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youRhere: Bookmark where you left reading a webpage

Umar — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:35:31 +0000

When you bookmark a webpage, you expect to immediately start where you left off when you revisit the bookmark. But almost always you spend a little time searching exactly which line it was that you stopped reading the webpage. Here to save you that time is a tool called youRhere.

youRhere is a free to use browser extension for Google Chrome. The extension lets you bookmark webpages according to the line you left reading it on. The first step is to install the extension. Next, you can head on over to a webpage with text and see if the gray arrow appears on the left side of the lines – this indicates that the webpage is compatible with the extension. Then simply double-click on a word and that particular line will be highlighted in yellow.

When you want to visit your bookmarks, just click on the extension icon in the top-right of Chrome. Your bookmarked lines can even be shared on Twitter and Facebook.

Features:

A user-friendly browser extension
Compatible with Google Chrome
Lets you bookmark webpages by their line
Lets you share bookmarked lines on Twitter and Facebook

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Corporations Are Evil (Infographic)

Umar — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 20:19:08 +0000

If Corporations are indeed to be treated like people, and Occupy Wall Street’s end-goals are met, how would these ‘evil corporations’ be perceived? Well, like the sociopaths they are. From exploitation to repeatedly breaking laws, long-cons and being overly-aggressive — it’s amazing to see that the US public has been allowing such psychotic behavior to continue all these years. Something must be done — but what?

Created by: Online MBA Programs

Redsn0w 0.9.9b1 Released to Jailbreak iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad

Hammad — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 19:31:47 +0000

iPhone Dev Team has finally released the much awaited Redsn0w 0.9.9b1 which allow users to jailbreak iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad without the IPSW file. This means that in order to jailbreak your device, you don’t have to download the large iOS firmware files whenever you want to jailbreak you iDevice.

Some of the main features of redsn0w 0.9.9b1 includes automatic discovery of your device and the firmware while the device is in DFU mode. Secondly, you do no need to download iPSW file for your device. It will automatically detect your firmware and download the data for you. Redsn0w 0.9.9b1 can jailbreak the latest firmwares including iOS 5, iOS 4.3.5 among the latest firmwares but the jailbreak is still tethered. If you are looking for an untethered jailbreak, you should wait till iOS 5 is released for public, only then we can expect an untethered jailbreak. So, if you ask us, we will recommend that you should wait for the official iOS 5 release.

Note: Those who rely on UNLOCK should STAY AWAY from this update of redsn0w.

According to the official changelog:

uses DFU mode to try to automatically determine which device and FW you have

fetches pieces of public IPSWs from Apple (once). Non-public IPSWs must be provided manually (once). It then caches those pieces for future use.

“Just boot” is a tethered boot. Uses whatever “Preferences” you’ve set for boot logo and kernel boot-args

“Pwned DFU” puts your device in a pwned DFU state for some of the iTunes stuff detailed below

“Recovery fix” gets past 1015 types of errors (when baseband portion of restore fails). Should work on iOS5 beta too

“Select IPSW” is for picking non-public IPSWs, or overriding auto-detection

“SHSH blobs” has a bunch of options…

“Fetch” – fetch current PARTIAL blobs on device. Should complete in under 10 or 15 seconds. Puts the set of PARTIAL of blobs on your computer as a plist. Checks if Cydia already has a full set for this device and build. If not, it submits this PARTIAL set and returns Cydia’s acknowledgement or rejection

“Verify” – cryptographically verifies existing blob files from either redsn0w, TinyUmbrella, or Cydia server. You can select a whole bunch of blobs to verify at once if you want (like the TinyUmbrella directory)

“Submit” – both verifies and submits one or more blob files to Cydia. This lets you copy your entire TinyUmbrella cache of blobs up to the Cydia server

“Query” – queries the Cydia server for all available FULL or PARTIAL blobs for a given set of ECIDs

“Stitch” – stitches either FULL or PARTIAL blobs to a STOCK or CUSTOM IPSW

Stitching is NOT yet supported on iPhones! Need to work out the baseband part of the restore process.

FULL blobs stitched to a STOCK IPSW gives you a completely self-contained signed IPSW that iTunes will accept without any tricks (no need to go into pwned DFU mode, no need to start TinyUmbrella TSS server, no need to redirect to Cydia server for blobs)

PARTIAL blobs stitched to any IPSW requires you to go into pwned DFU mode before running iTunes. No need to start TU or use Cydia though.

Stitching either FULL or PARTIAL blobs to a CUSTOM IPSW also requires a pwned DFU start before iTunes restores. No need to start TU or use Cydia though.

Will eventually support fetching the blobs directly from Cydia instead of a file on your computer

Currently it supports iPhone 4 (GSM and CDMA), iPod Touch 3G/4G, iPad 1.

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Jailbreak iOS 5 Beta 6 Using Sn0wbreeze 2.8 Beta 6

Hammad — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 14:58:40 +0000

Apple released iOS 5 Beta 6 for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad few days back. When iOS 5 Beta 6 came out 2 days back, many people tried to jailbreak it using redsn0w and sn0wbreeze 2.8b5 but it was unsuccessful and caused many problems. But people who are eagerly waiting to jailbreak iOS 5 beta 6, there is good news for them. iH8sn0w has released sn0wbreeze 2.8b6 which can be used to tethered jailbreak iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad running iOS 5 Beta 6.

Currently, the latest version of sn0wbreeze 2.8b6 supports the following iOS devices:

iPhone 3GS (old bootrom)
iPhone 3GS (new bootrom)
iPhone 4 (GSM)
iPhone 4 (CDMA)
iPod Touch 3G
iPod Touch 4
iPad 1G

With Sn0wbreeze 2.8b6, users can have untethered jailbreak on iPhone 3GS (old bootrom). On the remaining devices, iOS 5 Beta 6 jailbreak is still tethered meaning that you must connect your device to your computer after every reboot. Like Sn0wbreeze 2.8b5, the latest version still has the ability to hactivate your device. Users who are not registered developers and have installed iOs 5 Beta 6, they use sn0wbreeze 2.8 beta 6 to jailbreak their device and remove UDID check and the beta timer. Sn0wbreeze 2.8 Beta 6 will also preserve your unlockable baseband. Also keep this thing in mind that this version of sn0wbreeze cannot be used to jailbreak iPad 2 running iOS 5 Beta 6. You can only jailbreak iPad 2 on iOS 4.3.3 using JailbreakMe 3.0.

Warning: If you have a software unlocked device, you should STAY AWAY away from iOS 5 Beta 6. Also note that jailbreaking will disable OTA updates for your device and you have to download the latest firmware again from your developer’s portal.

Disclaimer: Proceed at your own risk. We wont be responsible for loss of data from the use of this software or if you end up bricking your device.

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iTunes 10.5 Beta 6 Released for Windows and Mac

Hammad — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 21:13:48 +0000

Moments ago, Apple seeded iOS 5 Beta 6 for developers along with iTunes 10.5 Beta 6 for Windows and Mac. So, if you have updated your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad to iOS 5 beta 6 using over-the-air update, you must install iTunes 10.5 Beta 6 on your computer if you want to sync your device.

But do keep this thing in mind that the software is in beta stages and is strictly available for developers only. If you are a registered developer, you can download iTunes 10.5 Beta 6 for Windows and Mac from your developer’s portal. If not you can either enroll yourself in Apple Developers Program which costs $99 per year. This will not only let your try pre-release software but you will be able to use wide range of tools and documentation which are only available to registered developers.

If you still want to download iTunes 10.5 Beta 6, you can search on the internet as some websites might have uploaded the setup for Windows and Mac. But beware, as it is the beta version it might have bugs so install the software at your own risk. We always recommend users to either wait for the official release of the software or get yourself enrolled in the program if you are so anxious to try the pre-release software. This is because files uploaded by sources you don’t know may contain viruses and Trojans which may infect your PC.

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iOS 5 Beta 6 Seeded to Developers

Hammad — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 20:54:44 +0000

As expected, Apple has seeded iOS 5 Beta 6 for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad to developers enrolled in Apple’s Developer program. If you are a registered developer, you can download iOS 5 beta 6 legally from your Developer’s portal. If you are not and want to get a developer account, you have to pay $99 per year to join the Developer’s program. Registering through Apple Developer’s Program will not only give you access to pre-release software for different iOS devices but you will also get access many other useful tools and documentation.

As you all know, all the beta software since iOS 5 Beta 4 have been seeded to developers through over-the-air updates. So, if you are using legal iOS 5 Beta 5 on your device you can easily update to the newly released iOS 5 Beta 6 by going to Settings > General > Software Update. But do keep this thing in mind that the download might be slow right now as many people are downloading the latest beta right now from apple servers. So, it might take some time to download the file even though its around 120mb.

If you have jailbroken your device running iOS 5 Beta 5 using sn0wbreeze or any other tool, you will not be able to download iOS 5 Beta 6 through over-the-air updates and in that case, you must download and install stock iOS 5 Beta 6 on your iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.

In case you are not registered with Apple Developer’s program, you must wait for the unofficial IPSW links to be uploaded. You might have to get UDID of your device registered from someone who is enrolled in a Developer’s Program. These days, many people are trying to buy UDID registrations from the internet but Apple has taken notice of such incidents and is closing down developer’s accounts.

If you are downloading the latest beta and want to update it through your PC and sync your device running iOS 5 Beta 6, make sure you download iTunes 10.5 Beta 6 for Windows and Mac. Otherwise you wont be able to update to the latest firmware.

Note: If you are using a software unlocked iPhone, STAY AWAY from iOS 5 Beta 6 as you will lose your unlock. You can proceed with the download and install iOS 5 Beta 6 if you are using a factory unlocked device.

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Jailbreak iOS 5 Beta 5 Using Sn0wbreeze 2.8 Beta 5

Hammad — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 11:06:39 +0000

First of all, I would like to apologize to all my readers for being away for such a long time and not posting about the latest happenings in the world of technology and Apple. But hopefully starting today, we will try to bring the old routine back and post Apple related news, guides and reviews.

Anyways, as you all know, Apple pushed iOS 5 Beta 5 update few days back for developers. If you are a registered developer, you can get your hands on the latest beta by logging in to your developer account.

iH8sn0w, the developer of sn0wbreeze has updated its popular jailbreaking software, Sn0wbreeze 2.6 b5 which can be used to tethered jailbreak iOS 5 beta 5. The tool currently supports iOS 5 Beta 5 tethered jailbreak on iPhone 3GS (Old Bootrom), iPhone 3GS (New bootrom), iPhone 4 (GSM), iPhone 4 (CDMA), iPad 1G, iPod Touch 3G, iPod Touch 4. Tethered jailbreak means that you must connect your device to your computer every time it reboots.

With sn0wbreeze 2.8b5, users will be able to hactivate their device and will also be able to remove UDID developer check. It also removes the beta timer meaning that if you are running iOS 5 Beta 5, it wont expire even if its expiry date lapses. Anyways, here is the complete changelog of sn0wbreeze 2.8b5 is:

Now supports iOS 5 beta 5 (9A5228d).
Added Hacktivation ability.
Added option to remove UDID developer check/Beta Timer.
Finally decided to fix Baseband preservation standalone mode.
Tethered devices are booted via iBooty.
Re-added afc2.

Note: If you are a developer and have jailbroken your device running iOS 5 Beta 5, you wont be able to get over-the-air updates for your device. To make sure you get them, you must download iOS 5 beta 5 ipsw from developer’s portal again.

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SGP Ultra Thin Mattee Series Case for iPhone 4 [Review]

Hammad — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 09:45:49 +0000

Choosing a perfect case for your iDevice depends on your own personal preference. Some try to get cases which shows off their devices while others try to protect them by getting cases which covers your entire device making it bulky and heavy to carry. But that all depends on you, what you prefer.

Thanks to Caseaddict, we have received SGP Ultra Thin Matte Series case for iPhone 4 and if you ask me, this is one of the best case I have used so far. The case doesn’t ruin the look of your iPhone and it makes it stand out without making it bulky. Anyways, here are some quick specifications of the case:

iPhone 4 Case with Matte UV Coating
Strong and Durable Polycarbonate Case
Smooth Matte Surface to Prevent Smudges and Fingerprints
Slim Fit and Light Weight – Only 1/29″ Thickness
Easy Acess to All Controls and Ports
Steinheil Ultra Crystal iPhone 4 Screen Protector Film Included
Apple Logo Protection Film Included
LED Flash diffused reflection protector included (Except Black color)
Designed by SGP in California, USA
Made by SGP in Korea

Available Colors: Champaigne Gold, Gun Metal, Satin Silver, Smooth Black, Smooth White.

Price: £14.99

I have been using this product from sometime and I can definitely say it’s the best case I have used so far. Inside the box, you will find SGP Ultra Thin Case, Steinheil Ultra Crystal Film, Apple Logo Protection Film and a Micro Fiber cloth.

The Smooth Black case has an excellent finish which feels really nice and good. The case is made of polycarbonate with UV Matte coating which prevents fingerprints and smudges on your device. The spaces for back camera and the buttons are very well designed and are in perfect position on the case.

The case includes screen protection film for front and back side as well which protects your device from scratches.

SGP Ultra Thin Matt Series is a good looking case and durable that protects your iPhone 4 from scratches and bumps. if you ask me to rate this product, ill give it 4/5.

iOS 5 Beta 3 Released for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad

Hammad — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 18:38:37 +0000

Apple has released another update to iOS 5 Beta which brings some new features and a lot of bug fixes. Along with that, Apple also released iTunes 10.5 Beta 3 has been released for developers as well, which can be downloaded from the links given below.

If you are enrolled in Apple Developer program, you can login to Apple’s server and download the latest iOS 5 Beta 3 for testing, so that you can provide Apple with your feedback about any bugs that might be present in the current build.

Those people who have jailbroken their devices should strictly stay away from this release. We will update you as soon as the jailbreak tool is available for iOS 5 Beta 3. Anyway, here is a complete changelog of iOS 5 Beta 3:

Accounts

When creating an iCloud account you can use any Apple ID provided it is a full email address and not a MobileMe account. If you have a MobileMe account, you can copy data from that account to an iCloud account to use during testing. You can find more information on iCloud at: http://developer.apple.com/icloud

When setting up an iCloud or MobileMe account using the setup assistant and leaving Find My iPhone on, it might actually turn Find my iPhone off after the setup. Please verify in Settings/Mail, Contacts, Calendar/YourAccount that Find my iPhone is toggled On after leaving the setup assistant.

There is a problem finding a device using Find My iPhone on the MobileMe website (www.me.com) when switching from iCloud back to MobileMe. To workaround this issue:

On the device go to Settings->Mail, Contacts, Calendar->@me.com and Toggle Find My iPhone off and back on. Now the device should show up on MobileMe website.

It is recommended that you disable Bookmarks on multiple accounts. If they are enabled, the results might be undefined.

NEW: In this beta the option of “Choosing a security question” is not working during an iCloud account setup.

AirPlay

Starting in iOS 5, video content in applications and websites are AirPlay-enabled by default.

iOS 5 supports AirPlay of video via AV Foundation.

FIXED: The Apple TV screen saver may degrade mirroring performance over AirPlay. The screen saver can be disabled in Apple TV settings.

Apple TV

Apple TV Software beta enables users to mirror the contents of an iPad 2 to an Apple TV (2nd generation) using AirPlay. This beta software also enables Photo Stream on Apple TV so users can access photos stored in iCloud. Apple TV Software beta is being provided to test the latest AirPlay functionality with your iOS 5 apps and web sites. If you wish to install Apple TV Software beta on your device, you must first register your device UDID in the iOS Developer Program Portal.

Audio

Using voice chat in iOS 5 requires setting the kAudioSessionMode_VoiceChat mode on the Audio Session, or setting the AVAudioSessionModeVoiceChat mode on theAVAudioSession object.

FIXED: After creating a recurring event locally on the device, the device stops syncing after hitting an error on merge. Removing and re-adding the account acts as a workaround for this.

Calendar

All MobileMe calendars were duplicated after turning calendar syncing off and back on.

If you launch or manually refresh Calendars on an iPad, your calendars might disappear and you will have to tap “Show All Calendars” to display them again.

NEW: Restoring from a Seed 1 backup or earlier will cause MobileMe/iCloud calendars not to sync. Subscribed calendars will show up in Calendars but none of your event calendars will appear in MobileCal. To workaround the problem please remove and re-add the account.

GameKit

Match data for turn based matches is currently limited to 4 KB of data.

GameCenter

If you have an existing Game Center account which has not yet gone through the first-time Game Center flow in iOS 5, you will encounter a crash when signing into a game’s login alert directly. The workaround for this is to launch Game Center to complete the first-time flow.

iBooks

iBooks 1.2.2 may fail to display some text or images in books. Please update to iBooks 1.3 in the App Store.

iCloud Backup

As this is beta software, it is recommended that you do not use the iCloud services to store any critical data or information. If you enable iCloud Backup, automatic backup with iTunes when syncing will be disabled. We suggest you also manually back up your device with iTunes.

In the iOS 5 beta, support for data protection in iCloud Backup is unavailable. Apps that have protected files will not have any of their data or metadata backed up as a result.

After restoring, you may not be able to back up again because the device still thinks it’s restoring. To workaround this issue try syncing apps or media that are missing form iTunes or try deleting your iCloud account and adding it back.

If you delete your backup, the feature will be disabled but settings may still indicate that it is enabled and you will have to toggle the BackUp to Cloud switch in Settings.

For compatibility reasons, this version of the iOS 5 beta requires that all files be backed up again, instead of only those files that have changed since your last backup. This may cause a warning that your account is over quota. In case the warning occurs, you can delete your oldest backup to free up space and then initiate a backup.

iCloud Storage

During the iOS 5 beta period, any documents stored on the servers might be purged periodically before GM. Therefore, it is highly recommended that you do not store any critical documents or information on the servers.

If your application is using the NSMetadataQuery class, you must set a predicate, even though the predicate itself is ignored.

The Foundation framework doesn’t include the team ID when looking for an app’s mobile documents container. The Team ID must be included at the beginning of the identifier string passed to the URLForUbiquityContainerIdentifier: method.

In this beta, the setSortDescriptors: method of NSMetadataQuery is not supported.

In this beta, if you want to use iCloud, you have to manually specify various container identifiers (your application’s Display set) within an Entitlements file for both of your Mac OS X and iOS projects.

There are issues using the Cloud Storage document API in conjunction with protected data which can lead to data corruption.

In this beta, document-based applications cannot always detect when files change, move, or are deleted out from underneath them.

NEW: In this beta, file presenters (objects that adopt the NSFilePresenterprotocol) do not receive some of the messages that they’re supposed to receive, especially:

presentedItemDidChange

presentedSubitemDidAppearAtURL:

presentedSubitemDidChangeAtURL:

You can workaround this by implementing the relinquishPresentedItemToWriter: method and checking to see if the writer actually wrote when your file presenter reacquires. You can also use FSEvents to observe file system changes

In this beta, messages about changes to files in a directory are not getting delivered to objects that adopt the NSFilePresenter protocol.

While reporting a bug related to the iCloud storage interfaces, please include the logs collected during your debugging session. To generate these logs, you must install a special debug profile on your device.The debug profile can be obtained from http://connect.apple.com. This profile enables the generation of debug logs that are needed to diagnose any problems using iCloud storage. The instructions to collect the logs are:

Install the profile. (The easiest way to do this is to mail it to yourself and open the attachment on their device.)

Reproduce the bug.

Sync with iTunes to pull the logs off your device.

Attach the logs to your bug report. You can find the logs in ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/MobileDevice/DeviceName/DiagnosticLogs.

These logs can grow large very quickly, so you should remove the profile after you have reproduced the problem and pulled the logs for the bug report.

iMessage

NEW: iMessage beta 3 will be unable to communicate with iMessage users on beta 1. It works between beta 3 and beta 2.

NEW: Modal alerts don’t appear for iMessages.

iTunes

The version of iTunes that comes with beta 3 cannot sync devices that have the beta 2 software installed. To avoid this problem, do the following:

Sync any devices that have beta 2 installed to the version of iTunes that came with beta 2.

Upgrade iTunes to the version that comes with beta 3.

Connect the device and install the beta 3 software. (Understand that you might see a failure to sync error when you first connect the device.)

After installing the beta 3 software, restore from your the backup you made in step 1.

Videos purchased from the iTunes Store do not play on a 2nd generation AppleTV over AirPlay with iTunes 10.5.

MMS

Sending an MMS of large videos does not work.

Photo Adjustments

If you apply red-eye adjustments in iOS, and import your image into the iPhoto seed build, the red-eye adjustments will not appear on that image in iPhoto. As a result, subsequent syncing of your image back to the iOS device from iPhoto will not show the red-eye adjustments.

Reminders
FIXED: The Reminders application does not send notifications for reminders that are based upon the entry (and/or exit) of a location if there is no date associated with the reminder.
Settings

The “Back Up Now” button is enabled without the backup data class being enabled for the account.

FIXED: If you bring up the keyboard of the terms in Settings->General->Software Update, you cannot dismiss it. You have to force quit Settings to get out.

NEW: In this beta FaceTime icon is missing in Settings on the iPhones.

Simulator

NEW: Location services are not functional in iOS 4.3 simulator running on Mac OS 10.7 with Xcode 4.2.

Springboard

Push and local notifications for apps appear in the new Notification Center in iOS 5. Notification Center displays notifications that are considered “unread”. In order to accommodate push and local notifications that have no “unread” status, developers can use their application badge count to trigger a clearing of notifications from Notification Center. When an application clears its badge count (by setting it to zero), iOS 5 will clear its notifications from Notification Center.

Twitter

NEW: When tweeting your location from Safari and exiting before the location can be established, the location arrow will stay in the status bar. The arrow can be removed by killing Safari from the task switcher.

UI Automation

NEW: In iOS 5 beta 3, the first execution of a script after a reboot or erase install will likely fail. Subsequent attempts should succeed until the device is rebooted again.

The play and record buttons in the Automation instrument script editor may not work properly after targeting an application that was launched by a trace session and has ended. They may also not work if you target an application that was suspended. If you run into this problem and it persists, you may need to close and reopen the trace document to get back into a functional state.

When capturing actions into a script using the Automation instrument, interfaces with web views or table cells that contain a high number of off screen elements may take an extremely long time before returning with an expression.

The lock() and unlock() functions of UIATarget have been replaced with the lockForDuration() function.

Instruments overwrites the loaded automation script, even if another program is editing it.

Starting iOS 5 beta 2, you can now trigger the execution of an UI Automation script on an iOS device from the host terminal by using the instruments tool. The command is:

instruments -w -t

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