Zibri's Blog

Hello back! Tired of all rumors and "undisclosed sources" of the last week roll of blog posts around the web, I decided to dig the matter to get a definitive answer. In the picture above you see a "chunk" of code from the latest iTunes. Maybe, for the most of you, names like "partition.mbn" or "AMSS.MBN" means little or nothing. For me and a few others that means only one thing: QUALCOMM. Those files are the building blocks of any Qualcomm baseband. So I can tell you that the next wave of iProducts will be using a QUALCOMM baseband. Which one I don't know... maybe the iPad2, maybe the iPhone5 most probably all of them. What is clear is that they are testing them using the same iTunes you have on your hard drives. If you post this information on your blog, remember to link back to THIS post. Namaste, Zibri Oh.. by the way.. this could only apply to CDMA versions... As I said, I am not yet sure what models will feature this baseband but I...

A few days ago I analyzed a suspicious program. A friend of mine downloaded it thinking it was a utility. The program apparently did nothing. I disassembled the program and found many interesting things. The program is a hidden remote control. It works in this way: 1) It connects to a private irc server. 2) It joins an irc channel. 3) It waits there for commands. There are 54 supported command in the "bot" ranging from launching DDOS attacks to keystroke logging. Obviously i recovered the bot(s) password and I could easily take over the whole botnet. I then disguised as an "infected" bot and joined the channel. I found more than 500 PCs waiting for commands there. I think the number of infected PCs may range from 1000 to 10.000.. I don't know what to do now. Who to report this? If you have any clues, let me know. Namaste, Zibri

In loving memory of my dog. Someone might remember her: I used her photo when I released ZiPhone 2.4 Goodbye, and thanks for everything.

Since I loved and owned the original Archon version on the Commodore 64, I wanted to have it on my iPad too. Not the new version. So I added it manually to the C64 App. Enjoy! (Read video details to learn how to do it.) (Sorry for the background noise) Namaste, Zibri

iPhone HD: 64 GB 5 colors. Higher screen resolution. front facing camera flash! (on rear camera :P ) A4 CPU longer battery life In other words: a portable iPad and it can place calls :) An "iPad mini" :P IMHO: nothing new. But i BET it will sell A LOT. But a few months (6-12) after this, Android will start to take over the world. Oh.. and obviously the picture above is a FAKE :)

I successfully connected the Uncle Milton's Force Trainer to my PC.. It was easier than expected. Here's a sample interface, but you can also use a cellular cable like the CA-42 And connect it to RX,TX and GND on the base. The serial speed is 57600 8N1 and the data stream is pretty easy to understand. I also (lousily) coded a sample application which gives the two brain 'parameters' the headset sends to the main game station. In the above example I was focusing on a particular thought very intensely. In this other example I was relaxing and focusing on my breath with my eyes closed. Stay tuned for more about this!

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...