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Next project: VPN Hacktivator

Following the success of AirPrint Hacktivator I am thinking of writing another little Hacktivator application to help with the activation of the OS X dormant VPN capabilities.

Unknown to most users OS X contains all the engines needed to allow iPhones/iPads/iPod Touch to establish a VPN connection with your Mac back home… the only problem is that multiple files have to be created and services started to make it work. This is essentially what the OS X Server does with those same files via the provided GUI.

As you might guess this GUI is missing from OS X “user” edition. Here is where VPN Hacktivator will come handy. It will offer a minimalistic way of activating the dormant capabilities. I expect the 1st release to be fairly simple. Just enough to get a VPN connection possible via PPTP to your Mac using an existing Mac user account name. Future release should be able to add more functionality/options.

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AirPrint Hacktivator v1.7

I rewrote most of the hack part of AirPrint Hacktivator so that only one line need to be added to the apple.types file.

This ensure that no Apple files need to be re-distributed in AirPrint Hacktivator. The end result should be the same as versions 1.0-1.6: printing from your 4.2.1+ iOS devices to an OSX 10.6.5 shared [...]

aTV flash for Apple TV2 update

fireCore just published some news regarding the development status of the aTV flash application for jailbroken Apple TV2.

The installer, and last.fm portion are ready for beta. The new Apple TV2 iOS 4.2.1 will require some major ajustment but nothing too big.

The Couch Surfer is 80% there and is now able to play HTML5 video. You can [...]

AirPrint Hacktivator v1.6

I just made a slightly better looking version of AriPrint Hacktivator:

I now use the familiar iOS style button to turn AirPrint Hack ON or OFF. There is also a status light and text indicator about what the current state of AirPrint is on the system.

Same 3 files copy under the hood. I must say I have [...]

aTV Flash beta for Apple TV2 almost ready to be released

fire CORE, the companie behind aTV Flash for 1st gen Apple TV is about to release the 1st beta for the Apple TV2.

aTV Flash installer will communicates directly with the AppleTV (no wires or USB drives required) and allows aTV Flash (black) to be installed onto the AppleTV in just minutes. A windows version of the installer will be available at a later date.

Once installed additional apps (and updates) can be installed from the newly added ‘Maintenance’ item.

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Apple teases iTunes event

Visit apple.com this morning and you will be greeted with the above screen.

Apple will announce something memorable tomorrow about iTunes. Could this be iTunes streaming? Cloud based iTunes… you library in the cloud? Apple just built a massive Data Center and some have speculated that it might have to do with iTunes in the cloud.

Maybe this [...]

AirPrintHacktivator v1.1 now available

I have made some minor modifications to the AirPrint activation utility. It will now attempt to verify if your Mac run the appropriate versions of OSX and iTunes before letting you install the hack to activate AirPrint.

I have added an icon to the application to make it look a bit better… but really, the icon is [...]

The Mac still matters to Apple

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COMPUTERWORLD: A note to all the folk out there complaining that Apple isn’t paying any attention to Mac sales– you’re wrong. Just look at the data. Cast your mind back to 2007, perhaps call it up by attempting to remember what your cellphone did for you then. Think back to January that year when [...]

AppleTV 2 now shipping

I just got confirmation from Apple that the AppleTV 2 have started shipping… at least to Canada:

Based on the Fedex record the unit should be at my door on Wednesday the 29th.

Last week some people reported delay in the delivery of the new “hobby” device… but this prove it was [...]

Airplay is Apple’s ‘Go to Market’ Internet TV strategy | 9 to 5 Mac Airplay is Apple’s ‘Go to Market’ Internet TV strategy

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9to5mac is reporting that the AppleTV will be able to play any h.264 encoded video sent from the iPhone/iPad. This means that as you surf the web and discover something interesting to play you can stream it to your AppleTV.

This is huge as it essentially validate my toughts that an iPad + AppleTV will [...]

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