I’ve seen some very sick and disturbing stuff come out of Japan in my days, but this may be the most disconcerting of them all. Illusion Software, a Japan based video game developer that specializes in hentai video games and animated pornography, largely for the Japanese market has released a molestation simulation that allows players to terrorize a woman and her teenage daughters. I won’t go into anymore details of the game, but it’s very demeaning towards women, a bad influence on society, and very appalling to even have see this game reach the market.
Last week, Rapelay snuck into Amazon’s marketplace and ebay, but since reports has surfaced containing the contents of the game, the game has been removed from both marketplaces. Sadly, the game is still being sold by illusion Software in Japan. I sees to understand why the governing bodies or society in Japan would allow the productions of such products?
iBluetooth is a iPhone app available for jailbroken iPhones that enables you to transfer files via bluetooth. It’s exclusively available on Cydia from the iSpazio Repository for 3,99€, but you can try it free for 7 days. It can be used on both the iPhone 2G and 3G, but not with the iPod Touch. It requires 2.1 firmware or higher.
With Netflix’s introduction of instant streaming on the Mac, I had to install Microsoft Silverlight 2 in order for it to work. The install was very straight forward on my macbook, but I came across some minor complications when performing the same install on my hackintosh (MSI Wind). Because Silverlight 2 verifies your processor before install, it was registering my hackintosh as a non-intel device (PPC) and refuse to install. To install Silverlight 2 on older PowerPC or non Apple hardware (OSX running on Windows hardware), you simply have remove the CPU check in the installation package.
The iPhone Dev Team has released PwnageTool 2.0. This jailbreaks iPhones/iPod Touches running firmware 2.0 to support non-App Store third-party application. The first-generation iPhones can also be unlocked, but the iPhone 3G cannot be unlocked or used with BootNeuter.
I tested this and the Pwanage Tool is flawless. Everything has worked for me so far and I provided an outline of what I did to get my iPhone 1st Gen unlocked and jailbroken with the 2.0 firmware.
Warning: Jailbreak / Unlock at your own risk. I will take no responsibility what so ever for what may occur before, during, after the Pwnaing process. I tried it myself and was successful. Please proceed with caution.
To Jailbreak and Unlock a first-generation iPhone:
Open iTunes 7.7 and connected the iPhone. When the iPhone is detected iTunes will ask you to upgrade your firmware, select the download only and disconnect iPhone after the download starts.
Open the Pwnage Tool
Select expert mode
Chose iPhone 1st Gen / iPod Touch
Browse for the 2.0 firmware
Browse for the boot loader
Further customize the third party installer, custom boot / dfu screen, etc and select build (Optional). This will create a custom ipws for you to restore your phone from in iTunes
When the custom ipws file is created, the Pwanage Tool will instruct you on how to put your iPhone into dfu mod. Follow the on screen instruction , dock your phone, and close the Pwanage Tool.
Once your phone is in dfu mode and docked, iTunes will not recognize your iPhone and will ask you to restore. Select “alt” and the restore button, browse for your the custom ipw file you created with the Pwanage Tool and sit back and relax.
Once iTunes successfully restores your iPhone, it will reboot and bootneutral will opened automatically. First, it neutral the boot and then flashed the baseband.
Your iPhone 1st Gen / iPod Touch is Jailbroken and Unlocked
TechCunch just broke the news that Apple’s App Store is now live. To access it, download iTunes 7.7 here. Once iTunes has upgraded, you can access the App Store here.
You can buy apps on iTunes now, but you’ll need the iPhone 2.0 software to actually use them on the iPhone, which isn’t yet available.
Micheal Arrington over at TechCrunch made an awesome intro video demoing the App stor, which is embedded below:
There are 27 pages of applications currently available, 7 of which are FREE applications. There are also a lot of books being listed as applications as well. I went through most of the apps and below are some of the ones I found interesting:
AIM (free) – Instant messaging finally on non jail broken iPhone or iPod Touch.
Moo-Cow-Music Band ($9.99) – Visual instruments that allow you to create music from scratch. Each instrument was created to leverage the power of the iPhone or iPod Touch (i.e. touch interface).
Battle at Sea ($3.99) – Brings back of the classic strategy board game, Battle Ship. Users can play against the computer or friends via LAN.
Bloomberg (free) – Gets you up-to-date with stock quotes and related financial news.
Movies (free) – Browse movies and Showtime, read reviews, watch trailers, buy movie ticket, and get directions to the theater all from your iPhone or iPod Touch.
Brain Challenge ($9.99) – Similar to the DS’s brain age but for your iPhone or iPod Touch.
Checkout Smart Shop ($4.99) – Read reviews, and compare prices online and at local retailers while at the store. If this isn’t smart shopping I don’t know what is.
Evernote (free) – documents and media synced to the web and accessible anywhere with an Internet connection.
iLingo ($9.99) – Awesome language learning tool. Each language is sold separately as oppose to the buddle they sell in retail stores.
NetNewsWire (free) – Get syndicated with your latest blogs / RSS feeds.
Jott (free) – A mobile note pad. Notes crated by speech translated into text and synced over the cloud.
Mobile Flickr ($2.99) – Easy way to post photos to your Flickr account (supports tags, sets, and groups) and elopers others photos.
Numba ($9.99) – A numbers brain game. Can’t tell for sure if it’s really awesome yet, but looks very appealing.
Super Monkey Ball ($9.99) – Game that uses the iPhone accelerometer to guide a little monkey encased in a ball to victory through various obstacles.
Twittelator (free) – A twitter app that lets you post messages, photos and find your friend utilizing maps.
Stage Hands ($7.99) - Control your Keynote. Have live notes of the current side and utilize the highlight and spotlight function for a particular slide all from the iPhone or iPod.
Apple iWork ’08 is now available. It contains Keynote, the presentation application; Pages, the word processing program; and Numbers, the new spreadsheet app. Like iLife, Apple is also offer a bunch of tutorials for their newly refreshed productivity suite. Along with the free tutorials, you can also test drive iWorks from Apple for 30 days.
Today, Steve Jobs announced iLife ’08. The newly refreshed software, which includes iPhoto, iMovie, iWeb, iDVD and GarageBand, was described by Jobs as totally new, and the “biggest jump since we introduced it”. It will sell for $79 and is available immediately. iLife ’08 tutorials are available and free. Watch the guided tour to see what iLife 08 can do.
For customers who bought an Apple computer on or after Aug 7, Apple is offer an iLife ’08 upgrade for $9.95 through their iLife ’08 Hardware Up-To-Date program.
iPhoto ’08 – watch video
iPhoto ’08 adds a new way of thinking about your photo libraries by organizing them into events–birthday parties, family reunions, graduations, and so forth. Instead of sorting through thousands of photos and rolls, you collect each group of photos into specific events. iPhoto ’08 also adds “hide photos” feature allows you to pick which photos you want to feature and hide the rest. iPhoto ’08 also supports web galleries, for sharing images with friends, family and colleagues. It’s still unclear whether this feature is dotMac only or can be used for other web servers. You can also send photos to your web gallery from your iPhone.
iMovie ’08 – watch video
iMovie gets a new icon in this release to show it’s a completely new application. Unlike previous version of iMovie, all your video now goes into a common iPhoto-like library, so you can access all your video archives, not just what you import into your project. You can also now send video to YouTube. iMovie encodes and uploads it for you. Video export now supports an iPhone resolution.
iWeb ’08 – watch video
iWeb now supports live web widgets including one for Google Maps. You can also use personal domains with dotMac and you can change themes for installed sites. iWeb ’08 contains a number of new themes. iWeb also supports Google AdSense.
iDVD ’08.
iDVD ’08 introduces pro encoding and new themes enabling users to create Hollywood-style DVDs featuring your movies and slideshows.
Garage Band ’08 – watch video
A new feature, called “Magic Garage Band” allows you to create genred tracks, like reggae, latin, rock and jazz.
The Microsoft BU has just announced that Office 2008 for Mac will be released in the second half of 2007. Office 2008 will be Universal and include a number of Mac only features:
Publishing Layout Views – Let’s you create newsletters and things by presenting the related Office tools in a new layout
Ledger Sheets – Makes managing your finances even easier in Excel
My Day – A new stand alone application that lets you stay on top of your activities across Office applications
From the looks of it Office 2008 for Mac run and generate in the new Office Open XML Formats so it’ll be compatible with Office 2007 on Windows. For more details check out this interview with Roz Ho, general manager of the Mac BU.
BE CAREFUL. Users of instant messaging systems: MSN, AIM, ICQ, and Yahoo could get caught off guard with a worm that entices people to click on a link to Santa Claus. Once that file gets started, it embeds itself into the PC as a root-kit, and scans the registry, file system, and Internet cache. It has the ability to hide itself from anti-virus and other system tools that might detect it. The worm logs keystrokes and may also try to spread itself to other users over IM to usernames it grabs from those services on the infected PC.
The Leopard Early Start Kit is now available and it provides everything you need to create innovative applications for the next major release of Mac OS X. It offers exclusive access to:
-Mac OS X Leopard pre-release software seeds
-Leopard Dev Center documentation and sample code
-WWDC 2006 Leopard session videos through ADC on iTunes
Plus, get code-level support from Apple engineers, special pricing on hardware, and much more. It’s all included with your ADC Select membership. You could be building the powerful features of Mac OS X Leopard into your products right now. So what are you waiting for?
I’ve seen some very sick and disturbing stuff come out of Japan in my days, but this may be the most disconcerting of them all. Illusion Software, a Japan based video game developer that specializes in hentai video games and animated pornography, largely for the Japanese market has released a molestation simulation that allows players to terrorize a woman and her teenage daughters. I won’t go into anymore details of the game, but it’s very demeaning towards women, a bad influence on society, and very appalling to even have see this game reach the market.
