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Finally, after the long, agitated wait for the jailbreak.. Its now released folks! Important note though, there is no UNLOCK (Ultrasn0w) yet. Just wait for the new Pwnagetool so you could create IPSWs without the baseband updates.. Proceed with caution. This will just jailbreak your 4.1 (and possibly beta 4.2) device. Ola! From the Dev-Team blog: Dev-Team Blog - redsn0wier

I got surprised when I saw this email. I didn't know that these tricks were still being used. Its a dangerous world out there people, be careful! One of the oldest phishing trick.

I called my credit card company earlier this evening to either have my credit card discontinued or have my annual fee waived. Due to the problems I had with that company, it was not really my loss if they didn't waive my annual fee. Everything went smoothly and as the transaction completed, got home, started browsing, I came across this very nice article about cyber security (ironically) courtesy of Microsoft and (more ironically) released for free. 12.3MB downloadable here . Then I thought, I think there's a bit of a security hole in those companies policies. I remember Kevin Mitnick and his book, The Art of Deception. You see, banks asks about details which identity thieves could easily obtain. Take for example, I was asked for my credit card number and my full name. Credit card numbers could be easily listed down by some employee of a merchant you bought some goods on, so is your full name (its on the card Sherlock). Even that 3 digit CVV2 code behind the card. So make...

If you've been into computer games for several years now, you've probably heard about the Duke Nukem franchise. I remember playing the 2d Duke Nukem side scroller on my old 386 box and heard about the new FPS Duke Nukems though popular PC magazines. So if it was a popular franchise comparable to Mario, Zelda, Final Fantasy and other games in that era, what the heck happened to it? Image courtesy of Joystiq  Much like software development, it deteriorated because of ambition and the ever changing technologies involved in software development. The development suffered a fatal blow shifting from one game engine to another. Its a bit tempting to use modern technology halfway through the development given the mindset that "hey the new engine would probably cut the development time into 1/4 so I don't mind sacrificing the time wasted developing with the old engine" But then again, the implications of such would be having to learn the new engine probably leaving you...

I heard that Google is launching movies through YouTube but I didn't realize that it was already available. Head on to: http://www.youtube.com/movies for your fix on documentaries, bunch of horror flicks, cartoons, Bollywood, Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan movies. Now, don't you think that those media boxes with YouTube support are now worth the investment?