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I kept this image for a long time know, but I knew I would have used it for a post sooner or later. Finally developers fought back piracy of iPhone apps: with a simple yet effective method they are securing their apps so that if you crack them (any of them) your iPhone will be blacklisted. As a bonus, any developer can choose not to allow anyone who cracked ANY app to run theirs. To get deleted from the blacklist, fairly enough, you have to buy all cracked apps. As I already told you, I stopped developing ZiPhone when I noticed the MAIN reason the most of you used it was to install cracked applications. In short: I am the one who allowed you to use the iPhone worldwide when that wasn't possible. The "others" are the ones allowing you to run cracked apps. And stop bragging about "freedom" since the "alternate" download services are now just a hypocritical way to circumvent the AppStore. In a single word: black market. To Apple: learn from developers: it...

Many 200 Mb/s powerline adapters nowadays are based on the INTELLON 6300 chipset. Despite what can be thought looking at them, they are all using the same hardware and firmwares. I heard many people with Netgear XAV101 or Linksys PLK 200 or PLE 200 having problems after firmware updates and many other people with other brands having much more problems because of lack of support or configuration/upgrade utilities. So let me explain a few things I learnt studying them. Many of 200 Mb/s powerline ethernet adapters follow the "HomePlug AV" standard. (85 Mb adapters use HomePlug 1.0 standard which is completely different). This standard uses ethernet broadcast packets using the HomePlug AV protocol. The interesting thing is that their firmware is made of two different parts: a .PIB file (Parameter Information Block) and a .NVM file (the code itself). In the P.I.B. there are many interesting things: The branding (mac address, device name, etc) and the tone map. I test...

Hello! I just made a discovery I want to share with you: As a few of you may know, on broadcom based adsl modems/routers there is a command line utility which allows to tweak the adsl physical connection. This command is adslctl and accepts many parameters. One of them is SNR which is used to force a lower (or higher) SNR. On the information page you will see that there is a maximum speed achievable on your own line due to noise, distance and quality and then you read the actual connection speed. An example: Max(Kbps): 18420 1027 Rate (Kbps): 17972 1013 If you issue the command adslctl configure --snr 1 You are telling the modem to set the minimum SNR (it may not give you any performance improves on a very noisy line) thus allowing the modem to 'hook' at higher speed. Since my line performed very well with snr=1 I wondered if it could be possible to lower the snr below 1. Then I thought that the variable used in the code is a signed WORD so since a negative value is not poss...

Well, see for yourself! Isn't this a MacBookPro? Believe it or not this was captured from a MicroSoft commercial for SongSmith. SongSmith is the Microsoft way to try to destroy the music industry :) Oh by the way, get a HEX editor and search for: 20 60 54 00 00 inside SongSmith.exe change it to: 20 FF FF FF 7F (6 occurences) You will have a lifetime trial time :D (Product security must be revised) To get rid of the annoying splash screen search for: 2D 5B 14 73 27 02 00 06 and change 2D into 2C. :D

For a few minutes GOOGLE today suffered of a denial of service. Every search was redirected to a page stating that the site (ANY!) could harm your computer. Was this a stupid glitch/bug or a hack ? Lucky for them it's Saturday and stock exchange is closed. I wonder what will happen on monday.

What's this ? The UI looks like the iPhone's.. The phone doesn't. (Spotted in episode 12 of first season)

I'm a nostalgic, I know. Since David changed the layout of the old site. Here you have a backup of the original ZiPhone site. Not much of fun, but much better than google cache :) The new address is: http://ziphone.zibri.org Namaste, Zibri