First of all thanks to iphone dev team to come up with unlock almost in parallel to the official release of iphone OS 3.0 launch. The tool name is "redsnow". And, thanks to people from iclarified for coming up with such a nice tutorial.
For 2G phones, you can jailbreak and unlock the iphone having OS 3.0 firmware. Here is the link to tutorial for windows users.
For 3G phones, for now, you can only jailbreak the iphone having OS 3.0 firmware. Here is the link to tutorial for windows users. The iphone dev team will be releasing shortly the tool to unlock the OS 3.0 which they are calling it "ultrasnow". Follow thier blog for updates on this.
Update(june-24th): The iphone dev team has released their "ultrasnow" to unlock 3G phone running OS 3.0. And, here is the tutorial from iclarified. Plese note that none of the above unlock solutions work for iphone 3GS, which is the latest phone.
Saturday, June 20, 2009
How to fix 169.x.x.x IP problem in windows vista
The other day me and my friend were struggling to fix this funny problem in windows vista where it always gets 169.x.x.x IP address. And because of this the PC is not able to connect to the internet. When we searched that net I am surprised to see the number of people facing this problem. But unfortunately, the solutions offered in those forums did not work for us. We tried many things like disabling the DHCP and assigning a static IP address, editing some settings in registery entry for the network connection, remvoing and adding the connection again etc.
At the end of an hour or so, when we found the fix for the problem we felt like slapping our face because the problem is such a stupid problem. Ok, the problem is that the mcafee is installed on the machine and the firewall is enabled thereby forming a proxy network which is not allowing us to directly connect to the internet. We simply disabled the firewall in mcafee and voila!, we are able to connect to the internet.
It may not be such a good idea to completely disable the firewall as the machine is directly exposed to the internet. There should be some solution to connect to the internet while the firewall is enabled. But, we will worry about it for some other day.
At the end of an hour or so, when we found the fix for the problem we felt like slapping our face because the problem is such a stupid problem. Ok, the problem is that the mcafee is installed on the machine and the firewall is enabled thereby forming a proxy network which is not allowing us to directly connect to the internet. We simply disabled the firewall in mcafee and voila!, we are able to connect to the internet.
It may not be such a good idea to completely disable the firewall as the machine is directly exposed to the internet. There should be some solution to connect to the internet while the firewall is enabled. But, we will worry about it for some other day.
Sunday, June 7, 2009
Standalone torrent downloader
For a long time I was wondering why can't there be a standalone torrent client. When I say a standalone client, I mean a device which can download torrents without the need of a PC. Recently, I got my answer from twitter feed of one of my friends. Here is the link to the product. It can download torrents to external hard disk, usb flash drive. It has an inbuilt SAMBA file server and FTP server. It has web server allowing connections over internet for administration. It seems to have decent security features allowing to created different users with different privileges. As I do not own this product, I cannot share personal experiences. But the link has reviews from users who own the product.
On a related note, when I was searching the web, I found that utorrent software has a standalone mode which is different from what I am expecting. It basically means that utorrent can run without installation. This gives it an advantage that it becomes very easy to move partially downloaded files from one PC to another. If you have a pendrive, have both the utorrent client and the download target on the pendrive and you are good to go. You can continue the download from any machine without needing to install. This is also a pretty good use case.
On a related note, when I was searching the web, I found that utorrent software has a standalone mode which is different from what I am expecting. It basically means that utorrent can run without installation. This gives it an advantage that it becomes very easy to move partially downloaded files from one PC to another. If you have a pendrive, have both the utorrent client and the download target on the pendrive and you are good to go. You can continue the download from any machine without needing to install. This is also a pretty good use case.
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