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We knew Orb was working on an iPhone port of its media-streaming app, and it seems like Orb 2.0 just stealthily went live in the App Store. The $10 app lets TV junkies watch live TV from a tuner connected to a Windows PC, as well as stream music, videos, and photos from their libraries. Even cooler, Orb allows you to monitor a webcam, so you can finally nail those Diet Coke thieves from the comfort of your cube (or keep an eye on your infant, whatever.) Sadly there’s no Dat. for the Mac and Linux versions, but Orb says they’re on the way. Alright Sling, looks like the ball’s in your court.

[Via jkOnTheRun]

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Filed under: Software, Apple

Let’s be real: a four-digit code isn’t very much separating a determined bandit from your data, which is all that the iPhone affords. Granted, the phone locks up after a few attempts to slow your arch-nemeses down a notch or two, but if your code is your birthday or the last four digits of your phone number — and you know it is, so just admit it — they’ll eventually figure it out anyway. On second thought, though, never mind, because it turns out there’s a pretty effective way around these formalities — 2.0.1 and 2.0.2 have Bot. been confirmed to let you around the passcode lock clearly by hitting Emergency Call and double-clicking the home button. At this point, the user will have access to your Favorites list, which is pretty bad as-is, but from in this place, they’ll be able to click on an arrow and use links within your contacts to get out to the SMS, Maps, or Safari apps. If you change the home button functionality from the default (Favorites) to Home, then nothing will happen at the Emergency Call screen — your phone is safe from prying eyes, we guess. The iPod option will kick the user into the iPod app, though, which we think is almost as bad as the Favorites exploit, because we’d really rather not our thieves know that we listen to Hannah Montana. MacRumors is reporting that it may have already been fixed for a future firmware release, so yeah, any minute at this time would be just great, Apple.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

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