Fighting Ignorance since 1986 (It’s taking longer than I thought).
@Grimmy11 They gotta pay for all those kids somehow, I'm guessing Africa doesn't take monthly payments?
I don't know how many of you own an iPhone but I'd like to take the oppurtunity to introduce a great little app we have just released to the store. The name of the app is Numberstore and the sole purpose of it is to save you money when making 0800 or 0500 Freefone calls from your iPhone. It is really simple to use, you just open the app, enter the 0800 number you want to dial and then click "Dial". The app then does some sorcery behind the scenes and translates your 0800 to an 01 ...
Image by Matt Brett via Flickr Back in May Microsoft signed an exclusive deal with television giant Sky which allowed them to stream the "Sky Anytime" content over its networks and straight into your XBOX 360. Today Microsoft announced that this service will be ready to roll in the XBOX 360 Autumn update which is available on the 27th of October. Pricing for the above has yet to be announced but Sky has stated that current subscribers will need to purchase a Multiroom package at £10/month to be able to watch both their regular sky box and Xbox360 simultaneously. Content is ...
According to our friends over at TheRegister; Debian 6.0 (codenamed "Squeeze") is going to be shipped with the option of a FreeBSD Kernel as opposed to the Linux one of distributions past. This option will be named "KFreeBSD" (Short For KernelFreeBSD??) and will primarily be available on i386 and amd64 architectures (which will cater for most of us). The use of a FreeBSD kernel will provide features such as jails, the OpenBSD Packet Filter and support for NDIS drivers and make Debian the only mainstream OS to concurrently support 2 different Kernels. Over the past few years Debian has gained some serious traction, ...
Just a quick heads up for all you firefox users, The next incremental release of Firefox (codenamed namoroka) will be available for beta next week. It has a few enhancements, most being performance related but there are a few neat features that the guys at mozilla have graced us with... "light weight" themes which do not require a restart to install. synchronize bookmarks across different computers (Safari already has this if you use MobileMe). A few CSS 3.0 additions Optimized session restore. Dictionary integration with Mac OS X Keychain integration with Mac OS X A lot of improvements to the Firefox JavaScript ...
Overview A friend of mine recently went to a computer security event in Amsterdam and while he was there he had the privilege to attend a really eye opening seminar on the subject of A5 encryption (Click here for an overview). Now from my somewhat basic understanding of this kind of thing, The main point of this seminar was to point out that the A5 encryption we so heavily rely on to encrypt our mobile communications is seriously flawed. So flawed in fact that it has been broken ( Several times since 1997 ). How does this affect me? Do you use any of ...
January 28, 2010 | No Comments | Apple, Hardware, Software
Image by Getty Images via Daylife
Tonight, After much speculation, deliberation and procrastination (@jason your a git!) our friend Steve jobs unveiled a gadget that will make anybody even slightly tech-savvy sell their own grandmother.
Introducing the iPad…
At first glance the device looks like somebody has had their iPhone on a stretching rack. but once you see [...]
January 27, 2010 | No Comments | Featured, Software
I don’t know how many of you own an iPhone but I’d like to take the oppurtunity to introduce a great little app we have just released to the store.
The name of the app is Numberstore and the sole purpose of it is to save you money when making 0800 or 0500 [...]
December 21, 2009 | No Comments | Software, Uncategorized
We all get sick to death of Spam email, I personally tend to switch my personal email address once a year. thankfully though there are groups of people who dedicate their free time to helping us.
One of these groups is “Project Honeypot” and i mention this group specifically as they just stopped their BILLIONTH spam [...]
October 15, 2009 | No Comments | Featured, Microsoft, Software, Uncategorized
Image by Matt Brett via Flickr
Back in May Microsoft signed an exclusive deal with television giant Sky which allowed them to stream the “Sky Anytime” content over its networks and straight into your XBOX 360.
Today Microsoft announced that this service will be ready to roll in the XBOX 360 Autumn update which is available on [...]
October 15, 2009 | No Comments | Apple, Hacking, Hardware, Security, Software
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According to Apple the next version of the iPhone 3G and 3GS to be shipped out will have a modified boot rom which is reported to have been hardend against the 24kpwn exploit that so many cracking groups are using to jailbreak your phone (Blackr41n, Purpler4in, Devteam).
I actually find this pretty annoying, I’ve [...]
October 12, 2009 | 1 Comments | Hacking, Software, Uncategorized
Lets face it unless you want the Italian operator logo’s there isn’t really much of value to the average joe on Cydia or ICY, The games are about as appealing as susan boyle and a jar of nutella and about as plentyfull as common sense at Microsoft!
Enter Installous, The App store for Cracked IPA’s (iPhone [...]
October 11, 2009 | No Comments | Hardware, Software
WTF!?
Before I actually write any meaningful content, I just want to say… I told you so!
Danger (a Microsoft subsidiary) yesterday announced to Sidekick users that they have got little to no chance of ever seeing any personal information that was stored on their device – such as contacts, calendar entries, to-do lists or [...]
October 11, 2009 | No Comments | Apple, Hacking, Software
Even though OS 3.1.2 Was a pretty pityfull upgrade, A lot of people either accidentily upgraded or felt the need to be “up to date” and as a result were unable to jailbreak their iPhone.
Well there is a now a big shining flood lamp at the end of the tunnel in the form of “blackra1n” [...]
October 11, 2009 | No Comments | Hacking, Hardware, Security, Software, Uncategorized
I seem to do this quite a lot for people, So I’m thinking it’s time to write some instructions.
Take the following scenario….
I’ve forgotten the Wireless password for my router (WEP / WPA Key).
Ok first up, if your on Sky or O2 broadband there is a sticker under your router so stop being a *#!@$ and [...]
October 9, 2009 | 5 Comments | Uncategorized
According to out-law.com the music streaming platform Spotify has now reached in excess 300,000 premium users and has already turned over thier first million squid.
As an avid user (and premium subscriber) to the service I can see exactly why it is fast becoming one of the “big guns” in it’s arena.
The shocking figure [...]
