Linux, here we come!: “

This week’s funday is today!  Devteam member planetbeing has done a phenomenal job reverse engineering Apple’s hardware drivers and now for the first time ever, linux is available on the iPhone and first-gen iPods.

The official announcement is here. Video, downloads, and instructions….all included.

(P.S. Feel free to digg this to help get the word out!)

Update: Geek Hero gets it.

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(Via blog.iphone-dev.org.)

uTorrent for Mac Officially Released [Featured Mac Download]: “

Mac OS X only: If you’ve been waiting patiently for the popular BitTorrent application, uTorrent, to find its way to your Mac, your wait is finally over: uTorrent for the Mac is officially available. We’ve been waiting for the Mac release for a while now, and leaks of the beta had already made their rounds on BitTorrent sites (how apropos), but the official release (Intel Macs only at the moment) of the most popular BitTorrent client is finally here. The download is still in beta, and the developers acknowledge that it ‘may contain serious bugs,’ but it still looks and feels great.

I haven’t had a chance to thoroughly test it yet, so if you give it a try, let’s hear how you like it in the comments.

(Via Lifehacker.)

Cat and Mouse: “

We already know that Woz is an advocate of Pwnage but here is a recent interview with him from the BBC’s Click Online show, the interviewer is Cambridge Computer Science graduate Spencer Kelly.

Some interesting information :-

• 02:50 Spencer: ‘What do you make of the iPhone hacks where you can unlock your iPhone and start downloading apps that don’t come from the AppStore…. connect it [the iPhone] to a different network? The hackers are out there and they want to get inside this thing and want to break it down’
• 03:00 Woz: ‘I love it, I love it’
• 03:05 Woz is a Cycorder user
• 03:35 Woz echoes Jobs’ speech about the iPhone and security  – ‘The iPhone is not necessarily a raw computer platform. It also includes a cellular phone and it attaches to a cell network and you need to have certain level of security to protect the network, to protect the relationship with the carriers so the iPhone has taken some very reasonable steps to avoid somebody figuring how to step over a very bad line that would hurt us’
• 04:10 ‘I also side with the hackers’
• 04:18 ‘I don’t think the hackers would do it if it were not a Cat and Mouse game’
• 04:23  ‘[The hackers] are not doing it to make money, they are not doing it to hurt people’
• 04:35 ‘The Cat and Mouse game is good’
• Woz’s ultra geeky Nixie watch can be seen several times during the interview

You can find out more about Click Online here there is an extended version of the interview here.

You can also see Woz at the top of the table here.

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(Via blog.iphone-dev.org.)

Hack enables hidden Google Maps features on iPod touch: “Learn how to hack your iPod touch to enable Google Street View and walking and transit directions in the Maps application.

(Via MacCentral.)

That iPod touch runs at 533 MHz: “Breaking open the black box, computer geeks have discovered that the iPod touch does indeed have a 533 MHz processor and 128MB of RAM (probably).

(Via MacCentral.)

MacBook x-ray hits the interwebs: “Just in case you didn’t have anything else to do this fine Thursday afternoon, you may want to check out this x-ray image of a MacBook, which is exactly as cool as it sounds.

(Via cultofmac.)

iTunes 8.0.2 adds VoiceOver support: “Among the changes in the new version of iTunes is support for VoiceOver.

(Via MacCentral.)

Show a one-line weather forecast on the desktop: “I love Wunderground.com‘s forecast. You can read all of the numbers, and look at radar all you want, but 95% of the time, it’s too much info. Wunderground has a one-line forecast that relates today or tomorrow’s temperature to today’s. ‘Today is forecast to be colder than yesterday’ is all I need to know.

Once you’ve installed GeekTool, you’ll also need Lynx, a popular text web browser. Once GeekTool and lynx are installed, create a new shell entry in GeekTool and enter this code, substituting in your zip code for 12345:

lynx -dump http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=12345|awk '/Tomorrow is/ ...

(Via MacOSXHints.com.)

360 Cities Panoramas in Google Earth [3D]: “

Prague-based virtual panorama company 360 Cities is offering its entire collection of nearly 10,000 spherical images on Google Earth. Head to the ‘Featured Preview’ layer in the 3D tool to enable 360 Cities, then just click to scan around and gawk. [via]

(Via Lifehacker.)

Apple releases iPhone 2.2 firmware: “

The long awaited iPhone firmware version 2.2 has appeared in iTunes. You can install it now by clicking the ‘Check for Update’ button in your iPhone Summary panel. The iPhone 2.2 update includes:

- Google Street View in Google Maps
- Public Transit and Walking directions in Google Maps
- Display the address of a place when you drop a pin
- Share your location via email
- A fix for a scheduled fetching of email bug
- Improved stability and performance of Safari
- Podcasts can be downloaded right to the iPhone over WiFi or 3G
- A decrease in call failures/dropped calls
- Improved sound quality of visual voicemail messages
- The ability to return to the main home iPhone screen with the click of the home button
- The ability to turn on and off the keyboard auto-correction feature

Also, Apple has released iTunes 8.02. The update is available in your Mac OS X software update.

iTunes 8.0.2 improves stability and performance and provides a number of important bug fixes, including:

- Addresses a quality issue creating MP3s on some computers.
- Fixes a connectivity issue with the iTunes Store when using some Internet proxies with Mac OS X.
- Improves accessibility with VoiceOver.

[Information provided via MacRumors and VentureBeat]

(Via MacMegasite.)

Docks lets you ‘swap’ docks in Leopard: “Docks is a new utility that lets you set up custom docks depending on what you’re doing.


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(Via MacCentral.)

Mac OS X Snow Leopard: Ahead of schedule?: “Slide shows Snow Leopard will ship in the first quarter of 2009

Apple first announced Mac OS X Snow Leopard in June and said it would ship in about year. However, a slide presented by an Apple employee at a recent conference suggests Snow Leopard may be ahead of schedule.

(Via Macworld UK.)

Apple Releases Safari 3.2 with Improved Security, Anti-Phishing: “Apple has released a new version of Safari 3.2 through the Mac OS X Software Update. The latest version of Safari provides improved security as well as protection from phishing websites:

This update is recommended for all Safari user…”

(Via MacRumors.)

Parallels Desktop for Mac 4.0 unveiled: “Parallels Desktop for Mac 4.0 has many new features including the ability to run Leopard Server as a virtual machine.

(Via MacCentral.)

Six free Apple iPhone downloads you don’t want to miss: “CIO.com’s Al Sacco picks a half-dozen App Store downloads that will enhance your iPhone without costing you a dime.

(Via MacCentral.)