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One day, your computer will be a big-ass table…

http://8bitboy.popforge.de/

Karsten Obarski invented 1987 - twenty years ago - the MOD format for his Ultimate Tracker running on Amiga computers. Since then, countless songs are created, especially for the demoscene.

MODs have special attributes. All samples are stored in 8bits and the number of voices is limited to four. To have something similarly to chords, the three notes of it are repeated very fast. This makes MODs sound so freaky.

Finally 8BitBoy brings those songs back online.

Pretty sick. The applications are endless!

Helping the handicap and assisting astronauts is cool and all, but what about as a TV remote? Just think, you’d never have to waste your precious energy pushing those remote control buttons any more. If the consequence of sloth is only a pit full of snakes, bring it on.

Security researchers claim they have found a hack to get confidential data from the iPhone.

By creating a malicious html page, and then pointing the phone’s Safari web browser at it, the hackers were able to access all sorts of private information from the phone. Not good news for private individuals - but even worse for organizations when you consider that recent research estimates that more than 50 percent of staff regularly copy files from the corporate network to their personal storage devices.

Read the full article here

(from watchyourend.com)

Jon Lech Johansen, aka “DVD Jon,” claims he has activated an iPhone without service through AT&T. Although the phone function doesn’t work, everything else does. Johansen says the purpose of this little exercise was for people that don’t wish to enter into a 2-year contract with AT&T and would rather just use the iPhone as a pimped out iPod.

Visit Jahansen’s blog for more info and downloads

There’s other ways of doing this too, which involves purchasing and then canceling a prepaid plan from AT&T.