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iPhone App Review: Remote Control Your iPhone With Your Computer Using Veency

menooB — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:56:00 +0000

There’s Mocha VNC for the iPhone to remote control your Mac or PC from your phone. Now, there’s Veency to remote control your iPhone from your Mac or PC. But first, you need to have a jailbroken iPhone to install Veency on your phone. You can check out my iPhone jailbreaking tutorials in the iPhone category. iPhone [...]

What You Need To Know When Installing Firefox 3.1 Beta 1

menooB — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:11:40 +0000

So you’ve heard about the latest 3.1 Beta 1 release of Mozilla’s popular browser, Firefox, and you’ve also heard that it’s blazing fast. Exciting, isn’t it? Ready to download and replace your current stable version? Well, go ahead… but better read this first! Important things you need to know when installing Firefox 3.1 Beta 1: While the [...]

iPhone App Review: Caissa Chess Versus Chess Classic

menooB — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:01:30 +0000

One of the great things about having an iPhone (especially because of its large viewing screen) is that it allows you to do something worthwhile, if not productive, during what would be idle times, such as riding in a bus on a long trip or just sitting alone waiting for someone or something. Instead of [...]

Make Your iPhone Apps Run Uninterrupted in the Background

menooB — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:44:03 +0000

The iPhone SDK prohibits third-party applications from running in the background. This basically made instant-messaging applications pretty much crippled as it won’t be able to collect messages while you are doing something else. You also cannot listen to radio or streaming music applications like Tuner while surfing the web or sending SMS. But this is no [...]

Tutorial: Using VMware Fusion 2.0 On A Hackintosh, Part 2: Running the Vista VM

menooB — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 07:11:19 +0000

In Part 1: Using VMware Converter On A Vista PC, we learned how to use the free VMware Converter 3.0.3 to create a Windows Vista virtual machine from an existing Windows Vista server. Now that we have the Vista VM copied to our OS X hard drive, we boot into OS X Leopard and install [...]

Tutorial: Using VMware Fusion 2.0 On A Hackintosh, Part 1: Using VMware Converter On A Vista PC

menooB — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:26:34 +0000

I have been using Parallels for almost a year to run Windows Vista on my MacBook Pro. Well, that was after I ran into problems with VMware Fusion. Now, with the latest Fusion 2.0, it’s time to put it out to a test again and see how it fares with Parallels 3.0. I wouldn’t want [...]

“Solving Poverty” Button Design Contest

menooB — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 10:07:43 +0000

PSDTUTS has launched a “Solving Poverty” Button Design Contest in connection with the Blog Action Day 2008 theme—Poverty. The contest aims to raise awareness about the issues surrounding global poverty, and empower designers to make a positive difference in the world. As visual artists we have skills that can help change the world. Poverty is not only [...]

Windows QuickPwn 2.1 Released

menooB — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 06:57:02 +0000

Just a short update. For those waiting for a Windows version of the iPhone Dev Team’s jailbreaking tool for iPhone 2.1, wait no more. Quickly grab Windows QuickPwn 2.1 from the links below: Official IDT Download: Windows QuickPwn 2.1 –> Torrent Download (sha1) QuickPwn21-1.zip = f8124d0e8f31f64ef3272de8fbc679e1dd1f93a7 Unofficial Downloads: http://eggy.cc/stuff/files/windows/QuickPwn21-1.zip http://i.omerc.net/QuickPwn21-1.zip http://www.alekserviz.com/adamov/QuickPwn2.1Win/QuickPwn21-1.zip You need iTunes 8 to upgrade your iPhone to 2.1 before using QuickPwn [...]

Update Your Hackintosh with OS X 10.5.5 Using Software Update

menooB — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:03:20 +0000

Apple has just released Mac OS X 10.5.5 Delta Update for Macs running 10.5.4, and 10.5.5 Combo Update if you are running 10.5, 10.5.1, 10.5.2, 10.5.3 or 10.5.4. Now, you can just click Software Update on your Hackintosh just like you do on an ordinary Mac… if your Hackintosh has been installed with a Mac OS [...]

MobileInstallation 2.1 for iPhone 2.1

menooB — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 05:23:36 +0000

If you followed my tutorial “Download and Test iPhone Apps Before Buying From the App Store“, and then upgraded your iPhone to firmware 2.1, then, you need to perform the tutorial again using the patched MobileInstallation 2.1 file. Download the file here. Related Posts iPhone App Review: Remote Control Your iPhone With Your Computer Using Veency iPhone App Review: [...]