Source: Comex
1: Jailbreak your iPhone 4, iPod Touch 3G and iPad 3.2.x with JailbreakMe.
2: Start Cydia on your jailbroken iPhone.
3: Hit the ‘Manage’ tab at the bottom of your iPhone screen and then select Sources.
4: Select Edit and then select Add. Now enter a URL source. Type repo.benm.at and select on Add Source. Once Cydia has added the source click on ‘Return to Cydia’ button.
Source: LifeHacker.com
If you’re fed up with waiting for the official Netflix app to make it to your iPhone, here’s a way you can hack the Netflix iPad app to work on your jailbroken iPhone.
The process is fairly simple but takes a bit of work. In a nutshell, you’re going to be downloading the iPad version of the Netflix application and manually copying it to your iPhone. Check out the video and step-by-step written instructions below.
Thanks to NoorBigTime for the tip! Our instructions below are adapted from the modmyi forums.
That’s it! Enjoy Netflix on your iPhone.
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: xda-developers.com
Source: OReilly.com
Remote Desktop is a cool feature of Windows Server 2003 that lets you remotely log on to and work at a machine as if you were seated at the local console (in Windows 2000 Advanced Server, this feature was called Terminal Services in Remote Administration Mode). Remote Desktop can be a lifesaver for fixing problems on servers at remote sites, but what if you forgot to enable the feature before you shipped the server out to Kalamazoo? Enabling Remote Desktop is easy if the server is in front of you: just log on as an administrator, open System in Control Panel, select the Remote tab, and under Remote Desktop select the checkbox labeled “Allow users to connect remotely to this computer.” Unfortunately, you can’t use the System utility to enable Remote Desktop on a remote machine, though you can access some properties pages of System using Computer Management by first connecting the console to a remote computer, then right-clicking on the root node and selecting Properties. Unfortunately, as you can see in Figure 1 below, the Remote tab is not available when you access System properties this way on a remote machine (here named SRV220).
Figure 1. System properties for a remote machine does not have Remote tab.
Source: PopSci.com
Pretty amazing stuff from the DIY UAV world: robotics researchers at the University of Tübingen in Germany have created a small, fully autonomous helicopter that can track and land on a moving target–a simulated aircraft carrier landing pad mounted on the back of another robot–tracking its LED runway lights with a Wiimote’s infrared camera.
It’s an interesting demo of what can be done with ultra-cheap, consumer-level parts. Reading the info from the harvested Wii IR sensor, as well as onboard accelerometers monitoring the orientation of the copter, is an onboard Atmega microprocessor. Software analyzes the orientation and intensity of four LEDs on the landing pad, then regulates the four electric motors to guide it in for a soft touchdown.
The team is also working on a similar copterbot that uses photos from a mobile cameraphone to navigate open, outdoor spaces by comparing live images from the phone with a database of the surroundings.
Source: Engadget.com
Android 2.2 and Flash 10.1. A perfect combination for combination for a little Hulu on the go, right? Not quite, as Hulu has decided to block videos (for legal reasons) when it detects a mobile device, but it turns out there is a surprisingly simple workaround. As Absolutely Android explains, all you have to do is make Hulu think you’re using a desktop browser, which can be done simply by entering “about:debug” in the address bar and switching the UAString setting from Android to desktop. The only downside to the trick is that you’ll now also get the full desktop version of the Hulu site (and any other site, until you switch it back), and there’s a better than decent chance that Hulu will close this loophole before you can finish your first episode of Kojak.
Source: Dev-team blog
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NOTE: I tried to jailbreak my 3.1.3 iPhone 3GS using the Windows version of Spirit on Windows 7 Professional and was not able to. I kept getting an error message. However, I was able to jailbreak my 3.1.3 by using my virtual machine running OS X Snow Leopard successfully. So if you need to jailbreak your 3.1.3 iPhone, use a Mac!
