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A band of iPhones, iBand

We’ve all see musicians use vocals or other household items to create melodies for us to hear. One thing you may not of seen is iBand. This very unique and new musical band plays an electronic ensemble, played off gaming consoles and the beloved iPhone. Instruments used in this ensemble: Nintendo DS (using the Elektroplankton more »

iPhone 1.1.3 Hacked; not for the faint of heart

Because of the firmware leak of iPhone 1.1.3, hackers from the iPhone Dev Team and iPhone Atlas have hacked and jailbroken 1.1.3 already. They apparently have Installer.app working on the latest iPhone firmware, but will not be releasing the hack yet, because they don’t want Apple to patch it before the SDK comes out. At that point, it may be worth it to just wait for the official Apple solution to third-party apps. And I don’t know if you really want to hack your 1.1.3 iPhone. Apparently, it involves some sort of “hardware modification”. Doesn’t sound pretty. The hacked 1.1.3 youtube video is after the jump.

The Army starts using Macs, more secure

Lieutenant Colonel C.J. Wallington is hoping the enemy won’t expect this army strategy: switching some of it’s computer base to Macs. The enemy, of course, is hackers. Wallington, who is a division chief for the Army’s office of enterprise information systems, says that the army is quietly slipping Macs into it’s systems to make the more »