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.