Sadly Adobe seems not to release Flash 10.1 beta to end users in february. Anyway the PreCentral’s vid looks promising. See for yourself:
[Pre] PreCentral Showing Flash 10.1 on Palm Pre
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Yearly Archives: 2010
[Pre] Adobe Releases Flash 10.1 Beta To Developers
On the Mobile World Congress 2010 in Barcelona, Adobe released Flash 10.1 beta. This non public release aims at developers to allow them to make final changes to their Flash based websites to make them compatible to mobile devices.
Currently some Flash based applications are not adjusted to mobile devices. So touching buttons on small displays is not working best. Adobe recommends Flash content providers to adjust their products for mobile devices.
Adobe Flash 10.1 is coming to Google’s Android, Symbian OS, Palm’s WebOS, Windows Mobile, and Blackberry. A final version will be finished in mid 2010.
Adrian Ludwig of Adobe says, technically the Flash platform could easily be enrolled to the iPhone, but Apple’s license policies does not allow that at the moment. Moreover he says In december 2010 more than 7million iPhone and iPod Touch users tried to browse to Adobe’s Flash installer website to find out it is not available for that device.
The video and advertisement is courtesy of Golem.de…
The video and advertisement is courtesy of Golem.de aswell…
[internal] Two Years Incomplete News
[Pre] Eight Keyboard Shortcuts For WebOS
1. Soft Reboot
- Hold these keys at once
Orange Key+Sym Key+R
2. Make Screenshot
- Hold these keys at once
Orange Key+Sym Key+P
3. Num Lock
- double click
Orange Key
4. Caps Lock
- double click
Shift Key
5. Highlight Text
- Hold
Shift Keyandmark text on screen - Highlighted text becomes yellow backgrounded
6. Copy Text to Clipboard
- Highlight text as described above
- Hold finger to the gesture area (right or left of the middle button)
- The middle button begins to glow
- Press
C Keyon keyboard to copy
7. Cut Text to Clipboard
- Highlight text as described above
- Hold finger to the gesture area (right or left of the middle button)
- The middle button begins to glow
- Press
X Keyon keyboard to cut
8. Paste Text from Clipboard
- put cursor to the place where you want text pasted
- Hold finger to the gesture area (right or left of the middle button)
- The middle button begins to glow
- Press
V Keyon keyboard to paste
[Bing] Microsoft Bing Maps As The Real Second Life
Microsoft seems to be putting lots of money into their geo mapping services. They are not only integrating 3D views, that can be zoomed fluently into, they are integrating real time recordings and historical pictures as long as they contain geo data. If that is not enuff for you: they also integrated the view on the stars that of course changes when you move or adjust the time.
A little too much information? Check this presentation by Microsoft Live Labs’ architect Blaise Aguera y Arcas – also known as the creator of Photosynth, the technology that is now being integrated into Bing Maps.
Well, do you still think there is need for Linden’s Second Life?
1. Demoing Bing 3D Maps (courtesy of TED.com)…
2. Demoing Photosynth in 2007 (also courtesy of TED.com)…
[Muzaq] Dukes of Windsor: It’s A War
[Update] Former article title: [Muzaq] Dukes of Windows: It’s A War. Yes, you’d better not ask. And no, (sadly) Microsoft is not paying us for those typos…
That’s the sound of Australians living here in Berlin. The song “It’s A War” is taken from their upcoming album “It’s A War”. Until then enjoy the latest single from the Dukes of Windsor.
YouTube might have disabled access to this song from some countries… Did we tell you about swedish VPN services yet? No? Ok, we’re gonna catch up on that soon ;-)
Links
» Wikipedia.org: Dukes of Windsor…
» MySpace.com: Dukes of Windsor…
[Pre] Recommended Apps: Reboot Scheduler
Many of us know the phenomenon. The longer we use the iPhone or the Palm Pre the slower it goes. Rebooting the system always helped on either device.
For the Palm Pre there is now a solution that is called Reboot Scheduler by Zinge, which allows to automize the reboot process and to schedule it to a certain time.
We feel this is a nice tool for people running homebrew apps on their Pre anyway. You find it via the PreCentral repository.
That’s what we really like about the Palm Pre WebOS platform: it embraces the homebrew developers. No jailbreaking, no hassle.
Kudos fly out to Zinge and the PreCentral team.
Links
» PreCentral.net: Palm Pre Reboot Scheduler…
Screenshot is courtesy of PreCentral.net…
[PS3] GeoHot Opens All HV’s SPUs / XorLoser Preps Manual
Obviously notorious George Hotz has managed to get all 7 SPUs of the Playstation 3’s CPU under his control. This means although he cannot access the CPU’s root key, he now can decrypt everything that’s going thru these SPUs like datastreams of (encrypted) commercial games.
The PPU is higher on the control chain then the SPUs. Even if checks were to be added to, for example, verify the hypervisor before decrypting the kernel, with clever memory mappings you can hide your modified hypervisor.
In the meantime another hacker going under the nick XorLoser has released a more detailed manual of how to use GeoHot’s exploitation files and how to do the glitching.
Besides that XorLoser maintains a plugin for reverser’s beloved Interactive Disassembler (IDA) that contains special PPC instructions for Xbox360 and PS3.
Congratulations to GeoHot. Kudos fly out to XorLoser.
Links
» GeoHot: On Isolated SPUs…
» XorLoser: PS3 Exploit – Software…
» XorLoser: PS3 Exploit – Hardware…
» XorLoser: PS3 and Xbox360 IDA PlugIn…
» Hex-Rays.com: IDA Pro…
[Stories] Lovelock’s Gaia Theory Explained by Himself…
Following an approach of explaining biological processes on earth the Gaia theory says (the surface) of planet earth including its biosphere can be viewed as a single living organism that every life form is a part of. Sounds familiar? Yes, I bet you’ve watched Avatar in cinema.
The Gaia theory has been developed by biologists Lynn Margulis and James Lovelock in the 1960s. According to them the biosphere as the whole of all organisms creates and maintains conditions required for life and evolution.
Lovelock, however, defines life as a self-preserving, self-similar system of feedback loops like Humberto Maturana’s autopoiesis; as a self-similar system, life could be a cell as well as an organ embedded into a larger organism as well as an individual in a larger inter-dependent social context.
(qt: wikipedia.org)
Links
» GaiaTheory.org
» Wikipedia.org: Gaia Hypothesis…
» Ecolog.org: Lovelock…
The Open University has compiled a documentary about that theory featuring Lovelock himself:
[Security] Tarnovsky Explains Infineon TPM Hack
On the Black Hat 2010 conference in Crystal City notorious smart card hacker Christopher Tarnovsky explained how he managed to hack current Trusted Platform Modules by Infineon.
This time Tarnovsky managed to read secured data from TPM chips like RSA and DES crypto keys. His approach took six months and a lab consisting of devices for about US$ 200,000. After having found out the exacty way to compromise Infineon’s chips it took only six hours to compromise an XBox 360’s TPM chip.
On the Black Hat 2008 in Amsterdam Tarnovsky said he was offered US$ 100,000 to crack the Xbox 360’s TPM:
A Microsoft engineer is wondering: “Did you take an interest in the processor of our Xbox360 game console?” – “I was offered 100’000 dollars to break it”, says Tarnovsky. “But I replied that that wasn’t enough.”
For people generally interested in approaching smart card security check this article with a video Wired.com featuring Tarnovsky in his security lab.