Computers & Mobile

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Desktop Wallpaper art rolls on

Desktop Wallpaper art rolls on

In case you haven’t been keeping up – The desktop wallpaper project over @ Kitsune Noir has been running strong, amassing quite a diverse collection of new art to dress up your OS. Inspiring work – I just might try penning a few patterns myself – The Desktop Wallpaper Project Related: Desktop art from UPSO […]

iPhone broadcasts live video

Wow, Flixwagon did what seemed impossible stream live video from an iPhone! Ken writes – We’re happy to announce that our development team at the Flixwagon lab has successfully streamed the first-ever live high-quality video from unlocked iPhones to the web, using Flixwagon’s alpha client. While we don’t condone or recommend unlocking iPhones, as avid […]

Melting down your data

Melting down your data

If you’ve read any of the scary articles or seen segments on TV news magazines about ID theft and data piracy, you know that, somewhere in some heavy-metal-polluted shanty town on the south China coast, someone might be scanning a hard drive you threw out years ago, looking for marketable data before they boil out […]

iPhone wipe

iPhone wipe

Nuclear Elephant:’s super iPhone wipe to protect your data when you trade up to the next iPhone :) Since my posts regarding the iPhone restore mode being insufficient for wiping data (and Apple’s own refurbishing process also being insufficient), many have emailed me asking for instructions on how to properly wipe personal data off of […]