Oct 30

Siri port now talking to Apple servers, avoiding Cydia

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A little cajoling from a clever developer got Siri talking to the iPhone 4 and the iPad, but Apple’s tight-lipped servers kept the conversation effectively one-sided. The last-gen port was still missing something, and developer Steven Troughton-Smith knew where to find it: a jailbroken iPhone 4S. In an interview with 9to5Mac, Troughton-Smith said that getting Siri to talk to Cupertino’s data servers only took ten minutes after he had all of the pieces in place. Ready for your personal assistant port? Hold the phone, the process is a bit dodgy — our hacking hero said that getting Siri on the older device is a 20-step process, and it requires files from the iPhone 4S that he says aren’t his to distribute. When asked about distributing the hack over Cydia, Troughton-Smith said it was something he couldn’t be a part of. On Twitter he suggested that a release would “anger the hive,” but promised to post detailed notes on the hack after a iPhone 4S jailbreak drops.

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Siri port now talking to Apple servers, avoiding Cydia originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 30 Oct 2011 03:34:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Oct 27

Hack a Mac for a New Computer and $10,000

Posted in: Apple, Hacks, Mac, Microsoft, Screenshots, Software, Today's Chili

This article was written on April 21, 2007 by CyberNet.

Hack a Mac was an offer that was put out to anybody who thought they could do it.  The prize? A new MacBook, and potentially $10,000. The point? Macs aren’t as secure as everybody thinks and Apple needs to pay more attention to this.

The contest was started at the CanSecWest Security Conference. Originally it was going to be open only to those attending the conference, but then they decided they’d open it up to anybody, and the machines were placed online. On day two of the contest, the hack occurred on a MacBook while surfing to a malicious site using Safari.

Besides a new MacBook, the person who was able to do this will also be eligible for a $10,000 “bug bounty” that TippingPoint announced on Thursday if it was an unknown bug.

While Apple hasn’t been a major target to security threats, a point was definitely made and Apple needs to pay more attention to this before it becomes a wide-spread problem. It’s also ironic that on Thursday, Apple just released 25 different patches for vulnerabilities is OS X.

Source: Thanks Cory!

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Oct 25

Siri shows up on an iPod Touch, no longer plays favorites in the iOS family

Posted in: Apple, hack, hacking, Hacks, ios, ios 5, Ios5, ipod, ipod touch, IpodTouch, Today's Chili, video

That Siri gal is certainly making the rounds these days. When she’s not answering your questions on a 4S, she’s showing up on iPads and elder iPhones. Not one to play favorites, Siri’s now lending her considerable talents to an iPod touch. Two enterprising young hackers, euwars and rud0lf77, are the ones who put Siri on the iPod, and you can see the results of their labor in the video after the break. Of course, Apple’s servers still aren’t as friendly as the virtual voice assistant, so Siri’s latest cameo remains a silent one — but some Siri’s better than none, right?

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Oct 25

The Many Insane Flavors of Improvised Prison Weapons

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Heading to the place where a prison’s homicide evidence is kept, you might expect to see a few sharpened objects—maybe a bludgeon or two. You would be underprepared. More »

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Oct 24

Arduino-powered glove brings real sound effects to your make believe gun show (video)

Posted in: arduino, diy, hacking, Hacks, mod, modding, Today's Chili, video
The days of air-punching invisible Daleks and making your own sound effects are over: a team from Carnegie Mellon’s Human-Computer Interaction course have built a glove that does it all for you. The Augmented Hyper-Reality Glove can identify upper-cuts and karate chops using flex and tilt sensors and play the accompanying sound effect using an Arduino-powered Adafruit wave shield. We can see some potential downsides — flirtatious finger-gun fusillades accompanied by the sound of cannon fire might just ruin your date. If you’re undaunted by such social faux pas, see the toy your inner-child always wanted in action after the break.

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Oct 24

The DIY Wizards of San Quentin

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Prison Hacks are the big house’s answer to Gizmodo’s homemod. Prison is designed to be uncomfortable—it’s prison, after all. But even incarceration can’t lock up the spirit of human ingenuity. What prisoners do with extremely limited resources is incredible. More »

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Oct 24

Technology in America’s Most Notorious Prison

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Do prison inmates surf the Internet? Do they have gadgets? Do they make gadgets? Do they make weapons? Where do they get their porn and booze? More »

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Oct 24

Siri ported to iPad, still getting silent treatment from Apple servers

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Developers wasted no time bringing Siri to the iPhone 4, and nine days later, it’s been brought to the iPad as well. This version, running on a first-generation jailbroken Apple tablet, suffers from a similar problem as past non-iPhone 4S ports: it’s still not talking to Apple’s data servers. This means that until devs manage to get voice commands recognized and initiated, the iPad’s unofficial virtual assistant will remain effectively gagged.

Siri ported to iPad, still getting silent treatment from Apple servers originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 24 Oct 2011 10:20:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Oct 14

Siri ported to an iPhone 4, old phone learns a new trick (Update: Better performance!)

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Apple’s iPhone 4 may not have the fancy dual core CPU of its successor, but thanks to the efforts of developer Steven Troughton-Smith and the folks at 9to5 Mac, it may soon have Siri. The port of the sultry voice assistant was accomplished by using the 4S Siri and Springboard files, and some serious elbow grease, no doubt. As you can see in the video below, it’s far from perfect, but it can recognize spoken commands without issue. Currently, the hack is missing an iPhone 4 GPU driver that keeps things running buttery smooth on the elder phone, and Cupertino won’t authenticate Siri’s commands coming from it either. So, it isn’t quite ready for primetime, but it should only be a matter of time before all you iPhone 4 owners can tell Siri what to do, too.

Update: And in the space of just a few hours, Mr. Troughton-Smith has already managed to improve performance of the app on the iPhone 4 significantly, although Apple’s servers are still unreachable. Check out a newer YouTube video showing off some seriously smooth scrolling action after the break. [Thanks, Ramzi]

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Oct 14

Putting your Firefox Downloads and Add-ons in a Sidebar

Posted in: Firefox Extensions, Hacks, Software, Today's Chili

This article was written on January 30, 2007 by CyberNet.

The Firefox Downloads window and Add-Ons page are probably some of the things that I use the most in Firefox. I’m constantly accessing them, but wouldn’t it be nice if it was a little easier? It sure would and in a few simple steps you could have both of those windows comfortably resting in your sidebar. Let’s take a look at how this could be done (without installing an extension)…

Firefox Sidebar

  1. Go to the Bookmarks Menu -> Organize Bookmarks -> New Bookmark.
  2. Name the bookmark whatever you would like. 
  3. Use the following addresses in the Location box of the bookmark: 
    • Add-Ons: chrome://mozapps/content/extensions/extensions.xul
    • Downloads: chrome://mozapps/content/downloads/downloads.xul
  4. Make sure to check the Load this bookmark in the sidebar box and press OK:
    Firefox Sidebar for Extensions
  5. You may also want to put the link in your Bookmarks Toolbar for quick access.

That was pretty simple, but if you want to do it even easier you can just download and install the All-in-One Sidebar extension. It not only puts your downloads and extensions in the sidebar, but also puts nearly everything else in there. You can have a page’s source code, page information, history, and bookmarks appear in the sidebar with the click of a mouse. If you’re trying to conserver some room you can also have the extension auto-hide the sidebars just like how Opera does.

I think sidebars are quickly becoming a huge part of applications to display information that is only needed from time to time. Opera has really done a lot with their sidebar and I would expect to see other browsers embrace the sidebars more as well.

 Source: Firefox Extension Guru

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