The Apple Daily - Daily Apple News, iPhone News, Jailbreak Tutorials, Cydia Apps, Mac News. - Part 20


Nov 1 2011

New Mac OS X Trojan Steals Processing Power, Causes Slowdowns

A newly found Mac OS X Trojan bundles a component that steals processing power of video cards to generate Bitcoins, a popular type of virtual currency. A single virtual Bitcoin can be sold for as much as 4$ in the real world!

The new Trojan was dubbed DevilRobber by antivirus vendors and is being distributed together with several software applications via BitTorrent sites.

According to Mac antivirus vendor Intego “This malware is complex, and performs many operations.” Also said that “It is a combination of several types of malware: It is a Trojan horse, since it is hidden inside other applications; it is a backdoor, as it opens ports and can accept commands from command and control servers; it is a stealer, as it steals data and Bitcoin virtual money; and it is a spyware, as it sends personal data to remote servers.”

The Bitcoin mining program installed on infected computers is called DiabloMiner, is a legitimate Java-based application used for virtual currency’s production.

Bitcoin is a form of virtual cash that can be exchanged by users without the need for an intermediary bank or payment service.

The DevilRobber trojan steals processing power, which can lead to slow computer performance, as well as actual Bitcoins, which are kept in virtual wallets on the victim’s machine.

By Prathmesh • OS X • 0



Nov 1 2011

iClip Revived, Now Available On Mac App Store

Finally, someone has taken the initiative in bringing the iClip App back from the dead. A developer named Steven Audette of Irridated Software acquired iClip from its original developers and has released version 5.0 nearly five years from now, when the software had its last major upgrade, and it now officially supports Snow Leopard and Lion.

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By Snehal • Downloads • 0 • Tags: , , ,

Nov 1 2011

[How to] Improve Battery Life Of Your iPhone 4S

A couple of days back we broke the news to you about a certain battery problem for an iPhone 4S user. The problem appears to be affecting some iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS users as well, indicating a likely software bug rather than a hardware defect.People at iDownloadBlog seemed to have worked out a solution that may not work for everybody, even though some folks are reporting seeing an improved battery performance.

It appears that the ‘Setting Time Zone’ function in iOS 5 can lead to excess power drain because the device is repeatedly polling the user’s location in order to set the time zone based on their current location (which is useful when traveling).

1. To disable this functionality, launch the Settings app.

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By Snehal • iPhone 4S, Tips n' Tricks • 0 • Tags:

Oct 31 2011

[How to] Clear and Free Up Inactive Memory/RAM in Mac OS X

I absolutely love Mac OS X! And there’s just this 1 thing I really hate about OS X which is the way it manages memory.

Mac OS X has this concept called Inactive Memory wherein the OS stores all frequently used applications on RAM for faster access and less Disk I/O’s. I’ve read numerious articles explaining how this is actually a good feature but I’m not sold on that.

This “Inactive Memory” is supposed to get freed up when you are low on “Free Memory”; however that almost never seems to happen for me and a lot of users out there. The Inactive Memory never seems to get free even when “Free Memory” is around 10Mb and other apps are in dire need of memory!

Take this example, I’ve 8 Gb RAM on my Core i5 iMac. And I use Parallels quite often to run Windows 7 side by side. I’m almost always left with just about 20-30Mb of Free RAM. After that I open up a couple of high resource apps like iPhoto or Photoshop and the Free Memory never increases, causing the apps to take as long as a minute each to load!

Solution:

There’s an easy solution to this. Simply follow the 2 Steps below:

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By Tanmay • Featured, Lion, OS X, Tips n' Tricks, Tutorials • 5

Oct 31 2011

Mac OS X 10.8 Testing Is Already Underway

Its early days, still news  is that, Apple has already begun work on their next version of Mac OS X named 10.8. Apple had only just released the final version of OS X 10.7 (Lion) to customers in July. OS X Lion had following features:

  • An iOS-like application launch screen known as Launchpad, Full-screen apps
  •  A new combined interface for Dashboard, Expose, and Spaces known as Mission Control
  • Enhanced Multi-Touch gestures, and improvements to a number of core applications such as Mail.

OS X Lion was the first version of Mac OS X to be distributed through the Mac App Store and it included a number of new features for the Mac.While Apple has yet to announce plans for the next major version of OS X, evidence of 10.8 first began appearing in web logs of MacRumors in August, and have since accelerated. This graph shows an increasing number of web visits from Mac OS X 10.8 users over the past several months.

Also a thing to observe is that, the first appearance of 10.7 was nearly a year before the first developer preview, and nearly 20 months before the public release.

So far, its been a mystery as to what we will get from Mac OS X 10.8. Traditionally, Apple has released its OS X’s every alternate year like, Mac OS X 10.3 in 2003, 10.4 in 2005, 10.5 in 2007, 10.6 in 2009, and 10.7 in 2011. Going by this we can expect a 2013 public release for Mac OS X 10.8.

 

By Snehal • OS X • 0

Oct 31 2011

[Rumor] Apple Testing Ultrathin 15″ MacBooks

Last week we saw the refresh of Mac Book Pro series with the devices getting a faster processor and harddrive upgrades with GPU improvements. This time around a rumor is floating around the Ultrathin MacBooks making their way into the MacBook Family, filled with MacBook Pros and the MacBook Air.

We have been seeing a lot of UltraBooks these days from various PC manufacturers like Acer, HP and other biggies. According to Appleinsider Apple is testing a 15″ Ultrathin MacBook which will be an extension to the existing MacBook Air Family of Notebooks from Apple and Apple is believed to be developing a new Mac Book Pro Lineup for the next year which will not feature an Optical Drive. All the current MacBookPro’s consists of an Optical Drives while the MacBook Air’s only feature a Solid State Drive without an Optical Drive.

Apple’s next version of  MacBooks are expected to feature Intel’s next-generation Ivy Bridge processors, slated to be released at some point in the first half of 2012.

By Sagar • MacBook, OS X, Rumors • 0 • Tags: , , ,

Oct 30 2011

SOS iPhone Backup – Another Cloud Backup Service

With the advent of iCloud, a ton of existing Cloud based services are trying out innovative ways to stand out apart and stay in the competition.

SOS iPhone Backup is a cloud service which is used to store documents & backing up photos & contacts on your iPhone. Also user can use their account to backup computer and Facebook account.

SOS iPhone backup comes with free 5 GB accounts and also available with 50 GB and 100 GB plans.

SOS iPhone backup is ultimate solution which gives personal protection for backup your iPhone and protect all users contacts plus photos in SOS cloud.
Backup your Mac or PC with SOS, and access your files anywhere using the SOS iPhone Backup app.

SOS iPhone Backup is available on the iPhone for free and you can sign-up for the service either in the app or on SOS Online Backup’s website.

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By Prathmesh • iOS • 0 • Tags:

Oct 30 2011

FastTweet+ Cydia App Enables Fast Tweeting on iPhone

So far we are using Twitter app on iPhone, for that we need to tap on Twitter app then activate tweet-input box, face unnecessary information and finally send. Now a new Twitter based app makes your process even simpler.

New app called FastTweet+ which is developed by Devin Snipes allows you to send tweets. The special thing about this app is this app makes the process simpler than previous one. There is no timeline nor support for DMs, the aim is to send out tweets quickly and efficiently. You have to just activate your app and send tweets.

From Cydia: “Requires iOS 5 or higher. This app WILL ONLY work on iOS 5 capable devices. FastTweet+ allows you to send tweets to Twitter. It’s that simple and it’s this free.”

It is tested and confirmed that on iPhone 4 it works as advertised. But this only supported by iOS 5 since it has built in Tweeter API.

By Prathmesh • Cydia Apps, iOS, iOS5 • 0 • Tags:

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