Sunday marked a big day in the iPhone homebrew world because that was the day that the iPhone Dev Team released the highly anticipated Pwnage 2.0 Tool to jailbreak all flavors of iPhone and iPod and unlock the first-generation 2.5G iPhone to boot. Unfortunately, a majority of users were disappointed by the fact that the tool was for Mac only, leaving all Windows users in the dark. Well not any longer. We’ve upgraded our own first-gen iPhones to v2.0 firmware, fully unlocked, jailbroken, and awesome and everything was done on Windows. The method is actually quite painless and is only made possible by having available a custom-built albeit vanilla v2.0 firmware created with none other by Pwnage 2.0 on a Mac (so Windows fanboys have to show some love). With the custom IPSW, Windows users can easily upgrade to v2.0 firmware as well as their Macbook-wielding counterparts by fulfilling just a few requirements. Without much further ado, we give you the tutorial on how to install the iPhone 2.0 update through Windows, fully jailbroken and possibly unlocked: Read more »

Ever wonder how to play Divx on your Windows Mobile devices? Well wonder no more. Here are step by step instructions on how to install divx on your Dash.

1. Reset your Dash and then plug it in to your computer
2. Download and install divxplayer.exe

If you run into an error you may need to unlock your phone with the sda_applicationunlock

If anything goes wrong you can always HARD RESET your phone by

1. PRESS AND HOLD BOTH SOFT KEYS.
2. WHILE HOLDING DOWN SOFT KEYS, PRESS AND RELEASE THE POWER BUTTON, WAIT 3-5 SEC. (PHONE SHOULD POWER ITSELF ON BY DOING THIS)
3. RELEASE THE TWO KEYS SOFT KEYS.
4. WHEN SCREEN ON DASH LOOKS LIKE IT’S IN DOS FORMAT, PRESS SEND (GREEN ANSWER KEY)

TIP: If you don’t see the dos screen, pull out the battery and try again, timing is very important. You don’t need to hold down the button until you see a screen, just hold it down for 2 seconds and let go, then the phone will turn on.

The Dash/Excalibur is a nice little smart phone that runs on Windows Mobile. If you use it a lot you will notice that it inherantly has a few problems with it from the get go. For example, there seems to be a memory leak and the alarm feature is messed up. If you bought one a long time ago and hoped that Windows Mobile 6.1 would fix it, sorry but you are out of luck. Don’t fret though, the guys at xda developers have solved most if not all the Dash’s problems!

This ROM update fixes most if not all the bugs on the phone, and adds new features.

Summary of Key features:

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Playing with Windows Vista, I decided I wanted to install some of my ISO’s i got from MSDN. At first, i tried to install an older version of Alcohol 120%, but that blue screened my system. I didnt feel like purchasing a new ISO loading program, so my solution?

Virtual Clone Drive.

Easy d/l at 1mb, and pretty fast an simple to use. The only problem so far is that this utility does not work on Windows Vista 64 bit edition.

Alternatives
Alcohol 52% - Free version of Alcohol 120, but it bundles a browser toolbar which may be spyware.
Daemon Tools - Latest version installs spyware on your computer, and the old version doesn’t work in Vista.
Virtual CD-ROM (Microsoft) - This utility does not work in Windows Vista
MagicDisk - This is a nice, free utility, but it isn’t very easy to install in Vista64.

Picture this: it’s 12am and you want to go to bed but you’re in the middle of a download. You know the ETA for download completion is less than 2 hours. Wouldn’t it be great if there was a way to automatically shut down Windows at 2am after the download completes while you sleep instead of leaving it on all night? There are tools out there that can do this, either freeware or shareware, but why bother with installing another application when Windows is perfectly capable of automated shutdowns natively?

I’m talking about Scheduled Tasks combined with shutdown.exe, both tools provided by Windows. Scheduled Tasks gives you an easy interface to schedule an application to run at a certain time. Shutdown.exe is a DOS command that can locally and remotely shut down your computer. Read more »

Security Exception
Description: The application attempted to perform an operation not allowed by the security policy. To grant this application the required permission please contact your system administrator or change the application’s trust level in the configuration file.

Exception Details: System.Security.SecurityException: Request for the permission of type ‘System.Net.WebPermission, System, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089′ failed.

Source Error:

An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below.

If you care getting the error above in SharePoint, there is a simple work around to get your code to work.

1. Open the wss_minimaltrust.config located: “C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\CONFIG”

2. Under the XML section <namedpermissionsets> and under the last <permissionset> add


<ipermission>
class=”WebPermission”
version=”1″
Unrestricted=”true”>
</ipermission>

3. Save the file and you are good to go!

Here is the serivce manual for the Sony Vaio TX and Sony Vaio TZ laptops.
disassemble guide for Sony Vaio TX model.

If you’re like me an have to develop in both Linux and Windows platforms, sometimes it’s just useful to be able to share folders across your PC desktop and your Linux box. It’s quite easy to map Linux shares to Windows network drives, that is assuming your Linux box has Samba installed. In most cases, Linux distributions generally ship with this already installed. To test if you’ve got Samba installed on Linux, type: Read more »

NBC had sent off broadcast flags thus causing Vista Media Center users to not be able to record TV episodes of “American Gladiators” and “Medium” on Monday night.

After these reports surfaced around the internet, The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) announced that the same exact thing was happening to over-the-air (OTA) programming, something it had not seen before.

One individual report shows a man attempting to record TV shows from NBC’s Raleigh affiliate, WNCN HD, and having an alert tell him “the broadcaster has disabled recording of the programming.” The man was recording from an antenna signal and EFF confided that it was the first it had ever heard of OTA programming being restricted.

Broadcast flags, which come part of the upcoming 2009 DTV standard, were challenged in court two years ago by the EFF and the court ruled in favor saying “that using the flags to restrict copying was not appropriate”. The law was subsequently thrown out. The panel of judges said the FCC did not have the authority to enforce a law of that nature, which is a clear violation of fair use laws.

The EFF then added that Microsoft was voluntarily adopting broadcast flags into its software, as other similar programs now ignore them and have no trouble recording programming even if it is flagged.

“If it is a deliberate ‘feature,’ they have some explaining to do,” EFF international outreach coordinator Danny O’Brien said. “That would amount to putting the desires of content holders above the best interests of its customers.”

Recenlty i was trying to get a development environment setup on my new Windows 2008 computer, and was installing the typical Microsoft items. Little did i know that SharePoint 2007 wont install on Windows 2008:

Here is the error I ran into: Read more »