Valve adds a Portal Space Core to Skyrim via mod, using Bethesda’s software

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Valve adds a Portal Space Core to Skyrim via mod, using Bethesda’s software

by Stefan Etienne on 08. Feb, 2012 6:45AM in FTW, Gaming, Mods

I love Valve. What game developer would go through the trouble of demonstrating how awesome another developer (in this case, Bethesda) is, by integrating one of their best characters into Skyrim — a core? It is to be the delightful Space Core (it yells, “SPAAAAAAAACE!”), but anyways the idea is that it’s dropped into Tamriel and now you can fly around in it yelling “spaaaaace”. That’s awesome, Valve.

More importantly however is the launch of the Creation Kit for Skyrim, allowing you to search for Skyrim mods, rate them, and upload your own, just like Valve has done. It’s all good with the The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

Via: Fall Of The Space Core, Vol 1. (Skyrim mod)

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HP Touchpad Running A Qualcomm Build Of Android 2.2.1 Breaks Out

by Stefan Etienne on 25. Aug, 2011 3:43PM in Android, HP, Mods, Tablets

So, this is rather expected, but exciting. Android 2.2.1 (not 2.3 or Honeycomb folks) has been placed on an HP Touchpad by some Qualcomms dudes, since the Touchpad makes use of a 1.2GHz dual-coreprocessor from that very company. A fully-working build of Froyo is seen running on the video seen after the break, and Qualcomm so far has denied all questions regarding why and how they got the Touchpad to get this running. However in the meantime, there’s a $2100 bounty (and growing) by the HacknMod team for whoever can pull of a perfect Android 2.2.1 port to the Touchpad first — multitouch, sound, camera, and WiFi. Good luck to those involved, and the video of the leaked Qualcomm build can be seen after the break. Via: Reddit

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iOS 5 Has Been Jailbroken — Wait, What?!

by Stefan Etienne on 07. Jun, 2011 10:43AM in Apple, Mods, WTF

It has only hit “Beta 1″ of its short life, but iOS 5 has been jailbroken by none other than the almighty Dev Team’s “MuscleNerd” on an iPod Touch. At the moment, the jailbreak is of the tethered variety, meaning that it must be connected to a computer to initialize the jailbreak, but that also means this version will never be released to the public. A full jailbreak is currently being worked on so it will launch in time for iOS 5′s release in the fall. Via: Twitter

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Honeycomb Has A Secret Gingerbread UI When Pixel Density Is Changed

by Stefan Etienne on 20. May, 2011 9:53AM in Android, Mods

Fun fact: By changing the PPI (pixel-density) to higher than 170 or so to emulate a smaller screen, you can find that an Android 3.x device will change the default UI to that of a stock (read: Vanilla) Gingerbread UI. It can be done via the LCDDensity for Root app as demonstrated in the video after the break, and if rolled back to 160 pixels-per-inch, reverts back to the default Honeycomb UI. Via: Pocketables

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Apparently, The HTC Thunderbolt Isn’t So Easy To Root

by Stefan Etienne on 19. Mar, 2011 8:57PM in Android, HTC, Mobile, Mods, Verizon

Aww, fudge.

The reign of hacker-friendly smartphones from HTC is drawing to an abrupt close. In Verizon’s flagship LTE device, the HTC Thunderbolt, the busy modders at AndIRC have sent countless hours trying to root the aforementioned device, only to find several security measures taken against such activities: a signed kernel, signed recovery image and a signed bootloader. Damn. Via: AndroidPolice, XDA-Devs

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Android Hacked To Run On Cr-48

by Stefan Etienne on 06. Jan, 2011 11:30PM in Android, Google, Laptops, Mods

This was (at the same time, wasn’t) expected — famous Chrome OS hacker Hexxeh just gave the Cr-48 his Android stamp of approval, by hacking in dev mode what seems to be Android 2.2. Unfortunately, there’s no information on how he actually did it, buy you can bet that we’ve tried contacting him to see how. In the meantime, keep on waiting for that CES news, folks! Via: ChromeOSSite

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Mac OS X Ported To Cr-48, Some Dude Started Off The Year Perfectly

by Stefan Etienne on 01. Jan, 2011 5:15PM in Did You Know?, FTW, Laptops, Mods

What do we have here on this slow news evening? A Cr-48 Chrome laptop running Mac OS X. That’s right, all hell breaks loose, and this is a true show of the awesome jailbreak mode that Google endorses that you use on a Cr-48. While there were some issues with the OS running on the Cr-48, it seems close to flawless when starting up and performing tasks. I’d give super props to YouTuber Damis648, but only until he releases his recipe to the masses, until then, it’s only “congrats”. Check out the video by clicking the more link. Y’know, finish reading this story. Via: Damis628 (on YouTube)

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Turns Out iOS 4.2 Is Almost Ready To Be Unlocked/Jailbroken/Whatever

by Stefan Etienne on 27. Nov, 2010 10:57AM in Apple, Apps, Mobile, Mods

Earlier morning on this post-Black Friday apocalypse Saturday, dev-team special ops member MuscleNerd mearly mentioned that now he can beat up your iPhone 3G/3GS running iOS 4.2.1. Actually, what ultrasn0w really said is that their unlocking tool is still in development for the older iPhones, as they use the older 05.15.04 baseband, and the iPhone 4 uses a completely different one. A release will be out soon, and iPhone 4 owners will have to wait a little longer. Via: Twitter and dev-team