Microsoft’s latest and greatest has been hacked to be controlled on Windows 7. Earlier last week a bounty of $2000 was offered for anyone who could hack and release open source drivers for the Kinect. In a video shared with Gizmodo, the Kinect is being controlled on Windows 7.

Adafruti Industries from New York had offered the reward and in an email to CNET, Torrone from Adafruit said, It’s amazing hardware that shouldn’t just be locked up for Xbox 360. Its radar camera’ being able to get video and distance as a sensor input from commodity hardware is huge.

Video of the Kinect being controlled from Windows 7:

via Venture Beat

WOW, here is the simplest of all jailbreaks ever released for the iPhone. @comex has created a website called jailbreakme.com which will allow you to jailbreak iPhone, iPhone 4 using a web browser including Safari.

All you jailbreak fans out there, here is the simplest and most easy jailbreak you will ever come across, a software jailbreak through a website which makes use of an exploit. Just visit http://jailbreakme.com through Safari or any other browser you use and just "slide to jailbreak" your device with one easy step.

This is by far the easiest jailbreak ever released for any Apple devices and supports iOS 4, iOS 4.0.1, iOS 3.1.3, iOS 3.1.2 and iPad 3.2.1. Definitely a great job by @comex and kudos to him for achieving this.

P.S. The website may appear down for many of you since it is under very heavy usage, you might want to try it again tomorrow if it appears down for you.

There have been several ways to watch and access Hulu videos outside US in the past, however, Hulu has been blocking those tools and most of them no longer work. However, now a Reddit user has come up with a way to watch Hulu videos outside US without having to use a proxy server or VPN.

However, accessing Hulu Videos outside US is not pretty straightforward and will require you to perform several tasks. You will also have to use the Firefox browser and install a Firefox add-on.

Access Hulu Videos Outside US for Free

Step 1: Download Firefox (if you don’t have it already) and install the Modify Headers add-on (download here)

Step 2: In Firefox, go to Tools -> Modify Headers and from the drop down box select add and enter “X-Forwarded-For” in the first input box and enter the IP address of any US website and click enter.

Step 3: You will need to block TCP and UDP port 1935 since Hulu Flash client tries to connect to that port. Once you have blocked that port it will fall back to Http. To block TCP and UDP ports on Windows, visit this page.

To UDP and TCP port on a Mac, type this in a terminal window:

sudo ipfw add 0 deny tcp from any to any 1935
sudo ipfw add 0 deny udp from any to any 1935

Linux users will have to do this through the iptables by running the following commands:

iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 1935 -j DROP
iptables -A INPUT -p udp --dport 1935 -j DROP

That’s it, this trick should allow you to watch Hulu videos outside the US at-least for a while till Hulu comes up with a fix for it. Using this trick might block Flash on other websites, so use it only when you want to watch Hulu videos.

(Reddit via Life Hacker)

Finally some good news for people who upgraded to iPhone OS 3.1.3 or have been pushing it back because there haven’t been any unlocks for baseband 05.11.07.

A new version of Blacksn0w has cropped up on the unofficial app store Cydia which will allow users to unlock iPhone OS 3.1.3 with baseband 05.11.07. The unlock which is a release candidate 2 can be accessed from the Cydia store on jailbroken iPhone’s.

Blacksn0w RC2 has not been released officially by GeoHotz who has been working on a untethered jailbreak for iPhone OS 3.1.2 and 3.1.3 which will be released in near future and may also work on the iPad. This version of Blacksn0w is basically a repackaged version of the original version and adds a few fixes to it.

You will have to jailbreak your iPhone using sn0wbreeze and then use the Cydia store to search for Blacksn0w and then install the unlock on your iPhone for this to work. 

[via Redmond Pie]

No one likes locked phones which restrict your activities to a certain carrier and do not allow you to install apps which are not in the available market place. And with the introduction of HTC HD2 by T-Mobile, which incidentally sold out in the first few hours, there might be several users who might be itching to unlock the phone and play around with it.

If you are looking to unlock the HTC HD2 you recently bought from T-Mobile, XDA Developers has released a HSPL2 which will allow you to flash the HTC HD2 and unlock it.

Once you unlock the device you can install apps or ROMs which are unofficially available. Instructions to download the HSPL2 and flash the HTC HD2 for T-Mobile is available on the XDA Developers site.

Please make sure to backup your device before you flash it. We take no responsibility if you brick your device, so continue with caution.

Important note: Using the HSPL2 on your device will void your warranty, so use it at your own risk.

George Hotz or GeoHotz as he is popularly known has managed to write a software based jailbreak for iPhone OS 3.1.3/3.1.2 which is untethered, aka you will not have to jailbreak your iPhone or iPod Touch if it restarts or the battery runs out.

The Untethered Jailbreak for iPhone OS 3.1.3 has not been released yet, however, GeoHotz has uploaded a video of the working jailbreak on YouTube (embedded below). Apple had made it pretty hard for iPhone jailbreak developers to create untethered jailbreaks and this news will definitely bring a lot of cheer to people who have been waiting for it.

GeoHotz is also the author of blackra1n a jailbreaking tool for iPhone and iPod touch. The new untethered jailbreak will be released as a new software, however, George has said that there is no fixed release date yet.

We will keep you in the loop on when a untethered jailbreak is released by George, in the meantime watch the video of the jailbreak in action below.

Android is one of the most powerful OS available today. We can even run debian applications on Android. To do so, ghostwalker at androidfanatic has made a custom Debian Shell for Android. The process is quite easy and it helps you to boot into a Debian shell which expands your reach to many new softwares. Just follow the steps below :

• You need to download a modded firmware update if you are using G1. Get it here.
• save the update.zip file on the SDcard
• Boot into recovery mode (home+power) then press alt+s to apply changes
• Download the installer for Debian Shell here.
• unzip the file and copy the folder debian to SDcard’s root.
• Go to /sdcard/debian through the terminal
• Type su
• Type chmod 4755 *
• run the installer by typing installer.sh
• Type bootdeb to mount and boot the debian system.

That’s it. This little mod is all it takes to run deb files on your Android.

Note: This mod does not in any way change your phone’s OS or harms it in any way.

A new Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM has been released for the HTC Touch Pro. The ROM includes HTC Sense 2.5, video call support, adobe reader, FM radio, WiFi Sharing and Windows Live among other features.

The unofficial Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM has been created by a XDA forum member and is named James72 ITA. The language of the HTC Sense 2.5 used in the ROM is Italian. The WinMo 6.5 ROM is only for HTC Touch Pro aka HTC T7272.

You can download the ROM for HTC Touch Pro from here. Please make sure to backup your device before you flash your ROM.

Now we are not sure if Sprint is going to release an Android 2.1 update for HTC Hero and Moment yet, even when we know that a Sprint Rep confirmed the March 26th release through a voice message.

If you are too anxious and can’t wait for the Android 2.1 update for your HTC Hero, a XDA forum member has release an Eclair 2.1 ROM for GSM based HTC Hero.

The Eclair 2.1 ROM brings lots of features which are part of the latest Android OS including Live wallpapers.

If you want to update your HTC Hero ROM, head over to this post on the XDA Forums and download the ROM. Make sure to follow the exact instructions to root your room and flash it. And yes, this goes without saying that you need to make backups before you do anything with your phone.

Please root your device at your own risk, we should not be held responsible if you manage to brick your device.

Changing the camera’s sound in N900 is quite easy. All system sounds are stored in usr/share/sound. Just follow the following simple steps to do so:

• Root your N900 if you have not already. Just download rootsh from application manager.
• Connect to N900 using any FTP client (like Filezilla or WinSCP) over WiFi.
• Go to usr/share/sound
• Replace camera_snd_title_1 by any new sound file (the format doesn’t matter). It’s the camera’s shutter sound
• Replace camera_snd_title_2. It’s the video recording sound
• Replace camera_snd_title_3. It’s the camera’s focus sound
• Disconnect and restart your phone

That’s it. This will change your phone’s camera sounds to the new sound files. If you want a silent camera, just rename or delete the files instead of adding new ones.