Archive for November, 2009
Wordpress theme
I have been inactive in my blog for more than a week, because i was working on a wordpress theme. I am making a new website for a friend, who needed a magazine style theme. I was searching everywhere, but many of theme were premium, which means that you had to pay for them. However on theme junkie, i was able to find a theme named channel, which was pretty easy to modify and make it look way better then most of the paid theme i was considering to buy. Here is what i did additionally
- I did modify the layout of that theme,
- I changed the images to wide screen format,
- I deleted few lines of useless code,
- I added some custom PHP programming to make it optimized for adsense or other ad programs,
- Optimized it for google,
- Removed Flicr & content gallery,
- Added administration back-end for additional advertisement slots, so you can simple paste the adsense code without having to use additional plugins,
- and few other things which I cant remember right now.
I saw also the newswire theme, but now i think that the HotFixes theme 
, looks way better. I’m offering it for free of course, as everything else on my site. If you’re interested post a comment or write me an email to send it to u. You can preview the theme at www.spiun.com
Or simply look at the screenshot below:
Full preview at www.spiun.com
I will put a download link if you’re interested. For now post a comment and i will email it to you.
UPDATE: 04.12.2009 I have modified the categories look, and i think they are much better now. I will work this week on the frontpage also, i will leave it as surprise for you to see it. Check it out during next week, or subscribe to my feed/follow me on twitter.
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Mutifl0w multitasking
Finaly the first multitasking app for Iphone will be available next week. Of course it will be available for jaibroken devices only.
Multifl0w is a new iPhone utility which lets you easily switch between background applications. It works in a similar way as backgrounder, but you can switch from one app to another without going through spring board which is so cool. You can press the home button twice, and you can see all the applications that are running on the background, and you even have the latest screen shot of the app before multiflow puts it on background.
The only thing that i would like to try is if the camera video recording can work in background. If you have noticed, if you put the camera app in background while recording, it will stop the recording process. I got this problem in my 3gs. When i had the 1st gen and iphone 3g, i was using cycoder which worked great on background, and i could spy anything with the Iphone because it was recording while the iphone was locked and the screen was black .
Developer Aaron Ash hopes to have Multifl0w on the Cydia Store soon. In the meanwhile you can check out a video demonstration below…
Appulous Alternative
Im sure that your tiered of searching for the latest Appulo.us password, and believe me i know that is sucks. They started changing the question almost any hour, and i think im loosing my patience, and maybe (not for now) i might stop posting the new password coz i have to go even to toilet with my laptop .
I did a little research, and i found out a great appulo alternative. The site is called AppCake and it have tons of Iphone apps ready to download. The site works very very fast, and they dont ask you stupid questions.
Ok enough free marketing, check it out by your self at http://iphonecake.com/appcake/en/ . And IphoneCake / Appcake is illegal just like Appulo, i don’t use their apps. Use them for educational purpose only, and i am not responsabile for any damage that they will cause to you or to other companies.
Tags: Appcake, application, cracked app, download apps iphone, free apps, free ipa, iphone apps, Iphone cake
Appulo answer
THE CURRENT PASSWORD/ANSWER IS: cavern
Read the full post, very useful info
I will be travelling the next 24h so i can not update the password temporaty, and i strongly advice you to read this post about an appulous alternative sajt by clicking here.
Also read below to find out where to get the latest answer for appulo.us question of the day.
1. Subscribe on my blog so you will get email notification about each new password.
2. Follow me on twitter
3. Read the info below, which will help you to find the latest answer of appulous:
A friend asked me why i cant access appulo anymore, so i said let’s give it a try. Appulo.us does not allow anyone to access their app archive without having an answer to the question posted on their website. They do update the question up to two time per day, and there is no universal answer at the moment. Some questions are very are very simple such as: If the permissions are r-xrwxrwx, who can’t write? Answer: owner. But some of them really are non sense because they ask you question about their hosting, nicknames and so on.
The best place to get the password at the moment is the facebook page of appulo http://www.facebook.com/appulous , where their fans spread their knowledge and help other users. You can find the answer there right after the question is posted.
Dont waste your time on blogs of youtube videos, because they are just tring to earn from their advertisments on their website. The only updated and working site for appulo answers is their own official facebook page.
According to appulo this is just temporary, they are going to give access without question as soon as they find a new hosting, so they will balance the traffic to many other servers, they cant handle the current traffic. Till then good luck .
Please note that i am not responsible for the damage that Appulo.us might cause to Apple Iphone Store. Using illegal application is a crime so beaware. Use it at your own risk. Use Appulo only to find out if your app is cracked, to protect your app if its beeing copied by unauthorized users or simple for education purpose.
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Blacksn0w wifi problems
I got an email from a user that was complaining that he’s wifi is not working on the Iphone after blacksn0w. And I did a little research on the Internet and that is TRUE. This issue is mostly common for 3G version and very rare on the 3GS. So far both my 3G and 3GS works fine on Internet.
GeoHot did a research also and they say that it is not a Blacksn0w unlock app bug, but is Apple’s 3.1.2 firmware bug. Blacksn0w does not cause the problem at all. GeoHot can fix it and we’re waiting for for the new BlackSn0w RC2 (which will fix the Iphone bug).
In mean while you can try a “Reset Network Settings”
Many users are also reporting Push problems and You tube error on the new 3.1.2 firmware. You can fix that by downloading ”Push Fix” which can be found at “http://cydia.iphoneil.net”, add that source to cydia, and install Push Fix.
Please also note: If your ipt2/3GS/ipt3 is rebooting into recovery after running blackra1n, this isn’t a bug. It’s a feature. You need to run blackra1n every time to boot it. This ‘feature’, called tethered jailbreak, is enabled by upgrades Apple made to the bootrom and the fact ipt3 uses nand flash.
And in the end make sure your install AppSync for 3.1.2 (you’ll find it under the name appsync 3.1 but works for 3.1.2) or Installd for 3.1.2 which are basicly the mipatch for 3.1.2 (mipatch is the old name). Use the search box to find more info from my previous posts.
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First Worm SSH
A week a go a German hacker wrote that he had hacked several Iphone on T-mobile Germany with some simple tools from his PC. He scanned the T-Mobile 3g IP range, and he got like thousands of IP with the SSH port open (port 22). Then using a simple SSH client such as putty, he got connected to them with the default Iphone room password which is:
Username: root
Password: alpine
Today on Australia, a hacker wrote a worm thanks to this issue reported by the German hacker, and the worm now its spreading across the Australia. It is not very dangerous, because it simple changes the wallpaper of your Iphone with a nasty singer from the 80’s . This worm affects only the JAILBROKEN Iphones, and it is easily to protect, and i recommend you to perform this steps right away.
1. First Open Cydia, wait for the leading process and click on Search icon which is located on the bottom right side.
2. Write Terminal or Mobile Terminal, and the application will show up, click over its name.
3. On the top right side you will have to click on Install and Confirm. Wait few sec for the cydia to finish the installation
4. Close the Cydia and find the Mobile Terminal Icon on your Iphone springboard.
5. Run Mobile Terminal and a screen similar to Linux command prompt will show up.
6. Type without quotes “passwd” and press return
7. Will prompt you to enter the old password, so type the default iphone password which is “alpine” without quotes.
8. Now it will prompt you to write a news password. Choose any password which is more then 5 letters, any password which you’ll choose will be better then your default one. Press return when you’ll finish.
9. You will have to confirm the chosen password once again, so enter it and press return.
10. That’s all your safe.
You might say ok so what if the hacker replaces my wallpaper foto, BIG DEAL , your wrong my brother. It is very easily to write a new worm, which will upload all your camera roll photos from iphone to flickr on some ftp server, and i bet you have something to hide there. Also if you connect to a public WIFI, any user with a laptop and a software such as WinSCP can connect to your Iphone and within a minute he can download all pic, videos, songs … from your Iphone to hes/her laptop hard drive.
Another way to protect is to disable the SSH on your jailbroken Iphone. You can do this also very easily from SB setting using the SSH togles. If you cant see it on your screen, go to SBSettings option and configure it to display the SSH toggle.
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adsense vs infolinks
I did made a research about putting Infolinks on my site together with adsense. And while i was googling to find the right answer, i found out that many people were curious to know if Infolinks will violate Adsense terms. I did a little research on my own and i got an answer for you.
As you might already know, Adsense is a contextual advertising company, which means that it analyses the web page, and displays the ads related to the page topic. Google calls this “content-targeted advertising”. If you read the Adsense terms, you will notice that they don’t allow other contextual ads on the same page.
Inflolinks is also contextual advertising company, because it analyses the web pages, and marks several text as keywords and makes them clickable, so when you click or put your mouse over the link, they display an ad on that topic.
SO THE ANSWER IS: DONT PUT INFOLINKS IF YOU USE ADSENSE BECAUSE YOUR ACCOUNT WILL BE BLOCKED ! ! !
You can safly use Chitika MiniMall advertising, where you can specify a canned set of keywords for the advert to be included as you copy and paste their code onto your page: arguably that’s more accurate than letting a program guess what your page is about anyway, but it is acceptable as an additional advert. You can also include banner ads (like the BlogAds network) or other advertising. It’s all acceptable to the Google team, as long as the other advertising system doesn’t automatically scan your page and ascertain the best ads to display on-the-fly.
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Blacksn0w unlock tutorial
The blacksn0w unlock has been released. Blacksn0w is an unlock for the iPhone 3G and 3GS. It is available for both Windows and Mac. You can download blackra1n (which includes the blacksn0w unlock) at blackra1n.com or, you can add the blackra1n source in Cydia and get it via Cydia. The source url is http://blackra1n.com/.
“Blacksn0w is the unlock for the latest 05.11.07 baseband, and will also enable official tethering. blackra1n, a jailbreak for 3.1.2, has been updated to RC3, with hacktivation support, 15 second speed improvement, Tiger+PPC support, and installation of the latest blackra1n.app.”
Here are the instruction which let you Unlock the latest 3.1.2 firmware Iphone:
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After Effects for newbie users
I have been working lately on After Effects CS3, and I am a newbie I have to admit. So I’m writing you to help other newbies which want to work on after effects small projects, a quick solution to some of the problems I’ve faced this week.
When you make a project and want to save it as a video file, you should not use the File->Export menu, because no matter what option you’ll choose the output quality will be terrible. Instead you should go to Composition and Make Movie (while your on your main composition). Then you will have to press the render button, but believe me you better do not click on it right away because you will get good quality uncompressed file. But the uncompressed file will take more then 1GB of your disk space if you compile a 30 sec. project, and you can not even play it normal, because any video player can’t play normally a 30 sec. clip which size its more then 1GB.
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Another Free VPN server
While i was searching today on google, i was lucky to find another free vpn service for my blog readers. It a new company which honestly i have not tested yet, but they are offering free VPN service from a US and UK server. Interesting however i was not lucky, because they offer up to 100 free accounts per month, and i was late coz when i found them. They had already gave away 100 free accounts.
I have noticed that the first free VPN posted on my website is facing downtimes from time to time, thats why giving you an alternative is good. The comany name is hideipvpn and it can be found at www.hideipvpn.com . Today is 02 of november 2009, and according to their website they gave their 100 free accounts in less then 1 hour. So i have setup an alarm on my Iphone for 1 December 2009, and hopefully i will get an account and share it with you.
The reason why i decided to review them is because hideipvpn does not force you to download their software, which is cool. I dont trust anyone, and installing third party software can slow down your PC. HideIpVPN can be used under any OS (windows, Mac OS X, linux and even Iphone).
But i think you should try to get one at your own, because they might allow one one user name at a time to connect to the free VPN. If you achive to get one, it will be better for you, however if you share it with us on the comments it will be much better . Sharing is caring.
Subscribe to my blog on the left, so you will get notified as soon as i update my blog about the www(dot)hideipvpn(dot)com service. I will also include details about the configuration procedure.
Update: I finaly had the chance to test their Free VPN service, and so far so goot. Works great. The speed is good and aceptable for a free service. I had to write them several emails till they activated it, but it really works. Unfortunetly it can only acept one connection at a time from the same username so i cant share it with you here. Try to get one from their website or tyu can use the previous posted VPN which is probably shown right after this post using the related post plugin .
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