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Motorola XOOM granted USB Host support

, Mar 11th 2011 Discuss [3]

The iPad 2 may be polished but Android 3.0 Honeycomb slates are arguably more flexible, at least once the hacking community gets its hands on them. Motorola's XOOM has been granted USB Host support, allowing it to access USB drives and peripherals like wired keyboards. Read The Full Story

iMovie for original iPad hack discovered

, Mar 11th 2011 Discuss [1]

While the iPad 2 is undoubtedly a slick piece of hardware the real magic is in the software, and apps like iMovie for iPad do a great job of demonstrating that. Unfortunately, Apple has decided that first-gen iPad owners can't share in the iMovie goodness, which is a red-rag to the iOS hacking community. They've come up with a method to install iMovie on the original iPad, though right now it's not entirely polished. Read The Full Story

Instructables: Turn your borked NES into a flash drive

, Mar 9th 2011 Discuss [0]

fungus amungus posted this over on Instructables last week. It's a simple mod that allows you to turn a dead Nintendo Entertainment System into a neat little USB gadget. This is a simple little hack, but it's definitely worth checking out. It's a two part mod, he needed to modify both the NES and the cartridges to make the whole NES USB-Flash franken-marriage happen. But, broken NES's are a dime a dozen, and anyone can get Tetris on a hundred-dozen different platforms. Read The Full Story

Motorola confirms XOOM 4G LTE update even for rooted tablets

, Mar 7th 2011 Discuss [0]

After concerns that rooting the Motorola XOOM would leave owners of the tablet ineligible for Verizon's 4G LTE upgrade later in the year, the manufacturer has stepped in to reassure would-be buyers that they can hack their toys and still get high-speed access. According to the official Motorola support forums, the company promises that XOOM slates that have had "the original factory software reinstalled" and have been "relocked" will be updated as normal, while it will "attempt to complete the upgrade" on those returned rooted. Read The Full Story

XPERIA X10 gets taste of Gingerbread despite Sony Ericsson abandonment

, Mar 3rd 2011 Discuss [2]

Sony Ericsson's decision to axe Android OS updates for the XPERIA X10 (and other pre-Arc XPERIA handsets) didn't exactly meet with a positive reaction from owners of the smartphone. Still, where SE fears to tread, xda-developers member TripNRaVeR storms ahead: he's taken Android 2.3 Gingerbread from an XPERIA Arc ROM and fettled it to suit the X10. Read The Full Story

Motorola XOOM rooted already

, Feb 25th 2011 Discuss [4]

Motorola's dislike of Android modders tweaking their toys was one of the potential downsides to the XOOM we mentioned in our review, but it seems the hacking community didn't get Motorola's memo that they should leave well alone. The XOOM has only been in the wild - officially - for less than a day, and already its been rooted. Read The Full Story

Palm Pre Plus webOS 2.1 update already up and running on French phone

, Feb 22nd 2011 Discuss [0]

Well, that didn't take long. O2 Germany only began pushing out the webOS 2.1.0 update for Palm Pre Plus handsets a few hours ago - complete with the stern warning that it was for the German model and no other - and already a doctored version is up and running on other models. Olivier Charavel got webOS 2.1.0 on his French Pre Plus, and the best news is that it grants the smartphone with a new lease of life. Read The Full Story

Geohot Sony defense fund closes after rapid response

, Feb 22nd 2011 Discuss [3]

Hacker George Hotz (aka Geohot) surprised a few people when he changed his long-standing unofficial policy on asking for donations last week; then again, when Sony unleashes its legal team on you, you need all the help you can get. It seems that help was fast forthcoming: Geohot has announced that he has all the donations he needs to secure "a few more lawyers" to defend his case over PS3 encryption cracking. Read The Full Story

Nexus One gets Android 3.0 Honeycomb port

, Feb 21st 2011 Discuss [0]

Honeycomb has hit the Nexus One, though the tablet OS on the original Google phone won't exactly set the world on fire, at least not in this early stage. xda-developers' bypass23 has ported the Android 3.0 SDK to the Nexus One, complete with some tricks and tweaks to make the landscape display work properly and the app drawer function as it should. Read The Full Story

AT&T Motorola ATRIX 4G already rooted

, Feb 19th 2011 Discuss [5]

Motorola hasn't been too keen on Android modders tinkering with its smartphones, throwing in various locked-down bootloaders and other frustrations to prevent the hardware running custom ROMs. Unfortunately for Moto, however, there's nothing a hacker likes more than a challenge, and so it comes as little surprise to discover that the Motorola ATRIX 4G has been rooted before it's even on shelves. Read The Full Story

Kinect connects to Android for reading depth info

, Feb 14th 2011 Discuss [0]

Kinect hacks are coming with geeks taking the device that Microsoft intended for the Xbox 360 console and hacking it to do things Microsoft never envisioned. As it, turns out the hacking community for the Kinect grew quickly and today the Kinect will do things like allowing doctors to perform surgery, control robots, and lots more. Read The Full Story

GreenPois0n iOS 4.2.1 untethered jailbreak released

, Feb 4th 2011 Discuss [47]

Got an iOS device running 4.2.1 that's in dire need of an untethered jailbreak? Good news; the Chronic Dev Team has released a new solution, GreenPois0n, promising an untethered jailbreak suitable for Mac, Linux or Windows users, and opening up your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch to the joys of the Cydia unofficial app store. Read The Full Story
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