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Yes, its true, contarary to the concept that Apple boasts of about its products being “solid as rock“, its iPhone and iPod Touch aren’t rock-solid enough.

Recently, a hacker had publicized a TIFF vulnerability found in Apple iPhone which could easily compramise any iPhone, irrespective of its firmware version. But this Apple enthusiast cum hacker(HD Moore) is not much into those dirty tricks.

His rescent release of AppSnapp, a patch which allows an iPhone user to install unauthorized non-Apple products, has made people get second thoughts about Apple and their commitment for delivering a rock-solid architecture, be it the Mac or the iPod or iPhone.

As an additional feature, unlike the previous versions, you don’t need a Mac or a PC to install AppSnapp. This Apple lover(or ..) has made it compulsory to use the iPhone/iPod’s built-in Safari web browser to install this patch.

This patch doesn’t break any other functionality, nor does it unlocks the iPhone, rather it helps Apple in one way by fixing the TIFF image-rendering bug, which was responsible for allowing the installation of previous versions of AppSnapp.

Hmmm, seriously, if I was Steve Jobs, i would be thinking of employing this guy.

Credits: [pcworld]

A few weeks back we mentioned about google’s plan of launching the ghone. But as we expected the gphone might not be a cellphone rather it would be an operating system that would run on several different models of cell phones.

Note: This is a mock-up only and is NOT officially published by Google.

Google is already in talks with handset manufacturers about the idea of building phones tailored to Google software, with Taiwan’s HTC Corp. and South Korea’s LG Electronics Inc. mentioned in the industry as potential contenders.

The gPhones are expected to bundle various Google applications like search engine, Google Maps, YouTube and yes, ofcourse, The Gmail email, which recently made their way onto some mobile devices through their support over IMAP.

According to sources, Google is planing to make the phone’s software “open” right down to the operating system, which means that independent software developers would get access to the tools they need to build additional phone features.

Although Microsoft also provides great set of tools for mobile development, it does not discloses the hardware level granularity to developers and even questions the great advantage that Google would have with an open OS.

But before all this is launched, Google would need to tout the loose ends. It is in constant touch with wireless carriers for the WiFi feature, on which stands Google’s plan. It would even have to check on the security front. An open mobile-OS could pose a great risk to the consumer in gernal.

Credits : [wsj  and foxnews] 

Google has relesed support for IMAP for its Gmail account, which means that you can use your Outlook or Thunderbird or even your iPhone or Blackberry for checking your Gmails.

Google feels that using IMAP would be better over POP. This is what is posted at the google’s help centre :-

Unlike POP, IMAP offers two-way communication between your web Gmail and your email client(s). This means when you log in to Gmail using a web browser, actions you perform on email clients and mobile devices (ex: putting mail in a ‘work’ folder) will instantly and automatically appear in Gmail (ex: it will already have a ‘work’ label on that email).

In addition, IMAP provides a better method to access your mail from multiple devices. If you check your email at work, on your mobile phone, and again at home, IMAP ensures that new mail is accessible from any device at any given time.

Finally, IMAP offers a more stable experience overall. Whereas POP is prone to losing messages or downloading the same messages multiple times, IMAP avoids this through its two-way syncing capabilities between your mail clients and your web Gmail.

Now for those who wanna get started right now, you need to enable IMAP  in your Gmail account. Once enabled you need to configure your client(your device or software). A demo video is also posted on YouTube.