Forum reports seem to be growing about this issue. A certain amount of first generation Palm Pre’s being sold all over the world seem to have slider issues. “It just wobbles too much, thus making it feel like a 500€ plastic toy.”, said a customer in a local O2 store.
Our testing device received from a [...]
[Pre] Palm Pre’s Slider Oreo Issues
January 31st, 2010 · No Comments
Tags: Labs · News · Pre · Short Stories
[Pre] Enable Developer Mode
January 26th, 2010 · No Comments
Enabling the Developer Mode gives access to a thousand of homebrew apps and apps which are currently under beta testing.
There are now two ways known to enable the Pre’s dev mode.
1. Simply enter the Konami cheat code:
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2. or enter this:
webos20090606
in either way, you’ll see a “secret” menu switch that allows you to enable the developer [...]
[Pre] Palm Pre Goes Europe
July 7th, 2009 · No Comments
There have been rumors in the last weeks which carrier which offer the Palm Pre in European countries. As of today we know the rumors were true. In Germany, Great Britain, Ireland O2 will be the exclusive distributor of Palm’s new flagship, in Spain the iPhone competitor will be offered by Movistar.
As of now other [...]
Tags: News
[MacOS] Codeweavers Crossover 8.0 Released
June 17th, 2009 · No Comments
Crossover allows installing Microsoft Windows based software on MacOS X or on Linux. In contrast to virtualization techniques like VMWare or Parallels, Crossover hooks API calls and redirects them to their MacOS or Linux equipollent.
As of version 8.0 these new applications are supported:
Quicken 2009
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7
Adobe Photoshop CS2
Crossover also improved Copy and Paste functionality [...]
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[News] UltraEdit for MacOS and Linux in Alpha Testing
March 12th, 2009 · No Comments
Many Windows users say this is the best editor in the world. Mac Switchers always said they were desperately searching for something like it, but we did not find it. As we are long time UltraEdit users this is good news, as we will not need to run UltraEdit in Codeweaver’s Crossover anymore. Anyway there [...]
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[MacOS] Switcher’s Hints 1001: Moving Cursor in Terminal
December 8th, 2008 · No Comments
Mac OS has the wonderful feature that it’s got a BSD compatible Unix enviroment called Darwin as the basis. You can get to it by simply starting the terminal. Once getting used to it you even install Cygwin to your Microsoft Windows installation because it simply is a powerful way of controlling your computer.
Anyway typos [...]
[MultiPlatform] TrueCrypt 6.1 Released
November 4th, 2008 · No Comments
The open source encryption program TrueCrypt 6.1 has been released. It now features:
Encrypt a non-system partion without losing existing data (Windows)
Support for security tokens and smart cards
TrueCrypt bootloader can be configured to not show texts
Encrypted Windows system partitions can now be mounted by Linux or MacOS X
» Download TrueCrypt 6.1 here…
Tags: News
[e-Biz] Apple Asks Court To Dismiss Psystar’s Countersuit
October 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
After Psystar countersued Apple a month ago for anticompetitetive business practices (read here). Apple’s attorneys now respond on 23 pages. Apple’s argumentation in short: Psystar violates Apple’s license agreement when putting Mac OS X on Psystar’s OEM computers.
In the paper Apple tries to circumvent the whole monopoly issue by argueing that there is no specific [...]
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[iPhone] XPwn Command Line Utility released
July 15th, 2008 · 1 Comment
As member of the iPhone Dev Team, planetbeing today released “XPwn”. He describes “XPwn” as an experimental pwnage tool for Linux. Although XPwn was proposedly developed for Linux users, it actually is a cross-platform tool for command line users. Update: It does not support firmware 2.0 yet.
Warning
The XPwn tool is not intended to be used [...]
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[MultiPlatform] TrueCrypt 6.0 released
July 7th, 2008 · No Comments
TrueCrypt is the leading open-source software to encrypt drive volumes. It supports Windows, MacOS X, and Linux. Version 5.1 has been released just 3.5 months ago in march. Now the Truecrypt team has released version 6.0 with the following features:
Parallelized encryption/decryption on multi-core/multi-cpu systems – thus demanding less time for the en- and decryption operations
Windows [...]
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[Linux] WINE 1.0 and Crossover 7 released
June 18th, 2008 · No Comments
“WINE Is Not An Emulator” has been released in version 1.0. Since the first release of a 16bit version in 1993 it only took 15 years to eventually bring version 1.0 to the world. Since 1993 the development was an ongoing process with the help of a large community of volontarily testers.
In a Linux environment [...]
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[Linux] Securing a Debian server by Enabling passwordless Login
May 14th, 2008 · No Comments
I. Abstract
All of us know, there are lots of bad guys out there just trying to brute force our ssh ports. The following article provides information about the first steps to be performed when setting up a new webserver running Debian Etch.
For security reasons we recommend applying these how to’s before proceeding
Mandatory: How to secure [...]
[Linux] Change Standard SSH Ports
May 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Are you also tired of those weird guys, script kiddies and wanna-be-hackers, who are trying to ssh your server on port 22? All those connection attempts cost your server time and in the end your money.
I. Abstract:
By just changing the standard ssh port of your server you can reduce the amount of unwanted login attempts [...]
[Linux] Workaround for SSH buffer error
May 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment
I. Abstract
Some of you may already have experienced the same phenomenon. We wanted to secure one of our servers and disallow any password login. We configured the passwordless login to use ssh and use public-, private-key mode (see here) instead. But after having saved the sshd_config file, we eventually couldn’t reconnect to our Debian server [...]
[OSX86] Parody of Apple and Windows Commercial
April 23rd, 2008 · No Comments
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