The Chronic Dev team did say the Windows version of the “Absinthe” Greenpois0n jailbreak tool was coming soon, and apparently now is “soon.” That’s right folks! Those of you with only Windows-based PCs can now jailbreak your A5-powered iDevices, iPhone 4S and iPad 2, running iOS 5.
It appears the Greenpois0n website is still experiencing high volumes of traffic, therefore, you likely won’t be able to get the link too easily.
Source: http://mashable.com/2012/01/22/greenpois0n-windows/
The annual Macworld exposition begins on Thursday in San Francisco, and for the twenty-eighth consecutive year will bring together Apple fans, users and developers. But this installment adds a new twist — and a new name.
It’s now billed as Macworld | iWorld, which better captures “the essence of what a mobile lifestyle is,” according to event general manager Paul Kent.
As part of that emphasis, this year’s convention will include a festival of films exclusively shot on iPhones and how-to sessions about ways to better leverage Apple’s mobile-friendly technology. Macworld | iWorld will also feature the traditional assortment of lectures and product demonstrations. Artists and musicians will showcase work created using Apple products. The event runs Thursday through Saturday…
Source:http://mashable.com/2012/01/25/macworld-3rd-year-post-apple/
Sometimes as programmers, we forget that 99.9% of the population doesn’t care how a piece of text, a button, an image or a video ends up onscreen. Most people just care that it’s fast, easy to use and gives them the content they want. Otherwise, they get upset — and rightfully so. Here are three common mistakes we programmers make, and what we can do to fix them.
1. Forgetting About Conventions
Ever since they started using the Internet, users have been trained how to interact with a website. Therefore, they often get frustrated when websites don’t meet their expectations. Here are some examples.
Chair Entertainment’s Infinity Blade is already recognized as one of the most gorgeously rendered games on the iOS platform. Infinity Blade 2 takes it to the next level. Mashable got an early preview of the first-person action/castle quest game and, after playing it on the Apple iPhone 4S, found it just as fun and thrilling as ever, but with a level of graphics detail rarely seen in a mobile game.
When Apple unveiled the iPhone 4S in October, it not only promised a more powerful A5-driven phone, but one that would support impressive graphic feats. The company even used Infinity Blade 2 to show off the new graphics chops. Sadly, when we got the phone, there were exactly zero games and apps that could actually demonstrate this new graphics prowess…
Source:http://mashable.com/2011/11/21/hands-on-with-infinity-blade-2/
Sometimes as programmers, we forget that 99.9% of the population doesn’t care how a piece of text, a button, an image or a video ends up onscreen. Most people just care that it’s fast, easy to use and gives them the content they want. Otherwise, they get upset — and rightfully so. Here are three common mistakes we programmers make, and what we can do to fix them.
1. Forgetting About Conventions
Ever since they started using the Internet, users have been trained how to interact with a website. Therefore, they often get frustrated when websites don’t meet their expectations. Here are some examples.
Source: http://mashable.com/2011/11/20/web-programmer-mistakes/
You change depending on where you are going. So why shouldn’t your profile photo? One participant at Foursquare’s first global hack day came up with a way to automatically change your picture to match the kind of venue you’re checked into.
PlaceFace, created by Jason Pope and Jonathan Wegener at the weekend-long event in New York, asks users to select profile photos for eight Foursquare categories such as “education” and “nightlife.” When a user checks into a new venue, the app changes his or her Foursquare profile photo to match the venue’s category. Enthusiastic users can also connect their Twitter accounts, so the thumbnails on their tweets change at the same time…
Source:http://mashable.com/2011/09/20/foursquare-hack-placeface/
Adobe announced Wednesday the availability of Flash 11 as well as AIR 3 on a variety of platforms, including Android, iOS (via AIR), BlackBerry Tablet OS, Mac OS and Windows, for early October.
The big feature in the new version of Flash is the ability to run hardware-accelerated 3D graphics inside the player. Together with some improvements of Flash’s 2D capabilities, this should enable a 1,000 times faster rendering performance over Flash Player 10 and AIR 2. In layman’s terms, this means console-quality games on all platforms mentioned above…
Source: http://mashable.com/2011/09/21/adobe-flash-11-air-3/
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is looking to transform the way they develop applications that serve wide and diverse audiences. They are currently running Apps for the Environment, an app development challenge with a deadline of September 16 — that is meant to encourage the public to come up with new ways of leveraging EPA data.
“The premise for a long, long time has been that the government knows what is best for folks,” says Robin Gonzalez, acting director of the Office of Information Analysis and Access within the Office of Environmental Information. “We collect data from the people we regularly work with — industry — and others and try to put it into digestible formats which usually come out as sets of reports or raw data sets…
Source: http://mashable.com/2011/08/24/epa-app-challenge/
Soon Twitter users will be able to use the service’s official photo-sharing and uploading features from their favorite third-party apps. The company has made photo upload functionality available to developers.
Twitter introduced its media upload API Monday to allow developers to attach images — in PNG, JPG, and unanimated GIF formats — to tweets. The release comes ahead of Apple’s Twitter-infused iOS 5 update, and is clearly intended to get app makers and users acclimated to the new photo-sharing option…
Source: http://mashable.com/2011/08/16/twitter-photo-upload-api/
The +1 button is about to get a whole lot faster, thanks to an update Google rolled out on Tuesday.
“We’ve begun to roll out out a set of changes that will make the button render up to 3x faster on your site,” software engineer David Byttow said in a blog post. “No action is required on your part, so just sit back, relax, and watch as the button loads more quickly than before”…
Source: http://mashable.com/2011/07/27/google-1-button/
