Tips & Tricks
How to Downgrade your iPhone 2.0 to 1.14
This is a great guide on how to downgrade your iPhone from 2.0 to 1.1.4. Here’s a step by step guide written by _X_ for anyone whose looking to downgrade from 2.0 to 1.14!
Requirements:
iTunes 7.5 (You don’t need iTunes 7.7 for this)
iLiberty+Windows / Mac Version
iPhone1,1_1.1.4_4A102_Restore.ipsw firmware
KiPhone Windows / Mac (Patched version of ZiPhone)
Step 1:
Uninstall iTunes 7.7 if you have it and restart your computer
Step 2:
Install iTunes 7.5, iLiberty+ & KiPhone. Make sure only iTunes is running.
Step 3:
Your iPhone should be in 2 states, either stuck on the “Slide to make emergency calls” screen, or you tried to restore before and it’s stuck on the new look “connect to iTunes” screen. Either way, it’s fine.
Enter the phone in DFU mode (You must have the iPhone connected to the computer and iTunes running). To do this, hold the power & the home button down for 9 seconds.
Why 9? Well people say 10, but it depends how slow you are at counting. Too short and it doesn’t work, too long and the apple logo appears.
When you hit about 6/7 the screen should turn off, leave it for 2 more seconds and release the power button, STILL holding the home button. If all went well, you should NOT see an apple logo, the screen should be dead. Keep holding home until windows/Mac informs you that it’s found new hardware, OR iTunes tells you that your iPhone is in recovery mode. Remember, screen should be blank.
If you see an apple logo, repeat the process for less time until you get it right. Took me a little time.
Launch Multiple Gmail Accounts simultaneously in your Browsers
CookiePie (Also known as ChocoTorta) is a amazing plugin for browsers like FireFox, Flock / GNU IceWeasel which lets you open multiple Gmail accounts & other services like Yahoo, eBay, Facebook, Twitter, etc simultaneously. Basically, CookiePie maintains different cookies storage in different tabs and windows which enables you to do so.
At the moment, CookiePie is compatible with Windows and Linux. (Mac version is also coming soon). It’s a very simple application, all you need to do is right click on a browser tab or window in order to give it its own unique cookies environment.
How to Convert a image to a icon
Looking to convert a image to a icon? Confronted a good Application known as “Bradicon” that can convert any image to 32-bit Icon in .Ico (Icon) format. It is a web service that lets you upload the image and after the conversion gives you the ability to download it in the Icon format.
It supports JPG, GIF, PNG image types as input, and outputs 32 bit icons in ICO format and ICO (Icon) file includes 3 sizes: 16×16, 32×32, and 48×48. Transparency is preserved. It’s very easy to convert your favorite image to a Icon with this service, all you have to do is, find the image that you would like to make a Icon for, use the browse button and upload it. Watch the progress bar as it converts that image into a icon and then download away.
Youtube: How to search Youtube music videos
Confronted a great website / search engine that search youtube music videos easily. It’s called “Cleepr”. Cleepr is a amazing search engine that only search youtube music videos. With a good / popular list of tags on their main page, you can just click on them to search for the particular band / person’s music video.
Another cool thing about Cleepr is that the videos it searches and shows are almost 50% bigger in viewing when compared to youtube. Searching Youtube Music video of your favorite artists was never this easy :)
Check it out | Cleepr
How to automatically close the download manager after your download completes in FireFox3
Another great tip for FireFox 3. You can have your FireFox 3 close the download manager after it finishes the downloads. It’s a small tweak in firefox 3 and it goes like this
1- Write about:config in your address bar.
2- Search for “browser.download.manager.closeWhenDone”
3- Change it’s value by double clicking it from false to true.
It’s done. Now, whenever you have a download in firefox 3, the Download Manager will automatically close when the download(s) finishes.
How to play youtube videos on Nokia n70 (n70 music edition)
Couple of friends were asking yesterday that how to play youtube videos on their Nokia n70 / Nokia n70 music edition. Nokia N70 support MP3, AAC, WAV (Audio formats) and AVI, RM, 3GP, MP4 (Video formats). So to download and play youtube videos on Nokia n70, you should follow these steps.
1- Since, youtube videos are in .FLV format, you need to download youtube videos and save them in as new specifc folder.
Disable wordpress registrations - Another Wordpress Tip
Alright, couple of hours back, there was some strange activity going on this blog. There were 3 Spam Posts (I’m not sure how many confronted that) but as soon I saw them, I checked out the users and saw a anonymous person registered there who posted all that crap.
It did happen to me in the start but I didn’t pay any heave towards it. Anyway, that’s that.. I disabled wordpress registrations instantly and I would advice you guys (Wordpress bloggers) to do the same because I actually know a lot who haven’t disabled the registrations.
How to disable wordpress registrations:
Disable wordpress new users registrations is very easy.
How to protect your wordpress themes
Do you know that your wordpress themes can be copied easily? Yes, the horror. Anyone can download your theme (Even if you have paid for it) easily.. How? I actually don’t want to share that because it will exploit the bug. I did test it out though, and it was freakishly easy to get those themes.
Don’t get me wrong but I’m not going to use any of those wordpress themes.. I only wanted to test if that can actually happen. Anyway, I would highly recommend that you follow these steps to protect your wordpress themes.
How to apply to the Google Books Partner Program (Video Tutorial)
Google recently released a video tutorial on how to apply to the google books partner program. This video teaches you, how to apply for a Google Books Partner Program account, which allows you to submit your content for display on Google Book Search.
