Why would you pay for apps in Cydia when Cydia is mostly driven by free content. In this post, we’ll explain where to download the apps that “unofficial” developers on Cydia are trying to make you pay for. Tech Jawa does not condone piracy, we’re simply informing you that there ARE sources out there where the .deb files CAN be downloaded from… First is to create these sources in Cydia.

When you first start up Cydia allow it to load and refresh all of the sources on it, then go to manage, then edit (top right corner), click add (top left corner),  type in the sources listed in the picture above (one at a time), click on add source and wait for it to load up the new source. Once finished with that under your sections tab will be new sections to choose from.

With those sources, you now have access to the .deb that are “supposed” to be paid for.

Dell OEM Windows 7 Theme

Sure you might argue that their theme is only a background wallpaper, but I wanted to extract the theme entirely rather than just give you a wallpaper.

So really all you need to do is download and extract the theme below to:
%USERPROFILE%AppDataLocalMicrosoftWindowsThemes

You can access this folder by putting it into your location bar, like this, then press enter.

Then right click your desktop, and go to “Personalize” and choose your new Dell theme! It’s that simple.

Dell Theme Selection

Here’s the download link:
Dell_OEM_Windows_7_Theme.zip

Enjoy!

Yesterday, Facebook announced that Facebook Chat now fully supports the XMPP protocol.

This is great news, because we can now all ditch whatever hacked-together methods we were all using to connect to the Facebook Chat service with Pidgin, if you were ever using one. I’ll also cover how to transfer your logs over from the old connection method to the official connection method below.

CLIENT SETUP

1. You’ll first need to go to your Accounts menu, then to Manage Accounts, then choose Add…

2. From here, you need the following settings:

• Protocol: XMPP
• Username: {Your Facebook username, not your email address, to get this you should be able to go to your Facebook homepage, and hover over your “View My Profile” link, it will be http://www.facebook.com/username and you’ll need the username part, and that is all.}
• Domain: chat.facebook.com
• Password: {Your Facebook password}

3. Switch to the Advanced tab, and uncheck “Require SSL/TLS” and check “Allow plaintext auth over unencrypted streams”

4. That’s it, if you were using an old method to connect to Facebook, be sure to remove that account!

LOG TRANSFER

In your Pidgin log directory, usually located at:
%APPDATA%Roaming.purplelogs (Vista/7)
-OR-
%APPDATA%.purplelogs (XP)
unless you set up PURPLEHOME environmental variable (like I did), but if you did this, you should know where they reside… and as for Linux users, you should also know where your log directory is already…

You’ll see some folders in there, with various logs for accounts.
You will have a folder called “facebook” with a “username” directory inside it, and now a new one called “jabber” with a “username@chat.facebook.com” directory inside of it.

In order to transfer the logs, you need to rename all the folders in your “logs/facebook/username” directory from

######
to
u######@chat.facebook.com

and then move them to the “logs/jabber/username@chat.facebook.com” directory.

All your logs should continue to work properly after this.

I’ve noticed a few sites have full lists of titles and emblems for Modern Warfare 2 players to look at. However, no site had any form of EITHER an electronic checklist, or a printable checklist…

I’ve taken the liberty to create my own with the data from those websites. Take a look at the preview below.

Checklist Preview

Currently I have only completed the Titles, the emblems are coming in a few days time.
Anybody who uses this who doesn’t have a clantag set yet, feel free to use [JAWA].

DOWNLOAD LINKS BELOW!

Titles & Emblems Checklist – Excel 2007 (Or Newer)

Titles & Emblems Checklist – Excel 2003 (Or Older)

Titles & Emblems Checklist – PDF (Temporarily on Scribd for now, until v1.0)

So Facebook recently changed its home page around a bit. Most users are used to seeing everybody’s updates on their friends list, and in reverse-chronological order (newest up top). This latest update defaulted Facebook to use their new “News Feed” mode, which wasn’t live, wasn’t in chronological order, and included only a few friends. There were outcries over this.

Alot of users quickly realized that they can change the view to the “Live Feed” mode, and this solved alot of users issues. However over time many have realized that this view does not include everybody on their friends list. Some users have remedied this by switching to the “Status Updates” page, but this page is not an ideal solution, since it does not include applications, links, videos, etc…

Here’s a detailed guide on how to change that Live Feed view to include EVERYBODY on your friends list, essentially turning it back into what Facebook was like before all this nonsense.

1. Be sure you’re starting off in the News Feed view, if you’re not there yet, please go there now.

2. From here, try scrolling to the bottom until you get the option to load older stories, on the right of the link to load older stories, you should see a button called “Edit Options”? DON’T CLICK IT, we’re just checking to see if it’s THERE… IF YOU HAVE IT, proceed to step 4.

3. For those of you without the Edit Options button, you have to hide somebody/something (person or application) from your news feed. Find an application you don’t care about (like Farmville…) and hover over that news story, on the right of it, you should see a Hide option pop up. PS, if you really care about this person/application, you can always un-hide it after these steps…

4. Once you see the Edit Options button, scroll all the way back to the top, and click on the “View Live Feed” button.

5. Scroll to the bottom and click on the Edit Options button.

6. Change the number of friends to 9999 (or whatever your preference is) and save it.

7. Refresh Facebook, and be sure you’re on the Live Feed view, and everything should be up to par with what you’d expect.

OPTIONAL – 8. This is entirely optional, and only for those who had to hide something they want to still see. Go back to the NEWS FEED view, and go to edit options, here you have the ability to add them back to the feeds. Save, and switch back to live feed and you’re done.

When launching the game Diablo under Windows 7, almost all users experience problems with color. Alot of “fixes” out there require a batch script that kills explorer.exe and restarts it after you exit diablo.exe. That method works, but is NOT ideal.

This method is a very simple fix which works for a majority of users, it involves opening the screen on Windows 7 that allows you to change your resolution. Why this works is currently unknown at this time. It should also work for other legacy Blizzard games such as the Starcraft series.

THIS WILL GET YOU THE OFFICIAL AT&T 5.5 CARRIER FILE ON YOUR PHONE WITHOUT UPDATING TO 3.1 LIKE APPLE/AT&T WANT YOU TO DO!

Also please note, if you want to do this on an an original iPhone (2G), please see my previous post on that subject.

There are many reasons for this… actually like two.

So to begin, first thing is first:

1. Be sure you close iTunes

2.

MAC OS X:
Close iTunes.
Open Terminal (Applications > Utilities > Terminal).
Run the command:

defaults write com.apple.iTunes carrier-testing -bool TRUE

Windows 32 Bit:
Close iTunes.
Go to Start then Run and type CMD.
Run this command:

"C:Program FilesiTunesiTunes.exe" /setPrefInt carrier-testing 1

Windows 64 Bit:
Close iTunes.
Go to Start then Run and type CMD.
Run this command:

"C:Program Files (x86)iTunesiTunes.exe" /setPrefInt carrier-testing 1

3. After you accomplish that, you will need to download this Official AT&T 5.5 Carrier File. I’d have recommend you save it to your desktop.

4. Open iTunes up, and plug in your iPhone, say NO to updating to 3.1 firmware.

5. Click your iPhone in the left sidebar, and then:
(Mac) Option+Left Click the “Update” button.
(Win) Shift+Left Click the “Update” button.

6. After that, you’ll see a window show up where you need to select the type of file before it lets you choose it.

7. After that, pick the AT&T_US.ipcc file, and choose Open.

8. Nothing will really happen to notify you that it worked, after you’re done though, unplug your phone

9. Reboot your phone.

10. Go into Settings, and then General, then About, your carrier should show your carrier as AT&T 5.5.

11. If all is well so far, then you should be able to start sending/receiving MMS messages.

12. Enjoy, and post any questions/comments/concerns in the comments section, and direct your friends to this post as well.

Well now, lets take a look back at WWDC ‘09.
I can quote Apple stating that the iPhone 2G will not be receiving MMS capabilities because of a “hardware limitation”.

DO NOT TRY THIS ON AN IPHONE 3G, IT WILL BRICK YOUR IPHONE

You have been warned.

However, there is a new package on Cydia that is going to help us get there.

Something to note about this hack:
You do not need SwirlyMMS! This works though the Messages.app (Text/SMS App)
All previous hacks used SwirlyMMS, a paid jailbroken app that lets you send messages through its own app, but not the official Apple Messages.app.

And some of the things you’re going to need to get this working:

And for AT&T users you’ll ALSO need:

Once you’ve taken care of that, lets start with the step-by-step.

1. Go to Cydia, and download “ActivateMMS2G”

2. Install it, and reboot your iPhone. If you’re on T-Mobile, you’ll need to find your correct MMS settings… So grab them from here. Do this ON YOUR IPHONE, as it will auto-install the configuration.

3. For AT&T iPhones, you’re going to need to do a lot more work… Start by downloading This customized iPhone AT&T US carrier file. Save it to your desktop somewhere.

4. You need to configure iTunes to let you use this file with your phone, so follow the directions for your operating system.

MAC OS X:
Close iTunes.
Open Terminal (Applications > Utilities > Terminal).
Run the command:

defaults write com.apple.iTunes carrier-testing -bool TRUE

Windows 32 Bit:
Close iTunes.
Go to Start then Run and type CMD.
Run this command:

“C:\Program Files\iTunes\iTunes.exe” /setPrefInt carrier-testing 1

Windows 64 Bit:
Close iTunes.
Go to Start then Run and type CMD.
Run this command:

“C:\Program Files (x86)\iTunes\iTunes.exe” /setPrefInt carrier-testing 1

5. After that, plug in your iPhone to your computer, launch iTunes back up, and option click (Mac) or shift click (Windows) the “Check for Updates” button. Change the type to be the carrier file, and select the AT&T US file from your desktop.

6. Take your iPhone SIM card out, and put it in your other AT&T phone…

7. Make some calls… I called AT&T Wireless Customer Support at 1-800-331-0500.

8. Check your AT&T Account Management online, to see if your number has changed from being an iPhone to whatever phone your using. If not make some more calls and check again. Once you’ve noticed it’s changed, go on to the next step.

9. This is why you need to have a pre-existing messaging plan, because when you’re SIM is in the new phone, it allows MMS’s to go through, because it’s not an iPhone. Switching back to the iPhone doens’t (yet) seem to block MMS’s again. If you do not already have a messaging plan, you MAY be able to add one to your account online, but I cannot confirm this works.

10. Go to this link on your iPhone, and find the US > AT&T carrier configuration, and install that.

11. Reboot your phone.

9. Send a test MMS to yourself. Please NOTE: The sending of MMS files takes some time… be patient with it, the sending bar will get NEARLY full, and then stop… wait it out, check it in a minute or two to see if it went through. If you see a red ! mark, then the message failed to send… something along the way wasn’t done properly, check the MMS settings (shown below), and try again, if it’s still not working then start over with the custom carrier files.

And here are the correct AT&T settings.

This is under Settings.app > General > Network > Cellular Data Network
(If this section is missing you did not properly apply the patch through iTunes, go back and try again.)

Some sites have reported the need for a username (wap@cingulargprs.com) and a password (CINGULAR1) but I have had success without authentication. Please let me know your findings.

Please also note, it also takes some time to RECEIVE an MMS, your one you test-sent to yourself should send, and you might not receive it for 30 seconds after that. Be patient.

This has been working for me for two days now. So far AT&T has not disabled MMS for my number, if they do I’ll be sure to update this post.

Please comment with your feedback and findings. I’ll be happy to try to help.

Now if you ask me, my Documents folder should be for… well… documents. Not settings and user preferences, that belongs in ~/Library, for good reason.

If you want to hide the “Microsoft User Data” folder, you’re going to need the Developer Tools, and you can easily obtain them by inserting your OS X disk into your Mac, and just installing them

If you are unsure if you have them or not, open a Terminal and type

cd /Developer/Tools

If you get an “Error: No such file or directory.” then you’ll need to install them off the disk.

Once you’re sure you have the developer tools, then open Terminal, and type the following command.

/Developer/Tools/./SetFile -a V "/Users/YOUR_USERNAME/Documents/Microsoft User Data"

After that you might need to restart Finder for the effect to show. You can do this one of two ways… One way would be to restart your Mac, but we all know that’s not ideal, so back to Terminal we go… If you havn’t already noticed, terminal is one of the most powerful tools you have available to you in OS X. Anyhow, go to Terminal and type:

killall Finder

This command will kill any processes for Finder, and Finder will automatically restart itself.

After that, head to your documents folder/stack and you should see the changes.

It has also come to my attention that if you’re using a Documents stack, that you may need to drag an icon in/out of the stack for that to refresh as well, as it’s handled by Dock.app and not Finder.app

Enjoy your now clean documents folder.

I’ve spent an entire day full of restores and jailbreaks and finally got it working…

The trick was just to follow these simple steps:

PLEASE NOTE: This is currently only for users with valid AT&T contracts and SIM cards.

1. You’re going to need to part with your apps for now… reconfigure them later, step one is to be okay with that.

2. Do a restore in iTunes to the stock iPhone 1,1_3.0 firmware. Activate with iTunes.

3. Download PwnageTool (OSX)

4. Download the iPhone1,1_3.0_7A341_Restore.ipsw firmware file.

5. Once your running 3.0 on your iPhone, download the AIM (Free) app, and send yourself a message from a different screen name on a different computer, and verify that PUSH is working. If PUSHi s not working at this point, it wont be after the jailbreak either…

5. Launch the PwnageTool and choose EXPERT MODE!!!

6. Once in expert mode, go through and choose NOT to let the baseband be updated, and NOT to activate the phone, also do NOT use bootneuter at all, uncheck all boxes. – Depending on the packages you choose in the next steps, you may want to choose your /root partition be 600MB to be on the safe side.

7. Select packages if you want… I didn’t. Proceed to build the custom firmware. OSX will ask for your password about halfway, so watch it closely.

8. After building, follow the instructions in Pwnage to enter DFU/recovery mode. This is essential, and it won’t let you continue until you do so.

9. Open iTunes and close Pwnage, iTunes is going to yell at you, like usual.

10. Hold alt/option and press restore, and choose your CUSTOM firmware to load onto the iPhone.

11. Let it run its rounds with restarts and whatnot, it’s going to take a while.

12. Be sure to set it up as a new iPhone when iTunes asks you, and then LET ITUNES ACTIVATE THE PHONE FOR YOU.
YOU CANNOT DO A RESTORE, IT WILL NOT WORK

13. Before downloading any apps, grab AIM (Free) and try it again, push should be working.

14. Add http://cydia.hackulo.us to your repos and um… happy jailbreaking guys. Have fun w/ PUSH!