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  • Hacker finds root for Samsung’s Galaxy S

    Hacker finds root for Samsung’s Galaxy S

    Posted on June 23, 2010 | No Comments
    Hacker finds root for Samsung's Galaxy S
    We've seen the inside of the hardware for Samsung's Galaxy S, and now a Russian coder who goes by the name LeshaK is ready to take you down to the core of the software -- despite himself not actually having one of the phones. He's posted a kernel that you can apply for easy unpacking or, if that's not your thing, provided the commands you can use to do it yourself, which look to be as simple as changing the permissions on 'su' and then re-flashing the phone with the new, lighter restrictions. We're not able to test this ourselves, but a few users are reporting infinitely looping reboots when trying to apply this, so we'd advise reading the entire thread on the other end of that source link before you go ahead and ruin your whole Wednesday.

    [Thanks, Amit]

    Hacker finds root for Samsung's Galaxy S originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 23 Jun 2010 08:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Motorola Milestone gets close to custom ROMs — even without an unlocked bootloader

    Motorola Milestone gets close to custom ROMs — even without an unlocked bootloader

    Posted on June 8, 2010 | No Comments
    Motorola Milestone owners still haven't managed to get the phone's bootloader unlocked, making custom Android ROMs (Froyo, for example) a whole heck of a lot more difficult -- but not impossible. It seems that the community is getting close to successfully employing a "kexec" solution, meaning a new kernel would be executed on top of the stock one without rebooting -- and from there, fully customized builds are basically a shoo-in. Motorola doesn't seem to be budging on a proper bootloader unlock, so it's good to see everyone involved is coming up on a workable alternative.

    [Thanks, Chris T.]

    Motorola Milestone gets close to custom ROMs -- even without an unlocked bootloader originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 08 Jun 2010 17:09:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Review: GelaSkins for iPad

    Review: GelaSkins for iPad

    Posted on April 23, 2010 | No Comments
    Short Version: GelaSkins for iPad do everything they promise, and they do it well. For 30 bucks a pop, it'll wrap your iPad up in a work of art -- be it one of GelaSkin's roughly 200 pre-designed pieces, or one of your own. It also does a fine job of protecting the back of the iPad from whatever grit and grime might be sitting between it and your desk.

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  • Linux.com store adds more clothing options for your geek lifestyle

    Linux.com store adds more clothing options for your geek lifestyle

    Posted on March 10, 2010 | No Comments
    The Linux.com store is open for business! Nice looking shirts, hats, and onesies are available for Linux users of all ages. Also available are mugs for the all-important coffee, and stickers. All proceeds benefit the Linux Foundation's various programs.

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  • Why No iPhone Updates? The Tablet, Perhaps.

    Why No iPhone Updates? The Tablet, Perhaps.

    Posted on January 13, 2010 | No Comments

    It’s been over three months since Apple last updated the iPhone OS to version 3.1.2. And while that’s not an unheard of amount of time between updates, it is quite a bit of time to go without even word that a new update is coming soon. Why? It could be because Apple doesn’t want to tip its hand about any information about the upcoming tablet, a new report today suggests.

    “There hasn’t been an updated iPhone OS build because there’s too much tablet-related code/references in the OS and Apple obviously didn’t want that to leak. Oops,” is what Boy Genius Report says it is hearing from an Apple source it trusts. That news comes with a few other bits, including that the tablet’s multi-touch gestures are “out of control,” that it’s powered by an ARM processor, that it (obviously with the above information) runs on the iPhone kernel, and that it’s basically an “iPhone on steroids.”

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  • Everything old is new again: Microsoft MinWin attempts to modularize Windows

    Everything old is new again: Microsoft MinWin attempts to modularize Windows

    Posted on November 18, 2009 | No Comments
    There have, historically, been two competing models of operating systems development. There's the UNIX mentality, of small pieces loosely joined. That is, you have a whole bunch of little, stand-alone applications that all work together to accomplish more complex tasks running atop a svelte kernel that doesn't know -- or need to know -- about the pieces its running. Then you have the "everything and the kitchen sink" mentality, used by Microsoft. All versions of Microsoft Windows have huge dependency chains, and what is rightly called "Windows" is a dizzying amalgamation of interdependent pieces of software, none of which can do much on their own. If you've ever wondered why your Windows-powered web server included Windows Media Player, or Solitaire, that's the reason: the "stuff" that makes up Windows is highly interdependent. Read on for some interesting changes underway.

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  • Oh noes! Snow Leopard update will de-Hackintosh Atom Hackintoshes

    Oh noes! Snow Leopard update will de-Hackintosh Atom Hackintoshes

    Posted on November 2, 2009 | No Comments
    If you've installed OS X onto laptop with an Intel Atom processor, do not update your version of Snow Leopard until further notice. Rumor has it that Apple has removed Atom support from 10.6.2. This means your Hackintosh will fail unless you mess around with the kernel.

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  • Sride to unrock: Chinese Palm Pre clones attack

    Sride to unrock: Chinese Palm Pre clones attack

    Posted on October 9, 2009 | No Comments
    When your country can’t have a Palm Pre you might as well make your own. This is a “half-iPhone, half-Blackberry” device with slide out keyboard running the Ophone OS. The phone includes a slide-to-unlock feature along with analog TV and FM radio playback and “Java Application.” The Ophone OS is essentially China’s answer to Android with a [...]

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  • Chrome OS gets a second look by Gruber

    Chrome OS gets a second look by Gruber

    Posted on July 10, 2009 | No Comments
    Although John Gruber is an avowed masticator, I do enjoy his take on issues dealing with and pertaining to technology. To wit: his take on Chrome OS which, in a few paragraphs, boils down the entire argument to "We don't know enough yet to decide but things look interesting, although it seems like it might be a certain form of vaporware."

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  • Canonical giving Ubuntu the gift of Android apps

    Canonical giving Ubuntu the gift of Android apps

    Posted on May 26, 2009 | No Comments

    Well, here's a wild new spin on the Android for netbooks debate: Canonical, commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, is creating an Android execution environment that would allow Android apps to run on Ubuntu and other desktop-style Linux distros, which seems like the best of both worlds for netbooks in most cases. Canonical already has a working prototype of the execution environment, and plans on making the necessary changes to the kernel in its next version of Ubuntu to give Android all the juice it needs at the core level and will open source the project soon. Things are still early, and there's a lot of work to do before this is going to really make the highly specialized Java-based Android apps actually usable on regular Linux -- they're currently working on granting Android access to the Ubuntu file system, for instance -- but we love where this is headed.

    [Thanks, Michael Y.; Image courtesy of Scott James Remnant]

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    Canonical giving Ubuntu the gift of Android apps originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 26 May 2009 15:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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