Posts Tagged ‘hack’


A camera for 360-degree panoramas

Friday, October 24th, 2008

If the point of view of the photography is an art couple, from a technological point of view there are still many steps that can be done. Andrew Magill has created a camera that is able to understand the orientation thanks to 3 accelerometers and 3 magnetometers and connects to a common computer through a USB cable.

The software processes the images taken and has automatically without the need for human intervention creating a 360-degree panorama.

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The HTC Diamond has the multi-touch

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008

The HTC Diamond has the multi-touch., Hack, Trends, HTC

No, not skipped throughout the room believing that you have the multi-touch in your Diamond dell’iPhone like that, but something similar can be recreated. Some people, in fact, have accorte that the touch screen of ships-wheel, that is the part under the screen, can be used with two fingers at the same time.

Just install the program Nav Debug Tool to verify that polpastrelli can draw two lines together. This feature can be exploited in the future by developers, through the API, for creating programs that require the use of two fingers simultaneously. This feature can be exploited in the future by developers, through the API, for creating programs that require the use of two fingers simultaneously.

Psystar vs Apple: the story continues

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

the story continues.,  Various, OS X, clones, hack, os x

More news on the case Psystar: Apple not merely to sue the company of OpenMac but has requested the withdrawal of all machines already sold by April 2009.

Despite the Open Computers has been accompanied by an original copy of Mac OS X, Apple has declared that the operation remains illegal because the retail versions of the operating system updates are just running only on Apple machines are already equipped with Mac OS. Psystar has installed on their computers (and then sold) a modified Apple operating system, violating the copyright.

In addition to recall Mac-clones sold to Psystar being asked to pay damages equal to three times the gains achieved. The line notice Apple seems tougher than expected.

Unlocked the iPhone 3G in brazil

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

Unlocked the iPhone 3G in brazil., Hack, iPhone 3d,  Advances ,3G iPhone

They are called Breno Macmasi and Paulo Stool, owners Desbloqueiobr, and apparently are the first in the world to have unblocked l iPhone 3G.

A few days from the marketing, the new jewel of Apple now seems less invincible: the method similar to that of a turbo-sim, is to insert a small adapter between the original SIM and 3G iPhone which goes to emulate the network enabled (creating a copy of the code IMSI) when, in fact, the SIM is relative to another phone carrier.

No information on costs and availability of this adapter.

SmartSleep: Sleep and hibernate in command

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

SmartSleep: Sleep and hibernate in command

SmartSleep is a Preference System, used to determine how the dynamic behavior of the sleep of our MacBook or MacBook Pro, regulating when and how will simply standby or hibernation.

The sleep is the state of quiescence in which the computer’s memory is preserved by continuing to fuel the RAM. Instead, the sleep & hibernate - default in all portable Intel products from Apple - saves the state to disk, before proceeding with the actual sleep. The fundamental value of that system is that, in the case of replacement or battery, the computer is able to recover from where he left off with no loss of data.

The problem however is that since abbassiamo screen as the Mac actually goes on standby spend several seconds that many - myself included - are annoying. SmartSleep allows you to configure your laptop so that, for example, go easy on standby until the battery has a certain office and the entry into sleep & hibernate in case you fall below this threshold.

Free and compatible with Tiger and Leopard, you can proceed to download SmartSleep.prefPane from this page. After the download, double click on the file and install it for all users, then selected smartsleep this drawer and you’re in business.