As some of you might be aware of, the new version of iTunes is 8.0.1 has been out for a couple of days (thanks rooster). You are also aware that the current firmware for iPods and iPhones is 2.1. To my frustration, both of this information means that there is no ability to hack/jailbreak right now. 

 

First off, Zibri (creator of ZiPhone) has not had any impact in the hacker community regarding jailbreaking. I check his site (www.ziphone.org) every day to check for updates. He states that he has a working version running smoothly for himself, but of coures it isn’ yet ready for the public. So yeah, kind of frustrating there.

 

Secondly, WinPwn (www.winpwn.com) hasn’t been updated since September 14th. I know that might not seem like a long time, but this new firmware has been out for a while and it needs to be jailbroken. Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate all of the work that cmw (the main programmer for WinPwn) has done. That is a lot of hard work, and it probably is extremely complicated stuff. But what can I say, I want, no, need to update my iPod.

 

For those of you who have their iPod jailbroken on 2.0.2 (like me), you know what I am talking about when I say that it is frustrating to have. The firmware is still buggy from its 2.0 status, and it crashes some apps and slows down at awkward moments. Plus, for me, it won’t even sync up to my computer. I have to import my songs using WinSCP and dTunes (a Cydia application). It pretty much sucks right now.

 

So there. You know my frustration. You hear my pleas. Zibri and cmw,  please save us from boredom and give me something to write about, instead of forcing me to just complain in a post.

OpenLieroX is based and compatible to the famous LieroX. LieroX is a 2D shooter game. It is an unofficial sequel to Liero, and is the most popular of all the Liero clones. It features online play, fully customizable weapons, levels and characters. Liero Xtreme was created in C++ by Jason 'JasonB' Boettcher, an Australian programmer.

The game is based on a deathmatch setting, where multiple players face off in a closed level. Each player is equipped with five weapons selected out of all the weapons allowed, and with a ninja rope that allows the player to move in any direction. Players begin with a set amount of lives, and whilst the game records the number of kills, the last man standing is usually considered the winner. LieroX also allows team deathmatches, which has made it common for players to form clans.

Because of the huge community, there are dozens of levels and mods available. You also have no problem to find somebody on Internet to play with. Or if you want to play offline, you also can play with bots.
WHAT'S NEWVersion 0.57b8:

• Chatbox has HTML and copy&paste support
• connect during game support
• fixed max upload bandwidth limit
• Menu_MessageBox can handle long messages correctly
• better synchronisation for shooting, that should also fix the self-shooting problem
• reconnects from a client are handled better
• general fixes of new features (since Beta6)
• removed media player

Japanese programmer and blogger id:amachang introduces [ja] Chart Maniax [ja], a service they developed for charting when and through which services web pages have been bookmarked. Services included are Hatena Bookmarks [ja], Livedoor Clip [ja], Delicious and Buzzurl [ja]. As an example, have a look at the chart for id:amachang's entry [ja].