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26Jun/0919

ImHuman WordPress Plugin 0.0.9 Test Run

IPhone Output

IPhone Output

IPhone Output

IPhone Output

Today with the feedback about empty forms and skipping the check for registered users, I have compiled a brand new version of the plugin as 0.0.9. This version is currently running under elxsy in order to test now. Please drop a comment to test it.  As usual functions with Mobile browsers and WPtouch seemlesly.

Features:

  • Complete AJAX comment posting and error reporting without any hack or modification to your current WP
  • Choice to skip the security check for registered members.
  • So Post contents will not be lost even wordpress fails to retrive them from cookies
  • Secure new set of humanizers for each fail as it should be in a secure form
  • Timeout support
  • Eliminates multiple posting
26Jun/090

IM+ 3.1 with Push made it through Apple Review

Finally it made it through. Agile is on the way also :)

With widest support of IM networks including Skype™ chat and even Twitter and coming Push there's absolutely no need to look elsewhere.

Get the most reliable and feature-rich instant messenger.

• New! Twitter
• New! Skype™ Chat
• Facebook® Chat
• Yahoo®
• AIM® / iChat / MobileMe®
• MSN® / Windows Live®
• ICQ®
• Google™ Talk
• MySpaceIM
• Jabber®

25Jun/090

ImHuman multilanguage and new wordpress plugin

While trying to overcome problems at SuperNo's blog which were mainly due to older PHP version, I had the chance to put the project into second gear thanks to SuperNo. ImHuman now speaks french :) ! all you need to do is to add

lang=LANG_CODE

Parameters in to your request string where LANG_CODE can be en or fr for now. If you would like to see it in your own language contact me.

I am going to update the repository in couple minutes. New wordpress plugin features are:

  • Requires PHP5, reduced in size.
  • works with AJAX, Jquery mandatory.
  • No more manual imhuman_render() insertion anymore
  • Supports Multilanguage (English and French only for now)
  • No more cache or back key problems if you guess the answer wrong and go back in your browser
  • You can customize your instruction message in your own language or format also
25Jun/090

Nokia N97 coming to UK stores tomorrow

Nokia N97

Nokia N97

Finally long expected Nokia N97 coming to UK stores tomorrow (26th June 2009). Currently Vodafone UK and Orange UK has the Nokia N97 deals. Vodafone offers extra pre-order features and discounts also. It is so tempting to go for it now, but I have to wait for financial solutions before acting all childish and geeky :)

You can see the phone details at http://europe.nokia.com/find-products/devices/nokia-n97#/main/landing. Check out the tours and guides to learn about its capabilities!

Online deal at http://shop.vodafone.co.uk/shop/mobile-phone/nokia-n97. You will have to make at least £40 contract for two years to get the phone free. SIM free choices will cost much more because of the internet usage and phone price. It is £400 I guess.

This is not Apple, this is Nokia. You dont get the phone for X and a stupid cable for 2X. Box comes with everything you will need to enjoy your phone because it is a real SmartPhone not a phony one. Oh by the way this comes with a real HD camera :) and Video Players, Flash Players and Office and Integrated GPS maps + routing.

Specifications

General 2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G Network HSDPA 900 / 1900 / 2100
HSDPA 850 / 1900 / 2100 - American version
Announced 2008, November
Status Available. Released 2009, June
Size Dimensions 117.2 x 55.3 x 15.9 mm, 88 cc
Weight 150 g
Display Type TFT resistive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size 360 x 640 pixels, 3.5 inches
- Proximity sensor for auto turn-off
- Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate
- Full QWERTY keyboard
- Handwriting recognition
Sound Alert types Vibration; MP3 ringtones
Speakerphone Yes, with stereo speakers
- 3.5 mm audio jack
Memory Phonebook Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall
Call records Detailed, max 30 days
Internal 32 GB storage, 128 MB RAM
Card slot microSD (TransFlash), up to 16GB
Data GPRS Class 32
HSCSD Yes
EDGE Class 32
3G HSDPA, 3.6 Mbps
WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, UPnP technology
Bluetooth Yes, v2.0 with A2DP
Infrared port No
USB Yes, v2.0 microUSB
Camera Primary 5 MP, 2592x1944 pixels, Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus, LED flash, video light
Features Geo-tagging
Video Yes, VGA@30fps
Secondary Yes, VGA@15fps
Features OS Symbian OS v9.4, Series 60 rel. 5
CPU ARM 11 434 MHz processor
Messaging SMS, MMS, Email, Push Email, IM
Browser WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML, RSS feeds
Radio Stereo FM radio with RDS, Visual radio; FM transmitter
Games Yes + downloadable
Colors White, Black
GPS Yes, with A-GPS support; Nokia Maps
Java Yes, MIDP 2.1
- Digital compass
- MP3/WMA/WAV/eAAC+ music player
- WMV/RealVideo/MP4 video player
- TV-out
- Voice command/dial
- Pocket Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF viewer)
- Video and photo editor
- Flash Lite 3
- T9
Battery Standard battery, Li-Ion 1500 mAh (BP-4L)
Stand-by Up to 432 h (2G) / 408 h (3G)
Talk time Up to 9 h 30 min (2G) / Up to 6 h (3G)
Music play Up to 40 h
23Jun/090

Finally BeejiveIM 3.0 with Push for iPhone OS 3.0

You could only use one application at a time in iPhone just because apple wanted to save its crappy battery life. After 2 years now they put push support in the OS and now today Beejive comes with Push. What push means? It means you will receive messages or stay online even though you press the home button and doing something else.

Beejive is now using their own licencing and blacklisting service so bad news for the freeloaders. Second best is the IM+ in my opinion and then the best one for mobile for long years Agile Messenger. They are both coming with PUSH support in couple of day be patient :)

23Jun/090

Mobile Maps Australia & New Zealand – Turn-by-Turn Voice Guided GPS Navigation

Mobile Maps Screen

Mobile Maps Screen

Sygic GPS navigation software turns your iPhone into a real-time, turn-by-turn voice guided navigation system.

Crystal-clear animated 3D maps, fast and intuitive address search, precise route calculation, lane assistant, signpost information, notifications about upcoming petrol stations and restaurants – Sygic Mobile Maps 2009 for iPhone - is featuring all of these innovations to guide you precisely to your destination.

All maps included

The package includes the latest maps from Whereis, the leading map provider. There are no monthly fees or hidden charges.

Smooth real-time guidance Since all maps are on your device, there is no need to download data from a cellular network. The navigation is smooth and free of any interruptions.

23Jun/090

How to Unlock Iphone 3G with ultrasn0w

Dev Team did it again and released the ultrasn0w today finally. Here is simple steps to unlock your iphone and use with any sim card freely.

  1. Ensure you have upgraded to iPhone OS 3.0
  2. Jailbreak your iPhone 3G using redsn0w or PwnageTool (this will also install Cydia/Icy)
  3. Run Cydia or Icy
  4. Please add the repo repo666.ultrasn0w.com to Cydia or Icy. That last “o” is actually the number zero “0”! If you use the letter “o” you’ll get an error.
  5. Search for ‘ultrasn0w’ in cydia or icy and install ultrasn0w
  6. Reboot your iPhone 3G
  7. T-Mobile USA users should disable 3G before using ultrasn0w
  8. Enjoy

Details can be found on the Dev Team Blog

23Jun/090

MobileNavigator for Iphone OS 3.0 Turn-by-Turn GPS Navigation

MobileNavigator Screen

MobileNavigator Screen

NAVIGON is introducing the first professional navigation solution for the iPhone!

Turn your iPhone into a first-rate navigation system with MobileNavigator. Try the feature for yourself and enjoy the excellent user control and superior design that allow simple and intuitive operating. The application includes the latest map material from the market leader NAVTEQ and can be used without an Internet connection, which is of enormous benefit abroad, for example, as no extra charges are incurred. With MobileNavigator you can turn your iPhone into an equally handy and convenient route guidance system.

3D display

3D display

Features and range of functions:

  • 2D and 3D map displays
  • Can be used in portrait and landscape format
  • Precise voice announcements
  • Intelligent address entry
  • Reality View Pro (realistic display of motorway interchanges and exits)
  • Lane Assistant Pro
  • Real signpost display
  • Speed Assistant with adjustable audio-visual warning
  • Day and night mode for map display
  • Direct access and navigation to contacts saved in the iPhone's address book
  • The latest NAVTEQ map material including more than two million (EU version) places of interest (POIs)
  • Navigation is automatically resumed after an incoming phone call
  • Quick access to user-defined POIs in the area and along the route
  • Take Me Home function with a single click
  • Automatic language selection to match the iPhone's user language
22Jun/0915

Installous on Iphone OS 3.0 with Icy

Many of you guys are having problems during installation of installous. Although hackulo.us Repository is overloaded and causing errors, cydia is having problems also in iPhone OS 3.0.  If you are receiving errors like below

  • size mismatch ....
  • Hash Sum ....
  • iphoneguide.nl ...
  • Cannot find executable

You can install Icy and continue installation from there. Icy is another application works like cydia but faster and more lightweight compared to cydia. Here are the steps to install Icy then Installous on the Iphone OS 3.0

  1. Launch Cydia
  2. Go to "Manage" then tap "Sources"
  3. Tap "Edit"
  4. Tap "Add"
  5. Type in http://apt.ripdev.com and Tap "Add Source"
  6. Search and Install "Icy"
  7. Go to Home screen and Launch "Icy"
  8. Tap "Sources" at the bottom
  9. Again Tap "Edit" then "Add"
  10. Type in http://cydia.hackulo.us and Tap "Add"
  11. Tap "Refresh" on top left
  12. Go to "Categories"
  13. Search for "Installous" and Install it
22Jun/090

Javascript cross library programming

Javascript were generally used amateourly to provide animation effects before web 2.0 attack and xmlhttprequest api. Nowadays many open source libraries are published in order to write less and do much much more.  Jquery, Prototype, Mootols, Dojo, Ext are some of the popular ones.  So why we love them, just to write less? Noo, mostly they have powerful selectors.  As usual first internet explorer then Safari do not obey the language rules and change them in their personal favor. These libraries mostly eliminate the cross platform issues also.  Finally, they all wait for the document to be ready in order to be fire an event. Thus eliminates all weird AJAX and DOM actions that is dependent on DOM content. They added fancy effects to old boring text content! That is why we love and can not do without them now.

But they have created another problem. Lets say you are publishing some class, web software, plugin for some CMS. You may use one of these libraries but the target client may use another one or not use at all.  Furthermore this libraries are version dependant. Updates in the library may require you to update your software also. Making your software dependent on one of them decreases the product compatibility. They all have different APIs and structures no way to globalize them under a roof.  So what should you do? Make your software compatible with all of them.

20Jun/090

Turn-by-Turn Satellite Navigation on Iphone 3G via xGPS

xGPS

xGPS SatNAV Screen

Lots of you already know about xGPS but this post is for newbies. xGPS is the "currently" only "not apple supported" navigation solution for Iphone. As usual of crappy apple, device has GPS and google maps but no navigation!! And does not work without internet connection! What is the point of having a GPS in the device some really wonders.

Anyhow Tomtom is making a satnav application for Iphone but of course like Adobe making flash player, it is still making... and still will be making I guess. Plus you will need to buy Tomtom deck and software inorder to use it.

Fortunately we have xGPS. Lets go with the xGPS in short bullet features.

  • You need a jailbroken phone to use it
  • It is FREE!
  • It supports offline usage also meaning you do not need to be connected to the internet
  • It is pretty accurate ( not as much as commercial SatNavs cos apple's internal GPS sucks like all of its features)
  • You can also use it with external Iphone GPS mods and casings.
  • You can download maps from google, meaning you are uptodate with free updates and do not need any map packs.
  • Supports routing, rerouting, zooming, searching, history
  • Provides graphical interface with voice instructions (only in english I guess)
  • It also comes with a manager so you can download and manage maps from your pc to iphone wirelessly.
  • Track your positions and create roadmaps
  • It is just great for you in an unknown city :)
20Jun/09343

How to install Installous cracked apps on Iphone 3.0 OS

There are minor changes to installous on iphone 3.0. Follow the steps below as usual to get the installous up and running  from cydia. You need a jailbreaked iphone and cydia of course. If you do not know what are they well google is your friend.

  1. Open Cydia, tap on "Manage" at the bottom
  2. Tap on "Sources"
  3. Tap on "Edit" on top right then tap on "Add" on top left
  4. Type in http://cydia.hackulo.us Cydia will warn you about copyright information just tap ok
    1. hackuolo.us repository is very crowded and they lack donations so it is down very ofthen. You may try the new brotherhood project repository http://cydia.install0us.com/. That is a ZERO not an O
  5. Wait for repo to be added and updated.
  6. From search or hackulo.us repo directory
  7. Install Appsync for OS 3.0 do not install miPatch on os 3.0! If you do not download then sync cracked apps from PC/MAC/iTunes you may skip this step.
  8. Install Installous
  9. Restart your phone
  10. Launch installous and have free fun.

Thats it, simple tap steps.

Appsync will allow you to sync the hacked apps through itunes, otherwise it will give out invalid application signature error.

For downloading from PC and syncing your apps with iTunes use www.appulo.us

Appulous is a free iTunes App Store in short created by people by sharing their applications from all over the world.

Troubleshooting

If you experience any problems during the installation or application installation steps, you may try this checklist.

  1. Perform update on all cydia related packages. It will ask you to update first, do not skip it and update.
  2. Do not forget to restart your phone
  3. Install a free application from app store like "facebook" before installing applications from installous
  4. First select download, wait for it to finish (100% complete) then tap "Downloads" section and install. If you do not see your app in that directory, then it is not complete yet. Double tapping on download may corrupt your downloaded file.
  5. Make sure the file you are downloading works fine. Sometimes cracked apps may fail, so try another application or package to make sure everything works fine before searching for help.
  6. If you encounter problems during application installation like package or executable not found etc make sure the following packages exists in your cydia, if not install them or re-install them to make sure everything is solid and packages are not corrupt. Installouse is dependent on these sub package libraries.
    1. Erica Utilities
    2. core utils
    3. grep
    4. Darwin CC Tools
    5. UUID Generator
    6. unzip
    7. gawk
    8. Curl (not sure if it was listed on packages but installous dependent)

If you still can not manage to solve your problem, drop a comment below including your problem. Me or someone else will try to help you for sure.

FAQ from Jackian about installous & install0us

Ok first of all a short summary of the whole thing, then some more in detail questions and answers

One day a developer named puy0 started work on a project called Installous 1.0, he was a part of Hackulous and was releasing it with support from Hackulous. This 1.0 version did nothing but install .ipa's you'd placed in its folder. And then before we know it along comes version 2.0, it allowed downloading from Appulous and then installing it directly on your device.

Now there was a big long wait time after version 2.0 while puy0 thought of what he could do in Installous 2.5 and 3. He finally began work on Installous 2.5. Now at this time there were lots of things going on among the staff. Eventually puy0 couldn't take the rivalry and arguments and split from Hackulous. He renamed Installous to Install0us and made his own site install0us.com http://install0us.com/

2.5 went into beta on his site, the testers were a mix of donators and handpicked well known community members (I was included). The new app was way better than 2.0 and soon it was released publicly. Then work began on version 3, Install0us 3 BETA1 really was a breakthrough. It had native searching for apps and an update notifier. Then along came BETA2. BETA2 was even more amazing, in the apps that you came to, people could make "plugins" that added little buttons to search for that app on other sites or in some cases go directly to it!

Ok Q&A time and also some app descriptions!

Installous 2.x.x

Great app that surfs Appulous and lets you easily download and install .ipa's

Where can I get it? From the official Hackulo.us cydia source, http://cydia.hackulo.us/

Install0us 2.5

Complete rewrite of Installous with a completely different much better install method and also the ability to download multiple apps at the same time and select the site you wish to browse.

Where can I get it? From the official Install0us.com cydia source, install0us.com, http://cydia.install0us.com/

Install0us 3 BETA2

Supports "plugins" allowing you to on finding an update tap on a number of .ipa sites to search them for the update

puy0 decided to make Install0us 3 BETA2 available as a public beta for a limited time. Please note that if you are one of the people with the Christmas open BETA, it will auto expire soon.

Where can I get it? It's currently in BETA testing, if you're a tester login to http://install0us.com and read the Beta forum for instructions on getting it.

I heard about this Christmas BETA thing, what is it?

puy0 decided to make Install0us 3 BETA2 a public beta for a limited time at Christmas. Enjoy using it because it will self expire very soon!

HaHa! You're all silly! I have this awesome leaked BETA copy!

Guess what? On launching a leaked copy your UDID (Unique Device Identifier) is recorded and banned from using the public versions of Install0us 3 when it becomes available! Also that version will expire soon that you have so enjoy it.

So which should I get?

Completely up to you, Install0us is more up to date and offers more features, but Installous 2 is nice and easy to use so ideal for beginners.

Can I get both apps?

Sure, they won't conflict with each other so feel free to install both

Ok first of all a short summary of the whole thing, then some more in detail questions and answers

One day a developer named puy0 started work on a project called Installous 1.0, he was a part of Hackulous and was releasing it with support from Hackulous. This 1.0 version did nothing but install .ipa's you'd placed in its folder. And then before we know it along comes version 2.0, it allowed downloading from Appulous and then installing it directly on your device.

Now there was a big long wait time after version 2.0 while puy0 thought of what he could do in Installous 2.5 and 3. He finally began work on Installous 2.5. Now at this time there were lots of things going on among the staff. Eventually puy0 couldn't take the rivalry and arguments and split from Hackulous. He renamed Installous to Install0us and made his own site install0us.com/' class='bbc_url' title='External link' rel='nofollow'>http://install0us.com/

2.5 went into beta on his site, the testers were a mix of donators and handpicked well known community members (I was included). The new app was way better than 2.0 and soon it was released publicly. Then work began on version 3, Install0us 3 BETA1 really was a breakthrough. It had native searching for apps and an update notifier. Then along came BETA2. BETA2 was even more amazing, in the apps that you came to, people could make "plugins" that added little buttons to search for that app on other sites or in some cases go directly to it!

Ok Q&A time and also some app descriptions!

Installous 2.x.x
Great app that surfs Appulous and lets you easily download and install .ipa's
Where can I get it? From the official Hackulo.us cydia source, http://cydia.hackulo.us/

Install0us 2.5
Complete rewrite of Installous with a completely different much better install method and also the ability to download multiple apps at the same time and select the site you wish to browse.
Where can I get it? From the official Install0us.com cydia source, install0us.com/' class='bbc_url' title='External link' rel='nofollow'>http://cydia.install0us.com/

Install0us 3 BETA1
Native searcher of app store, update notifier plus all the features of Install0us 2.5
Where can I get it? You can't get it as its expired and archived

Install0us 3 BETA2
Supports "plugins" allowing you to on finding an update tap on a number of .ipa sites to search them for the update
puy0 decided to make Install0us 3 BETA2 available as a public beta for a limited time. Please note that if you are one of the people with the Christmas open BETA, it will auto expire soon.
Where can I get it? It's currently in BETA testing, if you're a tester login to install0us.com' class='bbc_url' title='External link' rel='nofollow'>http://install0us.com and read the Beta forum for instructions on getting it.

I heard about this Christmas BETA thing, what is it?
puy0 decided to make Install0us 3 BETA2 a public beta for a limited time at Christmas. Enjoy using it because it will self expire very soon!

HaHa! You're all silly! I have this awesome leaked BETA copy!
Guess what? On launching a leaked copy your UDID (Unique Device Identifier) is recorded and banned from using the public versions of Install0us 3 when it becomes available! Also that version will expire soon that you have so enjoy it.

So which should I get?
Completely up to you, Install0us is more up to date and offers more features, but Installous 2 is nice and easy to use so ideal for beginners.

So where do I get support for these apps?
You can get support for Installous 2.x.x right in this forum here, Install0us 2.5/3 support is available at install0us.com/' class='bbc_url' title='External link' rel='nofollow'>http://install0us.com/

Can I get both apps?
Sure, they won't conflict with each other so feel free to install both

20Jun/090

Iphone 2G,3G os 3.0 jailbreak and unlock released

Well like after two years crappy apple finally made copy/paste into this crappy rip off device just because nokia is about to hit its answer N97 to smart phones. US does not know how to produce mobile phones anyways, if apple was in another country it would starve to death ages ago.  I used to hate Microsoft but they done and are doing so much for IT world than this posers. What kind of an company only advertises by throwing mud on competitor companies and products? And what kind of an commercial ethic that country has? Stop bitching and show us what you did instead! Mann, I really hate apple.  Anyhow as my hatred towards apple and its rip off products, viva la jailbreak and open source programming.

The amazing iphone dev team did it again and jailbreaked the os 3.0 after 1 day of release nearly. You can find the details and pwnage tool in their offical website http://blog.iphone-dev.org/post/126465561/trois-drei-h-rom. Ultrasn0w is on the way also which enables the software sim unlock for 3g phones. For windows users well you have tree choices.

  1. Download a custom build ipsw with pwnage tool and restore your iphone with it. You can find these at comments section and on some other websites via google by now.
  2. Use vmware and install mac OS then build your custom ipsw
  3. Wait for quickpwn release, which will be out by tomorrow morning.
  4. As of today quickpwn is still on the waiting list but iphone dev team provided a windows pwnage tool with the name Redsn0w for both windows and mac os.

Happy jailbreaking! and do not forget to buy the apps you like so they can keep on living.

Download Links

MAC OS - PwnageTool 3.0

Iphone OS 3.0 Jailbreak and sim unlock for MAC OS via pwnagetool

http://torrents.thepiratebay.org/4963802/PwnageTool_3.0.dmg.4963802.TPB.torrent

Windows RedSn0w 0.7

Iphone OS 3.0 Jailbreak and sim unlock for Windows via RedSn0w

http://torrents.thepiratebay.org/4965140/redsn0w-win_0.7.1.zip.4965140.TPB.torrent

Quickpwn will be coming too. Winpwn was the greatest but he gave up on the releasing, he is now providing support for iphone 3G S as of today. Maybe he will release a 3.0 jailbreak tool soon also.

8Jun/094

How to identify and ban bots-spiders-crawlers

This is a fast step tutorial. I will describe how to identify and get rid of web spiders/crawlers. Whats is a bot and what it does, how it functions etc all can be found here So you are trouble with robots, good or bad does not matter. They all leech away your bandwith and resources and just maybe do something for you in return. Even though they are not harvasting or spammer bots. This problem goes beyond bandwidth when you have like 100,000 dynamic pages under one server.  So how do we seperate them as good or bad?