What’s augmented reality? Pure Awesomesauce

Word around the net is that it’ll be coming out in the next update (3.1) for the iPhone so you’ll be seeing a lot of apps that’ll be using it for very varied reasons.

Here’s a little preview if you don’t know what augmented reality is.

Amazing, right? To play something like this, all you’d have to do is print out a paper with that picture on it and set the paper on a table. Now, think. What if developers made an app to change your outfit in a mirror, or changed your wallpaper in your room and put in new drapes. What if developers made an app for museums that would recognize pictures on a wall and put in a virtual sign next to each where you could read even more about the paintings. They could even include a link to Wikipedia and such. There’s just so many ways this can be utilized and it’s really nice to see this being added.

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Have a hacked iPhone but still want to be secure from the SMS attacks? The iPhone Dev-Team suggests using RedSn0w 0.8 since the code that the program changes on your phone is identical when compared to the the 3.0 firmware. The only thing you’d need to do differently is whenever you’re asked to identify which IPSW is used, point to the 3.0 IPSW. That simple.

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Apple released an iPhone update to 3.0.1. It prevents SMS attacks. I’d recommend downloading and installing the patch. No word yet on hackability…

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$8 USD. How’d I know that was the first thing you were going to ask? Because that’s the only thing anyone would need to know before buying the game and everyone’s buying the game. You can get it off the App Store this very second.

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There’s not much I can really post about this subject except that Apple is giving away a free* iPod touch when you buy a MacBook, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, or iMac.

Of course, there’s an ‘*’ after the word ‘free.’ What you have to do is buy both and then contact Apple before October 8th and they will send you a rebate for the iPod touch. Check out the Source for the expanded details on what you need to do.

I still would rather buy a 300 dollar Compaq from Wal-Mart with Vista like my mom did yesterday.

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Google has given us a quick preview of Android 2.0 and what it can do.

Here’s a list of a few of the mentioned future features:

• Text-to-Speech Support: Have your Android embedded phone read every little thing to you. Or, how about you talk to your phone and tell it what to do? What about voice dialing? This is a very nice update.
• Gestures: By now, we all know what gestures are. You touch the screen and move it in a certain pattern to perform a command that usually would take a little longer- A shortcut. What’s nice about this, though, is that there are a lot of nifty ways they’re using this feature. For instance, say you’ve got a contact list that has 2,000 names in it and you don’t want to scroll all the way to the letter ‘M’. Well, you’d just draw the letter ‘M’ on the screen and wham! Cool, huh?
• Android Search: This is a search that’s going to be coming soon to the Android phones. It’ll let you search for a term or filename and it’ll search your phone and the internet.
• CDMA Support: What does that mean? Sprint support. Noice.

P.S. There is a release for 2.0 but it’s highly advised that only developers should download it to test out software because it is highly unstable. You’d have to wait a little while.. Sorry…

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Reading the title, you’re probably like, “Wha?” I’ll give you a quick background to the story real quick: The Palm Pre basically had the same hardware as the iPhone and because of it, it could make iTunes think it was an iPhone too. This is called spoofing. After iTunes thinks the Pre is an iPhone, you could do anything with it that you could with the iPhone like transfer music and videos.

However, with the latest update of iTunes, 8.2.1, the Pre no longer is supported.This is a big kick in the face to Palm.

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Well, the first obviously is the PC so there’s no reason to make a post about it, but what is interesting is that Japan’s RealWorld RealResearch polled the Sony PSP as being the second biggest platform to run Skype off of in Japan. Wow! That beats the iPhone, landlines, and other platforms like the Sony Mylo.

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Looks like the iPhone Dev-Team released the newest version of Ultrasn0w to help fix all those bugs with the 3G/3GS.

Here’s the full changelog:

• Unusual battery depletion is almost always caused by people choosing to “Restore from backup” instead of “Setup as new iPhone” when iTunes asks you.  This isn’t caused by either the jailbreak or the unlock, but it’s a common 3.0 snafu.  The fix is to just re-run the official 3.0 restore and choose “Setup as new” this time.  Your music and apps and all that will still be synced, but you’ll get rid of any conflicting wifi, bluetooth, or carrier settings.  Then just re-run redsn0w and install ultrasn0w.
• Remember, ultrasn0w works with hacktivated phones too, but don’t outsmart redsn0w into thinking you don’t need hacktivation!  If you don’t plan on using an official sim, don’t activate via iTunes with such a sim.  Just keep your unofficial sim at all times and let redsn0w and ultrasn0w handle hacktivation
• T-Mobile in the USA doesn’t use the 3G frequencies that the iPhones support, so turn off 3G in Settings->General->Network.  (Some T-Mobile territories gracefully hand down to Edge mode, but most do not).
• Certain unofficial plans have limitations on whether you can make calls and use data at the same time. That’s not unlock-related.
• Some people have installed previous versions of ultrasn0w using non-standard techniques.  While the ultrasn0w 0.9 update should have removed all previous versions of ultrasn0w, these users may have outsmarted our removal.  So make sure you don’t still see /usr/bin/ultrasn0w present if you’re at ultrasn0w 0.9 (which doesn’t have such a binary anymore).
• If you don’t need or plan to update to ultrasn0w 0.9 from a previous version, you can avoid having that red badge over Cydia by removing repo666 as a Cydia source.  Don’t worry, you can always add it back later  If you follow us on twitter you’ll be advised of any new updates anyway.

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P.S. I’d like to give a shout-out to all my homeboys in Cell Block 8!!