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View the source code of any app on the Windows Marketplace
News about Windows Phone 7 is heating up to be more exciting than I initially thought. According to a new story development, the source code of any app on the Windows Marketplace can be easily viewed by anybody. All you need to do is locate where to download the app by peeking at the XML code that Zune uses to get app info. Once you download the app package, you can easily unzip it and have access to all its components. Using a free tool such as .NET Reflector, you can look at the app’s source code. So if you’re an app developer looking to get some knowledge on how some of the best WP7 apps work, this news might just pike your interest. Be sure to do it soon though, Microsoft will definitely be patching up security in the near future.
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.