Monday, December 31, 2007

Last chance to save lemurs with Delicious developer Mike Lee

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If a man bills himself as the world's toughest programmer (site may be NSFW, depending on your sensitivity to four-letter or 12-letter words) it's usually a good idea to take notice when he sets his mind to something. Delicious Monster developer Mike Lee has created a campaign to help save the lemur population of Madagascar, by soliciting $100 donations and in return sending the contributor a stuffed lemur, similar to Mike's world-traveling sidekick Thievey.

Your opportunity to do some good, and join the Founding Troop of Club Thievey, closes out at midnight PT tonight. If you were considering a last-minute charitable donation, Mike's cause is a great option -- plus you get a cuddly lemur.

Speaking of charitable donations that expire at midnight: the OLPC Give One-Get One program closes out tonight. For $400, you can send an XO laptop to a needy child and get another one for your local undersized technology consumer. Sure, it doesn't run Mac OS X, but it will blend in nicely with your old clamshell iBook collection.
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VOIP comes to the iPhone - iPod Touch

It looks like 2008 will be a great year for iPod hacking.  The first SIP compatible VOIP solution for the iPod Touch (and hopefully soon the iPhone) should be coming our way in the next 10 hours (as we write this).


The SIP application actually requires a bit of extra hardware on the iPod touch because of the lack of an audio in port on the device.  Thankfully they are selling the microphone as well.  The iPhone should eventually support this application without hardware modifications.


Hopefully this will light a fire under the VOIP industry, which hasn't been quick to port their applications to the iPhone.  As of now - or in 10 hours - only SIP accounts are supported on the Tochmods VOIP client.  Raketu had earlier announced an iPhone application for their VOIP service but as the application was in Flash form, it wasn't able to work on the iPhone.  It turns out they hadn't even tested the device on their system.


It is about time!


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Sunday, December 30, 2007

Gear Live posts followup iPhone v1.1.3 video

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You may recall that yesterday we posted a link to Gear Live's gallery of iPhone v1.1.3 snaps. In this season of rumors, we were trying to take it with a pinch of salt; we ended up with enough salt to make some Margaritas here at TUAW HQ, such was our skepticism -- and we were, it would seem, quite wrong to have doubted.

Thankfully Gear Live's Andru Edwards & Nate True decided to show us all what we can expect, with a full-blown video of the latest firmware, embedded after the break (all 8 minutes of it) with their permission. There's a tonne of exciting stuff shown off -- saving of pins on Google Maps, cell-tower triangulation with a single click (sweet!) and the long-missed hybrid Google Map (my preferred view). Throw in the re-arranging of the home screen and multiple SMS recipients (something we'd quite like to use over the holiday period) -- my iPhone is feeling very inadequate already.

Thanks Andru!

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1Password updated to 2.5.8

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Today, Agile Web Solutions updated their password manager, 1Password. As many Mac users may already know, 1Password is an indispensable application for managing passwords and browser auto-fill for Mac OS X. Now that it has been updated to version 2.5.8, it boasts some new features along with bug fixes.

New in 1Password 2.5.8 is support for the Firefox 3 beta; you're now able to import from Passwords Plus and Password Safe 3, and you can now store UK bank account information.

1Password is available for $29.95 from the 1Password website, and a demo is also available.

[via Mac Update]
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TotalTunes controls iTunes with ease

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We've all been there, you're working on something and want to easily change a song in iTunes. What do you do? Well, you could right-click on the iTunes icon in the dock; but that will only give you rudimentary options. Well, here comes TotalTunes Control.


With TotalTunes, just create a toggle key then start playing a song. When you want to change a song, just press that key combo and you're given a slew of options for changing song, playlist, rating, volume level, shuffle, and repeat. You can download this slick application for free from the developer's website (it's freeware, but donations are accepted).
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iPhone firmware 1.1.3 breaks unlocks

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PadlocksThis continuing cat and mouse game reminds me of radar detectors. I recall when radar detectors first came out, and something akin to an arms race broke out between authorities and lead-footed civilians to stay one step ahead of each other. I'm fairly certain that's a race that won't end until modern transportation takes some strange turn. So it is with the iPhone unlock strategies, and according to iPhone Dev Team vet Nate True the 1.1.3 firmware update will once again break unlocks and third-party applications. The full post offers some fairly convincing reasons to believe that they've got the real scoop. I'm buying it.

Want to put a happy spin on this? Just be thankful that Apple doesn't allow the iPhone-hacking geniuses much idle time, lest some of them find other ways of showing their talent.

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iPhone firmware upgrade leaked?

It's not MacRumors or AppleInsider with the rumored shots of Apple's iPhone 1.1.3 firmware upgrade. It's GearLive, a site not known for iPhone or any other Apple rumors with the purported goods this time. GearLive's site posted a iPhone 1.1.3 firmware feature gallery article with some convincing images.

NEW IPHONE FEATURES SEEN IN RUMORED 1.1.3 FIRMWARE:

* Sending SMS messages to multiple recipients
* Cell tower triangulation of ones location when using Google Maps
* Viewing Hybrid map view when using Google Maps
* Pagination on the springboard (main) screen
* Drag-and-drop of application icons on the springboard screen
* Ability to add web bookmarks to the springboard screen

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