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In an interesting twist of news meeting fashion, CNN has begun to sell t-shirts with headlines on them. If you go to their site and look at some of the headlines you will notice there are small t-shirt icons next to them. If you click on one of those icons you will arrive at a page (pictured at right) where you can buy a t-shirt with that headline on it. It is an interesting idea. I wonder if it will catch on.
Ok Apple, you better fix this one. Now it seems that those passwords that we all like to use to lock our iPhones are quite useless. According to this article from PC World, not only can you easily access all the favorites on a locked phone, with a little playing we were able to access not only text messages but read all the emails on a locked phone. You can even send an email. Geesh Apple, come on.
Try this at home:
1. Turn on your locked iPhone
2. From the password screen hit emergency call
3. Now double tap the home button
4. Shazam! you now have access to all the favorites.
5. If you click on any of the blue arrows to the right you can access all kinds of goodies.
Try this goody:
1. After you are reading one of your favorites info click on that person’s email
2. From the new email screen hit cancel.
3. You can now read all the emails and even change accounts if there are some.
Yeah real secure. I hope that Apple fixes this ASAP.
Update: It’s not just if you have iphone firware 2.02, my buddy has 2.01 and it does the same thing on his.
Update 2: You can change the behavior of the double click of the home button and do a workaround to keep your phone secure. To do that do the following:
1. Go to settings
2. Click general
3. Click Home Button
4. Now change your setting to Home.
That will lock it back up. Enjoy.
AT&T has an extremely successful business relationship with Apple. Apparently that partnership doesn’t extend to their digital signage. FAIL.
This story is great. Someone took the time to do some nice work here.
Apple, have you lost your way?
I am a little disappointed at the latest app that Apple has decided to pull from the App store. They have pulled 4 apps in the last week. First it was Netshare (luckily I grabbed that one) which its only fault was to give a much needed/wanted function to the iPhone, tethering. Then it was BoxOffice, not sure what that was about. Then there was I Am Rich, ok that one I get. Today, I open up my fresh copy of Google Reader just to find out that Apple has pulled PhoneSaber from the App store!?! Um…What!?!
How could you Apple? How could you deny the hordes of Star Wars fans the sheer joy and pleasure of pretending that their iPhone is a lightsaber? What happened Steve, were you embarassed by a couple of guys pretending they were in a lightsaber fight with their iPhones at the Apple Campus? Maybe, Woz challenged you to a virtual duel and kicked your butt!
Ok, actually THQ wireless asked TheMacBox (the makers of PhoneSaber) to pull it since they own the rights to Star Wars wireless development. But I like my story better. I can see it now …Woz comes in to see Steve and whips out his PhoneSaber and does his best impression of Darth Vader “Steve….I am your father.” I love my version!
I once heard that most people will stand in line just because there is one without question. So I find it interesting that a spontaneous line formed outside of Apple’s fifth ave. store in NYC for no apparent reason. according to the Mac NN story “Some participants in the line are said to have been confused as to why they were there, while a few claimed to be waiting for a 3G iPhone, even though it is only expected to be revealed at WWDC on June 9th, and shipped later that month.”
All I can say is wow.
OK, it’s no secret that I am a huge Star Wars fan. So much so that I even enjoyed the new Star Wars movies. Call me crazy. Anyway, I had heard about a new DVD projector that was made to look like and R2-D2 and my first thought was “Wow that is kind of interesting but it has some limitation.” However, after watching this video not only do I feel all warm and gushy inside, this is quite possibly the most fantastic, life-changing, I can’t wait to get my hands on it product EVER!! Ok, I might be going a bit overboard, but it does get my drooling going. Here is the video.
Never again miss someone’s birthday. Now with Google custom time you can send email with a send date that predates that important event you missed. This is just what I have been looking for! The best invention of the year! Read all about it here.
P.S. Happy April Fool’s Day
P.S.S. Actually this is only one of the many April Fool’s Jokes on Google today.
Good news for all of us Airport Extreme owners. The long awaited ability to use Time Machine with a USB HD connected to an Airport Extreme is finally here. Gizmodo has a video with step by step instructions on how to get this done. I’ll be trying this tonight.
