iOS 4 Hole Plugged

iOS 4 Hole Plugged

Aug 15, 2010

Last we we mentioned the fact that there was now a website that you could go to if you wanted to jailbreak your iPhone. You would just go to the URL and that website would automagically jailbreak your phone. A new version of iOS 4 has been released which patches a hole in the operating system and also, as a result, neuters this jailbreak site.

iPhone 5 in January?

iPhone 5 in January?

Aug 15, 2010

We are beginning to hear more rumours suggesting that a new iPhone will be released significantly earlier than the usual schedule of iPhone releases would indicate. Under normal circumstances, we would probably expect to see the next iPhone in about June of 2011, but with the antennagate issues, coupled with the early leak of the iPhone 4’s details deters...

Social Bikes

Social Bikes

Aug 15, 2010

As you may have seen, in Sydney, the council has been busy building roadblocks cycleways along many of the city’s streets to encourage people to use bikes to get around in town. In New York, they’re about to start testing a new network of social bikes, called SoBi, which you can just pick up from a nearby bike rack and leave at another. To control...

NBN or Filter?

NBN or Filter?

Aug 8, 2010

With the federal election just two weeks away, the two major parties have declared different positions on two major points of technology. On the NBN, the Gillard government is planning to continue with the rollout, while the Abbott opposition wants us to continue to lag behind the rest of the world in terms of internet connectivity, and take us back to the dark...

Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Use Your Windows PC

Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Use Your Windows PC

Aug 8, 2010

Kaspersky, the makers of some great PC security tools, reported this week of an interesting hole in the Windows platform. Apparently, if the security certificate being used to install software onto your system has been tampered with, Windows does not pick this up, and fails to report this important breach of the security regime. it seems that a new worm that...

Raw MILC From Apple

Raw MILC From Apple

Aug 8, 2010

Apple have added support for raw image files produced by MILCs to Aperture and iPhoto. So, if you use one of these cameras and a Mac, you can now process your raw image files directly on your MAC.