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Scrabulous to go or not to go, that is the question.

Yet more Facebook news,

Yesterday alone there was a whopping 569,206 users on the application. That ranks it the ninth most popular application yesterday. I am willing to bet that the Scrabulous revolt will go far beyong the Beacon revolt that started in the blogosphere. I have to wonder why it took so long for Hasbro to take any action. The application has been accused of violating copywright law for months but now the developers have officially received a letter from Hasbro.

Hasbro is trying to shut down Scrabulous

Fortune reports 

Clean up your Profile you!

Facebook’s developer blog posted that they will be making a clean up app for your profile in addition to the show more apps buttons.

From the Blog post:

To benefit all users, therefore, we will soon be launching a “profile clean-up” tool. Similar to how your computer’s desktop will remind you to get rid of unused icons, this tool will give users the option to move extra profile boxes to an “extended portion” of their profile. Users can choose to move these boxes; we will recommend that they keep the Friends Box, Mini-Feed, Wall, Basic and Personal Information as well as the top 12 application boxes they have added. At the bottom of the profile will then be a link to “Show Extended Profile”. Any user will be able to expand the profile at any point in time to see all the applications a user has added to their profile.

iGoogle for iPhone

Yeah here it is and we all knew it would come:

iGoogle iPhone 

Go! Yahoo Go!

 

Yahoo! Go

The new Yahoo Go 3.0 is a free downloadable application compatible with about 30 different handsets so far. (The company says that dozens more are on the way.) A “start page” allows Yahoo users to access a number of the company’s applications, like Yahoo Mail and Flickr, as well as the requisite news-and-weather mobile features.

Macenstein claims GearLive firmware 1.1.3 fake.

[Macenstein]

Here are a few things I agree on:

1. Everyone knows Apple’s legal department doesn’t sleep, much less have families or take vacations. Just because Gear Live’s very convincing video of the iPhone’s 1.1.3 firmware happened to come out on a week many big-wigs take off doesn’t mean Apple would let something that major slide.
2. Steve would have loved to have showcased the latest features on stage in front of row upon row of the Mac faithful.
3. But Apple does indeed have a history of going after legitimate leaked images and video of important upcoming products and software. Take this year’s leaked pics of the new nano from 9to5Mac or the videos of the new iPod and iPod nano’s interfaces on MacRumors. Both sites were contacted by Apple legal and “asked” to take the offending pics/videos down immediately within hours.
4. (although the “crash” seemed a little staged to me, kind of like they were trying to show they had authentic beta software)
5. Additionally, I can’t imagine how they would have gotten access to the firmware, as it isn’t the type of thing Apple needs to seed to non-Apple employees to beta test, and any Apple employee privy to the build likely has a pretty sweet job not worth risking.

Go check it out at Macenstein.

iPhone Auto-Correct Capitalizes ‘Linux’ not ‘microsoft’

I found this

LOL, Microsoft you better look at this

Nate true confirms iPhone firmware 1.1.3

From GIZMODO

Nate puts it: “if it is a hoax, they did a buttload of work.” The fact is that it installs normally and it works perfectly. For those not familiar, Natetrue is one of the most respected and veteran iPhone hackers and the author of the popular app iBrickr.

Nate goes on to say that “it installs on the phone no-questions-asked and for that you need to have Apple’s private key, which i can confirm that the iphone hacker community does not have—as much as we would love to have it.” Indeed, Apple’s private encrypted key, used to authenticate all accesses to the iPhone most-private guts, hasn’t been uncovered yet by anyone in the world.

In other words, no firmware upgrades can be installed without the knowledge of this key. Furthermore, the idea that someone would have access to this key and spend months to create a fully functional firmware update, with key new features and without any documentation whatsoever seems just absolutely silly.

Effects on unlocks and Third-party applications
The update breaks AnySim’s unlocks. Logically, you can’t unlock this update using AnySim and there’s no alternative to iTunes for activation. If you want to activate, it will only work using iTunes and a standard AT&T account. Nate says, “that is the only way we have been able to activate so far.” Nate tried to upgrade an AnySim 1.2u iPhone and it failed. Even while he was able to force it to boot, the phone refused to activate even with a normal AT&T SIM card. “I suspect it’s due to the fact that the baseband could not be upgraded to the 1.1.3 ‘required’ version”, he says.

Other updates remain untested, like iPhone Sim Free or any of the hardware-based ones, like TurboSIM. In theory, these should work just fine, but jailbreak and activation would be absolutely impossible for the time being. We would have to wait until the update gets released in the open to try new alternative activation methods.

Your favorite third-party apps will be gone too, with no possibility of return for now. The update fixes the bugs which allowed “the jailbreak method we were using for 1.1.2, locking us out again, as expected.”

Other effects
Like previous firmware upgrades, whatever is in the user partition remains unchanged. Only the Apple-owned part is affected by 1.1.3. So for those of you who claim that this is a fake because it says “Nate” in the network instead of “AT&T,” that’s the reason. He changed the network name in 1.1.2 using a program by Erica Sadun, of TUAW, called Make It Mine.

New features and future releases
The list of new features are confirmed too: all are correct, but he couldn’t confirm if they are the only ones or not.

Many of you would be wondering how this could have happened, knowing the extremely tight security around the iPhone firmware updates. We don’t know, but apparently the leak has occurred because “someone wanted to help the unlock effort.” The source of the leak is completely anonymous, even to the people who have had access to the upgrade.

Why the update hasn’t hit Torrent yet? The code could be watermarked to catch any leaks “so for now it’s screenshots and videos.” Also, distributing it won’t make much sense at this point: according to Nate the iPhone 1.1.3 Firmware update could hit as soon as next week.

iPhone app: Facebook

Facebook for iPhone can be found here

Today we take a look at the iPhone version of Facebook.

A very limited version which allows you to do the many simple tasks of Facebook.

• Read, Reply and compose messages
• Check out the events
• Check out the feed (3rd party apps will not be shown)
• Search for friends
• Update your status
• Check out your profile
• Write on walls
• See which friends are online
• See friends photos

The Application does not support 3rd party apps and to interact with them you need to use the regular site