Learn to Play Poker With Bob on iPhone
If, like me, you’re someone who’s been wanting to learn to play poker but have found it a little daunting, or if you can already play and have been looking for a fun poker app, then you really need to check out Poker with Bob, which hit the App Store today. The game is the work of Scary Robot Productions, a new LA-based app development studio founded by Hollywood animator Dustin Adair, who’s responsible for animating such legendary sci-fi creations as the awesome Cylons in the Battlestar Galactica TV series, the Terminators in Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles, and the Transformers in Transformers: War for Cybertron. So, with a pedigree like that, you'd expect Poker with Bob to be good, and thankfully, it is! Basically, it’s a light-hearted draw poker game with a twist, where you face off against Bob, a real-time, fully animated 3D character in a realistic casino setting. Bob rants and raves when he loses and taunts you mercilessly when he wins, and the game really does look like tons of fun, judging by the video. Here are some of the main features of the game, courtesy of Scary Robot Productions:
• Five different levels of increasing challenge and higher stakes.
• One-on-one multiplayer available through Bluetooth.
• Multiple high score tables tracking the player's greatest wins as well
• as their greatest comebacks.
• Auto-save - Bob keeps track of every hand so even if you have to quit suddenly, the game will be saved right where you left it.
• A full tutorial to help anyone pick up the game of draw poker in no
• time.
Click here to download the game
Apple's New iPad Delayed Until June 2011
Bloomberg (Apple's New iPad Shipments May Be Delayed to June, Yuanta Securities Says
Shipments of the new version of Apple Inc.’s iPad may be delayed to June from April, Yuanta Securities Co. said in a research note today. The report by Vincent Chen and Alison Chen, analysts at Yuanta, cited “production bottlenecks” at Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. after Apple made design changes before the Lunar New year. ) cites a Yuanta Securities Co. research note claiming that the new iPad may be delayed from April to June.
The report by Vincent Chen and Alison Chen, analysts at Yuanta, cited “production bottlenecks” at Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. after Apple made design changes before the Lunar New year.
We've never heard any predictions coming from Yuanta Securities before so we have no idea of their reliability.
All previous reports have pointed to a Q1 launch, possibly in April for the iPad 2.
Save Facebook photos with new Launched FBphotoSave for I phone and iPod Touch - iOS
FBphotoSave is a tweak that will allow you to save Facebook photos at the highest quality possible, right on your iOS device. You can save the photos directly through the Facebook app by tapping and holding for about 2 seconds then pressing confirm when the popup appears. After that, the photo is saved in your camera roll and you can do whatever you want with it. Check out FBphotoSave in Cydia for $.99.
AT&T Wireless Hotspot Feature is Already Working with iOS 4.3 Beta
MacRumors reports today that they’ve heard from many iOS 4.3 beta users that the mobile wireless hotspot facility included in iOS 4.3 is already working with current AT&T tethering plans, indicating that AT&T iPhone users will be able to get the service up and running as soon as they install iOS 4.3, due for release at the end of February. Although the feature is built into iOS 4.3 and all upgraded phones will therefore have the capability to be used as a mobile wireless hotspot, whether or not you can actually use it on your own particular phone will depend on your carrier. In the US, that’s either Verizon or AT&T, of course, and with the Verizon iPhone having the feature up and running since launch, it was left to AT&T to permit and enable the feature for their customers once it becomes available when iOS 4.3 is released. As MacRumors reports, AT&T has already announced that the feature would be supported on other smartphones from February 13, and now it looks as if AT&T is already supporting the feature for iPhones too, but unless you’re an iOS beta tester, you’ll have to wait a couple more weeks to be able to use it. According to MacRumors, AT&T’s price plan for using your phone as a mobile hotspot is exactly the same as its tethering price plan, which is $20 per month for 2GB of additional data.
New I phone mini coming soon it be half the size of I phone 4
Now your wait coming to end soon a interesting Rumors of a smaller iPhone, an iPhone mini if you will, have been going around ever since the iPhone was originally launched and now folks over at the Wall Street Journal have added fuel to the fire by stating that folks familiar with the matter claim to have seen a device that is about half the size of the iPhone 4 and is codenamed the N97. If the rumors are true, this iPhone mini will be only about half the size of the original iPhone and will only be around half the price. The phone was also said to be significantly lighter than the iPhone 4 and features an edge-to-edge touchscreen display, along with voice navigation of sorts. Aside from the iPhone mini, it’s been said that Apple could finally be ready to make its MobileMe cloud service suite free and that could be the platform that Apple will be using to launch its streaming music service.
How to unlock iPhone
iPhone is the most talked about gadgets this summer and its getting hotter day by day as hundereds of iPhone news pops daily. But the most likely news you’ll hear is someone successful unlocks his iPhone from the exclusive carrier AT&T. Its normally a very tough to unlock the iPhone without taking the rise of jumping into trouble. But what if I say you can do that just in few minutes that too on a GUI.
iPhone Unlock Software from DVD to iPhone is a god’s gift to newbie who would like to unlock there iPhones. It will remove the AT&T exclusive 2Year contract and let your use any service providers. But don’t take my words its risky hacking or unlocking iPhones or any hardware’s. Besides this you loose your warranty doing this. But obviously who cares not anyone can afford or like to be in a contract. Now lets get our hands dirty.
But theirs is nothing to say with this software. Its one of the most simplest software out their. Few months back we showed how to hack a Sony Ericsson W810i to run flash menus, it was a post that my fellow friend Joel took some 3days to complete, besides that the technical complexity was high enough even full time geeks will cough. But this one is one of the simplest unlocker I ever found. Just run the app and click on the ‘Unlock iPhone’ button and after few long seconds you’ll meet with your unlocked Iphone.
Just download the iPhone Unlock Toolkit and have fun
Apple launched iPhone Touch Screen Mobile Phone and iPod
Apple® today introduced iPhone, combining three products--a revolutionary mobile phone, a widescreen iPod® with touch controls, and a breakthrough Internet communications device with desktop-class email, web browsing, searching and maps--into one small and lightweight handheld device. iPhone introduces an entirely new user interface based on a large multi-touch display and pioneering new software, letting users control iPhone with just their fingers. iPhone also ushers in an era of software power and sophistication never before seen in a mobile device, which completely redefines what users can do on their mobile phones.
"iPhone is a revolutionary and magical product that is literally five years ahead of any other mobile phone," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "We are all born with the ultimate pointing device--our fingers--and iPhone uses them to create the most revolutionary user interface since the mouse."
iPhone is a Revolutionary Mobile Phone
iPhone is a revolutionary new mobile phone that allows users to make calls by simply pointing at a name or number. iPhone syncs all of your contacts from your PC, Mac® or Internet service such as Yahoo!, so that you always have your full list of up-to-date contacts with you. In addition, you can easily construct a favorites list for your most frequently made calls, and easily merge calls together to create conference calls.
iPhone's pioneering Visual Voicemail, an industry first, lets users look at a listing of their voicemails, decide which messages to listen to, then go directly to those messages without listening to the prior messages. Just like email, iPhone's Visual Voicemail enables users to immediately randomly access those messages that interest them most.
iPhone includes an SMS application with a full QWERTY soft keyboard to easily send and receive SMS messages in multiple sessions. When users need to type, iPhone presents them with an elegant touch keyboard which is predictive to prevent and correct mistakes, making it much easier and more efficient to use than the small plastic keyboards on many smartphones. iPhone also includes a calendar application that allows calendars to be automatically synced with your PC or Mac.
iPhone features a 2 megapixel camera and a photo management application that is far beyond anything on a phone today. Users can browse their photo library, which can be easily synced from their PC or Mac, with just a flick of a finger and easily choose a photo for their wallpaper or to include in an email.
iPhone is a quad-band GSM phone which also features EDGE and Wi-Fi wireless technologies for data networking. Apple has chosen Cingular, the best and most popular carrier in the US with over 58 million subscribers, to be Apple's exclusive carrier partner for iPhone in the US.
iPhone is a Widescreen iPod
iPhone is a widescreen iPod with touch controls that lets music lovers "touch" their music by easily scrolling through entire lists of songs, artists, albums and playlists with just a flick of a finger. Album artwork is stunningly presented on iPhone's large and vibrant display.
iPhone also features Cover Flow, Apple's amazing way to browse your music library by album cover artwork, for the first time on an iPod. When navigating your music library on iPhone, you are automatically switched into Cover Flow by simply rotating iPhone into its landscape position.
iPhone's stunning 3.5-inch widescreen display offers the ultimate way to watch TV shows and movies on a pocketable device, with touch controls for play-pause, chapter forward-backward and volume. iPhone plays the same videos purchased from the online iTunes® Store that users enjoy watching on their computers and iPods, and will soon enjoy watching on their widescreen televisions using the new Apple TV™. The iTunes Store now offers over 350 television shows, over 250 feature films and over 5,000 music videos.
iPhone lets users enjoy all their iPod content, including music, audiobooks, audio podcasts, video podcasts, music videos, television shows and movies. iPhone syncs content from a user's iTunes library on their PC or Mac, and can play any music or video content they have purchased from the online iTunes store.
iPhone is a Breakthrough Internet Communications Device
iPhone features a rich HTML email client which fetches your email in the background from most POP3 or IMAP mail services and displays photos and graphics right along with the text. iPhone is fully multi-tasking, so you can be reading a web page while downloading your email in the background.
Yahoo! Mail, the world's largest email service with over 250 million users, is offering a new free "push" IMAP email service to all iPhone users that automatically pushes new email to a user's iPhone, and can be set up by simply entering your Yahoo! name and password. iPhone will also work with most industry standard IMAP and POP based email services, such as Microsoft Exchange, Apple .Mac Mail, AOL Mail, Google Gmail and most ISP mail services.
iPhone also features the most advanced and fun-to-use web browser on a portable device with a version of its award-winning Safari™ web browser for iPhone. Users can see any web page the way it was designed to be seen, and then easily zoom in to expand any section by simply tapping on iPhone's multi-touch display with their finger. Users can surf the web from just about anywhere over Wi-Fi or EDGE, and can automatically sync their bookmarks from their PC or Mac. iPhone's Safari web browser also includes built-in Google Search and Yahoo! Search so users can instantly search for information on their iPhone just like they do on their computer.
iPhone also includes Google Maps, featuring Google's groundbreaking maps service and iPhone's amazing maps application, offering the best maps experience by far on any pocket device. Users can view maps, satellite images, traffic information and get directions, all from iPhone's remarkable and easy-to-use touch interface.
iPhone's Advanced Sensors
iPhone employs advanced built-in sensors--an accelerometer, a proximity sensor and an ambient light sensor--that automatically enhance the user experience and extend battery life. iPhone's built-in accelerometer detects when the user has rotated the device from portrait to landscape, then automatically changes the contents of the display accordingly, with users immediately seeing the entire width of a web page, or a photo in its proper landscape aspect ratio.
iPhone's built-in proximity sensor detects when you lift iPhone to your ear and immediately turns off the display to save power and prevent inadvertent touches until iPhone is moved away. iPhone's built-in ambient light sensor automatically adjusts the display's brightness to the appropriate level for the current ambient light, thereby enhancing the user experience and saving power at the same time.
Pricing & Availability
iPhone will be available in the US in June 2007, Europe in late 2007, and Asia in 2008, in a 4GB model for $499 (US) and an 8GB model for $599 (US), and will work with either a PC or Mac. iPhone will be sold in the US through Apple's retail and online stores, and through Cingular's retail and online stores. Several iPhone accessories will also be available in June, including Apple's new remarkably compact Bluetooth headset.
iPhone includes support for quad-band GSM, EDGE, 802.11b/g Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.0 EDR wireless technologies.
iPhone requires a Mac with a USB 2.0 port, Mac OS® X v10.4.8 or later and iTunes 7; or a Windows PC with a USB 2.0 port and Windows 2000 (Service Pack 4), Windows XP Home or Professional (Service Pack 2). Internet access is required and a broadband connection is recommended. Apple and Cingular will announce service plans for iPhone before it begins shipping in June.
Within six minutes Phone passwords hacked
There is no such thing as perfect security, but it can be better than the current state of affairs. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany have demonstrated an easy and repeatable way to get at the accounts including passwords stored on an iPhone.
They have to have actual physical possession of the phone being hacked, but this makes lost or stolen phones completely insecure - which is bad news for the corporate use of the iPhone. Given that the procedure only takes six minutes, it is even possible that the phone could be removed, compromised and returned without the user being aware that all their account information has been downloaded.
The attack is directed against keychain, the account/password manager which stores user details including passwords and certificates used to access third party systems such as corporate networks and email accounts.
The keychain is regarded as secure because in a locked phone the user's passcode is required to access it. Unfortunately there are ways to access keychain without knowing the passcode and the real surprise is that once you get into keychain it contains a great deal of information in unencrypted form. In other words, it relies on the phone's main access security for its protection.
The correct way to do the job would be to encrypt everything within the keychain using the passcode as part of the key. The reason that keychain doesn't do this is that it is more convenient to allow the phone to make connections without asking the user for the passcode. Other phones may well make the same trade off between convenience and security.
The attack proceeds by first jailbreaking the phone so that software can be installed on it. Then an SSH server is installed which allows applications to be installed and run, and a keychain access script is uploaded which outputs the account details stored there. In total this takes only a few minutes and it is repeatable and doesn't depend on any special knowledge of the user.
The reason that keychain data can be accessed so easily is that some of it isn't encrypted. User name and server details for all accounts are in the clear and for some types of account even the password is in the clear - including exchange mail, VPN (both IPSec and PPP) and LDAP.
The researchers do admit that passwords for some account types are securely encrypted and gaining access to these would require a lot more work. They also point out that in many cases having access to servers and email accounts would be sufficient to find out other information that would eventually lead to the same secrets via password recovery services that send the password to the email account.
You can read about the details in the paper which includes a table of which types of account are protected and which are in the clear once you are inside keychain.
Finally iControlPad ready for your Jailbroken iPhone
The news that the iControlPad that first surface back in 2008 is actually now available to order, with the first units being shipped around February 16. As Engadget notes, the physical control pad add-on adapter was originally going to be just a case with a dock connector, but the final version is apparently much, much better than that, as it now communicates with your iPhone via Bluetooth. In fact, the makers say that it will actually work with any phone/console or computer that has Bluetooth. The iControlPad has a digital Dpad, two analog nubs, six face buttons and two rear buttons, with a side clamp system which means that you can use it with almost any phone. The controller is mainly designed to use with jailbroken phones, but it will also work on an unbroken phone in keyboard mode.
Supporting any phone/console/computer with Bluetooth.
• Digital Dpad, 2 Analogue nubs, 6 face buttons and 2 rear buttons.
• Clever side clamp system allowing it to attach to almost any phone
• Multiple BT protocols supported
• Should 'just work' on any Android app which supports a PC gamepad.
• iPhone users should have jailbreak but does work on unbroken iPhone in keyboard mode.
• Internal 1500maH battery can also charge your phone via USB when playing.
• Upgradeable firmware, new features can be added, restrictions can be bypassed.
• Delivery starts in February.
How it works
The iControlPad uses Bluetooth to communicate with your mobile phone, so it can basically be used with any modern Smartphone - or even your PC!
It offers various different Bluetooth protocols, including standard HID. This is to ensure that you can use the iControlPad with current and future Smartphone generations.
Current side clamps support:
iPhone 3, iPhone 3G, iPhone, iPhone 3GS, iPhone4, iPod touch (some require padding), Motorola Backflip (needs padding), Lg Optimus S, Lg Ally, Blackberry Touch, Samsung Intercept (may require adjustment), HTC Dream, T-Mobile G1, Era G1.
Furthermore, any phones which are a similar size may fit, you might have to make your own adjustments to the iCP clamps to match.
Order now : http://www.icontrolpad.com/order
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