Apple has once again called Samsung into court. This time it’s about the Galaxy Nexus and four patents that Apple says it infringes. The patents in question are: U.S. Patent No. 5,946,647: a patent for data being used as a hyperlink U.S. Patent No. 8,086,604: a unified search patent U.S. Patent No. 8,046,721: a slide-to-unlock [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Kindle Fire software update coming in less than two weeks, performance and UI improvements promised
In the wake of user complaints about web browsing speeds and other performance issues, Amazon has told the New York Times that it will be releasing a software update for the Kindle Fire "in less than two weeks." That timeframe would put this new software update about a month after the 6.2 update released at [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Kindle Touch jailbroken with simple MP3 hack
Just because the Kindle Touch isn’t Android-based doesn’t mean that it wouldn’t be fun and potentially useful to gain root on it. Developer Yifan Lu has managed to do just that and has released the jailbreak tool for the e-reader in a format that might surprise you: an mp3 file. It turns out that the [...]
Read the rest of this entry »How to download the OS X Lion Installer on Lion – Mac OS X Hints
There’s been a lot of talk lately how to get the OS X Lion Installer after you installed Lion. The main purpose of this may be to get the Installer dmg to create a bootable Installer disk, as described elsewhere. Many missed doing that before installation, me included. But actually this hint will work to [...]
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