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So anybody who’s upgraded their iPhone to 3.0 and Jailbroke it, will notice that thier new PUSH service is BROKEN.

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!

So anybody who has Office 2007, will notice an extremely annoying new option on the context (right click) menu of everything… called “Groove Folder Synchronization” with some atrocious green icon next to it.

In order to remove the Groove Folder Synchronization from the context (right click) menu, you’ll need to edit the registry…

1. Press start.
2. Choose Run… (If you’re on Vista skip this step.)
3. Type “regedit” without the “quote” marks. (For Vista users, just type it in the “Start Search” bar.)
4. Press Enter
5. This will open up the Registry Editor, you’ll need to navigate to the following registry keys, and delete them. NOTE: These will all be FOLDERS that you will be deleting from the registry.

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\XXX Groove GFS Context Menu Handler XXX

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\XXX Groove GFS Context Menu Handler XXX

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\XXX Groove GFS Context Menu Handler XXX

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\XXX Groove GFS Context Menu Handler XXX

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AllFilesystemObjects\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\XXX Groove GFS Context Menu Handler XXX

Find those folders and right click them and DELETE them from the registry. This will have NO adverse effects on your system, it will only remove the context menu that is so gaudy.

This is just a short simple tutorial and guide to tell you how to get you latest tweet from your twitter account, and have it automatically be placed as your status message on Digsby, which is a multi-protocol IM client, for AIM, Yahoo!, MSN, Facebook Chat, Google Talk, among others. Some of you may have seen my Twitter and Pidgin Sync Guide before, but that is outdated, and required PERL to be installed, and was a HUGE HEADACHE to get working properly

This is a much more easy approach to things, and uses the superior multi-protocol client, Digsby. If you’re still using Pidgin, but have a little bit more RAM to spare, please consider the switch to Digsby. I won’t go into all the advantages of it, try www.digsby.com for that.

Anyhow, the reason why this is handy, simply put: iPhone/Android users out there, are updating via twitter more often now than ever. Not to mention ANYBODY can do this via a simple text message to Twitter.

So diving right in this will allow you to set your status via one tweet, to basically every IM account, even if your not at home.

1. Download Digsby.
2. Configure Digsby to us all your IM accounts.
3. Download DigTweet. This is an older version provided from the author’s website, as the newest version did not fucntion properly.
4. With Digsby running, unzip and find a good location for DigTweet, run it, and configure it to your TWITTER FEED, not your Twitter account. Do this by going to your Twitter profile, at the bottom left you will see “RSS” click that, and copy/paste the URL into DigTweet.
5. If you’re concerne about usage, leave it at 5 minutes, otherwise change it to 1, for nearly instant status updates.
6. Exit the program via the X in the upper right corner, this will minimize it to the System Tray.
7. Test it with some tweets, all should be working fine.