The #iphone hackers have posted another breakthrough; they’ve managed to get an iPhone to give up a serial port that lets you send commands that look a lot like the Open Firmware commands you can use with a Mac. Here’s a sampling: command list: help this list script run script at specific address go jump […]
Andru writes – Since the iPhone launched, we have been on the lookout for all the cool web apps that we were sure would begin to show up. We have had quite a few come along, but just a few minutes ago we were able to log in to IRC on our iPhone, and thought […]
We’ve gotten iPhoneInterface to compile and run in the Hackszine.com lab (er, my living room). Kudos to the #iphone team; this is pretty cool. In its current form, it doesn’t look like it will compile on Mac OS X (Update: the latest version compiles fine on Mac OS X!). For the moment, it’s calling directly […]
mp4 | mov | hd-appletv | 3gp | 3g2 | blip | youtube | itunes | pdf This week I teamed up with Xander Hudson to make PCBs. Besides being pretty, making your own printed circuit boards is fun and you can have a prototype board ready in a few hours. First you need a […]
The iPhone hackers from #iphone on irc.osx86.hu released a tool to “manipulate the iPhone’s state, launch services and interact with the chroot’d filesystem” last night. Although the Wiki is currently down, you can lurk in the IRC channel and keep an eye on the channel MOTD for notification of where to find it when it […]
Make pal I-Wei Huang, a.k.a. Crabfu, the steambots guru, was interviewed by Bonnie Burton for the Official Star Wars Blog… How do your skills as an animator help when you make these cool creations? Being an animator, you tend to see things in a different way, and can’t help but notice subtle details of how […]
You’ll probably never have the desire or need to download and watch a YouTube video on a text-only console, but doesn’t it make you feel better knowing that it can be done? The trick is to use the AAlib ascii image library as an output device for mplayer, using the -vo parameter: mplayer -vo aa […]
