iSites overhauled, now lets you publish cloud-based HTML5 iPhone apps in minutes

iSites -- a zero-code cloud-based 'app creator' -- can now generate HTML5 apps that work on iOS devices. With this new feature, dubbed 'InstantApp', you can now design a single app in your browser and publish it natively on Android and iOS, and as an HTML5 iPhone app.

We haven't looked at iSites before, but it shot to fame last year when it launched with native iOS and Android support. Self-publishing Android apps wasn't a problem because Google does very little moderation of the Market, but iSites ran into trouble with its iOS apps. Thousands of people signed up for the service after it was featured on Mashable and TechCrunch, and you can imagine Apple's chagrin as thousands of cookie cutter apps flooded its approval queue.

Genwi, the developer behind iSites, realized something had to be done -- it had to circumvent the App Store approval process. Genwi, of course, turned to HTML5 Web apps -- which can be pinned to the iPhone home screen and which can be shoehorned into almost behaving like native apps.

Read on for our experiences with iSites' new InstantApp HTML5 iOS app creator.

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Engadget Podcast 275: CES 2012 Day 5 - 01.13.2012


We're almost there. Ride with us on this penultimate CES podcast wave, Engadget surfers, as the sun starts to dip down below the desert skyline.

Hosts: Tim Stevens, Brian Heater
Guests: Michael Gorman (@numeson), Jon Fingas (Electronista)
Producer: Trent Wolbe
Music: Where Is My Mind?

00:01:10 - Live from the Engadget CES Stage: an interview with Texas Instruments
00:04:20 - Sprint Samsung Galaxy Nexus with LTE hands-on (video)
00:10:20 - Behind the scenes with live ESPN 3D boxing at CES 2012
00:10:50 - Live from Dish Network's CES 2012 press conference
00:14:50 - BlackBerry Porsche Design P'9981 hands-on (video)
00:19:15 - Ainovo $79 Novo7 Paladin Ice Cream Sandwich tablet hands-on
00:23:35 - Engadget Distro
00:24:30 - Quad Core
00:27:35 - Acer Aspire S5 hands-on, revisited (now with video)
00:27:50 - Lenovo's IdeaPad U310 and U410 Ultrabooks start at an inexpensive $699, weigh a little more than the competition
00:29:50 - Spotify CEO shows off iPhone voice integration hack, love for Siri, Coldplay
00:37:45 - Mirasol based e-readers
00:38:30 - Qualcomm shows off new Hanvon Mirasol e-reader, juggles video and text
00:39:45 - Mirasol 5.7-inch eReader hands-on, courtesy of Kyobo and Shanda Bambook
00:40:55 - Hanvon C-18 Mirasol e-reader hands-on (video)
00:44:00 - SpareOne cellphone claims 15-year battery life, we go hands-on
00:54:10 - AT&T Nokia Lumia 900 Hands-on at CES 2012 (video)
00:54:45 - Nokia Lumia 900 official: 4.3-inch ClearBlack AMOLED, 4G LTE, exclusive to AT&T
00:57:10 - HTC Titan II with LTE for AT&T hands-on (video)
01:00:20 - OLED Panels
01:00:30 - LG's 55-inch 'world's largest' OLED HDTV eyes-on
01:02:50 - Pepcom
01:11:30 - Chaotic Moon shows Xbox Kinect / Windows 8-powered electric skateboard (video)
01:12:58 - Acer Iconia Tab A200 hands-on (video)
01:14:10 - Ceton previews multi-room DVR and Echo extender (hands-on)


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Whether you're at home or stuck in prison, dropping the soap in the shower is something you'll want to avoid altogether. So once again magnets have improved the human condition with this soap holder that ditches the rope. More »


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Google Turns Their Maps Into a 3D Maze Game To Promote Google+ [Video]

Social gaming was a big part of Facebook's success, so in a continued effort to get more people using Google+, the search giant has created a promo video for an upcoming game that turns their maps into a playable labyrinth. More »


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LAS VEGAS — Humidifiers are ugly. It’s true. If you don’t believe me just check out this Google Image Search. Ah. But no more. Japan’s D-Design has created a line of humidifiers I’d actually want in my living room or bedroom. Truth be told, I really, really wish I had one in my hotel room [...]

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Android Central staff's best of CES 2012 picks

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Another CES has come and gone, and like the past couple of years there was a common trend -- Android was everywhere.  Our fellas on the floor in Vegas had their work cut out for them, and did a heck of a job covering the best of it all.  While they wind down (and get ready for MWC in Barcelona next month) the rest of us wanted to take a minute and talk about our favorites from CES 2012.  Hit the break, see what we liked the most, and discuss.

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Wiping battery stats doesn't improve battery life, says Google engineer

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You there! Android hacker! Stop screwing around with your battery stats!

OK, if you're not part of the small subset of rooted users who likes to mess around with things they shouldn't, you can probably skip the rest of this story and read something more interesting below. But if you have fiddled with battery stats on your phone, or used any of the rooted "battery calibration" apps in the Android Market, which do the same thing, it's time to stop. Google engineer Diane Hackborn has taken to Google+ to dispel the myth that wiping battery stats can improve your battery life, or the efficiency with which your phone charges.

This file [batterystats.bin] is used to maintain, across reboots, low-level data about the kinds of operations the device and your apps are doing between battery changes. That is, it is solely used to compute the blame for battery usage shown in the "Battery Use" UI in settings. That is, it has deeply significant things like "app X held a wake lock for 2 minutes" and "the screen was on at 60% brightness for 10 minutes."

It has no impact on the current battery level shown to you. It has no impact on your battery life.

So there you have it. If you want better battery life, you're better off trying more basic techniques like keeping tabs on screen brightness or anything that might be running in the background. Or, y'know, buy a bigger battery...

More: +Diane Hackborn

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Security firm RSA attacked using Excel-Flash one-two sucker punch

RSA attacked using Flash vulnerability
It has emerged that the underlying cause of RSA's SecurID gaffe was the recently-reported zero-day vulnerability found in Adobe's Flash Player.

The exploit, which used specially-crafted Flash embedding in Excel spreadsheets, was first reported on March 15 and has since been fixed. RSA was hacked sometime in the first half of March when an employee was successfully spear phished and opened an infected spreadsheet. As soon as the spreadsheet was opened, an advanced persistent threat (APT) -- a backdoor Trojan -- called Poison Ivy was installed. From there, the attackers basically had free reign of RSA's internal network, which led to the eventual dissemination of data pertaining to RSA's two-factor authenticators.

The attack is reminiscent of the APTs used in the China vs. Google attacks from last year -- and indeed, Uri Rivner, the head of new technologies at RSA is quick to point out that that other big companies are being attacked, too: "The number of enterprises hit by APTs grows by the month; and the range of APT targets includes just about every industry. Unofficial tallies number dozens of mega corporations attacked [...] These companies deploy any imaginable combination of state-of-the-art perimeter and end-point security controls, and use all imaginable combinations of security operations and security controls. Yet still the determined attackers find their way in."

What we'd like to know, though, is whether the attack on RSA was caused by Adobe's lackadaisical approach to patching Flash -- or was it the other way around? Was it the RSA attack that first brought the zero-day vulnerability to Adobe's attention?

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Melting Ice Is Crushing and Drowning Baby Seals [Science]

Harp seals use sea ice as their chilly love nests, and after the lovin' leads to babies, parents nurse for just 12 days before the pups are on their own. But their ice dens have been melting beneath the baby seals, and when that happens, their chances of survival are slim. More »


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Engadget's gear of CES 2012

We see an enormous number of gadgets each year at CES, and while the veil comes off a handful of notebooks, cameras and smartphones during the show, the gear that really makes the week for Engadget is our own. In each editor's gear bag, you'd likely be able to find a notebook, camera with external microphone, an Android / iOS / Windows Phone device, an AT&T LTE USB modem and enough bottled beverages to make trips to the "posh restroom" as routine as checking email. Pizza, pasta, chips and beef jerky keep us going during 20-hour days in the trailer, where a stable (and pricey) Ethernet connection let us bring you dozens of posts each hour without interruption. Jump past the break for a look at our gear in a bit more detail.

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