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[MacOS] Codeweavers’ Crossover Now With Civilization 5 Support

October 22nd, 2010 · No Comments

Wine based Crossover 9.2 now brings Civilization 5 support to the Mac and Linux. Crossover runs flawlessly with Civilization under Snow Leopard and with some minor flaws under Leopard. Prices Crossover Standard (incl. updates for 6mths): 37€ Crossover Professional (incl. updates for 12 mths and incl. Crossover Games) : 64€ Aspyr will release a native [...]

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[Slate] Leaked Photos of Dell’s Slate Called “Streak”

April 19th, 2010 · No Comments

Engadget got their hands on internal documents and photos by Dell describing their upcoming slate product line. They’re gonna be Android based with 7″ and 10″ display sizes. Dell’s slate line leaked on Engadget…

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[WePad] iPad Competitor WePad To Come in Summer

April 13th, 2010 · No Comments

Berlin based Company Neofonie now presented their latest high-tech gadget called WePad. The We Pad will be cheaper than the iPad. The WePad will be Adobe Flash enabled. Tech Specs Intel Atom CPU N450 (1,66GHz) Multitouch display 11,6″ with 1,366 x 768 pixels Bluetooth 2.1 WLAN 802.11a/b/g/n Camera for Videochats 6hours runtime 2 x USB [...]

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[PS3] GeoHot Reenables “Other OS” (Linux) Support

April 9th, 2010 · 1 Comment

What happened so far? GeoHot has had a reverse-engineerer’s look into Sony’s high tech gadget and Sony immediately declared war. Obviously in panic, Sony announced to deactivate Linux (Other-OS) support with their latest firmware 3.21. This was the time when people were wondering how long it would take until GeoHot would reenable it. The magic [...]

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[Pre] Open Office Running on Palm Pre

April 9th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Notorious WebOS Internals Team has managed to compile and run an X-Server on our beloved latest gadget Palm Pre, thus allowing to run Open Office. As Rod Whitby states: Just a note to say that we do have a roadmap of being able to install native Debian X11 GUI applications (like OpenOffice) via Preware. But [...]

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[PS3] Sony To Remove Linux Support for PS3

March 29th, 2010 · No Comments

According to Sony’s Blog, the upcoming Playstation 3 firmware update 3.21 will cease to support the “Other OS” option. It will be released on April 1st, 2010. Sony says disabling Linux comes from security concerns. This is an immediate result from the efforts of GeoHot’s attack on Sony’s hypervisor protection and the release of XorLoser’s [...]

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[Pre] Palm Pre’s Slider Oreo Issues

January 31st, 2010 · No Comments

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  [...]

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Tags: Labs · News · Pre · Short Stories

[Pre] Enable Developer Mode

January 26th, 2010 · 1 Comment

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: upupdowndownleftrightleftrightbastart 2. or enter this: webos20090606 in either way, you’ll see a “secret” menu switch that [...]

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[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 [...]

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[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 [...]

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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 [...]

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[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 [...]

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[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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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: [...]

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[Linux] Change Standard SSH Ports

May 9th, 2008 · 6 Comments

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 [...]

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[Linux] Workaround for SSH buffer error

May 6th, 2008 · 3 Comments

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 [...]

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