Thats right people! We have now recieved strong evidence about what is bound to be ‘Video Call’ capability for the next
generation iPhone. The proof is actually a screw up by a UK phone provider called O2. They recently just updated their phone plans and is now listing a ‘Video Call’ plan that costs the same as their voice call service. You can check this out via attached image or look it up on their site.
Knowing this, it is pretty obvious that the next generation will include a front facing camera, along evidence from the latest iPhone SDK images. For more information about that, click here.
The long anticipated Apple tablet called the ‘iPad’ has been announced today by Apple that it will be available for pick up on April 3rd. According to their Official Website, you can pre-order one of these bad boys on March 12th.
What do you think of the iPad? Do you think it will be another revolutionary device, or just a big iPod Touch? Leave a comment below.
The MacBook’s built-in iSight camera and microphone are awfully convenient for Skype phone calls and iChat video conferencing, but a more sinister potential use came to light this week with the allegation that a suburban Philadelphia school district used iSight cameras to spy on students at home. The FBI has launched an investigation to determine whether federal laws were broken.
The investigation follows a lawsuit filed in the U.S. Eastern District of Pennsylvania alleging that the Lower Merion school district misused the MacBooks’ Webcams, based on an incident where a vice principal accused a student, Blake Robbins, of illicit drug use in his home. His parents asked for evidence, to which the vice principal responded that they had pictures from Robbins’s Webcam.
How exactly did the school district get access to students’ Webcams? Well, Lower Merion installed security software on the Macs it issued to 2300 students, but never disclosed the possibility that they could be remotely monitored for audio and video input—which could be illegal under federal and state laws governing topics like wiretaps and computer-instrusion.
An analysis of how MacBooks could be used this way was posted by a security researcher writing under the (presumed) pseudonym of Stryde Hax. According to Hax, Lower Merion used LANRev software (recently rebranded Absolute Manage) to implement both the system lockdown and remote access on the MacBooks. LANRev includes camera, screenshot, and IP location tracking in its monitoring as an antitheft tool.
Lower Merion spokesman Doug Young claimed that this antitheft tracking was used 42 times when laptops were reported stolen, and led to the recovery of 28 of them. He said the policy of using Webcam shots only for devices reported stolen was never broken, but he couldn’t comment specifically on the Robbins case.
That contradicts anecdotal evidence compiled by Hax, who searched message boards used by Lower Merion high school students, and found many reports of iSight cameras powering up, as indicated by a brief flicker of the LED light next to the camera. Some students even put tape over their iSight cameras to prevent them from operating, but most were assured by the district that the light was a “common MacBook glitch.” The LANRev software apparently disabled the cameras for all other uses; students were unable to use PhotoBooth or video chat, so apparently most of them believed that the camera did not work at all.
The stock Mac OS X system does not allow the camera to be accessed remotely. The LANRev software, however, hacks the system to make this possible. While your iSight camera can be activated remotely if you allow SSH access or Screen Sharing in your Sharing system preferences, in most cases you’ll see activity on screen when this occurs. In all cases, the LED light indicates when the iSight is turned on; however, there is no equivalent indicator for the audio microphone.
If the MacBooks were used—or even could have been used—as remote spying devices, the implications, ranging from privacy issues to possible child pornography, are disturbing. In addition to the FBI investigation, Lower Merion will presumably decide on its own whether community standards were broken as well.
You may not know it or not, but Google is taking over the world. Soon we may all be speaking Google’s geeky language. But really, who new Google could be anything else but a search engine.
Well, the people behind Google’s crazy ideas must of though they could. Far beyond it’s powerful search engine Google is playing the technology game. And they are not leaving without a fight. Well then, what brought Google to this point? I’ll tell you a few of the things.
Buying YouTube. Releasing the Nexus One (Google Phone). Gmail, Google Buzz, and Google Wave has thrown them into the social media category. There high speed browser, Google Chrome, has crushed other leading browsers. And them becoming an ISP (Internet Service Provider) has put them head to head with many companies. Not to mention Google now has the power to buy and sell energy.
With all this in there hands it is unimaginable what Google can do. There is many companies out there who want what Google have but just can’t get them. Google Ads is one of the largest online advertising forms on the web. With this ad program there current revenue is around 32 billion dollars. Enough to basically do whatever they want.
Soon before you now it peoples lives are going to be revolving around Google. For example you get up in the morning and check your Gmail account using Google as you ISP. Then you will search for direction to your new job using Google Maps and find out the companies revenue with Google Finance. Then you will drive to work on your Google Electricity powered car and get lost. So you will sue the Internet on your Nexus one to find the directions again. Then when you come home you can relax and watch some YouTube video while reading you Google buzz updates.
So that is a one day example of how Google could be in your every day life. That is how Google is going to be taking over the world.
A developer with the name of 9to5Mac has just discovered some very exiting evidence in Apple’s newest SDK. The evidence shows to “indicate that there will be video calling on an iPxxx device.”
The evidence includes some iChat like icons which is supposedly there to accept and decline video requests. There were also some system strings found that read things like “Accept Video Chat” etc.
People have wanted video chat capabilities since the iPhone 3G made its debute, and this evidence might be what the users have been waiting for.
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This is a must have app for every Mac owner. This app cleans unnecessary files from your Mac. Clean My Mac will clean Caches, Logs, Language Files, Universal Binaries, Development Junk, and Extensions. This app doesn’t just keep you Mac clean and give you more disk space, but it also have a very nice interface. It also has a feature that will delete all files from an application that you don’t need anymore. Since I started using it February 1, 2010 I have cleaned up over 8.37 GB of space for important files! Like I said before everyone that has a Mac NEEDS this app.
Google is planning to launch an experiment that we hope will make Internet access better and faster for everyone. We plan to test ultra-high speed broadband networks in one or more trial locations across the country. Our networks will deliver Internet speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have access to today, over 1 gigabit per second, fiber-to-the-home connections. We’ll offer service at a competitive price to at least 50,000 and potentially up to 500,000 people.
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Want to get that signature T- Pain or Kanye West auto effect using nothing but GarageBand??? This quick tutorial will show you how to take your crap voice and put it in tune.
No plugins needed!!! If you have Apples Garage Band in OS X you have everything you need.
Click On The Link Above For The Video, For Some Reason I Cannot Embed A Video Into My Post.
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Apple today unveiled a ”Countdown to 10 Billion Songs” promotion via the iTunes Store, offering the contest winner a prize of a $10,000 iTunes gift card. A counter on the main iTunes Store page and Apple’s home page currently displays in excess of 9.8 billion downloads.
According to the official contest rules, participants may make up to 25 entries per day either by purchasing/downloading songs from the iTunes Store or by filling out an entry form on Apple’s web site. The contest begins today and ends once the 10-billion-song milestone is reached.
The prize will be awarded for the entry (either through a song download or through the non-purchase online entry) sent immediately following the download of the 9,999,999,999th song. The potential winner will be determined by the order of the entries received. In the event that more than one entrant would be a winner based on the simultaneous timing of entries, one entrant will be randomly selected from those entrants as the winner. Each entrants chances of winning are dependent upon the number of eligible entries received.
Apple has periodically offered similar contests in the past, such as its One Billion Song contest in 2006 and a One Billion App contest last year.
