For a hint click to read more of the post…

http://www.libimobiledevice.org/

At least they keep auctions where people advertise their PSP having “the super duper” M33 firmware installed…

Bah! Well, what’s left for me is a shameless plug to the new auction…

Update 28/05/09: Unbelievable, the new auction which I carefully checked to not contain any freaking reference to anything copyright violating has also been removed… Also no clue why as I only received the typical standard “don’t sell illegal copies/backups” E-Mail. Contacted eBay support, let’s see…

It appears though that I am not alone. There are a couple of people having trouble selling their PSP on eBay. However in contrast to my case where I list the original unmodified 1.50 firmware, they had used rather problematic “wording” like “Pandora Battery” or “Custom Firmware/M33″ and alike.

Reply and solution 28/05/09: Great, I have received a polite and exact explaination from the eBay security team. The problem for eBay really was the installed 1.50 firmware on my PSP which is considered “open/hackable to circumvent technical protections” (like copy protection). They recommend installing the latest PSP firmware before selling first.

Current releases of libgpod which is able to handle managing of the iTunes database (this is where your Music/Photo data is stored) on an iPhone or iPod Touch are only able work with the database for firmwares 1.1.4 and below.

This involved recreating a specific hashing algorithm used by iTunes which had been widely in the news.

With iTunes 8 and Apple’s 2.0 firmware, a new hashing algorithm was introduced which made music/photo synchronization with 2.0+ devices not working at all.

The folks have now uncovered that Apple has apparently started to use their FairPlay-DRM to encrypt the iTunes database.

Recently, there has been progress in understanding how the hashing process for 2.0+ firmware looks like and while there is some more work to do the peak research seems to have been passed quoting someone from the private list:

ok it workes with the later address.
and guess what, it worked !!

tmpkey : *****

itunes :      1BEB2BE8EA1D08D1CAFBD89C5CBE50E0
itdb_hash : 1beb2be8ea1d08d1cafbd89c5cbe50e0

good work !

What you see is a prototype implementation (itdb_hash) having generated the same hash iTunes generated for a specific iTunes database.

The day to plug in the iPhone, let HAL recognize it and use Conduit to synchronize Music/Photos, Calendar, Notes, Addressbook or to use GtkPod or other managers for your Music is constantly rising upon us.

Note that you should understand that all this work will make up for software being iTunes independant without the need to jailbreak at all (on all platforms libiphone compiles).

A word about the man with 500 commits on a single day. I pray that our gnome-terminal loving fellows will worship chpe.

George Farris announced a beta of GFax 0.7.7 which includes a couple of my patches and supports faxing from any application using cups.

Cool, someone analyzed Terrorist tapes for a hidden message code…

I am almost done with my work project and should have some time to spare for everything else pretty soon.

Last insider for the day:

What does the GNOME control center gstreamer-properties icon tell his other icon friends? “You are so Tango and they just don’t let me!”

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s5EvhHy7eQ[/youtube]

Really nice! I can imagine that you could even project from below a surface instead, effectively getting rid of the “shadows”.

Additionally Petter Hutterer, the man behind the Multi-Pointer X Server project, has recently released an initial version of a Wiimote X input driver (patches are welcome). It will allow you to use the Wiimote as a full blown X input device and controlling your mouse. Might be cool to apply Johnny’s whiteboard idea here.

Looks like I have to go hunting for some nice projector and loads of free time soon…

Update: Oh heck, how could I  forget “lasertraq” a cool solution for Linux which works with a regular webcam/camera instead of the Wiimote but basically allows you to do the same stuff. Heck it even uses the superdupe GStreamer framework!