From the monthly archives:
Note: If you are building your Hackintosh for the first time, I recommend that you follow my latest tutorial here: http://menoob.com/hackintosh/hackintosh-install-a-mac-leopard-os-x-retail-dvd-on-a-pc/
If you like to be on Hackintosh 10.5.4, you can try and install the new iATKOS v4i. You can download it from the usual place where the “green thing” resides. The file is 2.64 Gb [...]
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Update: You can also install the BossPrefs app in Cydia to turn ON and OFF EDGE and other settings (note: BossPrefs is still in beta test so use at your own risk! – I have personally tested EDGE and it works. You just have to wait a few seconds after turning it ON or OFF).
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After upgrading to iPhone 2.0 using the PwnageTool, I noticed that I lost my EDGE network. I turned off my Wi-Fi and I can’t connect to my email or to the Internet using EDGE even though I have the right settings in General -> Network -> Cellular Data Network. So what I did is to [...]
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If you just woke up today and just found out that thousands have already upgraded their first generation iPhones to 2.0, you’re in luck because you can now have a much smoother upgrade of your iPhone 1.1.4.
The iPhone Dev Team has just released PwnageTool 2.0.1 a day after the much anticipated PwnageTool 2.0 came out. [...]
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Update: PwnageTool 2.0.1 (still Mac only) has been released with bug fixes. This PwnageTool 2.0 Guide remains applicable.
Note: PwnageTool 2.0 is for Mac only at this time. You also cannot upgrade from firmware versions older than 1.1.4. I suggest you use my other guide if you need to upgrade your iPhone to 1.1.4 first.
This guide [...]
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If you have been manually upgrading your WordPress to a new version, you normally would follow the Three Step Upgrade guide from WordPress.org. It isn’t difficult enough to do a manual upgrade, but there are easier and faster ways to do it. If you have signed up with a web hosting provider that includes a [...]
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Finally, WordPress 2.6 is now available. Version 2.6 is named “Tyner” in honor of jazz pianist McCoy Tyner. As I have mentioned in one of my posts, there are a number of new features that were included in this release making Wordpress a powerful CMS.
Check out this video from the WordPress.org Development Team to take [...]
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While waiting for a working solution to the iPhone 2.0 hack for both first and second gen iPhones, many have been asking how to downgrade from 2.0 to 1.1.4. These are mostly people who in their excitement have prematurely updated their firmware from 1.1.4 to 2.0 even before the official iPhone 2.0 came out. Now [...]
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The iPhone 2.0 has just been launched in some parts of the world and the lucky ones patiently fell in line and came out of the Apple Store with a spanking, shiny new phone. Although there were some scary moments of getting an iBrick instead, due to activation problems, the momentary glitched was resolved before [...]
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Apple products are the gold standard in consumer electronic design. Their product designs have received numerous awards from the Industrial Design Excellence Awards or IDEA. Apple’s design philosophy is, “less is more”, simplicity of design being the Holy Grail. Even Microsoft singled out the Apple iPod on their Microsoft Design Center website as “a beautiful [...]
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While many wait with bated breath for the next version of the iPhone, the competition isn’t holding theirs. In fact they are quickly breathing new life to their own products hoping to hold their own against the revolutionary iPhone or surpass whatever the second coming of the Jesus Phone can offer.
1) Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1
It [...]
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WordPress 2.5.1 is such a major version upgrade that I haven’t had the time to explore all its features yet, and now version 2.6 is almost ready for release. According to Ryan Boren, lead developer of WordPress, they are expecting for a mid-July release. The following are some of the new features of [...]
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