SemiRestore allows you to fix your device in a respring loop or in a unusable state, without losing your jailbreak. CoolStar has been working on a SSH version of SemiRestore as well as a OS X/Windows/Linux version on which you may connect your device up via USB to semi-restore.

This supports OS 5.0 to 6.1.2.  This is great for those who love to play around with various jailbreaks. If you get stuck in respring lock, which has happen to me, this will save your skin.

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Here is segment from the AppleInsider post…

“The biggest announcement, was the way repairs for iPhones will be handled soon,” the person, who asked not to be identified due to their active status as an Apple employee, told AppleInsider. “The way it is now, if almost anything is wrong with an iPhone, iPod, or iPad, the entire device is exchanged for a like-new re manufactured (sic) device, whether brought into an apple store or sent in for mail in repair. Now we are starting to actually repair the products and return the same device to the customer.

Now I present you with episode 1, McBain – you have the right to remain dead.

{edit}  The links does not work anymore.  Go to gawker, should work there.

http://gawker.com/5750211/the-full-mcbain-movie-hidden-throughout-simpsons-epsiodes

Here is cool little hack if you want other then piano sounds or there are certain notes that you want that are outside the keyboards range.  Change the sounds here.  The notes are saved as .mp3s in /Library/PianoPasscode.

Now if something goes wrong, do not panic. Try and see if it’ll boot into safe mode if you haven’t already. So, home + lock button hold down until screen goes down and apple logo comes back up, hold volume up botton as it’s loading to boot into safe mode.

Cation, if you chance the piano passcode from 1-7 and uninstall, THEN WRITE DOWN THE CODE YOU LAST USED. Even if you reinstalling piano passcode after removing, the past preference is saved. So you’ll have to remember the code you used last prior to uninstalling it. Worst case, go to /var/mobile/Library/Preferences and delete “com.jontelang.pianoprefs.plist”.  However, I’m sure this will be sorted soon if not already.

Another Cation, I have read that this does not work with intelliscreenX or BiteSMS quick compose/reply.  Someone suggested using the secure mode.

So, how to play it.  You know you only have 7 notes, so try to get something simple.  Also, this is your passcode, so scripting out a 15 key tunes is a little nuts.  I have a simple 5 note pass. (12-4-3-1)  Bonus points if someone knows this old 80′s 1 hit wonder song.

So here are a few tunes I say on Reddit. BTW, there are ONLY 7 notes.  No black keys, and not a full active.  Buy hey, Schroeder from Peanuts used to play Beethoven with painted on black keys.  If anyone else has a few cool tunes to share, please put them in comments, I’ll update the post.

Imperial March (333153153)

Zelda’s Lullaby (35212352)

song of healing from Majora’s Mask (76476476323)

Beetoven 5th (kinda) (66645553)

Batman (5544334455)

Mario Overworld (333135)

Epona’s Song (Zelda 64) (42142142121)

Bolero of Fire (Zelda 64) (42426464)

So the same with Google Glass.  Now that Jay Freeman (saurik) has published his jailbreak hack, the sky is the limit on what this new technology can do.  I would expect expanded voice control, Augmented Reality, card counting, quick reference when gaming, facial recognition with CRM display cards, etc..  Great right?  Well, not so fast.  One of the biggest complaint with GGlass is the lack of privacy.  I live in Mountain View so I have seen my fair share of GGlasses walking around. Every time I see someone waring one, I want to get out of the camera’s line of site.  I do not like the idea that I can be filmed at anytime. It feels like a violation of social convention.  With a hacked device, someone could be filming me as we chat or just standing nearby as I chat with others.  I’m not as private a person as some people, but I do have an aversion to being approached when I’m trying to relax and socialize with people I do not get time to see.  So knowing that someone walking around with a device that gives them an unfair advantage to know who I am, what I do and record every element of our interaction simply turns me off.  I can see being at an event and if someone comes up to me waring GGlass the first thing I will tell them is to please take them off.

I’m not the first to say this.  There are plenty of places the GGlass is already unwelcome for many of the reasons I listed.  Want to gamble?  Nope, take those things off.  I expect the list of places where the GGlass and similar devices are restricted will grow. Have a look at this video of Scoble via TNW on privacy. (see vid at the end of this post) One thing he said that I was already thinking was MAD.  Mutually Assured Destruction.  For those too young to remember the Cold War, this implies that if you use GGlass inappropriately, someone else waring GG or similar device will record you being a prat.  This argument makes no sense because that only matters if the person performing the infraction cares if you film them much less if you have the reach to make your reporting effective.  However, being called out in public just might.

Now that being said, I think GGlass used in the correct setting can be great! Just listen to Robert Scoble and you will get the cheerleader of cheerleaders. And I share his excitement to a certain extent.  As a musician, this will be one of the best things for the memory challenged since wireless mics.  I dream of playing a show and having not only my playlist, but lyrics accessible by just looking up to the right.  BTW, if someone at Google reads this and want to send me a test unit, I write the code for this.   I can see everyday use as well, I can have step by step as I’m working on my car, or cooking something new, I can be sitting outside and get a important messages (using really strong filters), reminders from my calendar or see who is calling me.  One of the reason I got the Pebble … Still waiting for it BTW.  Although I do not ride nearly as much as I used to, I can see this being an almost required item for bikers and motorcyclist, although like most things, it can be a distraction as well, so use with caution.

And this brings us full circle back to jailbreaking.  GGlass is intended to be a closed system. I can see a restriction that it will not work when driving, but a jailbreak hack can take care of that.  And full disclose, I would totally do that if I start riding again and would ware it driving as well. Since GGlass is in the upper right, it’s not in your full view and also its not always on, so I think its fully safe, but I KNOW people will not be responsible using GG and thus cause accidents.

Whatever controls or limits that Google will put into the GGlass, like indicators someone is recording you, or the 10 sec limit, a jailbreak will get around it.  And as Robert pointed out, this is not something that can be stopped.  The genie is out of the bottle and we will have to live with this new reality of people being able to record in secret.  But as with people tweeting everything they do, or checking cell phones while in social situations, society will monitor itself and enforce rules of engagement, but believe me, this is only the beginning, there is no turning back.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcRZeRyUq1k

Everything in this game costs you. To unlock a level is $99.99!   At one point in the review, they got 4 pops ups asking for money to restart a level.  Gezz..  And finally, when you finish a level, it tried to take you to some gambling site or something I do not even know.

I agree with these guys at the end of the review.  Where are the Apple police?  How did this even get past review?  Not only is this app scam, its also blatant copyright infringement.

And here is the Video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtHgTOjSyWE

Kudos marketing team, I can’t believe you did this ship.

What I really love about this new approach is that they threw away the typical convention of the joystick controller and instead embraced swiping which is more common and natural with a slate display.  Also, position navigation now using point and go which we have already seen on some desktop games.  As with these games when you click on a spot in the environment, your POV goes to that position.  If there is something in the way, it goes around it.  The biggest change for me dropping the concept that when you shoot, your target must be in the middle of your view frame.  Instead, you press two fingers to the place you want your bullets to go.  The further away the target is, the harder this shot will be.  You can also strafe by two touching one position to another.

All these changes may seem like you are being asked to relearn how to use a FPS, and in a way you are.  But you are not holding a controller or using a mouse, so asking a player to try to use a virtual joystick is worse then trying to learn a new system.  Also, as you can see in the video, it does not look all that hard.  I would bet that with a few hours of practice, one would be able to master this quite quickly.

When I first watched this was ready to jump up and get my iPad … till I found out its not ready yet.  GRRRRR>>>   Hurry up then!

BTW, check out this really well done interview of Ben Cousins by Dean Takahashi on GamesBeat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAKdyxIB1cE

The new inMotion iOS app, designed and developed by Qubop, combines the power of MICROS retail data services with a highly customized mobile interface. The app provides restaurant operators with real-time stats and feedback about their business from their iPhone or iPad. Our design goal for inMotion was to bring consumer-level polish to enterprise IT, and we chose a highly stylized, visual metaphor because this is not an accounting tool — it’s a high-level view of trends and events as the day progresses, updated every few minutes. Significant anomalies, such as excessive meal discounts, lengthy kitchen prep times, or unusual labor costs, are surfaced as visible spikes or alerts via push notification.

For us, the main challenge of this project was to distill the firehose of real-time restaurant information into simple data visualizations, highlighting only the most important factors for immediate use. The design of inMotion is a deliberate break from standard enterprise UI, employing a contemporary restaurant color palette and a highly animated, gesture-based interface. Our goal was to position MICROS as a forward-leaning company, staking out new territory in mobile and hopefully changing the way that restaurants are managed.

We designed and built the app over a 4-month period, beginning with a two-week design process at MICROS headquarters, where we worked with the company’s technology, product, and sales departments to narrow the core feature set and produce detailed wireframes and mockups. Our iOS team then built out the app, including the custom graphing modules, driven by JSON APIs that we specified.

The app can be used by managers of single or multiple restaurant locations, whether they are on the property or managing remotely. Launching today in the App Store, the app is now available in the app store. MICROS has customers like TGI Friday’s, KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, Great America and Aramark. We’re happy with how this project turned out, and it has already been deemed a success by test customers and MICROS management, who describe it as “second to none in design and usability”.