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  • Protect your iDevice from theft. Sorta

    Protect your iDevice from theft. Sorta

    Posted on June 12, 2010 | No Comments
    So you're at the coffee shop, and you've walked over to the counter to order another half-frap-double shot raspberry no fat mocha, and left your iPad (or iPod) plugged into your laptop. Suddenly, that skeevy looking fellow who was sitting two tables away makes a grab for your iPad, and runs for the door! You don't see him because you were looking away, but you still know your kit has been boosted! How do you know? Well, you had the PadLock installed.

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  • iPhone vulnerability leaves your data wide open, even when using a PIN

    iPhone vulnerability leaves your data wide open, even when using a PIN

    Posted on May 27, 2010 | No Comments
    iPhone vulnerability leaves your data wide open, even when using a PIN
    if you feel like going through the process of typing in your PIN every time you unlock your iPhone is worth it thanks to the unconquerable security it implies, you might want to read this report from Bernd Marienfeldt about the chosen one's security model. Yes, a PIN will keep casual users from picking up your phone and making a call with it, or firing off an e-mail to your co-workers saying that you're quitting and becoming an exotic dancer, but it won't keep someone from accessing all your data. Bernd and fellow security guru Jim Herbeck have discovered that plugging even a fully up-to-date, non-jailbroken iPhone 3GS into a computer running Ubuntu Lucid Lynx allows nearly full read access to the phone's storage -- even when it's locked. The belief is that they're just a buffer overflow away from full write access as well, which would surely open the door to making calls. Bernd believes the iPhone's lack of data encryption for content is a real problem, and also cites the inability to digitally sign e-mails as reasons why the iPhone is still not ready for prime time in the enterprise.

    [Thanks, Amit]

    iPhone vulnerability leaves your data wide open, even when using a PIN originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 27 May 2010 06:47:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • RadioShack ditching Palm? [Update: Confirmed]

    RadioShack ditching Palm? [Update: Confirmed]

    Posted on April 19, 2010 | No Comments
    Yikes, talk about kicking a fellow while he’s down. With Palm doing their best to hang on to their executive team whilst also reportedly looking for a buyer, they’re not exactly at a high point right now — and now, it looks like they might be about to lose a major distribution partner: RadioShack. As crazy [...]

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  • Help, iPod jailbreaker, call the police!

    Help, iPod jailbreaker, call the police!

    Posted on February 19, 2010 | No Comments
    If you’ve jailbroken your iPhone or iPod touch with little to no regard for the law, maybe it’s time you reconsider your evil ways. Apparently, jailbreaking your iDevice will get the cops on your back if you’re not careful. Not knowing any better, a fellow who goes by the name of hotrod1964 (whom we shall call [...]

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  • Lost: The Complete Collection hits Blu-ray this summer

    Lost: The Complete Collection hits Blu-ray this summer

    Posted on February 1, 2010 | No Comments
    Lost is getting ready to wrap up starting tomorrow. Thank goodness, right? But in case you're one of the three people in the world that didn't get caught up in the show but wanna check it out in all its high-def glory now, your time is coming in August when the massive 36-disc set drops. 36 discs!?! Wha?

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  • Hippies need automatic crossbows too

    Hippies need automatic crossbows too

    Posted on December 9, 2009 | No Comments
    When you live out in the country and have little else to do with your time, you need to make stuff. Take this self-cocking, automatic crossbow, for example. Made by a fellow called the Duckman, this sassy old man has some great facial hair and extremely inappropriate facial expressions as he ponderously loads and fires [...]

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  • iPhone 3GS emulates N64, blows minds in the process (Update: is it a fake?)

    iPhone 3GS emulates N64, blows minds in the process (Update: is it a fake?)

    Posted on December 7, 2009 | No Comments
    Look what we have here -- a preview of 3G4, a N64 emulator developed by NWorksDev. Compatible with the iPhone 3GS and the iPod Touch 3G, this bad boy appears to be rendering down the graphics (as one would expect) but all in all it seems to be running pretty smoothly. Of course, this is a work in progress: the developer (who claims to be 14 years old) says that he has to overcome duplicate button registers, delayed presses, and some crashing -- and he has yet to implement the L, R, and Z keys. That said, this thing is pretty sweet! Hit up the YouTube links for info on becoming a beta tester -- but not before you see the thing in action after the break.

    Update: Engadget reader and fellow Twitterati @kankuroukun brought a third video to our attention, this one purportedly showing the so-called "beta test" to be a fake. Or, as they say in Latin class, a phonus balonus. Well, it sure seems like this guy is just playing a video on his iPhone and moving his hands in time with Mario. Get a closer look for yourself after the break.

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    iPhone 3GS emulates N64, blows minds in the process (Update: is it a fake?) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Sony will film the 2010 FIFA World Cup in 3D

    Sony will film the 2010 FIFA World Cup in 3D

    Posted on December 3, 2009 | No Comments
    Tomorrow is the big day, fellow football fans. That's when FIFA announces the full brackets for next year's World Cup, to be held in South Africa. Yes, there's a tech angle here. Sony has said that it will film the entire tournament, from the very first kick-off until the final whistle of the final game in Johannesburg, with 3D cameras.

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  • Friday Giveaway: Nixon Newton Watch

    Friday Giveaway: Nixon Newton Watch

    Posted on November 27, 2009 | 1 Comment
    Our buddies at Watchismo are offering a Nixon Newton Watch to one lucky commenter. You have your pick of the litter and you'll be the most stylish fellow on your cellblock when you pull this watch out of wherever you hid it from the screws!

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  • Tekken 6 update should improve online playability

    Tekken 6 update should improve online playability

    Posted on November 24, 2009 | No Comments
    You'll find that opinions vary with respect to Tekken 6's netcode. I didn't run into too many problems, but others certainly have. What are you going to do, right? Come November 26, you can, I don't know, apply the update that will hopefully clear up some of those glitches. So that's what you can do.

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  • Microsoft wins 1 billion Achievement Points for releasing Windows 7

    Microsoft wins 1 billion Achievement Points for releasing Windows 7

    Posted on November 12, 2009 | No Comments
    Jajaja! Major Nelson, of Xbox fame, sent his fellow Microsofties this big banner congratulating them on releasing Windows 7. One billion Achievement Points! I’ve had an Xbox 360 for three years now, and I only have around 5,000 such points. I guess I’m a failure.

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  • Quick Look: Chumby One

    Quick Look: Chumby One

    Posted on November 12, 2009 | No Comments
    Ladies and germs: the Chumby One. Hot on the heels of its soft, leathery older brother, the Chumby One goes for a more non-nonsense aesthetic with hard edges and a more clock-radio feel. As you recall, the device costs $99.95 and allows you to play back little widgets on a tiny touchscreen. It is at once banal in its simplicity and amazingly unfettered in the amount of content you can stream to the device. Our Chumby One came pre-installed with a few widgets including our own news feed and Twitter, which lets you view your Tweets whenever the widget rolls around. I'm going to place this thing on my desk and treat it like a third screen in order to really test the value of this wee fellow. More soon.

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  • More Vibram Five Fingers information than you particularly require

    More Vibram Five Fingers information than you particularly require

    Posted on October 29, 2009 | No Comments
    We at CrunchGear are rarely at the forefront of fashion. However, once I reviewed the Vibram Five Fingers I knew I was onto something. Thankfully, there are other people out there who don't think my love for foot gloves is not strange or weird. In fact, people wear these crazy shoes everywhere they go! Take a look at BirthdayShoes.com. Editor Justin Owings gets testimonials from all over the world including folks who have run marathons in these things and other folks who stand around in India wearing them. Heck, even Sergey Brin is down. Video after the jump.

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  • Microsoft giving away 777 copies of Windows 7 Ultimate to residents of Zevenhuizen, Netherlands

    Microsoft giving away 777 copies of Windows 7 Ultimate to residents of Zevenhuizen, Netherlands

    Posted on October 15, 2009 | No Comments
    Fellow nerds will know that Final Fantasy VII had a special “mode,” I guess, called “All Lucky 7s” that triggered when your HP was at 7777. I bring this up to segue into this story, that Microsoft is giving away 777 copies of Windows 7 to the lucky residents of Zevenhuizen, in Groningen, in The Netherlands. “Zevenhuizen,” of course, translates to “seven houses.”

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  • Nooka: Now with more mascots

    Nooka: Now with more mascots

    Posted on October 9, 2009 | No Comments
    I am a huge Nooka watch fan and and it's fun to see what they've been up to lately, especially on the marketing front. This little video features the new Nooka mascot, a wee fellow who looks like some kind of Chinese mooncake god.

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