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TECHGEEK Podcast 5: Filter Us. We dare you!

By TECHGEEK.com.au Team on August 7th, 2010 No Comments

We are joined by Cupertino Loop‘s editor and (questionable) impressionist of Julia Gillard, James Wilson, for this week’s episode of the TECHGEEK Podcast – where we talk about the iOS 4 jailbreak, Apple no longer acting like a schoolgirl from high school, Liberals support for no filter and BlackBerry banned in UAE and Saudi Arabia.

Sorry for the (if not apparent, disregard this) broken episode, mainly because James Wilson decided to pop up in the middle of the episode – but hope you enjoy the episode.

Our podcast editor, Stewart Wilson, apologises for the ‘sh*t’ quality of the podcast.

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Rumour: Apple to hold iPod refresh event this month?

By Terence Huynh on August 7th, 2010 From Cupertino Loop 1 Comment

RUMOUR MILL: Well, way to break tradition. Apple is rumoured to be holding an iPod-centric event way sooner than its traditional September timeframe.

Well, that’s according to a Brazilian publication MacMagazine is reporting on Friday, citing a reliable source within Apple.

Mark Hurd resigns as HP CEO because of sexual harassment

By Chris Southcott on August 7th, 2010 No Comments

Mark Hurd, chief executive officer and chairman for HP, has resigned after investigations on allegations of sexual harassment.

The decision was made by Mark Hurd and HP’s board of directors after a sexual harassment claim, made by a former marketing contractor, was made against HP and Hurd.

Apple Store, Covent Garden, London

By James Wilson on August 6th, 2010 From Cupertino Loop No Comments

Apple Inc. Once a company operating from a garage shed. Now, it spans over 240+ retail stores worldwide, with the latest being Covent Garden in London. This new store is number 245, and now holds the title of “Biggest Apple Store in the World.” The YouTube video below, courtesy of ElectricPig, gives you an excellent idea of big it actually is.

Christian lobby angry over Coalition stance

By Terence Huynh on August 6th, 2010 2 Comments

ELECTION 2010: The Australian Christian Lobby has gone on the attack to defend the filter proposal after it was revealed by Joe Hockey that the Coalition will be going against the filter on ABC/Triple J’s news program Hack, and scrapping the proposal if it wins government.

Jim Wallace, the Managing Director of the lobby, has called the move “incomprehensible”.

“It is extremely disappointing to see the Coalition adopt a policy that, as the civil libertarians behind it intend, will establish a principle where this medium is beyond regulation – quite unlike the supposedly free seas,” Wallace said in a statement.

Hockey: Liberals oppose Conroy’s internet filter

By Terence Huynh on August 5th, 2010 4 Comments

ELECTION 2010: While Labor still is backing the controversial internet filter, the Liberals have finally confirmed that they will oppose the filter along with the Greens.

Shadow Treasurer Joe Hockey, talking to ABC/Triple J’s Hack program, has stated that it will block the filter if Labor wins the upcoming election.

“We believe the internet filter will not work and we believe it’s flawed policy,” Hockey told the program.

Google kills Wave, features to be rolled into other products

By Terence Huynh on August 5th, 2010 1 Comment

Well, this was expected. After a little more than a year, Google has shut down its Google Wave service with the site to be closed down at the end of the year.

Wave allowed real time communications, merging a chat client, an email client and Google Docs, allowing communications and collaboration on projects.

One of the big problems for Wave was the user adoption rate. Because of the very limited beta, many users were not able to add their friends and were not able to use it fully. Google has admitted this was one of the reasons why they have shut down the service.

Sharp to have 3D smartphone this year, no glasses required

By Terence Huynh on August 4th, 2010 1 Comment

Thought 3D would be dead? It has infected movies, televisions and gaming, and the most logical step has to be mobile phones. Right? Sharp is said to be releasing a 3D-capable smartphone sometime in the year. However, you will not need to wear any glasses, a la the Nintendo 3DS. A spokesperson for the company, telling Reuters, said that it will likely have a 3D capable camera.

And like all these types of announcements, nothing else has been confirmed or denied.

However, expect this to be only seen in Japan. While Sharp is a well known company in Japan, it does not have a huge presence around the world – with one of its projects, the KIN phone with Microsoft, flopped, seeing Verizon returning the leftover stock and a planned European launch cancelled. Ouch.

Though, with the iPhones, Androids and BlackBerry phones (and yes, Windows Mobile too – despite being a dying breed) out there in the market, is there a need for one in the market?

Tutorial: Jailbreaking your iOS 4 iPhone, iPod touch or iPad

By Chris Southcott on August 4th, 2010 From Cupertino Loop 1 Comment

If you’ve been hesitant to use JailbreakMe because your worried, you should’nt be, but either way here’s a step by step guide on how to do it! And if anything goes wrong just restore your device from your backup. This jailbreak is compatible with iPhone 4, iPad, iPod touch 3, iPhone 3GS and almost every other iDevice running iOS 3.1.2 or above. And finally, you should restore if you are already jailbroken.

Droid 2 out in eight days

By Tom Solari on August 4th, 2010 No Comments

According to a blurry photo from Verizon’s comptuers, the Droid 2 to is due for commercial launch on August 12th. Yes, you heard, the Droid 2 in being launch in 8 days, but theres a catch. As far as we know, its only being launched in America and not down under. The Droid 2 will run Android 2.2 FroYo on a 1GHz processor with 16 GB of storage (8gb internal, 8gb microSD). It will feature a 3.7″ touchscreen along with Wi-Fi and bluetooth. You can pre-order the Droid 2 on Verizon’s website on August the 11th.

RIM announces BlackBerry Torch – with new OS

By Terence Huynh on August 4th, 2010 1 Comment

We knew it was coming. RIM has announced a brand new phone, called the Torch, that hopes to compete with the other touchscreen offerings from Motorola, HTC and, of course, the iPhone. The phone will be running on the AT&T network in the US, with no word on Australian availability.

This isn’t the first time RIM has offered a touchscreen phone, it has had some success – though it was widely panned by reviewers because of the keyboard – with the BlackBerry Storm. However, the Torch does something different, it will have a physical keyboard – that will slide down – that looks exactly the same.

It has a 3.2-inch display with a 5-megapixel camera with flash. It also has 4GB onboard memory that is expandable by a microSD card, GPS and the usual affair – WiFi and Bluetooth. It does lack a fast processor – using a 624Mhz processor. The OS, however, is different – it is using the new BlackBerry 6 (in fact it is the first phone offering the new update),which has a focus more on social networking, along with a new Podcasts feature.

Gallery is below.

USB hub lets you control your ports like a power board

By Terence Huynh on August 3rd, 2010 No Comments

Ever got tired of pulling the port of an external hard drive for a few minutes but realise you have just messed up your configuration? Me neither, yet it is such a problem that Japanese electronics manufacturer Elecom has tapped into to make a USB hub that allows you to simply switch off the device from being connected to your computer, rather than pulling it out – just like a power board.

Great thing is it also double as a power recharger for USB devices (for certain models), meaning that you can take this on the go and charge your iPod without paying money for an iPod recharger. Also included are some stickers (which are in English) that will help identify the port for each device.

It comes in three versions – a four port version with the USB option, and a four-port and seven-port options with the power recharging capabilities. It comes in Black or Silver, and costs starts at ¥3,700.00 (or AU$47.19), and is already on sale in Japan – and for those not living in the land of the rising sun, it is also on GeekStuff4U.

Yeah, my Japanese is rusty – well, nearly non-existent – so some of what I just wrote is based on the pictures.

Microsoft patches folder flaw from Win2000

By Terence Huynh on August 3rd, 2010 2 Comments

Microsoft has today pushed a critical update to its operating systems that will fix a vulnerability, acknowledged a few weeks ago, that has been present since Windows 2000. The fix itself, however, does not extend to those using Windows 2000, most likely because it is no longer covered by its Life Cycle policy.

The vulnerability allowed attackers to control a computer, if not patched, through a weakness in how shortcut icons are handled by Windows. It was very worrying to many security analysts because the attacker did not need to write a file to gain control, it had to open a file with the .lnk extension.

Facebook claimer would hire Zuckerberg, claim based on possible-forged contract

By Terence Huynh on August 2nd, 2010 No Comments

Yes, it’s that guy. You know, that guy who claims that he owns 84 percent of the social networking website Facebook (which I might add, is a total bullsh*t claim in the first place). He does have a name – Paul Ceglia.

Ceglia’s claim is based on a contract and a US$1,000 cheque signed to him by Zuckerberg – with the contract mentioning a $1,000 investment into The Face Book while he pays Zuckerberg $1,000 for developing a program for his company StreetFax.

Telstra says iPhone 4 coming back on Wednesday

By Terence Huynh on August 2nd, 2010 From Cupertino Loop No Comments

With the iPhone 4 frenzy last week, it was no surprise that all four carriers would have sold out their stock of the device – which will be a shame for many, especially those who didn’t pre-order the device. Well now, we have one carrier that has confirmed the date of when some more will be out in the store shelves – Telstra.

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