John Young has written some cool projects for Make, such as this helmet-mounted water gun. He just alerted me to another nifty thing he made: Commando Nerd patches, which can be scanned with an iPhone.
Here’s how he describes them:
You have an iPhone. And that means you’re just HOURS away from being able to put a [...]

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SummerBoard is an extension to the iPhone’s SpringBoard user experience. SummerBoard adds a variety of useful and fun features to your iPhone, including [...]

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For updates on the new Apple iPhone v2…
IRC:// #wwdc on freenode
Macrumorslive.com
Live.gizmodo.com
Live.iphonebuzz.com
Engadget.com
Crunchgear.com

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If you’ve taken lots of camera photos with your iPhone and later wondered where they were taken, the new iPhone software could solve that problem. According to news reports, the iPhone Software 2.0 update will offer location-based photo-tagging which the user can turn on and off.
Geo-tagging adds location data to a photo or other media, [...]

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This is bad news for all eleven Safari-on-Windows users… Apple’s been making hay in its Mac vs. PC ads about Windows’ security and malware problems. But now that Apple’s playing in Microsoft’s sandbox with a Windows version of the Safari Web browser, the worm has turned.
The Windows version of Safari has a bug that’s been [...]

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One of the most surprising things about the launch of an ultra-portable laptop dubbed “Air” by Apple wasn’t its thinness but the lack of an embedded WWAN radio. No more, at least if you’re not intimidated by smoldering solder and warranty violations. Jordan Bunnell has posted a step-by-step of his success at integrating a Verizon [...]

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San Francisco - It may be the quickest $10,000 Charlie Miller ever earned.
He took the first of three laptop computers — and a $10,000 cash prize — Thursday after breaking into a MacBook Air at the CanSecWest security conference’s PWN 2 OWN hacking contest.
Show organizers offered a Sony Vaio, Fujitsu U810, and the MacBook as [...]

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Leopard finally gets its second patch, and boy does it fix a lot of stuff. The first patch hit back in November, with test builds of the second making it out a month later. Here’s a list of the major things the 10.5.2 patch fixes (including menubar transparency and Stacks).
• Airport connection reliability and stability
• [...]

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Since so many Mac users are also child porn enthusiasts, I thought you might like to know that the newest version of TrueCrypt came out last night and they support OS X now.
Now my trendy Mac friends can stop having to mess around with their USB keychain, mirroring their passwords and bill pay confirmations from [...]

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A significant cottage industry has sprung up among experts debating whether Apple’s iPhone should be sanctioned by IT departments for use in the enterprise. Last week, various sites and publications — including internetnews.com — reported that the first hack has arrived.
The US Computer Emergency Response Team (US-CERT) issued a warning that a bogus upgrade is [...]

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The Touchmods team have released version 1.0 of SIP-VoIP for the iPod Touch. This hack will allow the Touch to make phone calls over its WiFi connection. Although named version 1.0, it is most certainly still a beta, and will take some special magic on your part to get things going.
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The vulnerability, called the Apple QuickTime RTSP Response Header Stack-Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability, was first disclosed on Nov. 23rd and still remains unpatched. The vulnerability can be exploited through Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, and Safari and effects both Windows and Mac users.
First observed on Saturday, the attacks appear to be aimed at Windows users, but [...]

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Think that’s a silly question? Think again. A woman’s choice of operating system (OS) can reveal a lot to the inquisitive man. And with women as famously cryptic as they are, let’s face it: it’d be dumb to turn a blind eye to anything that offers a peek into their innermost thoughts. So let’s analyze [...]

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