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Microsoft warns users about ChevronWP7 updater
Remember the unofficial Windows Phone 7 updater we covered earlier? Well, according to Microsoft, making use of the updater will render your phones unable to receive any official updates in the future. It hasn’t been confirmed if it’s just a way to scare users or it’s the truth, but it certainly is going to sway a lot of people away from updating their phones unofficially. However, for those of you who can’t wait for an update, chances are you won’t be able to wait for future updates anyway and will probably be getting them through unofficial means. Hopefully the ChevronWP7 team stays on top of it and releases updates on time. What do you think about the updater? Will you be using it to update your WP7 device?
The title says it all, and that was pretty quick. It was only yesterday when the iOS 5 was announced and the beta was made available to developers but yet wasting little to no time, hackers MuscleNerd and Co have managed to jailbreak iOS 5 on the iPod touch fourth generation. The exploit they used was the limera1n jailbreak which means that iOS 5 presented the hackers with little surprises when it came to closing the loop holes that would make the limera1n exploit work.
Naturally the iOS 5 is currently in beta which means there are probably still plenty of holes to be exploited and we can only assume that in the final release iOS 5 would-be hackers will have a harder time trying to jailbreak it. However this is good news for those on jailbroken devices who were worried that they might be in for a rather long wait when it comes to getting the jailbroken version if iOS 5 on their devices.
Anyone who has owned an iOS device knows that upon out of the box, the first thing they see is their device asking them to tether it to their computer in order to set up synch with iTunes. Not necessarily a bad thing but what if the person’s computer was not well equipped enough to run iTunes properly or what if they didn’t know what all these synching meant?
Tabbed browsing isn’t new. In fact there are browser apps already available for iOS that features tabbed browsing, but either way we are happy that Apple has decided to sit up and take notice of what users want in their browsers and finally implemented tabbed browsing in their native iOS browser app, Safari.