Are you having speed issues on your iPhone 3G after updating to the latest iOS? Comex of the iPhone Dev Team suggested that turning off the Spotlight feature should improve the speed of your phone.
1. On your iPhone go to the Settings page
2. Click on General
3. Spotlight Search
4. Uncheck everything.
Source: TheTechJournal.com
Download TinyUmbrella
Download iTunes 9.2 (iTunes version between 9.0 to 9.2 should work)
Simple Mode
1. Run the TinyUmbrella. (Mac users: Copy the app to your desktop or you’ll get repeating password prompts if you ran the app from within the DMG).
2. Now Connect your iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, 3G, iPod Touch 3G or iPod Touch 2G or iPad to your computer
3. Now Simply Hit the Save My SHSH button and TinyUmbrella will grab SHSH blobs of the latest firmware for the connected device. This will also generate a ticket to save SHSH blobs to Saurik’s server.
You have secured your future jailbreak by saving SHSH blobs for iOS 4 using TinyUmbrella. You can find the saved SHSH file under:
Advanced Options
Source: Jalopnik.com
Starting with an old cell phone a friend gave him, 17-year-old Steven Ortiz of Glendora, CA, used Craigslist to trade up 14 times over two years to eventually end up with a Porsche Boxster. Here’s how he did it.
Source: Reddit.com / Lifehacker.com
We’ve featured one or two ways to watch Hulu from outside the US, but one user over at Reddit has discovered another method, no outside proxy server required. All you need is a Firefox add-on and a few blocked ports.
First, download the Modify Headers add-on for Firefox. Once installed, go to Tools > Modify Headers in Firefox and add a new filter by clicking on the drop-down menu and hitting “add”. In the first box, type X-Forwarded-For and in the second box, type in the IP address of any US web site. Leave the third box blank, and then save and enable the filter.
Next, block TCP and UDP port 1935. To do so on Mac, all you need to do is type the following in a Terminal window:
sudo ipfw add 0 deny tcp from any to any 1935
sudo ipfw add 0 deny udp from any to any 1935
Linux users can install iptables to do it through Terminal as well, with the commands:
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 1935 -j DROP
iptables -A INPUT -p udp --dport 1935 -j DROP
Windows users should be able to follow these instructions to correctly block the ports.
This method should allow access not just to Hulu, but many other US-only streaming sites. Note that this may disable Flash on other sites, so you’ll only want to enable this while you’re watching video on one of these sites. We Lifehacker editors are all in the US, however, so we can’t verify the efficacy of this method. Thus, be sure to let us know what does and does not work for you in the comments, and we’ll edit the post accordingly. Also be sure to check out the original post at Reddit and the comments over there, as they have been honing the method quite well.
Source: Howtogeek.com
Would you like to test drive the latest version of Google’s Android OS without buying a new mobile device? Here’s how you can run Android on your PC for free with the Android SDK Emulator.
Android is the latest mobile OS to take the world by storm, but everyone doesn’t have access to the latest mobile devices. Thankfully, there’s an easy way to run Android on your Windows, Mac, or Linux computer. Google provides an Android emulator with their SDK, which is designed to let developers test their apps on Android before running them on handsets. We can use this to test drive Android on our computer, here’s how to do it.
Getting Started
The Android Emulator requires Java to run, so if you don’t already have Java installed on your computer, download it from the link below and install as normal.
Note: When installing Java, make sure not to install any crapware it tries to sneak in like the worthless Yahoo toolbar.
Source: Gmail Blog
Posted by Mark Knichel, Software Engineer
Rich text signatures have long been one of our most widely requested features. Some of you have tried your own solutions, including Greasemonkey scripts, browser plugins, and even using canned responses from Gmail Labs. Others have simply lived with frustration of not being able to change the colors or font size of your signature, or insert images and links. Either way, you’ll be happy to know that today we’re launching the ability to write your own rich text signatures right in Gmail.
Source: Gizmodo.com
Flash! On the iPad! And you can do it right now! Well, if you have a jailbroken iPad. The process doesn’t seem that hard but you can definitely muck things up if you poke your finger in the wrong spot.
The general gist on getting Flash on the iPad is to download and install ‘Frash.deb’ onto your iPad and then create folders with specific names while sprinkling in some restarts. Yeah, it’s not super simple and you could run into some snags but if you follow the directions to the T, you should be okay. Hopefully.
Unfortunately, Frash doesn’t do video playback and it’s kind of crashy so it may not be worth the risk yet. For now, you can just play Flash games, see some light animations, and drain your battery super fast. That kind of sounds fun, actually. [Engadget]
Source: Lifehacker.com
If you’re upset that your iPhone 3G is missing the coolest features of iOS 4—namely multitasking, screen orientation lock, and background wallpapers—you’re one quick and simple jailbreak away from enabling them. Here’s how it works.
Note: When iPhone 3G owners upgraded to iOS 4, a lot of us were faced with significant slowdowns and decided to downgrade back to 3.1.3. In the comments of our guide to downgrading, several 3G owners, however, noted that they were perfectly happy with the upgrade on their 3G phones—some even claiming it was faster. If you’re in that boat, and want to see how your device fares with multitasking, screen orientation lock (this feature and the new music player shortcuts are bundled into the multitasking app switcher—just swipe to the left), and background wallpapers, the process is relatively simple.
Source: Redmondpie.com
Yes! I have got iMovie, which is an iPhone 4 exclusive app running almost perfectly on my iPhone 3GS. I did this video just to show that iPhone 3GS is fast, and capable enough to run iMovie. It is just that Apple wants us all to purchase the new iPhone 4 by saying that iPhone 3GS’ hardware is not good enough for this stuff.
Thanks to David Romhan Torres who first posted about this on Redmond Pie’s Facebook page here.
David Romhan Torres I just make iMovie for iphone 4 run on an iphone 3GS, it’s very simple just download it from iTunes, modify info.plist file and change the Minimum system version to 3.0.0 and UIRequiredDeviceCapabilities/front-facing-camera to false
Changing the above strings will make the app run on any jailbroken iPhone and iPod touch as long as it is running iOS 4. Now according to the source above, you can also run it on non-iOS 4 devices i.e. devices running the old 3.1.3 or 3.1.2 firmware by changing LSMinimumSystemVersion string. I tried this step to run iMovie on my iPad but with no success. If any of you manage to get this thing run on non-iOS 4 devices, then please do let me know in the comments section below.
Source: xda-developers.com
