Rod wrote: I have a Pioneer DVR-531H and I recently subscribed to Verizon FIOS TV, that uses a cable box (Motorola QIP2500-3). The Pioneer DVR is like Tivo in that it has a built-in TV Guide, but this doesn’t work with the cable box and Pioneer doesn’t make an IR blaster so that the DVR […]
The first version of a native AIM client for the iPhone was released today under the GPL2 license! It’s based on the libFiretalk IM library, and it currently provides basic chat functionality. This snippet from their project page is interesting, though: The overall direction of the project is to get libPurple compiled for the iPhone […]
Jon Maddox made a nifty tool that let’s you easily create web application bookmarks that dock on your iPhone’s home screen. Tired of going all the way to MobileSafari on your iPhone to use web apps that were built with the “sweet” iPhone SDK? Provide iPhone Apper with a URL, name, and icon… and iPhone […]
Google Maps added a quick embed feature which lets you quickly add any map to your web site. Prior to this, you needed to have a Google Maps API key, which is fine if you are developing a larger application, but a pain if you just want to make a blog post with embedded directions. […]
George Hotz spent his summer hacking the iPhone, blew a hole through the Apple/AT&T carrier restriction and has single-handedly put the positive form of the word “hacker” in more popular media channels than I’ve ever before seen. Excellent! The hack is brilliant: Here how the bootrom check works; it reads from 0xA0000030 0xA000A5A0 0xA0015C58 0xA0017370 […]
It’s never been easier to run all the hackey apps and games on your iPhone, just get Installer.app Beta and you’re all set… – Link. Related: How To: Install Nintendo Games and Play With Tactile Feedback in Your iPhone – Link.
Hackszine reader Alan writes: Anyone who ever installed a satellite dish knows how frustrating it is to point the dish at the satellite somewhere in the sky. I’ve created a unique tool which calculates the dish angle based on user location and then draws a line on the Google Maps satellite image. You can actually […]
