Apple

If you’re like me, and been unable to log in to your Facebook chat through Adium for months… This is the fix:

Basically, when adding your Facebook account, Adium opens some webpage asking you to login. I always logged in using my e-mail address (as… that was what the page was actually asking!).

I always managed to successfully login. Facebook then asked to identify my device (“Adium” or whatever).

However, here the problems started. Whenever I clicked save, I just ended up on the same page again, asking me to fill in my device name.

Because it took me about 10 minutes to Google it, I’ll recap it here;

If tethering is unavailable on ones iPhone, and you have to helpdesk him/her out of it, go to:

Settings > General > Network > Cellular Data Network

And set “Cellular data” to:

APN: web.be
username: web
password: web

And reboot the device… Tethering should/will be available.

Imagine, a couple of years from now.

Apple’s patent to block recordings is reality and in operation. At some event such as Pukkelpop. During a crisis.

No one, as the infrared is beaming light into every smartphone, telling it to shut down the camera, is able to record or take pictures of what’s going on. Countless of proof is lost (or never made). Nothing on Twitpic, nothing on Youtube. No proof of how severe the storm/crisis actually was. No usable data for journalists and researchers to reuse afterwards. Unable to see whether the roof/screen/pillar/sound system/… fell before or after the whole tent actually collapsed…

Jailbreaking my old iPhone 2G (Edge version).

It was a bit hard to find software that would still allow me to jailbreak this 2G.

Soooow, I mirrored all I used.

Bootloader: 3.9 or 4.6

PwnageTool: 3.1.5

Be aware: you will need iTunes 9 (or 8, I guess) – iTunes 10 gives an error: “iPhone could not be restored. An unknown error occurred (1600).”

Follow basic instructions on the PwnageTool (export mode > you need to select the default IPSW) and you’ll get there.

Raw file. Used Pete Warden’s app. Oh and if you missed the buzz, read this.

Add following two lines to Info.plist:

<string>9049EF7D-5873-4F54-A447-51D722009310</string>
<string>1C58722D-AFBD-464E-81BB-0E05C108BE06</string>

Between

<key>SupportedPluginCompatibilityUUIDs</key>
<array>

And

</array>

You can find the Info.plist in:

~/Library/Mail/Bundles/GrowlMail.mailbundle/Contents/

Or

There's a precompiled wget available on the net, but it's not automatically accepting StartSSL's certificates. And as it seems, there's a wget update available that did.

This is what I had to do to compile it on my Macbook Pro;

• Install Xcode, if you haven't, and be sure to select UNIX Dev Support.

Or you'll get this error:

configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables

• Export Xcode's gcc PATH:

PATH=/Developer/usr/bin/:$PATH

• Download wget
• In Terminal: untar it

tar xvzf wget-latest.*

• And compile it

cd wget directory
./configure
make
sudo make install

• In case you had an old (precompiled) wget installed;
  remove that version first (/usr/bin/wget probably).
  By default, this one will install itself in /usr/local/bin/wget which should be in your $PATH as well (in case it's not, make a symlink from the old /usr/bin/wget to /usr/local/bin/wget, or recompile with other installation directories).

I love how he says “retard” at the end. :D