Covering the techy shouts
Microsoft Office has released its first official “Microsoft Office OneNote” app for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices. This app is available immediately in Apple’s App Store.
OneNote lets you create, edit and view lists and notes on your idevice. It also allows you to synchronize your data with free Windows Online storage and access them from anywhere using your PC or iPhone.
Tip: Do you still use Outlook to manage your emails, calendars and events? Now you get it on your iPhone and iPad too.
The day before yesterday we shared a video showing a jailbroken PlayStation 3 (PS 3) running on Firmware 3.55 and today Geohot releases the actual jailbreak software for PS 3.
It is to be noted that Goehot’s jailbreak for PlayStation 3 on version 3.55 won’t allow you to play backup games or pirated games. With this jailbreak method you can install custom packages on your PS 3.
Finally PlayStation 3 Firmware 3.55 has been jailbroken and the person who is behind this jailbreak technique is Geohots, the same famous iPhone hacker who has developed many tools to jailbreak iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch on different iOS versions.
This jailbreak technique for PS 3 Firmware 3.55 seems to be based on PS 3 root keys released by Geohot this week and on the exploit found by a small group of German hacker called fail0verflow.
iPhone Dev Team drops Redsn0w 0.9.7 beta 3 that fixes some more bugs found in beta 2. This new beta fixes issues related to FaceTime, Winterboard themes, embedded videos in iTunes and others.
This version is still in testing phase and if you rely on unlock, don’t try it.
Rumors are already spreading around the internet town that Microsoft is planning to release a minor “Windows Phone 7 OS” update either in January or in February. But today we have got more than this.
Mary Jo Foley has just posted on her blog that the first major update (codenamed Mango), which is more like a Windows Phone OS 7.5, may hit in August or September of 2011.
It’s a breaking news. Team X3 has managed to jailbreak Playstation 3 official firmware 3.50 using the X3 Max PS3 dongle. This is the first time PS firmware 3.50 has been jailbroken directly without needing any downgrading.
Previously, you had to downgrade the PS3 firmware 3.50 to jailbreakable 3.41 version, but now Team X3 has found a solution to run homebrew applications on official firmware 3.50 without downgrading.
We know that ChevronWP7, the first unlock [jailbreak] tool for Windows Phone 7 is out. The fact is that unlocking WP7 is much easier than jailbreaking an iPhone.
What does this app actually do? In fact this apps saves your $99 (USD) and allows you to run those apps which you have created or other developers’ apps without having the Marketplace registration account.
ChevronWP 7 is the first app that gives you root access on Windows Phone 7. Though its tagline describes it as Windows Phone 7 Unlocker but basically it works just like any Jailbreak Tool on iPhone.
ChevronWP 7 unlocks the Widnwos Phone 7 and allows to side-load apps without being dependent on marketplace only. Currently this app is available for Windows PCs only.
Today Microsoft has released the final RTM bits of Office 2011 for Mac. It is available to download for those who are members on MSDN and TechNet. Yesterday Microsoft announced the retail availability of Office for Mac 2011 in two flavours:
DosPad, which was previously known as iDos, is a universal app that supports Keyboard, multiple screen modes and allows you to install Windows 3.0 on your any idevice i.e., iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.
iDos is based on an open source DOS emulator and the main purpose of this app is to install the DOS based games on your idevice. However, it does more than that. You can also install Windows 3.0 on your phone with the helpf of this app.
Microsoft Netherlands finally dropped the curtain! In a post on Microsoft Dutch blog, the company revealed the secret that Windows 8 will be released after 3 years of Windows 7 release.
Windows 7 celebrated its first birthday on October 22, 2010 and if everything goes according to the Microsoft’s plans, we can expect Windows 8 in the last quarter of 2012.
Before the Windows Phone 7 OS is launched officially, the specs of another WP7 based phone leaks in wild. This smartphone will be released in Uk where all five major operators will have the WP7 phones in stock.
Though the exact release date is not revealed but it is definitely coming late October. The main features of HTC Mozart will be:
Last time we shared the step by step guide to jailbreak PlayStation 3 with an android based mobile phone, but now a jailbroken iPhone and iPod Touch can also be used for PS3 jailbreaking / hacking. Currently only three iDevices can perform this job, namely: iPhone EDGE (the first iPhone introduced by Apple), iPhone 3G and iPod Touch 1G.
