May 24, 2013

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Nook Color Gets Ubuntu Hack or Jailbreak

Nook Color Gets Ubuntu Hack or Jailbreak

XDA Developers member “Devastatorx” carried out the trick, and put a complete set of instructions up on the forum so that everyone can experience. Essentially, his inspiration came from the Ubuntu hack in the Nexus. For Ubuntu, simply download the necessary files for color (already jailbroken) Nook and follow the short coding. The Nook is [...]

Apple Mac App Store Hacked!

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Security lapses Mac developers and Apple allow users to pirated or modify applications downloaded from the Mac store application, users of several reported on 6 January. Less than 24 hours after Apple introduced the Mac App Store for Mac OS X, there were reports on various user forums, including Pastebin and Daring Fireball, pay some [...]

iPod Nano Hack Opens Entry for Future Jailbreaks

iPod Nano Hack Opens Entry for Coming Jailbreaks

The latest generation iPod nano is hacked, a first step leading to a possible jailbreak. The sixth generation iPod nano was available in September this year and featured an operating system that seemed superficial IOS. Despite being a touchscreen device and supporting some of the same multitouch gestures in IOS was soon confirmed that the [...]

Jailbreak iOS 4.2 & 4.2.1 on iPhone 4, 3G, 3GS, iPod Touch 2G, 3G, 4G, iPad with RedSnow

The iPhone Dev Team has just released Redsn0w 0.9.6b4 today which brings first proper jailbreak, with working Cydia and MobileSubstrate for all iOS 4.2.1 devices. For those of you who don’t know, Redsn0w 0.9.6b4 is based on Geohot’s Limera1n bootrom exploit which has already pwned all current iOS devices for life. The only problem is [...]

Kinect Hacked To Play Super Mario Bros on PC [Video]

mario kinect hack Super Mario Bros

YouTube’s “Yankeyan” is back with another Kinect hack that’s even better than his last. While he previously showed off that Kinect could be used to wield artificial lightsabers, now he’s crossed first-party barriers and made the Microsoft motion gaming device into a working controller for Super Mario Bros. In this video Yankeyan has it hacked [...]

New Kinect Hack Shows “Kinect Web Browsing”

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Hacking the Xbox 360 Kinect is all about baby steps on the way to what could ultimately amount to some pretty useful homebrew. Here’s a good example cooked up by some kids at the MIT Media Lab Fluid Interfaces Group attempting to redefine the human-machine interactive experience. DepthJS is a system that makes Javascript talk [...]

“Genuin software checker” for Windows Phone 7;complicates custom ROMs

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The first big roadblock to Windows Phone 7 modding has been found. According to Conflipper, a former Windows Mobile hacker, Windows Phone 7 devices ship with a “Genuine Software” checker which gives you the screen below if you try to access Xbox Live, Marketplace, Windows Live, or Zune from a device running an OS version [...]

Microsoft Kinect Hacked?

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Microsoft’s Kinect controller has been hacked  a few days after its release Late last week it was reported that a New-York based company; Adafruit Industries were offering $2000 to any individual or group that could develop an open source Kinect driver hack that could bring the technology to other platforms outside of Xbox360. Code to [...]