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Satarii Star crowdfunded iPhone accessory tracks you
If you’re used to filming yourself with non-professional gear, you’ll probably know that it’s a pain to have the camera track you as you move about the office. Now the folks at Satarii might have a cheap solution to your problem – the Satarii Star. The Satarii Star is a dock for your device that allows you to place a tiny 1” x 2” marker on yourself and have it track you as you move about your room, ensuring that you won’t have to worry about moving out of the frame.
The company is currently depending on crowdfunding in order to turn this device into a reality and it already has a working prototype and a prototype of what the final product will look like. While a tracking system is nothing new, Satarii is looking to sell this dock for around $200, which hopefully is cheap enough to ensure that it won’t break the bank.
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.