The solution? Run the following code in shell.
<code>sudo apt-get install ia32-libs</code>

On the upside I do like Smart Bookmarks which allow you to view your most visited websites as well as your most recently bookmarked, the star, for it’s uglyness is a very nice way to quickly bookmark sites and the new notification system, while a little hard to get used to, is much more functional than the show stopping popup. There are also a mirriad of other features and behind the scenes stuff I’m sure, but that’s what has jumped out at me thus far.

All in all Firefox 3 is a needed and feature rich update that takes what works and does it’s best to make it better. It would be nice to see a little more polish before it ships but I’m not complaining, it’s the best browser available and it’s free.

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Rezen and the guys from #iTouch on osx86.hu have done it again, further simplifying the Jailbreak process to a single website visit, effectively obsoleting all other software Jailbreaks. No apps to download, no resets to do, this Jailbreak does it’s work in just the first step of most other software Jailbreaks. All you have to do is visit jailbreakme.com on your v1.1.1 iPhone or iPod touch and click confirm. That’s it. It will crash to the icons and reboot itself, leaving you with a fully Jailbroken device with Installer.app installed.

It’s important to note that this Jailbreak only leaves you with Installer.app installed, no default SSH client. If you need to SFTP or SSH into your device, you’ll need to install the BSD Subsystem, Community Sources and then OpenSSH using Installer.app. Super easy to do.

Truly Jailbreak your iPod touch or iPhone with one click

Perhaps Apple really doesn’t get “stopping piracy” as much as MadDogg Steve Jobs’ open letter would suggest. Not accepting cash isn’t going to hurt the unlocked iPhone resellers, they’ll use disposable credit cards or Apple Store gift cards to purchase their iPhones, while people who legitamately just want to buy one with cash wont be able to. Anti-Piracy hurts your customers, always.

How will they be different? Well they say their platform won’t be proprietary, that is “they aren’t trying to replace the web”. Prisim is based off of the virtually unknown Mozilla Labs Webrunner. Prisim will eventually be available for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux, but currently only a pre-alpha Windows build is available.

Unfortunately it’s not because they want to charge less. According to some, NBC wanted to charge as much as $4.99 per episode, up from the $1.99 and Steve Jobs wouldn’t bend on the $1.99 price-point so they pulled their content. And it’s not a secret that the major music labels would love to have tiered pricing.

This much needed update is especially good for iPhone/hacked iPod touch/mobile device users as now they can get and manage their Gmail from their device without having to delete email twice.

Amazon owns this now:
http://amazon.com/rampent-abuse-of-the-patent-system

Over-broad? Check. Obvious? Check. Disregard for prior art? Check.
Thanks USPTO.

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There’s also the issue of IFPI using the stolen Oink.cd domain to spread propaganda, fear, uncertainty and doubt amongst the users of the site with messages such as “A criminal investigation continues into the identities and activities of the site’s users” when in actuality there was nothing criminally damning on the server in regards to the users. All of the data is generic, no transfer of copyright files EVER took place on the server, it couldn’t have by the virtue of being a torrent tracker, it just let people connect with each other.

They claim that there were over 180,000 users of OiNK, spread all throughout the world, a jurisdictional nightmare and simply cost prohibitive for anyone wanting to file suit against the users, especially given the completely spurious charges they would have to file. They have no proof that any file transfers took place and would therefore have to compel the users of the site to, in effect, point the finger at each other, impossible given that torrent clients don’t keep logs. Failing that, they would in some way prove that user x sent user y copyright files without any logs, something that would be near impossible.

Many large torrent sites have been taken down before, Lokitorrent for example, no users were ever tracked down and sued. It was much more fiscally sound for them to simply put the fear of god into pirates and try to scare them back into stores. Just more scare tactics from the people defending a dying industry on a gangrene business model, hoping that can win fans though lawsuits.

The consequences for the owner as well as the users still unknown. However, since no illegal material was ever hosted directly on Oink, only distributed between users via torrent, they may have a hard time proving that any copyright violation actually took place on Oink servers. Nor do they have logs of the connections and data transfer between users, virtually the only incriminating evidence to take place during torrent transfers.

Read more on TorrentFreak

The company claims one of the benefits of the idea is that people not familiar with ordering online will be familiar with the shelf setup, but perhaps in the real world teaching Grandma how to search with Amazon might be easier than teaching her to “walk” though a virtual store looking for what she wants, especially seeing as how there is only one Kinset and many stores like Amazon. Give a Grandma a fish and she shops for a day, teach a Grandma to use Amazon and she’ll shop until your inheritance is gone.

Sony has already suffered lackluster sales of both it’s consoles, which Sony takes a hefty loss on each one sold, and games, people opting to instead use their PS3 as a Blu-ray player. Meanwhile the Nintendo Wii can’t stay on store shelves and the Xbox 360 tightens it’s grip on the hardcore gamers as a cheaper solution with better games.

The PS3 launched 12 weeks after the Xbox 360 and since then developers have had almost a year to publish games for the console, yet the PS3’s library remains pathetic when compared to that of the Xbox 360. Hardcore Sony fans have hope for the first-party and exclusive games that have yet to launch, but this far into the game, the damage may have already been done.

To update:
Step 1. Open your current version of Installer.app
Step 2. Go to the update section at the top.
Step 3. Tap the Installer update and tap install.

Everything should update and you should have the fresh new version of Installer.app installed, you can tell by the revamped OSX-esque icon. Also be sure to update your Community Sources to ensure you have a current list of all the apps available for your device.

Read more at Read/WriteWeb

I, for one, welcome our Google overlords and celebrate their purchase of Europe.

Disclaimer: All claims that Google are going to purchase Europe are unfounded speculation, no in any way endorsed by Google, but wouldn’t it be cool?

Release notes

No word yet on how restrictive the SDK will be, but early speculation is that it could be prohibitively locked down in respects to EDGE bandwidth access and memory, again forcing users to jailbreak their device if they want apps that maximize their devices’ potential. I look forward to seeing how this plays out.

The Team is also working on a “revirginizing” app that will restore your iPhone to the default unbricked/unlocked state for future unlocking, no word on when this will be released.

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Hot on the heels of the Jailbreak for OSX, a similar, yet slightly more convoluted guide has surfaced for Windows. Requiring more manual work and technical knowledge beyond that of your every-day iPod touch user, many should wait for the eventual One-Click solution to be released. The Jailbreak uses Niacin’s TIFF exploit as well as iPhuc for Windows, but also requiring you to use Cygwin, pull RSA keys and harvest apps from the BSD base applications set.

I’m still weighing my confidence in my hacking ability before taking the plunge and subjecting my iPod touch to this hack, if I do go though with it, I’ll be sure to post a step by step guide with pictures on how I did it.

iPod touch v.1.1.1 Jailbreak for Windows

GDrive would provide you an online storage center for your data, using advanced fingerprinting technology ensuring that Google would only have to keep and serve one copy of a super popular video file instead of keeping a copy for each user. This would, in Google’s utopia, reduce your home computer to thin client, at least for data storage, while allowing them to index your data and serve you better, more relevant ads.

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