Have you wanted more disk space for your AppleTV? Is that why you haven’t bought one yet? Well, it is now possible to add more storage to your AppleTV, thanks to Tom Anthony and the guys at AppleTV hacks.
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Here is how to make your Coby DVD-224 a Region Free DVD Player: 1. Power Up the unit with NO Disc in the tray. 2. Press the SETUP button on your remote control 3. Press the VOL + button on your remote control 4. Press the VOL – button on your remote control 5. Press the VOL + button on [...]
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For some reason, Apple cannot sell AppleCare for the iPhone in Alabama, Connecticut, Nevada, and Wyoming. See here.
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You know the annoying “You’ve got mail!” that AOL says when, of course, you’ve (you, not me) got mail? I was setting up Mail.app on a user’s new laptop one day, when she asked me if it would say “You’ve got mail!” when she gets new mail. Ugh. I told her no, but that I might [...]
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It would appear so. Independent Security Evaluators has released a statement (along with a video) stating that the iPhone can be exploited via, wi-fi, e-mail/text message, or malicious web pages resulting in full access of the iPhone’s contents.
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“Security researcher”, Infosec Sellout, has supposedly developed a worm (broken link — see below) that targets Mac OS X by way of an mDNSResponder vulnerability. Is this real, or is it rumormongering?
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Do you need to create a DVD image of a movie you made? Do you need to image and burn a copy of a DVD from your DVR? There are a lot of uses for this simple droplet which uses mkisofs for its imaging. A co-worker of mine found it useful for duplicating home videos [...]
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I’ve been participating in the Folding@home project for a while now. It gives me a sense of helping out while also providing a sense of competition. While Folding@home pretty much gets out of your way while you do “real” work, it also causes some computers’ fans to run more than normal. This is nothing to [...]
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TightVNC has been modified to enable iPhone remote control of a Windows desktop. Interesting stuff. An a related note, the ability to remotely log into computers via ssh is pretty much solved with WebShell.
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Lacking from the iPhone has been Disk Mode which most any iPod user is familiar with. Ecamm has released iPhoneDrive to fill this void. Don’t expect this to allow you access to your music, videos, ringtones, etc. All this really does is enable you to store data on the the iPhone’s free disk space. Still, [...]
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