Ping: Advertising Shill

September 1, 2010
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As someone who frigging loves music, I was (overly) excited by Apple’s Ping announcement, their foray into music social networking. With 160M registered credit cards all set to 1-click purchase, that’s an impressive base for starting a social networking site. Sure, most people won’t give a shit, but out of 160M people, even if [...]

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PDF Security hole allows jailbreakme.com to work

August 4, 2010
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Update (2:30PM): Apple says it is investigating… Good idea Apple!

Thanks to an unpatched hole in Adobe’s PDF file format, the jailbreaking community has been given a gift. Super easy jailbreaking. Just point your iPhone/iPod touch/iPad’s Mobile Safari to jailbreakme.com, slide the “Slide to jailbreak” slider and in less than 5 minutes, your device is jailbroken [...]

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App Store Apps just as vulnerable as Android apps

July 30, 2010
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The biggest hacker convention of the season called “Black Hat Technical Security Conference” has come and gone and some interesting facts have bubbled to the surface. A mobile security company called “Lookout” has started a little project they call the “App Genome Project“.

The App Genome Project was created to identify security threats in the wild [...]

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Of Mice and Magic

July 27, 2010
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Following up on Dave’s post about the new Magic Trackpad, Minimal Mac has a great post, Of Mice and Magic where Patrick Rhone notes:

Let’s do some theorizing on that magic for a bit. You may see a revolutionary mouse and trackpad. I see something far larger and more subversive… Apple [...]

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Magic Trackpad turns out to be real

July 27, 2010
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For a few weeks now, we have been seeing pictues what appeared to be a new trackpad like product from Apple. Well, along with new iMac’s, Apple has released a new trackpad product called… wait for it… Magic Trackpad. (What is it with Apple and the word magic these days…)

Magic Trackpad sells for $69 and [...]

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