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Once you jailbreak your iPhone or iPod Touch there are tons of benefits available to you in the form of innovative applications that are not locked down by Apple. One of my iPod Touch’s is pretty beat up and no longer under warranty so I use it to test all sorts of things including being…
I recently got into some trouble while playing around with my iPod Touch 2G in which I thought the device was bricked. It was not recognized when plugged into the USB port on a Windows XP computer and it appeared no matter what I did it was not able to power on. When restoring some…
A quick and easy way to convert Microsoft Word (.doc, .docx) files to pdf is to install the free 2007 Microsoft Office Add-in: Microsoft Save as PDF. It is not necessary to close Word or restart it for the add-in to take effect. When finished installed, click Save As… > .pdf to save the file…
If you have downloaded PNG image files from your iPhone or iPod Touch onto a Windows computer and tried to open them you know that you will receive an error. You will be required to convert the files so they can be viewed on Windows. Below are a couple examples of the errors you can…
Remember The Milk (http://www.rememberthemilk.com) has some very powerful features including Locations, tags, Smart Lists, offline support, and advanced searching. I often share tasks with friends, but sharing does have limitations. The following fields are not updated to the person you share with when you make a change: List (eg. Personal, Work) Location (eg. 1455 Grand…
If you have the ability to upload Wallpaper files to your iPhone or your iPod Touch then you need to know the proper size. The default wallpaper files are located in the /Library/Wallpaper directory and include the default wallpaper files and the thumbnails for those wallpapers. To get the iPhone wallpaper to display correctly you…
When I first was working with an Amazon Web Services instance at EC2 I was getting frustrated trying to use SecureCRT to connect to the AWS instance. When you configure an instance you are required to configure an Amazon EC2 key pair which will allow you to connect to your instances via SSH. The problem is once you receive…
If you are not very familiar with torrents then it is very easy to download them using Opera web browser. The .torrent files are configuration files that list a group of smaller files that need to be downloaded to create the larger file you are trying to obtain. The great thing about using Opera for…
I recently noticed that the redirect from question-defense.com to www.question-defense.com was no longer working. Recently I updated WordPress and many of the plugins I have installed. The issue with this was some of the pages served from question-defense.com versus www.question-defense.com were serving different cached pages. After some investigating I thought the issue was related to…
I decided to erase the contents of my iPhone by going to Settings > General > Reset > Erase All Contents and Settings. Unfortunately, my power cable was loose and it lost power in the middle of the erasing. After that, I tried hard resetting (holding down Home button and pressing the power key for…