in some text from your calendar or add a photo, you must engage in an app-swapping session that can make your head swim. Also, some tasks that are common on a full-sized computer, like adding an email attachment, just can't be accomplished.
Even copying and pasting text is annoying on the iPad 2. You have to hold your finger on text to highlight it. You can then drag some tiny markers around to highlight the exact text you want -- in theory. It's often impossible to get this process right on Web pages because of their HTML-formatted text. Even when it works perfectly, you need the concentration of a monk to tap and drag the cursor where you want it.
On the iPhone, this copy-and-paste system feels like an amazing way around the lack of a mouse, since it's a small gadget whose ability to do any text editing at all seems miraculous. On a tablet, which will be considered by some as an alternative to a laptop, it feels inelegant and fiddly.
In either white or black, the iPad 2 looks better than its predecessor. That's mainly because it's thinner.
The limitations of a tablet are particularly noticeable when you try to create files in Pages, Numbers and Keynote -- the Apple equivalents of Word, Excel and PowerPoint. The interface looks fantastic, but trying to whip up documents more complex than a shopping list without a keyboard and mouse is trying to say the least -- fingers just aren't accurate enough for detailed work. We suggest using Google Docs in the browser, so you can do your serious typing on your computer, and have access to your docs for reference and a few quick edits on your iPad 2.
Printing is also a pain, unless you have an AirPrint-enabled printer or a third-party printing app.
Keep your iOS on the ball
We suggest you forget about attempting any real work on the iPad and stick to having fun. The iPad 2 has access to the huge collection of apps and games in the App Store, so you'll never be short of something to help you pass the time while skiving off.
Gamers can choose between everything from addictive puzzle titles to gory first-person shooters. There's an even greater range of apps available, including photo editors, guitar tuners and everything in between. You can plan your workout, your love life and your holiday booking on your iPad. Most of the big-name apps tend to hit the App Store before the Android Market, and apps usually cost less than a couple of pounds.
Apple's own GarageBand app is one of the most impressive, really showing off how much you can do with a touchscreen tablet. You can record multiple tracks using realistic-sounding virtual instruments, or cheat-assisted instruments that pluck themselves for you. The app isn't for pros who love fiddling with millions of knobs on a proper mixing desk, but we could see beginners getting seriously addicted to creating songs on the iPad 2. We just wish you could export your tunes to the music player on the iPad 2, rather than having to sync them with your computer first.
You can also use iPhone apps on the iPad 2, but they don't fill the screen unless you use the pixel-doubling zoom feature. That makes the image bigger, but it doesn't take advantage of the iPad's higher resolution, so you're left craving the iPad version of the app. It's also worth noting that you're locked into Apple's App Store to get all these goodies, and you can only use iTunes on a single computer for syncing.
Apps are handy, but they're not absolutely necessary. You can surf the whole Web in the iPad 2's browser. It's lightning-fast and does a fabulous job of displaying Web pages accurately. Even the iPad 2's Achilles heel, its lack of Flash support, is becoming less of a problem, as more sites bow to Apple's might and undertake Flash-free redesigns.
It's worth remembering that Apple has forgone Flash because it's battery-hungry and tends to crash. Still, we often found we ran into a video, photo slide show or audio clip on the Web that we couldn't view on the iPad 2 -- even on popular sites, like The Guardian's.
Another drawback is the iPad 2's memory loss when it has multiple Web pages open -- when you swap back to a page, it has to reload it from scratch. This can be a huge headache if you're surfing on the train or other places with patchy connectivity, since pages that were fully loaded can refresh into nothingness when you're in a tunnel. It's also infuriating when you've filled out part of an online form, swapped windows to check something on another Web page, and gone back to find that the page has refreshed and lost all your work. We hoped and prayed that this caching issue would be resolved on the iPad 2, since we think that Web surfing is the tablet's killer app. But, sadly, it still needs work.
Nevertheless, the iPad 2's quick boot time and portability meant we usually reached for it over our phone or laptop when we wanted to do some browsing or catch up on some Internet reading. If you're on the road and the iPad 2 is all you have, you can even use it for more complex tasks, like Internet banking -- if you're patient.
Face to face
The iPad 2 wants to tempt you into using its new 0.3-megapixel front and 0.91-megapixel rear cameras with a playful app called Photo Booth. This straightforward and basic app can be used for creating silly photos for your Facebook profile and so on, but not for any serious editing.
aceTime is also included on the iPad 2. With this video-calling app, you can chat with people using the front or rear-facing cameras, but only those who have a Mac, iPhone 4, iPod touch or iPad 2. We had a FaceTime chat with an obliging Apple employee in her office in California, and, even over jam-packed Wi-Fi, the video quality was excellent compared to competing offerings, such as Skype. It's a pity you won't be able to share the fun with your mates who have other types of smart phone.
You can shoot video with either the front or rear cameras on the iPad 2, but only the rear one takes decent shots. The front one is fun for making movies by yourself -- ahem -- but the images aren't sharp or well-exposed. The back camera shoots 720p video, and the quality is acceptable. Waving the iPad 2 around like a camera is inconvenient and will make you look stupid, though.
The iMovie app lets you edit your movies. This video-editing software has been tweaked to take advantage of the touchscreen, and lets you apply flashy cuts and background music to your creations. It's fun to play with videos you've shot on your iPad or iPhone, but importing video from other sources can be devilishly hard, involving syncing with a computer at the very least.
If you want to screen your creations on your telly, you can use the updated AirPlay feature, as long as you have an Apple TV. AirPlay already streamed video from the iPad to Apple TV, and now it can stream photo slide shows too. Apps and websites can also stream video and audio over AirPlay.
The iPad 2 supports iTunes home sharing so you can play media from your computer on the tablet over your home Wi-Fi network. When you're on the go, the easiest way to get video and audio onto the iPad 2 is to buy it on iTunes. The selection is good, but it's expensive -- we pay 99p in the UK to rent the cheapest of the films on iTunes, whereas as our American buddies pay a mere 99 cents (61p). But it's such a pain to convert other formats and get them on the device that it's worth the money.
Speedy Gonzales
The iPad packs a 1GHz, dual-core A5 CPU and dedicated GPU, which the original iPad lacked. Apple says it makes the iPad 2 twice as fast as the original iPad when it comes to processor-heavy tasks, and nine times faster when it comes to crunching graphics.
During our tests, the iPad 2 proved faster than the original iPad, but not quite as fast as we expected. Despite the tablet's new dual-core processor and GPU, many of its speed improvements actually seem to be due to its updated operating system. Since the original iPad received the same iOS 4.3 update, the two tablets are roughly as quick as each other when it comes to most tasks, such as opening apps and loading Web pages.
That doesn't mean the iPad 2 is slow. Like its iPhone siblings, the iPad's smooth, buttery scrolling is streets ahead of the competition. If you're used to using an iPad with a previous version of iOS, you'll definitely notice the speed improvements.
We ran some tests on the iPad 2 and an original iPad running the latest iOS 4.3, using the GLBenchmark app. In some areas, such as CPU integer performance, we didn't see any improvement. (CPU integer performance reflects the speed of the processor when completing basic tasks, and can affect anything running on the tablet.) But, almost across the board, we saw advances in graphics performance. The iPad 2 was vastly better at rendering textures and triangles, in particular. Check out the video below to see the white iPad 2's GPU in action.
Apple iOS is the most used smartphone operating system in the market and with the growing demand consumer are also looking to integrate the various Application which they normally use on PC. Even thou there limitation for smartphone compare to a PC , However Apple is doing it’s best to provide all the popular App to gain more popularity and demand for iOS
WordPress App for Apple Device. It’s a whole new WordPress for a whole new platform. WordPress for iOS is now optimized to take advantage of the iPad’s new user interface, making blogging even easier than ever before. Download it from the App Store today.
Top Features of WordPress App:
Effortless Comments
Moderate, edit, or reply to comments — it’s never been easier to stay in touch with your readers. For popular posts, you can quickly bulk moderate comments through the intuitive interface. Elegant Composing
Creating and editing posts is at the heart of the WordPress experience. Write, add photos, check your spelling, and even create links without having to write a single line of code or HTML.
When you’re writing and you’d like a bit more room, just rotate the screen. WordPress will automatically adjust to a more comfortable widescreen layout. Location Mapping
On the iPhone, sharing your location when you post to your WordPress blog is a cinch. Just tap the Geotag icon on the Write screen, and watch as WordPress locates you on the map. It’s a great way to share where you were when you posted to your blog.
Gorgeous Photos
Add as many photos as you like — WordPress will automatically insert them into your post. Both high resolution and web optimized photos look and work great
This is just a few things of what WordPress for iOS can do. Download it from the App Store and you’ll be up and running in no time.
We already know that google in the race to take over facebook share button market and doing really well with more the 10 million users so far with 1 month. Recently Google Android users can now explore London’s streets in 3D follwoing an update to the Google Maps application.
Britain’s capital was added this week to the roster of major cities available for viewing in three dimensions via Google Maps 5.0.
Only major buildings in the centre of the capital are currently included in the model, however.
The app was released in December and now allows Android users to drag and tilt their way around more than 100 cities worldwide.
In order to introduce 3D, engineers had to rebuild Google Maps’ graphics engine. Previously the app just downloaded two-dimensional maps as a series of image tiles, but now it downloads a vector-based description of the area and draws the map itself.
As well as allowing 3D buildings, the new approach means the app needs to download much less data, useful where mobile broadband coverage is poor or slow.
You can download 3D google map App from you Adnroid Phone from Here
This is an example of a bizarre online hacker; A hacker from Minnesota prosecutor described as a “depraved criminal” was sentenced an 18-year prison term Tuesday for deploying a vendetta of online terror that made his neighbor’s lives into a living nightmare. Person Identified as Barry Ardolf, 46, hacked and got into his next-door neighbors’ WiFi network in 2009, and used it to try and frame them for child pornography, sexual harassment, various kinds of professional misconduct and to send threatening e-mail to politicians, including Vice President Joe Biden. “Barry Ardolf has demonstrated by his conduct that he is a dangerous man. When he became angry at his neighbors, he vented his anger in a bizarre and calculated campaign of terror against them,” (PDF) prosecutor Timothy Rank said in a court filing. “And he did not wage this campaign in the light of day, but rather used his computer hacking skills to strike at his victims while hiding in the shadows. “Over months and months, he inflicted unfathomable psychic damage, making the victims feel vulnerable in their own home, while avoiding detection.” Ardolf’s attorney, Kevin O’Brien, said in a telephone interview that “it was a lengthy sentence for a first time offender.” Ardolf had no criminal record, but an investigation revealed that he’d also hijacked the WiFi of other neighbors, and terrorized them as well. A father of two, Ardolf had turned down a two-year plea agreement last year to charges related to the Biden e-mail. After that, the authorities piled on more charges, including identity theft and two kiddie-porn accusations carrying lifetime sex-offender registration requirements. He pleaded guilty to them all last year. “We’ve just moved next door to a pedophile,” Mrs. Kostolnik told her husband. The couple reported Ardolf to the police, angering their creepy new neighbor. ”I decided to ‘get even’ by launching computer attacks against him,” Ardolf later wrote in a letter to the judge. Ardolf downloaded WiFi hacking software and spent two weeks cracking the Kostolnik’s WEP encryption. Then he used their own WiFi network to create a fake MySpace page for the husband, where he posted a picture of a pubescent girl having sex with two young boys. Under the “about me” section, he wrote: He then e-mailed the same child porn to one of the husband’s coworkers, and sent flirtatious e-mail to women in Mr. Kostolnik’s office. “You are such a fox,” read one of the e-mails. He sent the message’s through the husband’s genuine e-mail account. The FBI got a search warrant for Ardolf’s house and computer, and found reams of evidence, including copies of data swiped from the Kostolniks’ computer, and hacking manuals with titles such as Cracking WEP Using Backtrack: A Beginner’s Guide, Tutorial: Simple WEP Crack Aircrack-ng, and Cracking WEP with BackTrack 3 – Step by Step instructions. They also found handwritten notes laying out Ardolf’s revenge plans, and a cache of snail mail that Ardolf had apparently stolen from the Kostolniks’ mailbox and stashed under his bed. The Brooklyn Park family told the FBI they believed Ardolf was upset that their personal care attendants, who looked after their two disabled twin daughters, parked their car in front of his house. Well if you have a problem step up and say it don’t be a coward and do mistake or impletement your version justice on people. Sad human beings.
Sky has today unveiled two new ways for customers to get more value and enjoyment from their subscription. First, and at no extra charge, customers can now watch live TV on the move with the launch of Sky Go, a new service which has launched for laptops, PCs and Macs and will roll out on iPhone, iPad and iPod touch in time for the beginning of the Premier League football season. Second, Sky is freezing its subscription prices until at least September 2012 to give customers peace of mind at a time when many other household bills are on the rise. Both moves are part of Sky’s commitment to ensure that customers get great value from their subscription and to create more reasons to choose Sky.
Available to all 10 million Sky TV customers, Sky Go brings together a range of channels, including all five Sky Sports channels, in one simple to use package. Customers can register up to two Sky Go devices to watch a selection of the live TV channels they get as part of their TV subscription, so there’s no need to miss the action while they’re out and about. With Sky Go, you’ll be able to catch the latest news headlines on the bus home, enjoy every Test Match ball at your desk, or see the winning putt on the final green as you wait in the check-out queue.
Sky Go is the latest in a series of moves to add more value to the Sky subscription and give customers even more reasons to join or stay with Sky. In the last year alone Sky customers have benefited from a wide range of enhancements to their Sky subscription, at no extra charge. These include:
More great content:
Sky Atlantic – home to epic shows such as Game of Thrones, Boardwalk Empire and Mildred Pierce, Sky Atlantic launched free and exclusive to all Sky customers in February 2011 and has already become one of their favourite channels.
Sky Living – since it became part of the Sky family of channels, customers are benefitting from a 25% increase in Sky Living’s programme spend.
More British programmes – after the success of programmes such as Mad Dogs, The Runaway, Got to Dance and the BAFTA-winning Flying Monsters 3D, Sky will increase investment in original British content by 50% over the next three years. This means more great entertainment, drama, arts, comedy and documentaries, as well as on-going innovation in sports and news coverage.
More great innovation:
Sky Anytime+ – Customers with Sky Broadband now have access to a huge library of TV on demand at no extra monthly cost, including, for Sky Movies subscribers, more than 500 movies to watch whenever they like.
Sky 3D – available on a bonus basis to Sky World HD customers since October 2010, Sky 3D is Britain’s only 3D TV channel, offering great movies, live sport and award-winning arts and documentaries.
Sky News for iPad – one of the most innovative and highly-rated news apps, Sky News for iPad is available to all Sky TV customers for free.
Sky+HD 1 Terabyte box – now available to existing Sky TV customers for as little as £49 when upgrading to Sky’s HD service online via sky.com.
Today Sky is also confirming that customers will continue to enjoy all this great content and innovation for the next year without any increase to their Sky subscription price. In recognition of the tough economic conditions affecting many customers, Sky is freezing subscription prices across all TV, broadband and talk products for at least 12 months from 1st September 2011. All of Sky’s existing 10 million customers will benefit from the price freeze, as will all new customers who join before 31st August 2011.
The competition between Google and Apple continues to heat up as the two tech giants reported progressive development for Android and Apple App Store. Apple holds the lead with over 15 billion downloads while Android grew rapidly with over 4.5 billion. The increased number of Android smartphone and tablets flowing into the stores will attempt to even the playing field with Apple’s iOS devices. The market position is also going strong for Apple.
Google has attracted developers with Android’s open source platform along with support from other technology companies such as Sony. Sony’s move to go with Android have shown positive returns in sales as their Google mobile OS powered devices are making a majority of revenue.
“Our shift to Android-based smartphones continues with smartphone sales accounting for more than 70pc of our total sales during the quarter,” said Bert Nordberg, president and CEO of Sony Ericsson
The Sony Ericsson Xperia smartphones continue to contribute to Androids growth with plans to release two new tablets by this fall. Their latest tablet devices, the Sony S1 and S2, could bring in a fresh wave of Android users. Powered by the latest Google OS, the two tablets appear to be an innovative device that could alter the landscape of the market. At first glance, users will notice a new design that strays from the traditional flat rectangular slate. The Sony S1 integrates a design concept of a folded magazine while the Sony S2 can be folded to slip into your pocket. Sony’s S2 offers another unique design in having two touchscreens that can display multiple websites or pages from an e-book.
Not surprisingly, Google is now looking to Sony for adding onto the growth of Android users especially in the tablet arena where Apple’s iPad continues to dominate. Google has close to 135 million devices on the market, mostly smartphones, and is now looking to increase market share of tablet sales. Samsung’s Galaxy Tab has driven Android into head-to-head competition with Apple but can Sony produce similar results with their new innovative tablets?
Google can potentially see increasing number of device activations and app downloads to surpass iOS if the pace continues. Currently over 550,000 Android devices are being activated each day and developers appear to be streaming into the Google mobile OS open platform, though Apple has recently won back developers recently due to the iPhone 4 launch on Verizon.
“Studying the numbers, it’s readily apparent that Android has lost developer support to iOS. Specifically, Android new project starts have dropped from 36% in Q1 to 28% in Q2. Overall, total Flurry iOS and Android new project starts grew from 9,100 in Q1 to 10,200 in Q2…Of note, this drop in Android developer support represents the second quarter-over-quarter slide, which follows a year of significant, steady growth for the Google-built OS. Over the course of 2010, Android developer support had steadily climbed each quarter, peaking at 39% in Q4 2010, ” said Charles Newark-French, Strategy Manager M&A at Vodafone, in Flurry’s official Blog.
The study conducted by Flurry, that deals with statistics regarding developer applications, said majority of the developers spent their time creating apps for Apple’s mobile devices in comparison to the Android OS.
Android continues to hold high potential to overtake Apple if it can maintain the current momentum of new devices and improved OS functions.
(Source: http://m.ibtimes.com/)
Facebook’s new and ‘awesome announcement‘ recently was the addition of Skype-powered video chat, adding face-to-face calling to the social network’s arsenal. As part of this update, Facebook also changed its chat layout, bringing a new sidebar to all Facebook pages. Changes are often good but it will take time for the user to settle down and get use to them.
The change in layout includes sidebar which contains a list of all your online contacts, as well as their chat status – perfect for telling when people are up for a spot of video chat.
The thing is, this new addition to an already crowded Facebook layout, isn’t entirely to everyone’s tastes. It’s large, it’s clunky, and it’s largely unnecessary. The good news though, is that it can be gotten rid of, and with great ease to boot.
(CEO: Mark Zuckerberg)
So what do you need to do?
At the bottom-right of the aforementioned sidebar, you’ll spy a configuration ‘cog’ – click this and you’ll be shown a few selections to choose from. The one we’re interested in is the self-explanatory ‘hide sidebar’ button. Tap this and hey presto, you’re free of the sidebar and have just reclaimed those valuable pixels for other things – like having Twitter open perhaps
(New facebook sidebar)
I personally don’t like this because it take away all the web pages space. so to disable simply click on the small gear right above the system time, untick Available to chat and then Hide Sidebar . Also learn how to change the privacy settingon you Facebook page to protect yourself.
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Do you have a rather large pinch of salt handy, perchance? You do? Then let us begin.
According to Chinese-language site Sohu.com, the lack of a new iPhone this year could be down to a manufacturing problem with the handset’s fancy new A5 processor.
The problem, according to 9to5Mac, is that Apple’s oh-so-clever iPhone engineers are having issues with the A5 CPU getting a tad warm, what with the iPhone being so small and space being at a premium…
It’s speculated that this is the reason for Apple deciding not to push the iPhone 5 out this year, with the company understandably not wishing to incur another antennagate-like reliability fiasco.
The iPhone 5 is believed to be a complete redesign of the current iPhone 4 model, with a new antenna expected to replace the ill-fated ‘metal band’ design that we all know and love/loathe.
This delay, it’s claimed, is what has prompted Apple to prepare an iPhone 4S model. Expected to launch toward the end of 2011, a 4S release would be a stop-gap while Apple works on getting the iPhone 5 ready for primetime. An A4 chip would be used in this iPhone 4S, though speculation that this could still be a dual-core part is beginning to simmer – gorilla glass and an 8 megapixel camera have also been the subject of speculation.
Apple is looking to block sales of HTC smartphones in the US. Like the ongoing copycat lawsuit with Samsung, Apple claims that HTC infringes on several of its iPhone patents.
HTC has seen impressive growth in the last year, and the company is responsible for many of the most popular Android devices on the market right now. Apple feels that HTC owes a little respect (and by “respect” we mean money) for the allegedly infringed patents…
Bloomberg,
“Apple claims HTC is infringing five patents related to software architecture and user interfaces in portable electronic devices, hardware for touch screens and movement sensors, according to a complaint filed July 8 with the U.S. International Trade Commission in Washington. The complaint is the second Apple has filed against Taoyuan, Taiwan-based HTC.”
This actually isn’t the first time that Apple has gone after the folks at HTC, but this second time around Apple is pulling out all the stops. Apple shows no signs of backing down from its request to have the International Trade Commission block sales of HTC devices until an agreement between the two companies can be reached in court.
“HTC is dismayed that Apple has resorted to competition in the courts rather than the marketplace,” said Grace Lei, HTC’s general counsel. “HTC continues to vehemently deny all of Apple’s past and present claims against it and will continue to protect and defend its own intellectual property as it has already done this year.”
Is Apple scared of HTC’s close affiliation with Android? Google’s OS seems to be the only force that stands in Apple’s way these days. With Apple looking to win the case with Samsung over similar patent infringement, Apple is slowly but surely dealing swift blows to its competition in court.
HTC isn’t a small kid on the playground by any stretch of the imagination, so it will be interesting to see which company comes out on top in this patent infringement case. We highly doubt that the court will grant Apple’s request and have the FTC block sales of HTC devices.
When Apple first announced the iPad way back before we knew the joys that a 9.7″ slab of glass could bring, we all immediately thought that the tablet would be a great coffee table device – perfect for leaving out and offering as a family machine.
The problem with that notion, though, is that the iPad is more of a personal device than Apple likes to let on.
Just like our iPhones, the iPad is designed to be used the way one member of the family likes it – their wallpaper, their settings, their apps. This approach really limits the way we can use our iPads, and plays right into Apple’s hands when it comes to sales – two and three iPads sold per household instead of just one.
If only we had iOS user accounts, just as we do on our Macs…
As is so often the case, the jailbreak scene is doing its best to fill a void left by Apple’s inability, or should that be downright lack of desire, to bring user accounts to its iPad, iPhone and iPod touch operating system.
Enter iUsers.
A hack for jailbroken iPads, by Pedro Franceschi, iUsers tries to bring user accounts to the iPad, allowing different people to ‘sign in’ using accounts and passwords. Once a new user signs in, they’re greeted with their own settings, wallpapers, home screen app locations and more.
As MacStories points out, if you’re the kind of person that likes to use iTunes to backup your iPad, we’re not sure this jailbreak is for you – we honestly have no idea how iTunes will react to this particular tweak, but we’re fairly confident it won’t be pretty.
I have just tested this and can confirm that the current latest version of Redsn0w can jailbreak iOS 4.3.3 (tethered) on iPhone 4, 3GS, iPad, and iPod touch 4G/3G.
However the current version of Redsn0w 0.9.6 is limited to tethered jailbreak only, which means that you will have to boot your iOS device in tethered state on every reboot.
NOTE: Those of you who rely on a carrier unlock MUST STAY AWAY from Redsn0w and stock iOS 4.3.3 firmware. Step 1: Download iOS 4.3.3 and iOS 4.3.2 (required by Redsn0w 0.9.6 for 4.3.3 jailbreak) for your version of iOS device. Step 2: Update/Restore to iOS 4.3.3 firmware using the IPSW file you just downloaded via iTunes 10.2.2. Step 3: Start Redsn0w and point it to the official iOS 4.3.2 firmware file (NOT iOS 4.3.3 file). Step 4: Now select “Install Cydia” and click “Next”. Optionally (if available), you can also select any other option you like. Step 5: Now make sure your device is both OFF and PLUGGED IN to the computer before you click “Next”.
At this stage you will be presented with a screen where you will be guided on how to enter DFU mode. Quickly hold “Power” button and then while holding the “Power” button, you will now have to hold “Home” button too. Now after few seconds release “Power” button but keep holding “Home” button until installation begins.
Step 6: Sit back and enjoy while Redsn0w does the rest for you. Once done, your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch will restart automatically and you will find it jailbroken (tethered) on the latest iOS 4.3.3 firmware. Step 7: Now from here onwards, whenever you want to do anything related to jailbreak like SSHing into your device, or running Cydia, you must first run your device in the so called “jailbroken state” on every reboot by using “Just boot tethered right now” option in Redsn0w.
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Apple has always been a fairly malware-safe world, aside from an occasional threat that pops up every so often. While malware incidence has indeed been low on both Mac and iOS, Mac OS X anti-malware maker Intego, has developed a new malware scanner for iOS devices.
VirusBarrier, as this new tool is called, will scan places where malware is the likeliest to be stored at, such as the user’s Dropbox folder, as well as Mail attachments and other locations within iOS that are directly exposed to users. This tool is an on-demand scanner, meaning that it doesn’t run in the background due to the nature of iOS’ multi-tasking (or lack thereof), therefore users will have to manually scan files from the app itself or by pressing and holding the link to any file and selecting "Open in VirusBarrier".
VirusBarrier
You may now be wondering about the need for an anti-malware application on an iOS device, since after all no software that hasn’t been reviewed by Apple can run on the system (unless you’ve jailbroken it, of course). It turns out that the main goal of this app is to stop infected files from ending up on more vulnerable systems, as explained by the company in a press release:
While there is no known malware for iOS, files can flow through these devices into computers at home and at work by e-mail, or via remote locations such as MobileMe or Dropbox. Mac and Windows viruses, malware and worms will take any path they can to get into home and work computers, and can easily be passed on to friends and co-workers directly from an iOS device, even though they do not affect iOS devices.
VirusBarrier is, of course, equipped to detect Windows, Mac and Unix viruses, therefore expect its virus definitions to be updated quite often. VirusBarrier can be downloaded from the iOS App Store for $2.99, which will grant you free detection updates for a year. From that point, you’ll have to purchase a license again for an additional $1.99 every year.
Whether this app is worth the investment is up to you. Common sense is usually enough to keep malware out most of the time, but there’s nothing wrong with wanting a second layer of protection.
Imagine you woke up one day and your site went viral what a nightmare?. All those high pageviews, comment moderation and overflowing adsense income to deal with.So here is the 5 ways to make your life simple and ensure all your post will be unread and kept that way.
1. Useless or Crappy content:
2.Talk about yesterdays news
3.Don't put any share buttons on your site
4.Have lengthy post or page titles
5.Hvea spelling mistakes.
RIM's BlackBerry might be on a sustained losing streak against Android and the iPhone around the world but it is still packing in new users in the UK, research company Kantar Worldpanel ComTech has reported. On the other hand Apple iPhone is the top selling brand in The USA Market
In the 12 weeks to 12 June, the company increased its UK smartphone market share to an impressive 22.3 percent, making it second only to Android, which has 45.2 percent, and ahead of the iPhone's 18.3 percent.
Significantly, 85 percent of new BlackBerry sales came from customers that had previously used conventional phone handsets, with the majority of upgraders being women. This could reflect the BlackBerry's good reputation as a texting device, a mobile application reckoned to be a particular priority for women.
The reported success chimes with RIM's claim last week that it had added over one million new subscribers in three weeks across Europe, the Middle East and Africa sales region, but leaves its poor showing in specific countries unexplained.
Rumors are suggesting that the latest iPhone 5's release date as November 21.There are also rumors that Apple ordered 15 million iphone unit for september release.
Now we all know that Often Apple's tradition of announcing the iPhone update in June with a release date of later in the summer, the company has put back the launch date of the next version.We reported the iPhone 5 may in fact be the iPhone 4S earlier today, as a number of sources have revealed the next iPhone will only be a small update.
However, there's still a chance the iPhone 4S with only not major updates (including a tweaked iOS 4) will be launched in June at WWDC, while the larger update, known as the iPhone 5 will be released in November.clearly most of user are looking forward to see some newlook in iPhone 5 design wise.
Apple has said the keynote at WWDC will include news on the next version of iOS, suggesting we're in for something big.One reason the iPhone 5 may not be launched until later in the year is because Apple is experiencing software issues.
An analyst explained, ‘Apple follows product cycles driven more by software, rather than hardware,' suggesting the hardware was not to blame for the hold up. According to T3 gadget magzine, the iPhone 5 will be publicly announced in September and is expected to cost the same as the iPhone 4.
Google’s social network Share button , Google+, might be one of the fastest-growing networks ever, having already reached 10 million users according to one estimate. Not surprising for Google which already forecaster it will be unbeatable product.
Paul Allen, of Ancestry.com — not to be confused with Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen — has developed an interesting methodology to calculate the number of Google+ members.
He sampled a number of surnames from the U.S. Census Bureau data and compared it to surnames of Google+ users. By comparing surname popularity in the U.S. with the number of users on Google+ with each surname, he can guesstimate the percentage of the U.S. population that signed up for Google+. Finally, he calculated a ratio of U.S. to non-U.S. users to generate an estimate for the number of Google+ users worldwide.
The result? Google+ has approximately 9.5 million users worldwide, with 2.2 million joining in the past 32 to 34 hours, according to Allen’s estimates.
This is amazing growth even for a giant such as Google: We cannot remember any social network reaching so many members so quickly after its release.
There are number of operating systems in Mobile market the leading OS can be found on this smartphones includes Nokia's Symbian, Google's Android, Apple's iOS, RIM's BlackBerry OS, Microsoft's Windows Phone, Linux, HP's webOS, Samsung's Bada, Nokia's Maemo and MeeGo among many others. Android, Bada, WebOS and Maemo are built on top of Linux, and iOS is derived from the BSD and NeXTSTEP operating systems, which are all related to Unix.
The most common operating systems (OS) used in smartphones by Q3 2010 sales are:
Mobile Market Share :
Latest news reveal that Apple is the Top US mobile manufacturer followed by RIM (Blackberry) and HTC.
Continuing to take the mobile phone industry by its revolutionary devices , Apple has found itself sitting pretty at the top of a list of smartphone OEMs. This particular list shows Apple is currently the top dog when it comes to smartphone market share for the three months ending May 2011.
The ComScore data shows that 76.8 million people owned smartphones in the United States during the period, with Apple’s iPhone a ccounting for 26.8% – not bad for a company with just two handsets on sale currently.
Making up the rest of the front runners, we have RIM with 24.7% and HTC with 11.8%.
With Apple having just two dogs in the race – the 12 month old iPhone 4 and 2 year old iPhone 3GS – this is an achievement that should not be underestimated. With the competition, HTC specifically, putting out umpteen different handsets, on a variety of carriers, sporting every mobile operating system under the sun, it’s perhaps expected that Apple would lag behind. This, however, clearly isn’t the case.
During the three months ending in May 2011, 76.8 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones. Among smartphone owners, Apple accounted for 26.6% of devices making Apple the top smartphone OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) for the month. RIM followed accounting for 24.7% of the market, with HTC capturing 11.8% share. Motorola and Samsung rounded out the top five with 11.4% share and 8.9% share, respectively.
Rumors have been around for some time now that Apple is planning on bringing more iPhone handsets to market, with Google’s Android being the main reason for any potential move to widen the iPhone product line. Google currently allows anyone and everyone to use the Android OS – a plan that has seen an explosion in usage, with smartphones, tablets and just about anything with a plug receiving the Android treatment. A possible iPhone 5/4S release later this year can only help Apple continue it’s considerable OEM market share, whether multiple iPhones are on the horizon, or not. With results like this though, Apple could be forgiven for thinking that their current philosophy of one size fits all is still the way to go.
Google's new innovative share button called +1 ( plus one) is everywhere now you can find it in the search results too and every site. This works like friend's recommendation or like very similar to facebook likes . if your searching something on google and you friends picture will appear next to the link if they have recommended it. link to google +1
How to Install google plus one on you Blog or Website: Use this code
<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag -->
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script>
<!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render -->
<g:plusone></g:plusone>
Jailbreakme is a dedicated and hassle free way to set your Apple device free. Experience iOS as it could be, fully customizable, themeable, and with every tweak you could possibly imagine.Safe and completely reversible (just restore in iTunes), jail-breaking provides full control over the device you own. It only takes a minute or two, and as always, it's completely free.
Please make an iTunes backup before jailbreaking.
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DONE!!
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Are you a Mac lover and like to give Windows 8 a try? Using some software, Windows 8 be installed on top of Mac OS X, with support for all of its newest features. If you’re already familiar with the concept of virtual machines, this won’t offer much to you, but if you’re not that sure, read on: you’ll see Windows 8 running in no time.
Note: The following tutorial was completed using VMware on Mac OS X. You can follow the similar steps for installing Windows 8 on any Windows 7/Vista powered PC as well. You’ll Need:
A full copy of any build of Windows 8. At the time of this writing, the newest build is 7989. We won’t provide a direct download link here since Windows 8 isn’t available officially to public yet. Google is your best friend.
A good virtualization tool such as VMware Fusion (get a 30-day free trial from here). Windows users can use free VMware Player product from here. VirtualBox is a good freeware alternative, but since it doesn’t offer quite as good graphics acceleration support, we’re leaving this one out.
About 1 hour of your time.
Once you’ve obtained everything mentioned above, it’s time to begin your installation. if you have an older Mac with less RAM and a slower processor consider exiting out of other applications before moving on. Step 1: Fire up VMware Fusion and click on "Install Windows or another operating system in a new virtual machine". Step 2: Since this version of Windows 8 isn’t available on DVD yet (unless you decide to burn the image, which feel is a waste of time), we’re ignoring VMware’s almost exclusive reliance on physical discs and pointing it to our Windows 8 image instead. From the wizard that should pop up, select "Continue without a disc".
Step 3: On the operating system selection screen that should show up afterwards, just select "Windows 7", since no Windows 8 option is available at this time. Windows 7 VMware tools should work on Windows 8 just fine.
Once you finish going through this tutorial, you should now be ready to install Windows 8 in your virtual machine. If you’re familiar with installing Windows operating systems in the past, you’ll feel right at home in Windows 8′s installation system. Nonetheless, we’re going through it in some detail below. Step 4: Once you start booting from your Windows 8 image, you’ll see a "loading files" progress bar followed by the Windows 7 boot up screen. Users will then be able to change their regional preferences, such as keyboard layout. Once you’re done adjusting these settings, click "Next", then "Install" on the screen that should pop up afterwards.
Step 5: after clicking through a few self-explanatory screens, you get to the disk partitioner. In a virtual machine, you should just select the main volume (could be market as "Free Space", just select it anyway). After hitting "Next" for the last time, the installation should start.
Step 6: kick back and relax, you won’t have much to do for the next 20 or so minutes, while Windows 8 installs. Once the installation is finished, you will finally be able to boot into Windows 8!
New update on iPhone 5 Release According to China Times, the iPhone 5 is set to be launched in the second week of September with an first launch of 4 million units. This speculation lines up with current predictions.
Imagine you woke up one day and your site went viral what a nightmare?. All those high pageviews, comment moderation and overflowing adsense income to deal with.So here is the 5 ways to make your life simple and ensure all your post will be unread and kept that way.
