By Jennifer Stacy, WINK News (http://www.winknews.com/news/local/36645774.html)
Story Created: Dec 23, 2008 at 3:42 PM EST
Story Updated: Dec 23, 2008 at 6:30 PM EST
SANIBEL ISLAND, Fla. – Researchers at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Texas have been testing Sanibel resident John Kanzius’ novel approach to treating cancer. On Friday, they announced they have been able to [...]
By Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU
Contributing Editor
December 26, 2008
Did you get a new iPhone yesterday? Or how about another brand of smart phone?
Following up on the “I Phone, Therefore I Ham,” I received some feedback about other sources of Amateur Radio applications for smart phones.
Gerry Jurgens, N2GJ, reminded me not to forget N8CIA’s Call Sign Lookup Web [...]
Yes, you read that right: Microsoft has released a free high-resolution photo viewing app for the iPhone called Seadragon. Using the iPhone’s powerful graphics processor, Seadragon can view giga-pixel sized images and provide a deep zoom, allowing users to get very up close and personal with thousands of pictures.
Seadragon comes preloaded with a variety of [...]
Here’s something you don’t see every day: refurbished iPhones. Nevertheless, over at AT&T you can score a refurbished 8GB iPhone 3G for $149.99 with free overnight shipping. (You can get the 16GB model, in either black or white, for $249.99.)
You will, of course, have to sign up for a 2-year contract, which costs $70 per [...]
A team of hackers announced Tuesday that it has unlocked the iPhone 3G.
Codenamed “yellowsn0w,” the hack will enable the iPhone 3G to work with 3G networks other than those sanctioned by Apple. (For example, the unlock hack would make the iPhone 3G work on the T-Mobile network in the United States.) The iPhone Dev-Team, famous [...]
Apple CEO Steve Jobs has given his last keynote address at Macworld in San Francisco.
The company announced on Tuesday afternoon that January’s Macworld would mark its last year participating at the show, which is run by publishing company IDG. In addition, Apple said Phil Schiller, senior vice president of worldwide marketing, will deliver the keynote, [...]
Posted by Eric Zeman, Dec 15, 2008 09:27 PM
Today, Apple issued software update 10.5.6 for its Leopard operating system. Included in the code was a covert strike against iPhone jailbreakers. Users who’ve installed 10.5.6 can no longer use the Pwnage tool to jailbreak their iPhones.
The tit-for-tat between Apple and iPhone hackers shows no sign of [...]
Why people still use IE is beyond my understanding. Go FIREFOX!
An unpatched security hole in Internet Explorer that is being exploited affects all versions of the browser, making it more serious than originally believed when it was first publicized two days ago, Microsoft says.
Microsoft is investigating reports of attacks against a new vulnerability in [...]
Are you ready for a 3D desktop?
Apple is working on such a project, according to patent filings unearthed by MacRumors this week. The “multidimensional desktop” applications suggest that Apple wants to take familiar parts of the Mac OS X desktop–such as the dock–and add depth, allowing you to stack documents or folders behind application icons [...]
