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Opera Mobile 9.7 will support Flash and Ajax

March 26, 2009 by Paul Spoerry Leave a Comment

Ok everybody knows that Pocket Internet Explorer (aka PIE) sucks. CNet reports that Opera Mobile 9.7 will support Flash and Ajax. Opera says Turbo can squeeze down data by 80 percent, clearing through slow and stubborn network connections quicker. Opera Mobile 9.7 boasts that it passes the Acid 3 test of Web standards with 100 percent, and that it supports Google Gears and the Open GL ES standard for graphics acceleration. Oh ya, and it’ll support widgets. NICE!

It’ll originally be targeted at OEM’s (in other words… the handset makers/carriers) but they hinted that end users will get a go at it as well.

Filed Under: Gadgets, Google, Tech, Web Life, Windows Mobile Tagged With: ajax, google gears, Windows Mobile

Touch Flo 3D 2 Ripped from Diamond and Ported!

March 24, 2009 by Paul Spoerry 1 Comment

Xboxmod has finished porting the new TouchFlo 3D interface from the newly released Touch Diamond 2. It looks awesome and he was even able to make a cab installer for it. Known as the XBmod Manila Rhodium VGA Beta 1B it includes a landscape version of TouchFlo 3D 2 and automatic screen rotation.

TF3D2 beta1

TouchFlo 3D 2 brings the new HTC goodness like HTC ContactCard, Menu Enhancements, new volume controls and much more. This is available as a CAB file for installation. If you’re a CDMA Touch Pro user I HIGHLY suggest grabbing MightyROM and then getting the TF3D2 enhancements.

Grab the info and CAB straight from the source: XBmod Manila Rhodium VGA Beta 1B

Or grab my preferred ROM: MightyROM

Filed Under: Gadgets, Tech, Windows Mobile Tagged With: 3d, 3d.cab, flo, HTC, touth

TaskFacade 4 – TouchFlo3D graphical task switching

March 22, 2009 by Paul Spoerry Leave a Comment

The latest versions of TouchFlo3D and Windows Mobile promises to get rid of the Start Menu, which is the main Windows Mobile task switcher. Task Facade 4 solves the problem in style, allowing you to easily see what applications are running and switch to them.  TaskFacade also allows one to easily close running apps. The app is finger-friendly, but can as easily be controlled with the keyboard and D-pad.

The application is skinnable and comes with 5 build-in themes. The software is now quite mature, and works smoothly on all screen resolutions.

See the video below for the app in action.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaQdaLkuLm4

TaskFacade 4 can be downloaded from the Taskfacade forum here.

Filed Under: Gadgets, Tech, Windows Mobile

Get Touch Pro 2 Icons on your Touch Pro or Touch Diamond

March 20, 2009 by Paul Spoerry Leave a Comment

Touch Pro 2 IconsThe awesome new program icons from the touch pro 2 have been ported and made into a cab that is installable on your touch pro or touch diamond.  Just download this file and install it. Then soft reset your phone and you will have the new TP2 program icons instead of the boring old windows mobile ones.

via SprintTouchDiamond.blogspot.com

Filed Under: Gadgets, Tech, Windows Mobile Tagged With: htc touch pro

PWN2OWN Hacking Competition – All browsers hacked

March 19, 2009 by Paul Spoerry Leave a Comment

As he had already predicted, cracker Charlie Miller has won the PWN2OWN contest by cracking Safari and Mac OS X within seconds of the start of the competition. “It took a couple of seconds. They clicked on the link and I took control of the machine,” Miller said after his accomplishment. He took home the USD 10000 prize, as well as the MacBook he performed the exploit on. Internet Explorer 8 fell a while later by cracker Nils, who also cracked Safari and Firefox after being done with IE8.

Miller cracked Safari running on a fully patched installation of Mac OS X on a MacBook. The details of the exploit will not be given out until Apple has published a patch to ensure that others don’t run with the exploit and abuse it. This is the second year in a row that Safari on the Mac is the first to fall in the PWN2OWN contest, again by Miller’s hands.

A while after, Internet Explorer 8, running on Windows 7, also fell. Windows 7 was running on a Sony Vaio P, and was cracked by a cracker named Nils, who wishes to remain anonymous. He also won a cash prize and got to keep the Vaio P. Several Microsoft security folk were on sight to witness the exploit. This exploit is also kept under wraps until Microsoft releases a patch. Later on, Nils also broke into Safari (Mac) and Firefox.

All the cracks happened on day one of the contest, which means the operating systems and browsers were fully patched, with no additional plugins loaded. So far, only Chrome hasn’t been cracked yet, but that probably won’t take long, seeing how quick the first browsers were exploited.

Still on the table… this year’s contest will also offer a $10,000 prize for every vulnerability successfully exploited in Windows Mobile, Android, Symbian, and the iPhone and BlackBerry OSes. The competition runs through Friday… so it ain’t over yet.

CanSecWest PWN2OWN

Filed Under: Chrome, FireFox, Hacking, Tech, Web Life, Windows Mobile Tagged With: iphone, mac os x, safari

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