It has been disappointing to see that Apple has still not launched an App Store for the second generation Apple TV.
back in October 2010, there hasn’t been much progress made on that front.
However, iOS hacker and developer
 Troughton-Smith has just renewed our hopes as he along with Nick who goes by the Twitter handle TheMudKip have managed to successfully run iOS apps and Springboard on the second generation Apple TV.
Success! A window (more…)

Yesterday, iOS hacker and developer Steven Troughton-Smith and Nick gave us the good news that they had managed to
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It looks like in the last 24 hours they have made significant progress.
Steven Troughton-Smith has been posting a number of photos, which seems to indicate that they’ve managed to run the iOS app in full screen mode.
Troughton-Smith has posted photos of the iPad version of Safari, YouTube, Facebook, Grace Angry Birds etc. (more…)

such as the lock screen shortcut, pinch-to-zoom gestures, volume button shutter and editing features.
It looks like Apple was also planning to add the “Panorama” mode in iOS 5 as an iOS developer with Twitter handle @conradev has figured out a way to enable this hidden feature.
MacRumors reports that the developer was able to enable the feature by setting ‘EnableFirebreak’ to YES in com.apple .mobileslideshow.plist.
Clearly Apple had been (more…)

Couple of weeks back,  
 - Apple ‘s revolutionary personal assistant feature, that is exclusively available only on
, was
. And last week it was also successfully ported to iPad and iPod touch.
However, at that time iPhone hacker and developer - Steven Troughton-Smith had only managed to get Siri’s UI working as Apple was not authenticating commands on its servers from non-iPhone 4S devices.
, 
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) has has figured out a (more…)

Late last night, we reported that
by bypassing the authentication issues.
interviewed Steve Troughton-Smith – the iPhone expert behind the hack, where he revealed some interesting details about the Siri port. 
, which means that to make this hack work on non-iPhone 4S devices, someone would have to pirate these files.
using a lengthy 20-step process.
The port is currently 100% functional. However, Troughton-Smith has mentioned that it (more…)

, folks at
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The game is a simple Blackjack game and not very pretty to look at, but it gives us a glimpse of the potential of the device, which we’ve known ever since we found out it runs a modified version of iOS.
Folks at appletvblack have managed to achieve it by first jailbreaking their Apple TV 2G and then have managed to run the HTML5 game using Cough Surfer, which is a web browser available for jailbroken Apple TV 2G that comes bundled (more…)

so that one can make calls and send SMS, but this has to be one of the coolest iPad hacks that we’ve seen so far.
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Libfreenect from http://openkinect.org/ project was used for recording the data coming from the Kinect. A textured mesh was created from the calibrated depth+rgb data for each frame and played back in real-time. A simple depth cutoff allowed us isolate the person in the video from the walls and other objects.
Using the String (more…)

to celebrate the 10th anniversary of their retail stores with interactive iPads replacing paper signs next to products.
into normal iPads with few gestures.
As reported earlier, since the home button of these display iPads didn’t work, it was assumed that it was not possible to use them as normal iPads. Weintraub went to a local Apple store to find out if the secret combination of gestures works. He reports:
Yep, it works. The button still (more…)

has been hacked by developer and hacker, James Whelton.
He has managed to remove an app icon from iPod nano’s Springboard and replace it with a blank space by bypassing the checks performed by the Nano OS.
I’ve successfully done a basic springboard hack, figured out how to bypass the cache comparison and uncovered some interesting stuff as whats to come on the iPod Nano.
The springboard hack is just the removal of a app and creation of a (more…)

But it now looks like the issue is more widespread and not limited to just one developer and just his apps.
You can checkout the screenshot below of the Books category in iTunes, where you can see the apps developed by a single developer:
(though the thread seems to have started way back in 2008 and three users have reported of their account being hacked in the last 24 hours).
“Yesterday my credit union contacted me saying there was suspicious (more…)