The simplest and most expansive iDevice jailbreak was released last night. In the past, and prior to Spirit, most jailbreak solutions required a computer intermediary running software locally to get the job done. It wasn’t difficult, but it did require research and could be somewhat intimidating to the uninitiated. Whereas the new jailbreakme.com website offers jailbreaking … Read more
In honor of the 2010 edition of the Lollapalooza music festival, we’re giving away 5 one year subscriptions to Slacker Radio Plus. I’m old enough to remember the early editions of Lolla and am bummed I can’t break free from my rusty cage to catch the (temporarily?) reunited Soundgarden in Chicago next week. However, attendees and non-attendees … Read more
Print magazines have included online extras for years, but not quite in the way Time Out New York has done it with the publication’s latest issue of TONY Kids. In the August edition of the magazine, one of the articles includes a video extra that can be viewed through the Junaio browser on either an … Read more
The good news is that Android users now have a choice of buying and reading eBooks with apps from Amazon, Borders, Kobo, or Barnes & Noble (not to mention free eBook apps such as Aldiko). That’s because Barnes & Noble is the latest major US booksellers to launch an Android app, with today’s introduction of Nook for Android. The … Read more
Some long time ago I remember getting excited about Yahoo Pipes and the potential apps I could build. I was going to create remarkable research tools with RSS mashups! And yet, the excitement faded pretty quickly. Why bother to design my own application when there was usually something already on the market that would work … Read more
The Internet Movie Database is pretty much the top destination for information about movies, TV shows, actors, and anyone else associated with telling stories with moving pictures. Want to know how many movies William H. Macy has been in? Want to know who directed His Girl Friday? IMDb can tell you. And now it can … Read more
Paul Thurrott has a short “preview” of sorts for the next version of Windows – Windows 8. It seems like Windows 7 has barely been around long enough to get acquainted, but there’s no question Microsoft already has it’s teams working on the next version of their flagship OS. One thing that might surprise or … Read more
Amazon launched a new Kindle app for Android devices today. The app will let you find, purchase, download, and read digital books on your mobile device. The mobile app synchronizes your last read pages, bookmarks, and annotations with other devices linked to your account. So if you have a physical Kindle eBook reader, an iPod … Read more