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Cyanogen squeezes Android 2.2 Froyo into G1, MyTouch 3G

Earlier this evening, we took the plunge — now, we’re rocking Froyo on our old-and-busted T-Mobile G1. That’s because Cyanogen’s team of ROM hackers has come through once again for the little handset that could, serving early adopters with HTC Dream and Magic phones (as well as the Nexus One) with the first fully-functioning, stable build of CyanogenMod 6. Based on Google’s famous frozen yogurt , the release candidate’s got more fabulous tweaks than you can shake a stick at, but sadly doesn’t seem to include Flash 10.1 , and though WiFi and the camera are working great (as well as SurfaceFlinger and Chrome to Phone ) many would-be shoppers in the Android Market are finding themselves faced with the dreaded force close


Geohot teases iPhone 4 jailbreak, no plans for release

Is this the honest-to-goodness iPhone 4 jailbreak we’ve been waiting for, or just another userland JB ? It’s hard to say from here…


Android 2.2 ported to HTC Desire, working quite well

No patience to wait until Q3 for an official Froyo build? Fret not, dear Desire owners, as udK_dev has managed to push out a near-perfect Android 2.2 port that’s working spectacularly well so far. As you’d expect, HTC’s Sense overlay is indeed baked in, and while there are still a few quirks here and there, users seem to be generally pleased with how it’s going


iTunes fraud takes trip to travel section?

Here we go again , unfortunately . Both 9 to 5 Mac and Ars Technica are reporting a new spat of potentially-fraudulent apps climbed the iTunes charts today, now in the Travel section


Deluxe Reverse Geocache is reusable, really awesome

You’re familiar with geocaching , right? One person hides a “cache” somewhere in the world and hands out the coordinates; the first person to locate it via GPS wins.


How-to: Install Flash on your jailbroken iPad (for real)

We just saw Flash 10.1 ported to the iPad demonstrated in video form , and now you can get in on the action too, as long as your iPad is jailbroken. It’s called Frash, and while the plugin is still pretty early and doesn’t do video playback yet, you can definitely play games and other animations right now, and we’re told video support is forthcoming. Okay, so let’s try this out, shall we?