Kinect hacks are abundant, as we've seen before. Kinect Apps on the App Store? Not so much. Laan Labs has just released a Kinect App on the Mac App Store called the Kinect 3D Viewer. There's not much to it right now, as all it does is show a 3D depth map like the one shown above. If anything, it makes it easy for non-hackers to check out one of the interesting features of Microsoft's motion-sensing camera peripheral.
Problems with the new custom firmware for the PlayStation 3 render many consoles completely useless.
Unless you're in the market for a $300 paperweight, stay away from Custom Firmware v3.55.
Mozilla has announced the availability of the ninth beta of Firefox 4. The new version of the browser is relatively mature at this stage of the development cycle, the focus is largely on optimization and bug fixing. In a statement at the official Mozilla blog, the organization indicates that this beta is ready for more widespread testing.
Two and a half months after VLC core developer Rémi Denis-Courmont submitted an infringement of copyright complaint, Apple has removed the iOS version of VLC Media Player from its App Store. Apple is now reported to have told Applidium, the team responsible for porting the open source media player to iOS, that the application was removed because the dispute between the parties involved could not be amicably resolved.
External developers can now integrate Google's Goo.gl URL shortening service into their websites and online applications through a just-released API (application programming interface).
In addition to letting their users shrink long Web addresses and share links to them, external developers will be able to give users access to their URL shortening history and analytics, Google said Monday in a blog post.
Android version 2.4 is slated to be released sometime this summer, Pocket Lint sources report.
The latest version of Google's mobile operating system, dubbed "Ice Cream" (previous iterations include the tasty monikers of "Froyo," "Éclair," and "Donut"), will hit phones in June or July of 2011, according to unnamed Pocket Lint sources.
Last October, ARM founder, Tudor Brown hinted in a Forbes interview that the next version of Android will be called Ice Cream. Today, we have a second confirmation of this name choice courtesy of a rumor fresh from Pocket-Lint. According to the UK-based blog, multiple sources familiar with the matter suggest that Android 2.4 will follow Android 2.3 Gingerbread and Android 3.0 Honeycomb, the tablet version of Android. Keeping with Google's alphabetical naming convention, the next letter is "I" and what better name than ice cream, the sweet treat that everyone loves.
One of the most exciting things about open-source software is the sheer diversity of projects that are always under way. Aiming to recognize some of the most promising of those projects, Black Duck Software on Friday announced its 2010 open-source "Rookies of the Year" list.
With the release of the download-only PSPgo Sony managed to alienate just about everyone. Multiple Retailers didn’t want to stock it as they couldn’t sell any games for the new hardware. Gamers on the other hand didn’t like the high price and couldn’t do anything with the handfuls of UMD disc games they had previously bought.
Now it seems hackers are solving the problem by modding the PSPgo to play UMD disc images. For someone with a PSPgo and lots of UMD disc games, that’s surely going to be a tempting proposition, even if it’s technically piracy.
Here we go again - After numerous customer complaints of unbootable machines due to the OS X 10.6.5, PGP Development has identified a potential issue with the Apple Mac OS X 10.6.6 upgrade released earlier today, January 6, 2011, and PGP Whole Disk Encryption for Mac OS X.
Until this issue is resolved, PGP strongly recommends that customers do NOT upgrade to Mac OS X 10.6.6. This issue has the highest internal priority at PGP, and we will update our customers with the resolution information as soon as it becomes available.
