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The Apple Core

The Apple Core: Hackers Unite

As mentioned before, the iPhone is Jason’s baby. He hankered for one for months, snagged it the first day it came out and has focused on it since. In the eighth entry of the iPhone Diary, The Apple Core focuses on the interest and efforts from the hacker community. From the prominent effort to unlock […]

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Software

VMWare’s Fusion Reaches Final Candidate Status

Fusion, the upcoming emulation software by VMWare, reached Final Candidate status on Tuesday. The new version, a 159 megabyte download, features the following fixes and changes: -Improved Unity feature: Bug fixes have been added to Fusion’s Unity component, which allows for features such as drag and drop and launching Windows applications on the fly or […]

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Hack

iBook G3 Becomes Book and Server

I was never this optimistic when my iBook G3 croaked a few years back, but a user over on Chaos Blog 2.0 has apparently taken a 500 MHz iBook G3 with a broken screen and turned it both into a book and a server. After removing the non-functioning screen and trimming down the essentials of […]

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iPhone

Hackers Could Crack Finish Unlocking iPhone in Three to Seven Days

A representative of the group working to unlock Apple’s recently-released iPhone handset claims that the project could be finished in as little as three to seven days according to Macworld News. ‚ÄúWe believe it will be easy. We are privately aware many of the iPhone engineers came from other handset manufacturers, and we understand their […]

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iPod shuffle

Apple Releases iPod Reset Utility 1.0.2

Late Thursday, Apple released iPod Reset Utility 1.0.2, a restoration utility for first and second generation iPod Shuffle units. The program is designed to completely reset the device, erasing all data and reinstalling the following software for the unit to run: -iPod shuffle (1st Generation) – iPod Software version 1.1.5 -iPod shuffle (2nd Generation) – […]