You remember those overheating issues that supposedly affect iPhone 3GS owners? Well, it's not your fault - instead, Apple have decided to blame them on the weather. Remember kids - don't leave you iPhone in the car in this Australian winter, mmkay?In overseas news, the 8GB iPhone 3G tops the Japan charts as the most popular smartphone (with it's 16GB brother in second place), edging out other contenders such as the BlackBerry Bold (sixth) and the NTT CoCoMo Aquos SH-04A, which placed third. Interestingly, the HTC camp managed to score four of the ten places, which just goes to show that the Emoji keyboard does have an effect after all...
Want to email full-resolution photos (note the plural photos, there) from the iPhone? Copy and paste makes it easy - and some internet blogger shows you how.
Speaking of the 3GS, Geohot has pulled fast one on the dev-team by releasing an early jailbreak, saying that "this isn't how the game is played." Apparently, he's not happy with how the dev-team are pulling their punches - it's a game of cat and mouse, and they just aren't playing it right. For now, the jailbreak seems to be Windows only, but the jailbreak process itself is rediculously easy to preform - no DFU mode needed!
And on the topic of jailbreaking your precious iPhone, the iPhone Blog says that by jailbreaking your device, you're essentially removing up to 80% of Apple's protection from all sorts of nasties. Of course, the article then goes on to say that most of these nasties will come from unauthorised third-party applications. I guess it's just another one of those cases of using your common sense, huh?
It's vunerabilities and security issues ahoy in iPhone land with the discovery that the iPhone can run code sent from SMS messages. Ars goes on to say that even though the SMSs themselves are limited to 140 bytes, the iPhone can re-assemble multiple SMS messages into the one potentially allowing for malicious code to be run - as the root user and without any interaction from the phone owner at that. It's actually pretty scary what possibilities this could lead to - the code itself can have the ability to do things like turning on the GPS to monitor the user's location, and activating the microphone to eavesdrop on conversations, and so on. Paranoid yet?
Rumour on the aluminium unibody block is that Apple are dropping Nvidia as their graphics chip source for their computers because of their poor build quality. However, an article from MacRumors refutes that, saying that the two companies' relationship is just fine. If I remember correctly, it wasn't that long ago that all sorts of Apple computers were failing because of some soldering issue in the 8600GTs in the MacBook Pro's, which lead to Apple admitting there was a fault and a huge expense on their end. Tsk tsk, Nvidia.
Colorware have done it again. This time it's the MacBook Pro that gets the spraycan treatment - but at a cost of nearly US $6000, is it really worth it? What you get for your rather thick wad of cash is a fully specced-out MacBook Pro (3.06GHz, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD), so no only will be the fastest Pro on the block, it'll also be the least visible, thanks to it's awesome stealth looks. If I do say so myself, it's drop dead gorgeous, and if I was lucky enough to splash out on a new machine of my choice, this would be it. Colorware are only making ten units, so if you want one, you'd better put your money where you mouth is.
On the app front, Sun have released version 3 of their free virtualisation program, VirtualBox. In the third iteration of the popular x86 virtualisation tool, Sun uppes the ante with "experimental" 3D graphics support and SMP (Symmetric MultiProcessing), allowing those of you with dual-core (or for the privileged among us, octo-core) machines to use those extra brains to do some work virtualising your guest operating systems. Because every now and again, we all have to run Windows. Damn you, eTax.
Lastly, it's always a good idea to start off the week with a good iPhone app that'll keep you going, and Rolando 2 is no exception. Available on the App Store immediately, it's just an improved version of it's little brother, Rolando, with more levels, more Rolandos themselves, and more of that addicting, gorgeous gameplay that you've grown to love. Is it worth the $12.99? You'll just have to check it out for yourself (click opens iTunes).
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