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Owners of the brand spanking new HTC One M8 are one step closer to being able to get HTC’s nasty bloatware off of the powerhouse device. S-OFF has been achieved on the M8, allowing HTC’s security to be bypassed to allow for the installation of custom ROMs, bootloaders and kernels. S-OFF is available for every…
And the race to hack iOS continues; savvy hackers have already managed to jailbreak the iOS 7.1. Unfortunately though, this doesn’t mean you can do the same on your shiny iPhone 5S. The hacker known as @winocm did this on the iPhone 4, and has also posted a video as a proof. After the A4-based…
Smartphone cameras are the de-facto standard of photography these days, with plenty of apps and manufacturer software optimized to make those snaps look even cooler and more impressive than the originals. Apps such as Instagram and social networking sites like Google+ use preset camera settings and filters to make new pictures look old. While these…
Credo Mobile has made its business on offering up the phones people want with a social conscience. The San Francisco based company donates portions of its proceeds to progressive causes such as Planned Parenthood, the Rainforest Action Network, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation Credo now has Google’s latest, the Nexus 5 in both black and…
Popular social sharing app Snapchat has been hacked, and the account info for 4.6 million users has been released online. Usernames and a partial phone numbers were available for download on a website set up by the hackers. The phone numbers and account information was posted to SnapchatDB.info. The site was suspended by late Wednesday…
Fancy some KitKat on your LG G Pad 8.3? If you’re bold enough, then you’re in luck, as CyanogenMod 11 nightly builds are now available for the tablet! While there currently aren’t many custom ROMs available for the LG G Pad 8.3 at the moment, that will likely change in the future and these CyanogenMod…
Don’t want to wait for the official Android 4.4 KitKat update for your Nexus 4? Not a problem, as you can manually install the latest and greatest version of Android yourself, and we’re going to show you how! To achieve the sweetness that is Android 4.4, your Nexus 4 will need to be rooted. If…
iOS 7 just hit the public yesterday and it already has a major security flaw. Today an eagle-eyed user out there was able to discover a way to bypass the passcode-protected lockscreen and get access to the device’s photos app, which open the gate for entry into the phone’s email and social network accounts. The…
The fine folks over at XDA Developers have a treat for NVIDIA Shield owners. The crew has developed a method to unlock the bootloader and root the Shield, allowing users to take full advantage of the Shield’s amazing hardware. They’ve created an awesome and easy to understand video that will help brave Shield owners unlock…
Apple has seeded iOS 7 beta 4 to developers today. The release comes one week late because Apple’s Developer Center was hacked last week and all the systems were shut down for a few days while the company worked to restore them. This delayed the release of the new beta of iOS 7, which typically…