Mailinator - Your Temporary Email Solution

Have ever been asked for an email when trying to download something?
Have ever been required to sign up for something?

I did. And I hate to give out my email address to those unknown websites. Where you'll eventually ended up receiving tons of spam emails everyday!

Now with Mailinator, problem is solved!

Jailbreak/Unlock/iOS information

Repost from: Dev-Team Blog  by dhlizard

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Miscellaneous

1) There is no jailbreak (yet) for A5 processor devices (iPad2 & iPhone 4S). It is being worked on. It will be released when it is complete, and tested.

2) There is no untethered jailbreak for iOS5 yet (except for old bootrom 3GS which will always be untethered when Redsn0w is used)

3) Ultrasn0w is not (yet) compatible with 5.0.1

Network bug in iOS5?

After few weeks updated to iOS5.0, some weird things start to happen on my iPhone. The cellular network became unstable, and once the network is lost, it became forever No Service. Open Settings app and perform manual search for carrier, it will search forever and never get any result. The only solution to this is to restart the device. 

WhatsApp for iOS free now

WhatsApp Messenger is a cross-platform smartphone messenger currently available for iPhone, Android, BlackBerry and Nokia phones. The application utilizes push notifications to instantly get messages from friends, colleagues and family. Switch from SMS to exchange messages, pictures, audio notes and video messages with WhatsApp users at no cost. All features are included without the need for extra in-application purchases.

iOS 5.0 released

The long awaited iOS 5.0 had finally been officially released.
Update your iTunes to latest version (10.5), connect your iDevice, hit Help > Check for Updates and you're good to go!

In case the download in iTunes is not stable, you may use below direct download links. All links are directly from Apple download server.

Goodbye, Steve

Rest in peace.

Remove delay in LAN games under Windows 7

I find it weird when last time playing Warcraft III LAN game with my housemate, we both feel a bit of delay on the client side (joining one). After doing some search on web, we found that by modifying a bit of registry, the strange delay was removed. This only happens under Windows 7.

1. Open up Registry Editor, navigate to HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces\
2. Look for a subkey name similar to this: {E3CF3EE3-AE61-4A50-8121-2A6CF502EF0F}
3. Inside the subkey, there is a value DhcpIPAddress, check if it is the IP Address given by your router. If so, add 2 new DWORD (32-bit) keys with value as follows:
     TcpAskFrequency    1
     TCPNoDelay    1
4. Restart your PC.

Set up Hotmail on iPhone

Here are the steps to setup Hotmail to sync and push to your iPhone (this works on the iPad too):

1. Launch Settings
2. Tap on “Mail, Contacts, Calendars”
3. Tap onto “Add Account”
4. Select “Microsoft Exchange”
5. Enter your full Hotmail email address into both the Email and Username fields
6. Leave Domain blank
7. Enter your password
8. Enter your prefer Description
9. Tap onto “Next”
10. Now you must enter the server, use “m.hotmail.com” for the Server name then tap onto “Next”
11. The iPhone will now verify that your Hotmail information is entered correctly, the next screen you’ll be able to enable Mail, Contacts, and Calendars

Source: http://osxdaily.com/2010/08/30/use-hotmail-on-the-iphone/

Cydia error: running sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)

In certain cases when you installing apps on Cydia you might get following error:

Error: running sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)

This error message appears to be related to some file corruption in your Cydia.
To fix it, follow these steps:

1. Navigate to /var/lib/dpkg/ directory.
2. Rename "available" to "available-bak".
3. Rename "status" to "status-bak".
4. Rename "available-old" to "available".
5. Rename "status-old" to "status".
6. Start Cydia and allow it to load everything it needs. Try to install or remove some apps to verify the error is fixed.

Remove Cydia apps update notification

Sometimes, you'll notice update notification of jailbreak apps in Cydia. If you doesn't want to update certain apps for any reason and would like to remove the notification, follow these steps:

1. Using iFile, navigate to /private/var/lib/dpkg/
2. Make a backup of file "status"
3. Open the file "status" using iFile Text Viewer
4. Find the package that Cydia is asking you to update.
5. Change the version number to the new version number of to a higher number (hit the Edit button in the iFile Text Viewer).
6. Save the changes and restart Cydia then you can see the notification is removed.

If you would like to receive update notification of certain apps again, just restore the version number changed in step 5.

Celeste on iPhone 4 iOS 4.3.3

This tutorial will guide you how to install and use Celeste on iPhone 4 iOS 4.3.3.

1. Add source "www.sinfuliphonerepo.com" in Cydia.
2. Search for "Celeste Bluetooth File Sharing" in sinfuliphone repo.
3. Download and install all required dependencies as well as the application itself.
4. Reboot your device. (You may need to reboot twice for the crack to activated).
5. Download BTstack 0.3-434 and put into your iPhone (Download password: "http://hqqqq.blogspot.com").
6. Install it using iFile.
7. Reboot your device and done.

Personally tested working on iPhone 4 iOS 4.3.3. 


Added:
After performed above steps, you'll notice an update notification of BTstack in Cydia. DO NOT UPDATE IT. If you would like to remove the notification, simply follow steps here. Just search for "btstack" in step 4 and change "0.3-434" to "0.4-434" in step 5.

Updated 20 Sept 2011:
Someone mentioned above method works for his iPod 3rd Generation on iOS 4.2.1. If your iDevice succeeded in sending/receiving via bluetooth after above method, please leave a comment and state your iDevice/iOS version. Thanks :)

New blogger app on Apple App Store

Google had launched a blogger app which allow bloggers to write blog entries to their connected blogger account right from their iDevices. Just browse through app store and search for "Blogger" to download it for free.

Repair Windows unable to show hidden files

In some cases, Windows will not be able to show hidden files upon request. In Windows Explorer > Tools > Folder Options... > View Tab > Advanced settings, check on Show hidden files and folders and hit Apply. But after these steps the hidden files are still not shown, and the next time you go in to the same setting, you'll see the setting is set to Do not show hidden files and folders. This is probably caused by your Windows registry being modified by certain virus.

 

Here are the way to manually fix this problem and re-enable the showing of hidden files in Windows system.

1. Go to Start > Run > type in regedit.
2. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\Folder\Hidden\SHOWALL
3. Delete the key CheckedValue in the right hand window.
4. Create a new DWORD Value named CheckedValue.
5. Double click on it and set the value data to 1.

Now, restart your computer and everything should be working fine.


Alternatively, you can open up notepad, copy-paste following code and save as .reg file and run it.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\Folder\Hidden\SHOWALL]
"CheckedValue"=dword:1

Download: Re-Enable Hidden Folder.zip

Autorun virus disinfection tool

I believe most of you heard or seen the name "jwgkvsq.vmx" before. It's one of the very famous/popular autorun virus infected in your windows, infect and copy itself into any flash drives/harddisk you plug into your computer. I had publish a tutorial on Disable autorun in Windows previously. In this post, I'm going to share a useful tool made by BitDefender for disinfection of this virus from your computer and flash drives.

There are two version of this tool; graphical version and console version. Both are working fine, and graphical version are recommended for most users. In fact, you may only need to use the console version in the case that graphical version does not work. Just double click on the executable to run the program, click on start and the program will perform its' tasks.

Notice that if the tool detects that your system is infected, it will prompt you to allow it perform disinfection steps. Your windows explorer will be terminated in the process, and the windows theme will became abnormal after the process. A normal reboot is recommended after the process.

Download link: BitDefender Autorun Virus Removal.rar