Jeremie Francone and Laurence Nigay from the Laboratory of Informatics of Grenoble, France, seem to have figured out a way to use the front facing camera on the iPad 2 for head tracking. Their software tracks the head movement, and translates this into moving objects on the screen. This means that you get an illusion of a third dimension when viewing. Pretty cool IMO!
Geohot is currently in a legal fight with Sony over hacking the PlayStation 3 console. He still stated that he wants to be the first to hack the Xperia Play when it is launched. Here is what he wrote on his blog:
In fact, I want the opposite reputation set, that the more a company tries to abuse the legal system, the harder we rally back. I will be the first person in line on the launch date of the Xperia Play, and itching to get my hands on the Next GEOHOT Project.
Guess we’ll see the Xperia Play hacked pretty fast. This Geohot guy is pretty amazing at hacking. His previous works include numerous iOS and PS3 hacks.
How marvelous is this, Windows Phone 7 ported to the HTC HD2!? This is yet another lovely thing that has come out of XDA developers. As you can see in the video, the WP7 port is looking good and making calls. Just wait for a final release :)
Clayton, the hacker behind this video and exploit, says that this could possibly be the entry point for a future unlock for baseband version 05.12.02. That is the baseband that iOS 4.1 uses, and it hasn’t been jailbroken at the time of writing this post.
Just sit back and relax and hope for an unlock for iOS 4.1 :)
decordes at XDA-developers just released Ubuntu for HD2 version 0.1! The file is 634MB, and the download is currently quite slow since a lot of people are downloading it now.
Hit View Post to see the changelog and for download instructions.
Does limera1n sound anything like blackra1n..? Limera1n.com was recently registered by Georg Hotz, a.k.a. Geohot , or the guy behind the highly popular one-click-jailbreak solution.
Last week we had a massive amount of visitors reading the iDroid installing instructions. Some of you were having problems with the original instructions, and now a blogger has posted a new How-To article regarding this matter. This will work on your Linux/Mac/Windows machine since you’ll be using a Virtual Machine with Ubuntu to install iDroid.
Note that you still need a jailbroken iPhone 2G for this whole thing to work.
A really cool theme for you Windows Mobile users out there. The theme is called WinDroid, and as you could guess it gives you an Android look on your Windows Mobile device.
Update 16.03.2010
- sound profile icons with update functionality
- replacement of many icons
- BT, BT-Headset, Stereo Headset, L1&L2 and GPS-Icon with round corners
- added some missing icons
Update 24.03.2010
- added some missing icons like “multiple notifications”
- fixed roaming-icon
- integrated iconbar fontcolor-fix
- integrated font
- added third buttonbar - added HTC Scrollbar-Enhancement!
- fixed popup-window in the white theme
Interested readers should take a look over at XDA-developers for a download and more screens.
