Apple Updates iLife ’11 For Lion Compatibility
Some late breaking news, it seems as though Apple has also released updates to iLife ’11. Apple seems to be preparing it’s user’s Macs for the upcoming Mac OS X Lion update, which sources suggest that it will be released in the next 72 hours.
Apple has updated iWeb, Garageband, iPhoto, iMovie, and iDVD for Lion compatibility. As you may note, Apple has also removed the color of the icons on the left side menu bar of it’s iPhoto ’11 application, just like in iTunes as well as updating it and adding “full screen” functionality.
Review: Peel Fruit Universal Remote
Peel is an easy to use and stylish universal remote for iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. All you need is the Peel Fruit, an iDevice, and a router. It was ridiculously easy to set up like seriously a five year old could do it. Just plug in the Peel cable into the wall and an ethernet port in your router, put the battery (which is included!) in the Peel Fruit, launch the app and follow like five steps, and your up and running. This was my favorite part of the peel experience because it is by far the easiest universal remote to set up ever. Once everything is up and running you can control your tv volume, change channels, play/pause (with a dvr), and control a ton of other supported devices including apple tv. Using the app to control your tv is easy and very helpful in finding something to watch.
The Peel app will actually gather what you like and don’t like and you can favorite and block shows so they don’t show up or show up more often. This is awesome because now my favorite shows are brought to me instead of me surfing for them for who knows how long. One of my other loved parts of peel is that it finds all the movies playing from your provider. Not just the pay per view movies but every channel that is playing a movie. I use this all the time because each time you want to watch a movie Peel points out all the ones that are on without the extra pay per view fee. Now the only thing that I don’t like is you cant really channel surf by just flipping channels or typing in a number. This is pretty bad because sometimes you just want to know what is on a channel because all the suggested shows Peel has provided you don’t want to watch and so it would be really nice to manually look for shows that might not be suggested. Either way the Peel is way to functional in other areas to let that one flaw be such a bad thing. I love using it and plan to stick my old DirecTV remote in a drawer somewhere and never use it again. Go get one from peel.com and tell us what you think of it in the comments.
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Review: Magic Cube Virtual Keyboard
Celluon’s Magic Cube Keyboard (Available at thinkgeek.com for $169.99) is a laser keyboard that can be projected on any flat surface. This very cool and useful keyboard can be paired with just about any and all devices that have bluetooth including mac, pc, iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and android devices. I have been mainly using it with my iOS devices because the hardware keyboard on my MacBook is a bit more practical. But when paired with an iPad or iPhone most will experience a much better typing experience so long as your willing to try.
The keyboard is fairly easy to use except for one thing that baffles me is that the period is in the most stupid place I have ever seen on a keyboard located toward the top right as if it were a minimally used keystroke. Although when the “press spacebar twice to add a period” is enabled in iOS it isn’t so bad but i use periods in other ways that this keyboard makes difficult. Other than that the keyboard is incredibly responsive contrary to what you might think at first glance. From what i have gathered looking at the manual and the device itself it works by shining and infrared light on the table where your fingers will hit then some sort of camera that is in the center picks up your strokes, and of corse just some type of laser is at the top to actually display the keys. When first using the keyboard it takes some getting used to because of the fact you cant really rest your fingers anywhere but they can be very very close. The keyboard wont really pick up strokes until you actually touch the projected key which is pretty cool because you would think it would pick up the wrong keys all the time just because your fingers hovered passed it. Also the keyboard is sort of useful to most people because to me it is easy to use along with my friend who are good with computers but when put into the hands of a slow typer or just someone that is intimidated by the keyboard it doesn’t work well because they don’t really understand the concept. But overall it has been very practical and I use it frequently in place of my virtual keyboard in iOS. Go pick one up at thinkgeek.com and tell us what you think of it in the comments!
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LEAK: Comex To Release Official Jailbreak Within The Next 48 Hours?
[UPDATE] Jailbreakme.com is now showing the Apple sticky note “We’ll be back soon”, suggesting the leak we received was true. Expect a release of the iPad 2 jailbreak today. (July 5th)
We are getting scattered reports that say that Comex will, in fact, be releasing the new iPad 2 jailbreak to the public within the next 48 hours. An email was leaked to the public that details and exchange between Comex and “AppReviewerWill”.
To see the e-mail, click the picture above. Or, click here!
We can independently confirm that AppReviewerWill’s video is down as well as the website that he made to detail the jailbreak as well as his Twitter.
AntiSec Hacks Apple’s Servers; Hacks iCloud With Ease
Well here we go again, the “anti security” movement, or #AntiSec, a group made up by “Anonymous” and “LulzSec” have released details that could put us all in danger if they do as LulzSec did after their 50 day rampage across the internet, they released the files they obtained.
It seems as though AntiSec claims to have passwords to Apple’s servers and a bunch of administrative usernames as well. Not just that, they have said that they managed to hack iCloud as well.
Here is what LulzSec had to say:
Some weeks ago, we smashed into the iCloud with our heavy artillery Lulz Cannons and decided to switch to ninja mode. From our LFI entry point, we acquired command execution via local file inclusion of enemy fleet Apache vessel. We then found that the HTTPD had SSH auth keys, which let our ship SSH into other servers. See where this is going?
We then switched to root ammunition rounds. And we rooted… and rooted… and rooted… After mapping their internal network and thoroughly pillaging all of their servers, we grabbed all their source code and database passwords, which we proceeded to shift silently back to our storage deck.
Again, at the moment Apple has not implemented all of iCloud’s security features, as this is a developer only preview, but still, we can only hope that this will force Apple to beef up security on their servers.
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