It’s not an easy time for Microsoft — with Steve Ballmer having to field questions about being “buffoons” and an “evil empire” at the shareholder’s meeting (.doc) — so when they get together “the world’s most influential technology pundits and online writers” (nb: we weren’t invited) for Mobius to discuss super-secret mobile tech you’d think [...]
Here’s a guide for finding the best bargains on Apple-related gear during the infamous Black Friday sales on November 27. We’ve compiled a comprehensive list of gear from leaked photos of sales flyers and descriptions of sales.
The bargains include a 2.26 GHz MacBook + $150 gift card at Best Buy for $999.99 ; a 32GB [...]
New on the App Store is Voices from the clever folk at Tap Tap Tap. You can guess what it does.
Press releases, you will hardly be surprised to hear, are rarely very interesting. But one arrived in my inbox a couple of weeks ago that made me double-take.
“Sony’s S Series Walkman,” it chattered, “is a serious challenger to the iPod Nano.” Gosh, really? Perhaps the Cult had better have a look at one, then, despite [...]
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1:35 pm, November 20th, 2009, Cate Defrise
Happy Friday! Mac Games and More has again picked out a collection of casual games you might not have heard of, to play into the weekend. Games include a hack and slash fighting elves, a logic puzzle mining for treasure, an addictive arcade classic and more.
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2:05 pm, November 13th, 2009, Cate Defrise
It’s that time again! Mac Games and More has picked out a collection of casual games you might not have heard of, to take you into the weekend. Games include stones to put you in a Zen state, gardens that do not get your fingernails dirty, scandals involving murder, bribes, movies and more.
Posted by Cate Defrise in Gaming, mac | 6 Comments »
4:12 pm, November 11th, 2009, Sayam Aggarwal
iPhone ‘worms’ haven’t been much of a threat till now. However, things have changed with a new malware, discovered by Mac security firm Intego. Identified as iPhone/Privacy.A, it is a major threat for the privacy of many jailbroken iPhone users who have installed and activated SSH. Note: Non-jailbroken phones are not affected by it.
This malware acts through the SSH just like the others. It infects through client software installed on an attacking Mac, PC or even iPhone, which scans for jailbroken iPhones nearby. If they are vulnerable, they are then injected with the malware using the default filesystem password.
Previous exploits like iKee just changed the lockscreen background but after injection, this new malware copies private data, such as contacts, e-mail, contacts, SMSs, calendars, photos, music files, videos, which it then sends back to the source machine. It is even possible to send it as a malware to a Mac or PC which will then scan and copy the information from nearby jailbroken iPhones or iPod Touch and then send back to the source.
Even though it is not widespread yet, the amount of information it steals is a great deal. Intego currently recommends it’s own solution, Virus Barrier X5, which detects and removes this malware from a Mac but as far as other platforms are concerned, there’s currently no solution. This means that there is a high chance you can be affected as well. Therefore, we recommend you to take a simple precautionary step by changing the filesystem password on your jailbroken iPhones with SSH installed or turning SSH off when not in use with the help of SBSettings available in Cydia.
You can also have a look at our guide on how to change the filesystem password.
Posted by Sayam Aggarwal in News, iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3G S, iPod Touch, mac | No Comments »
3:16 pm, November 6th, 2009, Cate Defrise
This week’s picks from Mac Games and More is a collection of various games you might not have heard of, to take you into the weekend. Included in the selection: a road trip across the U.S. playing 9-Ball, swashbuckling musketeers duking it out in 17th century France, a county fair empire ruled by you and more.
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2:47 pm, October 30th, 2009, Cate Defrise
Boo! Here’s Part 2 of Fun Mac Games for Halloween! This week’s selection from Mac Games and More includes more Halloween inspired games you can play into the weekend. Get ready to scream because in the games you’ll find a seriously spooky psycho, yourself trying to escape a mysterious island, the devil himself settling a score with evil robots and more. If you missed the ghoulish games last week, click here for Part 1.
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2:02 am, October 26th, 2009, Sayam Aggarwal
Release Candidate 2 (RC2) for Blackra1n, iPhone hacker George Hotz’s software for 1-click jailbreaking, has been released for all existing iPhone and iPod Touch devices. It adds support for new iPhone 3GS and iPod Touch 8GB and fixes almost every bug present in the previous version. However, it will NOT unlock the device, enabling it to be used with different GSM carriers worldwide.
If you purchased an iPhone 3GS or iPod Touch 8GB within the last 3 weeks, there is a high probability that you have this new model. Blackra1n currently performs only a tethered jailbreak for these new devices, which means you need to use blackra1n every time you boot the device, otherwise all your jailbreak data gets wiped. Other bug fixes include an issue with 3G network and some issues with Icy, Ripdev’s installer tool. Also, there is no need to rerun the new version, if the old one worked for you.
For those who don’t already know, blackra1n jailbreaks your iPhone or iPod Touch (any generation) with a single click in merely 30 seconds, making it the easiest jailbreak solution that ever existed.
Blackra1n for Mac and Windows is available to download at blackra1n.com.
Cult of Mac ‘How To’ is available here.
Posted by Sayam Aggarwal in News, iPhone 3G S, iPod Touch, mac | 8 Comments »
1:00 pm, October 23rd, 2009, Cate Defrise
This week’s selection from Mac Games and More include Halloween inspired games that will take you into the weekend. In the picks you’ll find a zombie invasion with ensuing battle, sweet treats that won’t give you any cavities, good ole fun whacking some light-hearted zombies and more. Be sure to check back here next Friday for Part II.
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1:47 pm, October 16th, 2009, Cate Defrise
Here’s this week’s selection of games from Mac Games and More that will take you into the weekend. The picks include collecting ancient artifacts in the heart of Egypt, an animated, side-scrolling shooter in claymation, cavorting with Sherlock Holmes and more.
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10:47 am, October 13th, 2009, Nicole Martinelli
A personalized Dell laptop: better than "Steve's way?"
In a shameless rip off of the Burger King slogan, Dell wants customers to know you can have your computer, your way by personalizing it with some fugly case designs.
“You can have it Steve Jobs’ way or you can have it your way,” Ed Boyd, VP of consumer experience design told journalists last week while promoting Dell’s Design Studio.
Launched in 2008, the customization program will boost its current offer up to 350 designs and patterns plus team logos and colors. The images are imprinted on the computer with a sub-surface image that penetrates the shell and wraps around the laptop — so the Dell logo is still visible.
Design Studio customization, which will go worldwide next summer, tacks $85 on to the cost of a Dell laptop.
Apparently, Boyd doesn’t think people who fancy a bit of customizing are smart enough to put some cool stickers on their Macs instead.
Posted by Nicole Martinelli in News, mac | 11 Comments »
12:24 pm, October 9th, 2009, Cate Defrise
Here’s this week’s selection of games from Mac Games and More that will take you into the weekend. The picks include a lego-like construction puzzle using goo balls instead of lego pieces, a side-scrolling shooter to take down all of your enemies, a kickin’ top-down perspective soccer game and more.
Posted by Cate Defrise in Gaming, mac | 1 Comment »
1:27 pm, October 2nd, 2009, Cate Defrise
Here’s this week’s selection of games from Mac Games and More that will take you into the weekend. The picks include an addictive pachinko-like game, a DIY aquarium sim mixed with hidden objects, and an action-packed genetically modified shoot ‘em up.
Posted by Cate Defrise in Gaming, Macintosh, mac | 2 Comments »
12:20 pm, September 25th, 2009, Cate Defrise
Here’s your selection of games from Mac Games and More that will take you into the weekend. The picks include a platformer where you’ll happily rescue your girlfriend from aliens, a fast-blasting, cannonball shooting pirate game and a sim where you take on the role of an all powerful deity.
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1:02 pm, September 18th, 2009, Cate Defrise
This week’s selection of games for the weekend from Mac Games and More includes running an airport control tower, playing a platformer where you’re to recover the world’s largest diamonds, and going on an addictive brick-bashing spree. Click on the images to see a larger screenshot.
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Ninja Assassin the movie is an anticipated Hollywood swords and sandals epic from James McTeigue, director of V for Vendetta, with a story from J. Michael Straczynski, the creator of Babylon 5 and the only Spider-Man comic in which Dr. Doom cries (though the artist allegedly came up with that last bit).
It’s also now an [...]
This is what you’re about to ask: Is Star Wars: Trench Run so good that it’ll have you wondering how magically your iPhone becomes an X-wing fighter? Answer: No. It’s better — it’s actually so good, you’ll be trying to figure out why your X-wing looks suspiciously like an iPhone.
New on the App Store is Voices from the clever folk at Tap Tap Tap. You can guess what it does.
Press releases, you will hardly be surprised to hear, are rarely very interesting. But one arrived in my inbox a couple of weeks ago that made me double-take.
“Sony’s S Series Walkman,” it chattered, “is a serious challenger to the iPod Nano.” Gosh, really? Perhaps the Cult had better have a look at one, then, despite [...]
If you jailbreak your iPhone, the first thing you ABSOLUTELY MUST DO is change the default filesystem password.
When you jailbreak, the filesystem’s password is set to the common password “alpine.” As people usually don’t bother changing this password after performing a jailbreak, it’s really easy for hackers to get access to any jailbroken iPhone/iPod Touch [...]
Convert your mild-mannered Mac Pro into a hard drive speed demon. Stuff it with drives fast enough to work with full-quality, uncompressed video. Get more than 300 MB/s on your internal drives! It’s so easy even I can do it!
I’ve been working in video production for the last 20+ years. When you’re working with video [...]
Some readers might remember the fuss a few weeks ago, when Snow Leopard came out and people noticed that it did something screwy to the way files behave.
George Hotz a.k.a GeoHot has released blackra1n RC3, which is an update to a 1-click jailbreak that adds activation options and an add-on blacksn0w, which unlocks latest iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS baseband version 05.11.07. To use blacksn0w, make sure you have this new baseband (check under Settings –> General –> About –> Modem Firmware) [...]
