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In July 2009 Apple released the iPhone 3GS. This device has a special bootrom that checks the firmware that iTunes tries to restore to the device. The iPhone 3GS bootrom requires that iTunes modify the images located inside the IPSW file and add a special signature to each one of the images in the IPSW. This signature is obtainable ONLY from Apple.

Apple’s server signs firmware SHSH requests made from iTunes during the ‘Verifying firmware…’ phase of a restore. If you are trying to restore a firmware that Apple is no longer signing, you will receive a 30XX error from iTunes and you will not be able to restore that firmware version to your device. /Period/. The ONLY way you can restore that firmware is to point to Cydia via your hosts file OR run TinyUmbrella and use the SHSH files you have saved /previously/. I cannot emphasize this enough.

***ONCE APPLE HAS STOPPED SIGNING FIRMWARE SHSH REQUESTS FOR A PARTICULAR FIRMWARE VERSION THERE IS NO WAY TO GET YOUR SHSH FOR THAT PARTICULAR VERSION.

As an example, Apple stopped signing firmware 3.1.2 SHSH requests WAY back on Feb 04, 2010. What this means is that if you did not

1.  jailbreak your device before then AND run Cydia AND allow Cydia to ‘Make your life easier’

or

2. Use Umbrella to save your SHSH for 3.1.2 BEFORE Feb 04, 2010

YOU cannot restore your device to 3.1.2 no matter what.

This is why it is so important to save your SHSH files.? ” QUOTE

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Another site with alternative instructions

How to restore or update your iPod/iPhone/iPad:

After downloading the desired firmware below, you can shift-click (PC) or option-click (Mac) theRestore or Update buttons in iTunes. A file dialog will open and let you choose the downloadedipsw-file. 

Note: Your browser may change the ipsw-file into a zip-file. In that case, just rename it to end in.ipsw and iTunes will accept it.

Several blogs are claiming you can try it out now. Apple recently released the near final version of iOS 4 to developers known as the gold master build. After Apple’s release it didn’t take long before iOS 4 was leaked online and available for anyone to download.

Jailbroken iOS 4

A hacker known as msft.guy has released a PwnageTool bundle that works with iOS 4, according to Redmond Pie .

Check out the info

Had this problem this am.

Solution:

I deleted the .plists. The culprit probably was iCalExternalSync.plist. It’s OK now
For reference, navigate to:
yourusername>Library>Preferences>iCalExternalSync.plist

Delete the plist file and logout/in- should do the trick.

Great step by step tutorial with files on how to get the deed done from iClarified!

HOW TO Jailbreak

KEVIN J. O’BRIEN
Published: April 13, 2010

BERLIN — The Norwegian company that makes the Opera Internet browser said Tuesday that its software had been approved for iPhone, making it the first browser that competes with Apple’s own software to gain full access to the popular smartphone.

Shares of Opera, which is based in Oslo, rose more than 2 percent in a falling market as investors anticipated that the announcement would lift Opera’s presence in the United States, where its mobile Opera Mini browser is primarily found on the BlackBerry

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How To Build Your Own WordPress Site [PDF GUIDE]: ”

Everyone has a place on the web nowadays, whether you’re a construction professional, an auctioning vegan, or just someone who wants to be heard.

And I’m not talking about Twitter accounts and Facebook profiles, but rather about fully-fledged websites. Tomorrow, you could have yours!

No matter for what purpose, WordPress has proven to be one of the most efficient, most diverse, and most accessible platform. It’s what we use at MakeUseOf!

But creating your own website, even using WordPress, is not something that should be taken too lightly. To guide and assist you, MakeUseOf has partnered up with Marc Beneteau from WordPress Academy to present you with this free PDF guide, Building Your Own WordPress Site.

Inside, you’ll find everything you need to know to get your first, second, or tenth website successfully off the ground, ranging from finding a suitable web host and setting up your blog or website, to using an offline blogging client and even designing a simple website banner!

Want to learn from the pros, and make your mark on the internet? Then you’re in the right place! It doesn’t matter if you’re an internet newbie or a nerd on steroids, this guide will get you to where you need to go.

This is a free PDF guide, no strings attached or signup required. Download Build Your Own WordPress Site now in PDF, or read it in your browser on Scribd.com.

Follow MakeUseOf on Twitter too. Includes cool extras.

(Via MakeUseOf.com.)

WakeUp allows you to remotely wake up a machine asleep.

WakeUp lets you store name and Ethernet addresses of your machines, and wake them up when needed, i.e. when you need to access a file on a distant machine whose File Sharing is on, without physically accessing the machine to wake it up.

I tried the WakeOLan app but it did not detect my sleeping desktop. With this app I punched in the mac address and it awoke from its slumber.

Get it HERE

Need to access some files on your other Mac? Find out it’s sleeping and you can’t? Try this little app to help you out.

Get it here from “ReadPixelNetwork Tools for the iPhone and Mac”

The iClarified Jailbreak and Unlock Wizards will help you locate the correct tutorial to get your device jailbroken or unlocked on the most recent firmware possible.

You can conveniently find them at:

http://www.iClarified.com/jailbreak

http://www.iClarified.com/unlock

Get them here

…”From calorie trackers to fitness tutorials, you can find pretty much anything you could ever want for managing your diet, weight, and fitness goals — best of all, they’re all free. Now you have no more excuses. Download one or more of these apps and get going.”

Check them out

By madgunde, on Wednesday, September 16, 2009 at 8:23 pm

[Update 2] Still in early Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard discovery mode, I’ve started revisiting MacOSXHints.com much more regularly to find out what handy undocumented or at least not widely known tricks the new OS has up it’s sleeve. Today I came across this fantastic tip about how you can toggle the display of hidden files in any standard open/save dialog box just by hitting “Shift+Command+. (period)”. My first reaction of course was, “wow, what a great idea!”, followed quickly by, “about freaking time!” and ultimately, “wtf?, why didn’t they implement this in the Finder?!?”.

Full Instructions

Find Fastest DNS and Optimize Your Internet Speed

Try out namebench. It hunts down the fastest DNS servers available for your computer to use. namebench runs a fair and thorough benchmark using your web browser history, tcpdump output, or standardized datasets in order to provide an individualized recommendation. namebench is completely free and does not modify your system in any way. This project began as a 20% project at Google.

namebench runs on Mac OS X, Windows, and UNIX, and is available with a graphical user interface as well as a command-line interface.

DOWNLOAD

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How to remove Ads from Cydia

To disable ads all you have to do is SSH into your iDevice and edit the hosts file found in /etc
Copy the file to your desktop. Your going to add the following information;
Code:
127.0.0.1 pagead2.googlesyndication.com
127.0.0.1 media.fastclick.net
Save the changes and copy the file back to /etc.
Respring your iphone and your done! You should now see, or should I say Not see anymore annoying Google ads!..

Identify all known faces in an iPhoto photo: “The following AppleScript will display a dialog box showing the names of every identified face in a selected photo in iPhoto:

tell application 'iPhoto'
  activate

  set the selected_items to (get the selection)
  repeat with z from 1 to the count of the selected_items
    set this_photo to item z of the selected_items
    select this_photo
    set the query_results to my extract_face_record(this_photo)
    if the the query_results is not false then
      set AppleScripts text item delimiters to return

      repeat with i from 1 to the count of the query_results
        set the info_list to item i of the query_results
        if i is 1 then
          set the dialog_text to the info_list as text
        else
          set the dialog_text to the dialog_text & return & return & the info_list as tex...




(Via MacOSXHints.com.)