Studio execs have an odd conundrum: Box-office receipts have steadily grown but the number of ticket sales have not. Thanks to the proliferation of home theaters, movies-on-demand and portable video players, moviegoers have fewer reasons to actually “go” to a movie. The studios’ solution?

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Well after reading articles and dugg stories of the iPhone Pwnage Tool first being in existance, then being delayed from released, then being completely closed-out and shutdown and sold to a private company to finally being released on April 3rd, 2008. I was in complete awe and amazement. So I did what everyone who is an early adaptor and downloaded the tool, loaded it up on my MacBook Pro as quickly as I could. I ran into one issue which caused me a little delay (my home Mac was the primary sync point for my iPhone). If I were to use the tool on the iPhone from my MBP it’d erase my music/videos and this would cause me to listen to nothing on my way back home.

This is where AFPd came in handy, I created a private WiFi network, connected to the iPhone and copied over all of my music to this iTunes Library into a new playlist (which will now sync to the iPhone). Once that was done I “erase and sync”ed the iTunes with the iPhone. Now I was ready to Pwn my iPhone. I was then missing the ipsw files required by the Pwnage tool, which I was easily able to download thanks to ‘iphone.unlock.no’.

I then put my phone into recovery-mode and was able to use the iPwner tool to flash the rom (using the downloaded 1.1.4 ipsw)

Then I created a new custom 1.1.4 ipsw using the Pwnage tool & the original 1.1.4 ipsw.

Once the iPhone was pwned, I restored it using the new custom ipsw that I just created using iTunes (option + restore button, select file)

Oh my!! I just upgraded my WordPress to version 2.5. It is beautiful! and its got this new awesome cool thing going for it… more like for me. After I copied over all of the plug-ins that I had on my older wp 2.3.1, I went to check the plug-ins section and it showed me all of the plug-ins and they were showing up properly.

Then the new thing that I noticed was that there were some plug-ins that were old and their new-counterparts are available to download, there is a link to either go to the download-page and manually do the stuff, OR I can simply click on the “update automatically link” and wordpress fetches the download file and updates the plugin! all under 5 seconds, where as the manual method would atleast take 2-5 minutes!

This is definitely an amazing feature!

Well I guess I had to learn this the hard way, but Digg.com has an excellent built-in Anti-Spam technology which stops you from posting Comments to Digg Articles between 2-minutes time. I like it!

Not to mention it was designed with Star Wars in mind and apparently the Anti-Spam technology is using Yoda’s Intelligence Module, with the exception of subjects and objects showing up in the proper order.

If you’re a photobuff like me (not that it shows) and like to take photos of yourself or a group or just want a portable enough tripod, well this tool here, which is a cross between a tripod and a hoverboard the Monsterpod would be the result.

It easily screws onto your point-and-shoot camera and sticks to anything! It’s simply amazing.

Specs:

• Holds any camera up to 20oz (560 grams).
• Sticks to over 1,000 surfaces and objects, even upside down and peels right off.
• Tilts and rotates to any angle with pivoting tripod mount.
• Molds to hold almost any surface or object.
• Waterproof and dirt resistant.
• Fits in your pocket.
• Works over and over. Simply wash it with water when it gets dirty.

Get your own here!

Yes we’ve all noticed multiple digg submitted articles, one from each site that would like to talk about the same topic, and they also make it to the digg frontpage. How about Digg merges all of the similar submitted links into one comment page. It would list the multiple stories on the same page with their different digg-submission times along with who submitted it and the ability to share or favorite or bury either or article. I know it seems kinda dumb, but this would mean we’ll be able to see more legit diverse stories of the front-page.

Here is a screen shot that I compiled using an existing story which is found on two separate websites.

Finally a laptop with the wireless-usb built-in, this is something that would be useful on you know what? The MacBook Air. Wireless usb totally makes sense, hopefully we’ll see these on future MacBooks and Macs in general. It’ll definitely make it easier to make them more portable! Leave the printers, scanners, and other wired devices to the wireless-usb hub which is then connected to the MacBook, MacBook Air, and the MacBook Pro wirelessly. I mean no need to carry around extra hubs/wires etc.

We’re a bit bummed that wireless USB-equipped laptops are merely trickling in versus pouring, but we reckon we’ll take what we can get. Next on the docket is the LaVie J series from NEC…

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This is a pretty indepth article on the possibilities that are possible from what all is happening right now. And what might be something that would boost sales of iPhone and iPod Touch.

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“a lawsuit filed today by the University of Wisconsin claims that the processor infringes on patented technology developed by one of its professors.” This is absolutely absured!! why? Because University of Wisconsin took almost over a year and a half to come to this conclusion; Intel released Core 2 June of 2006; that it was their patent that Intel supposedly infringed. Although the technology was already present in their Intel Pentium III processors and the R&D on this chip was conducted in Isreal. What does that say? Knowingly University of Wisconsin put out this news to further affect the stock price of Intel (trying to short huh?) and in this time of recessionary period wanting some extra cash in leu of lawsuit, yeah ok good idea there.

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