To commemorate i want to post something amazing, the first ever moon walk!

Michael Jackson First Moon Walk Ever

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RIP MJ

here’s the link

http://www.ikea.com/ca/en/catalog/news/departments?pageNumber=3

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Interesting Ikea Marketing.

Let me explain, i’ve been waiting for Neil Strauss new book since he announced it, the book is called Emergency. The reason i’m so pysched is because i managed to get my hands on it almost 30 days days before it is due to be released. Amazon has the release date for April 2nd. So in the 4 days leeway i have more than enough time to finish the whole book.

Do you ever get the feeling that your not going to be able to put down a book when you hear about it. The last book that did that for me was the Four Hour Work Week. Either way i highly reccomend you pick up this book when it comes out.

Here is an excerpt from the book.

Lesson 22 - The Gone With the Wind Guide to Asset Protection

If you wanted to withdraw your entire life savings and move it to a bank in Switzerland, what would you do?

Now that I’d decided to hide my assets offshore, the information from the Sovereign Society conference about the government tracking withdrawals and transfers of more than $10,000 applied to me. It seemed impossible to get the money from my American bank to the Swiss bank Spencer recommended without ringing alarm bells. Even if I moved it in small increments, there would still be a paper trail detailing exactly how much money I’d transferred.

So I did what any resourceful American would do: I bought a book on money laundering.

After all, it isn’t a crime to move money secretly as long as the income’s been reported to the IRS and any other necessary reporting requirements are met. And my intention wasn’t to hide my earnings from the government, customs, or creditors, but to protect it from bank collapses, inflation, seizure, and lawsuits, which required leaving few traces of where it went.

Securing money overseas is not a new idea. Even in the novel Gone With the Wind, Rhett butler keeps his earnings in offshore banks, enabling him to buy a house for Scarlett o’Hara after the Civil War—in contrast to his Southern colleagues, who lose their fortunes due to blockades, inflation, and financial collapse.

For more practical, non-fictional inspiration, I bought Jeffrey Robinson’s 1996 book The Laundrymen. I’d always wondered how empty video stores renting movies for $3 a day could stay in business, and why I’d see Russian thugs running clearly unprofitable frozen yogurt stands on deserted side streets. According to Robinson, it’s because, in order to make illegal funds appear legitimate, crooks will slowly feed the money into the cash registers of a normal business.

“It’s almost impossible to spot an extra $500 coming in daily through the tills of a storefront stocked with 15,000 videos,” he writes. “Nor would anyone’s suspicions necessarily be raised if that same owner ran a chain of twenty video rental stores and, backed up with the appropriate audits, awarded himself an annual bonus of $3.96 million.”

Buried elsewhere in Robinson’s book was the answer I was looking for. The best legal way to surreptitiously move money, it seems, is to buy something that doesn’t lose its cash value when purchased. For example, there’s a black market for people who transfer money by buying expensive jewelry, art, watches, and collectibles, then selling them in their destination country for a small loss—usually no greater than the percentage banks charge for exchanging currencies.

So once AIG private bank in Switzerland returned my phone call—assuming that, unlike Spencer’s [a billionaire who appears earlier in the book] lawyer, they were actually willing to work with me—I planned to go shopping for rare coins.

But if it was all so legitimate, why did it feel so wrong?

While I waited to hear from the Swiss bank, I drove to Burbank to meet with the asset protection lawyers Spencer had recommended, Tarasov and Associates. The receptionist led me into a room with black-and-silver wallpaper where Alex Tarasov sat at a large mahogany desk with a yellow legal pad in front of him. With this pad, he would rearrange my business life forever.

“You did a very smart thing by coming here,” Tarasov said. Twenty- five years ago, he had probably been a frat boy. Maybe even played varsity football. But a quarter century spent sitting at desks scrutinizing legal papers had removed all evidence of health from his skin and physique. “By taking everything you own out of your name, we can hide it from lawyers trying to do an asset search on you.”

“So if they sue me and win, they won’t be able to get anything?”

“We can make it very difficult for them to find the things you own and get at them. It’s not impossible, but the deeper we bury your assets, the more money it’s going to cost to find out where they are. And if we can make that time and cost greater than the worth of the assets, then you’re in good shape.”

Like Spencer had said, this was just insurance. The cost of setting this up would be like taking out a policy against lawsuits.

“So what do you own?” he asked.

I laid it all out for him. “I have a house I’m still paying for. I have some stocks and bonds my grandparents gave me when I was a kid. I have a checking and a savings account. And I have the copyrights to my books.” I paused, trying to remember if I owned anything else. I thought there was more. “I guess that’s about it. I have a secondhand Dodge Durango, I guess. And a 1972 corvette that doesn’t work.”

In truth, I didn’t own that much. But ever since my first college job, standing over a greasy grill making omelets and grilled cheese sandwiches, I had started putting money in the bank. Since then, I’d saved enough to live on for a year or two if I ever fell on hard times or just wanted to see the world. I didn’t want to lose the freedom that came from having a financial cushion and not being in debt for anything besides my house.

“Here’s what we can do,” Tarasov said. He then sketched this diagram on his legal pad:

The stick figure was me. as for the boxes, I had no idea what those were. “These are boxes,” Tarasov explained. I was clearly getting the asset-protection-for-dummies lecture. “Each box represents a different LLC”—limited liability company. “If we can wrap everything in an LLC, and then all those LLCs are owned by a holding company, and that holding company is owned by a trust that you don’t even technically own, then you’re safe.”

I liked that last word. But I didn’t understand the rest of it.

“So we’re just basically making everything really complicated?” I asked.

“That’s the idea. We’ll even put your house in a separate LLC, so that if someone trips and falls, they can’t get at anything else you own.”

When Tarasov was through explaining everything, I couldn’t tell whether I was protecting myself from being scammed or actually being scammed myself. But I trusted Spencer, because he seemed too rich, too smart, and too paranoid to get taken in. So I told Tarasov to start wrapping me up in LLCs until my net-worth was whatever spending money I had in my pocket.

“Once we have these entities set up, we can talk about transferring them to offshore corporations,” Tarasov said as I left.

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Lesson 54 – Secrets of Escaped Felons

Kelly Alwood didn’t say a word as he handcuffed my hands behind my back, opened the trunk of a rental car, and ordered me to get inside. With his shaven head, which looked like it could break bottles; his glassy green eyes, which revealed no emotion whatsoever; and the .32 caliber pistol hanging from a chain around his neck, he didn’t seem like the kind of person to cross.

As he shut the trunk over my head, the blue sky of Oklahoma City disappeared, replaced by claustrophobic darkness and new-car smell. Instantly, panic set in.

I took a deep breath and tried to remember what I’d learned. I curled my right leg as far up my body as it would go and dipped my cuffed hands down until I could reach my sock. Inside, I’d stashed the straight half of a bobby pin, which I’d modified by making a perpendicular bend a quarter inch from the top. I removed the pin, stuck the bent end into the inner edge of the handcuff keyhole, and twisted the bobby pin down against the lever inside until I felt it give way.

As I twisted my wrist against the metal, I heard a fast series of clicks, the sound of freedom as the two ends of the cuff disengaged. I released my hand, then made a discovery few people who haven’t been stuffed inside a trunk know: most new cars have a release handle on the inside of the boot that, conveniently, glows in the dark. I pulled on the handle and emerged into the light.

“Thirty-nine seconds,” Alwood said as I climbed out of the trunk. “Not bad.”

I couldn’t believe classes like this even existed. In the last forty-eight hours, I’d learned to hotwire a car, pick locks, conceal my identity, and escape from handcuffs, flexi-cuffs, ducttape, rope, and nearly every other type of restraint.

The course was Urban Escape and Evasion, which offered the type of instruction I’d been looking for to balance my wilderness knowledge. The objective of the class was to learn to survive in a city as a fugitive. Most of the students were soldiers and contractors who’d either been in Iraq or were about to go, and wanted to know how to safely get back to the Green Zone if trapped behind enemy lines.

The class was run by a company called onPoint Tactical. Like most survival schools, its roots led straight to Tom Brown. Its founder, Kevin Reeve, had been the director of Tracker School for seven years before setting off on his own to train navy SEALS, Special Forces units, SWAT teams, parajumpers, marines, snipers, and even SERE instructors. As a bounty hunter, his partner, Alwood, had worked with the FBI and Secret Service to help capture criminals on the Most Wanted list.

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As the sun set, we drove to an abandoned junkyard, where Reeve let us practice throwing chips of ceramic insulation from spark plugs to shatter car windows, using generic keys known as jigglers to open automobile doors, and starting cars by sticking a screwdriver in the ignition switch and turning it with a wrench.

As I popped open the trunk on a Dodge with my new set of jigglers, I thought, This is the coolest class I’ve ever taken in my life.

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Over a barbecue dinner later that night, Reeve asked why I’d signed up for the course. “I think things have changed for my generation,” I told him. “We were born with a silver spoon in our mouths, but now it’s being removed. And most of us never learned how to take care of ourselves. So I’ve spent the last two years trying to get the skills and documents I need to prepare for an uncertain future.”

I’d never actually verbalized it before. I’d just been reacting and scrambling as the pressure ratcheted up around me. Reeve looked at Alwood silently as I spoke. For a moment, I worried that I’d been too candid. Then he smiled broadly. “You’re talking to the right people. That’s what we’ve been thinking. Kelly has caches all over the country—and in Europe.”

Lesson 28 – Calculate the Odds That You’re In Jail Right Now

ST. KITTS, EASTERN CARIBBEAN

In a few days, I’d be committed to an expense of over half a million dollars, which was more money than I had.

And what was it all for? Symbolic paper. A passport, which is just a teeny little booklet that means nothing to the universe. Realistically, the world wasn’t likely to end in my lifetime. And if it did, everyone on St. Kitts would be just as dead as everyone in America.

If there were a smaller-scale world disaster, things would probably be even worse on an island in the Caribbean, where I was more likely to be a victim of food shortages, droughts, hurricanes, blackouts, and tsunamis. There’s nowhere to run and nowhere to hide on an island—especially one in the smallest country in the Americas. I’d become so focused on my search for a passport—so consumed with escaping the blowback of American politics—that I’d forgotten the survivalist lessons I’d learned on Y2K and 9/11.

Soon, the whole endeavor began to seem like the biggest travesty ever. If something horrible happened in America, would a St. Kitts passport even get me out during a state of emergency? What if it was confiscated by customs agents? Or what if Victor, Maxwell, and Wendell were in collusion and just ripping me off? I didn’t have anyone to protect me here.

Once I’d ridden out that wave of anxiety, a new one formed. I began worrying that I’d blabbed my name and occupation to too many people. If they Googled me and saw the filth I’d written, they might not sell me the apartment or give me a citizenship. And then I’d be stuck in America if anything bad happened.

And so it went, all night, one wave of anxiety after another—half of them spent worrying that I wouldn’t get a passport, the other half spent worrying that I would.

I fell asleep around dawn for a few fitful hours, until I was woken by my cell phone. AIG Private Bank was finally returning my call.

Every day, my small savings were dwindling as the dollar dropped relative not just to the euro, but even to the Caribbean currency here. I never thought I’d see the day when Eastern Europeans came to the United States for the cheap shopping.

“I’d like to inquire about opening a private banking account,” I told the woman.

“Great,” she said, with barely a trace of a Swiss accent. “Let me ask you a few questions.”

“Sure.”

“Are you an American citizen?”

“Yes, I am.”

“We don’t deal with American citizens for a few years now.”

“But my friend Spencer Booth is American, and I think he has an account with you.”

“It’s likely an older account. We don’t do business with American citizens anymore. Sorry, good-bye.”

Before I could respond, she had hung up. I felt like an outcast. I couldn’t believe a bank wouldn’t take my money solely because I was American.

I’d noticed that many of the banks I’d researched had special policies for dealing with United States citizens. Even some of the online companies selling vintage travel documents said they no longer shipped to America because U.S. customs agents were opening and confiscating the packages. The government seemed to be sticking its nose everywhere.

In the meantime, I’d discovered a few other interesting facts: according to a report issued by Reporters Without Borders, the United States was ranked as having the fifty-third freest press in the world, tied with Botswana and Croatia. According to the World Health organization, the United States had the fifty-fourth fairest health care system in the world, with lack of medical coverage leading to an estimated 18,000 unnecessary deaths a year. And according to the Justice Department, one in every thirty-two Americans was in jail, on probation, or on parole.

Rather than having actual freedom, it seemed that, like animals in a habitat in the zoo, we had only the illusion of freedom. As long as we didn’t try to leave the cage, we’d never know we weren’t actually free.

That phone call was all it took to let me know I was doing the right thing.

Before going home, I had dinner with Wendell at a restaurant called Fisherman’s Wharf [in St. Kitts, not San Francisco] and thanked him for his help.

After the meal, he patted my shoulder and smiled. “Next time I see you, you’ll be a citizen of St. Kitts and Nevis just like me,” he said. “When you get married, your wife will be a citizen. And when you have kids, so will they.”

He stepped into his SUV, started the engine, then unrolled the window and concluded his thought: “One day,” he said, beaming, “when you come back to America, no one will recognize you. You’ll be a Kittitian.”

At the St. Kitts airport the next morning, I felt like I was returning not to a country but a fortress. “Your country is so tough to get into,” the ticket agent complained as she checked my documents for the flight home. “They make it so hard for us.”

She looked up at me and said it louder, almost with venom, as if it were my fault. “They make it so hard for us.”

She wasn’t alone in her opinion. A survey released the previous month by the Discover America Partnership had found that international travelers considered America the least-friendly country to visit.

“That’s why,” I told her, with the newfound pride that Wendell had instilled in me, “I’m moving here.”

Lesson 59 – Iceland is the New Caribbean

Maybe it was when Bear Stearns became the first brokerage house to be rescued by the government since the Great Depression.

Maybe it was when IndyMac became the fifth American bank to fail in recent months.

Maybe it was when the government gave customs agents authority to confiscate, copy, and analyze any laptop or data storage device brought across the border.
…

Maybe it was the unshakable sense that the worst was still to come.

But I was no longer alone.

It was a hot summer, and pessimism hung thick in the air. Most people I talked to felt as if they were inching closer to some darkness they couldn’t understand, because they’d never experienced it before and didn’t know what it held.
…

Even Spencer’s housemate Howard, who had once made fun of us for taking precautionary measures, was now looking into Caribbean islands. As it turned out, he would beat all of us there when his company collapsed and he had to hide from possible indictment.

“I’m so glad we started preparing ahead,” Spencer told me over dinner at the Chateau Marmont, where he was staying in Los Angeles.

Having struck out with the Swiss, I took Spencer’s advice and opened an account with a Canadian bank that had a branch in St. Kitts. Since both Canada and St. Kitts are part of the British Commonwealth, he’d explained, I would have easy access to my money if anything happened in America. Unfortunately, in the process, I discovered that keeping international accounts secret is now illegal: the IRS requires Americans with over $10,000 in foreign accounts to file an annual report disclosing not just the amount of money and the banks it’s kept in, but the account numbers.

Meanwhile, Spencer was moving forward with his ten-year plan. He started an Internet business in Singapore, enabling him to open a private banking account in the country, which he claimed was fast becoming the new Switzerland. Though he hadn’t gotten his St. Kitts passport yet either, Spencer had done more research into buying an island.

“I’m looking at islands in the north, around Iceland, because no one will think of looking for anyone there,” Spencer said, his thick lips spreading into a self-satisfied smile. “If I can get some other B people [billionaires] to go there with me, we can build underground homes and use geothermal energy.”

“What about your submarine?”

“It’s a great way to move between islands undetected, but we’re running out of time. We need to move faster. This is only the beginning.”

“How bad do you think it’s going to get?” Spencer seemed to understand the economy at a higher level than most people did, perhaps because he knew so many of the people who ran it.

“I don’t think the whole country’s going to collapse, but we’re looking at the worst economic disaster in America since the Great Depression. What I’m also concerned about is the increase in violent crime that’s going to accompany this.”

Everywhere I went that summer, the demon of Just in Case seemed to follow me, growling in my ear louder than it ever had, its jaws terrifyingly close to my jugular. I’d learned so much, changed so much, tested myself so much. It now was time to stop preparing, turn around, and face the demon—and my fears—head on.

And a musician would lead me there.

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Exclusive first-run excerpts from Neil Strauss’ Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life.

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Uh Oh Emergency!

I just recently found out about Tan Le in the most recent issue of Inc. (which is a great magazine) she and her team have brought to market the first device which actually allows you to think about something and then have it do it on the screen. Yes Neo the matrix just got a whole lot more real.

I’ve included the video which she recently did at the Entertainment Group, this is a must watch.

Think about how much more work you could get done with about a tenth of the effort. The best part about Tan and her team is that they had a plan on how to capitalize on there investment right away by selling the technology to gamers, this is one technology that WILL become the standard.

How could you use this technology? Would You? What kind of problems do you think could come up?

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The Future of Technology is Tan Le

So i was surfin the intrawebs and i came across this article How i became a Digg Power User and How You Can Too

This article is bad ass and it will guide you through step by step how to become a power user and how to manipulate the massive news source which is Digg.

This is the present and anyone who doesn’t seems to see the value, well keep reading those ebooks!

Affiliate Summit West is coming up as well as CES (consumer electronics show) I will be attending both in Vegas so if your around and wanna give me a shout just go to the Contact page and drop me a line.

I wish everyone a very successful 2009 and the best of luck, one new years resolution i have is to update the blog more often. We will see if it happens.

Have a great holiday season!

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Happy Holidays! Here’s A Present

Eminem - Relapse - December 8th

It’s been a while since Eminem released an album his last album was a greatest hits with a few extra tracks, this albums seem to be very promising as long as he doesn’t pull the whole i’m white trash, my wife divorced me and my mom is on drugs, after 3 albums of it, it’s kind of getting old.

Nas - Untitled - July 15th

The new album by Nas has caused more controversy than maybe any other cd before it, as the title was originally slated to be N*gger which caused many civil rights activists to speak out including the likes of Jesse Jackson.

Ludacris - Theater of the mind - November 25th

On the last few tracks luda has been on he absolutely killed it, this album promises to holding nothing back, Luda is in his prime right now, besides hip hop Luda is also an avid actor recently working with Guy Ritchie in the new movie Rock n Rolla.

Dr. Dre - Detox - Sometime in December

This album is most likely Dre’s last album and has been in production since 2002, ever since his last album The Chronic 2001 which was a mega hit, Dre has been working with artists and beats to make this finally album, it was done in September of 2007 but is just waiting to be released.

50 Cent - Before I Self Destruct - December 9th

After the battle last year with Kanye West, 50 cent is back and looking to come back hard he has two projects on the go with his solo album and G Unit’s new album.

Kanye West - 808’s and Heartbreak- November 25th

With the radio already blowing up with 3 hit songs from the album, Love Lock Down, Robocop and Heartless this promises to be a huge album for Kanye but with some people questioning whether Kanye’s style is still hip hop or a new form of pop with a T-Pain infusion, either way watch out for the album.

T.I - Paper Trail - September 26th

With a couple huge hits on the charts and with the hardcore fan favourite Swagger like us this album is T.I’s biggest and one of his best, this album is already hot and has some more legs.

Jay-Z - Blueprint 3 - Sometime December

This is Jay-Z last album with Def Jam and many speculate that once this album is done he will be starting his own album with the help of Live Nation and bringing many artists with him, this album already has leaked tracks on the internet like Jocking Jay-Z.

With this list of albums this year hip hop is alive and here to stay!

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It’s Alive, It’s Alive… Hip Hop is Born Again!

MSNBC - Viewed as a liberal station. (Live video)

CBS - Another liberal station.

Fox - If your a “conservative” person you will want to watch this network.

Hopefully this helps you watch the election as the US makes history.

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Top Places to Watch the Election for NON Americans

Unfortunately Jonathan Volk didn’t hear that because he either did something really stupid or something brilliantly smart (still haven’t decided)

While i can’t say i know Jonathan i do know a lot of people that do know him, and from what i heard he is a nice kid, i subscribe to his blog and read what he has to say, he’s smart and knowledgeable but while i was reading his post today about the Mccain, Obama debate he did something very strange he chose a candidate and gave bad reasons why not to choose the other.

Blowback

Things on the net don’t bother me and neither did this post, but what i noticed was he took a lot of heat for choosing McCain and not giving clear reasons why not to chose Obama, it was 14 comments in before 1 person decided to stand up for him, overall it would seem 90%+ of all commenter’s didn’t appreciate what he had to say.

Now out of all those commenter’s i will doubt any will unsubscribe but what it does is it affects there image of that person, and it tarnishes your brand slightly, for another example of tarnishing your brand see (John Chow).

The one thing i can say is that it is his blog and he can say what he likes, obviously that is the point of blogs is to have a voice, but one lesson i hope he takes away from this is that political opinions should be kept to yourself, and if you insist on sharing be prepared for whatever happens.

Voting

As far as voting goes, just do it, if you don’t vote then you have NO right to complain about the government and you need to keep your mouth shut, find a candidate that represents you and what you stand for, don’t think just right and left, think about what is more important to you, then weight the pro’s and con’s and make your decisions, don’t vote democrat cause your dad was a democrat, and don’t vote republican because you think that means lower taxes, if you have low income tax but the American Peso is worthless worldwide then why do taxes matter? Find the candidate that represents YOU!

Conclusion

Jonathan learnt a very good lesson i hope and i hope that he continues to write good posts and provides great content, while i will not be unsubscribing i will remember this incident and it will serve as a reminder of what not to do in a personal blog!

What’s your opinion?

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Why Politics is BAD for business!

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I Know You Will Laugh

Do you want apps but you want to try them out first, well this is for you, here is a guide to “try” apps for free and if you like them you can purchase them later.

A thanks goes out to http://www.iphonedownloadblog.com for the guide!

So, how to install ipa files on an iPhone or iPod Touch?

1. You need to be on jailbroken 2.0 iPhone with Cydia installed. (If on a Mac use PwnageTool and if on Windows use WinPwn)

2. Install OpenSSH from Cydia on your iPhone. Click on Cydia and then click Install (Sections)>Networking>OpenSSH then click Install>Confirm (if you get a running out of disk space error click “ok”).

3. Log into WinSCP. The first time you try to login you may get a connection timeout error, click retry and it should work. If you still get an error, reboot your iPod/iPhone and try again.

4. On your iPhone, create a folder called Documents in /var/mobile/ and set permission to 777

5. Create a folder called Documents in the /Applications folder and set permissions to 777. This will fix the Disk Full error message seen when launching the game.

———Note: You will only need to create these two Documents folders once———

6. Go to <root> “/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/MobileInstallation.framework”

7. Rename the file “MobileInstallation” to “MobileInstallation.bak”

8. Download this patched MobileInstallation file from HERE

9. Place the patched file into the /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/MobileInstallation.framework folder and set the permissions 775 for the patched MobileInstallation file. You need to drop the .dylib extension from the patched file or else your phone will lock at the Apple logo bootup.

10. Reboot your iPhone/iPod Touch

11. Download cracked api Games and Apps from Here.

12. Download at least one App from Apple App Store (Free or Paid) IMPORTANT: Otherwise you will get an error! [Only need to do this once]

13. Double click on the cracked .ipa you downloaded

14. Sync your iPhone/iPod Touch and enjoy!

Errors:

The application “XXXXXXX” cannot be opened
Fix: Reboot your iPhone or iPod

0xE800001 Error:

FIX: Change usb port and reboot your iphone/ipod Touch.
If this doesn’t work try going into: Control panel->System->Device Manager->Universal Serie Bus Controller->Right click Apple Mobile Device USB Driver and update driver.

0xE800013 Error:

You get this error when you already have the app
FIX: Simply delete the .app folder that u have ssh’d and reboot.

What about Apps?

Here are 20 apps but for the full list go here!

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I Love My iPhone and Why You Should Too!