1. PartyPoker
France is one of the best poker hubs in the world. Because of this, many tourists and other kinds of travelers won’t leave the country without seeing the Eiffel Tower—and visiting several poker houses to compete with the skilled local poker players around. After all, France wouldn’t become a poker center in Europe for nothing. Aside from housing some of the biggest poker houses in the world like the Aviation Club de France, they also have a pretty good roster of professional poker players who have more than $1 million in tournament earnings such as David Benyamine, Bertrand Grospellier, and Antoine Saout. But because you cannot just barge in many poker houses in a day or two, you should take partypoker français with you. Aside from $50 signup bonus, frequent tournaments, and a warm and fuzzy community, you can also bring PartyPoker Android app with you anywhere in the world.

2. Word Lens
Tired of looking at the dictionary or travel guides just to get the translation of some street signs and billboards? You can always consult Siri or other translating software just to get the right translation. But with the emergence of augmented reality apps and games, San Francisco-based app developer Quest Visual introduced a fun and interesting new way in dealing with translations instantaneously: Word Lens. This nifty little app uses your camera to receive the image of the words you wanted to translate and displays the translated information—in a matter of milliseconds!

3. Foursquare
No application in the planet has been a more successful application of gamification than Foursquare. If you are a fan of adventure games tied with trophies and achievements, then you should bring Foursquare with you. You can check in at the prominent places in France and use them as bragging rights against your fellow Foursquare users, try to get trophies, ascend as the mayor of a certain spot, and become the ultimate traveler. Think of the trophies as the badges in your scouting years.

4. Google Maps
Even Apple fanboys are going gaga over Google Maps, which is actually a pretty good application for travelling or just wanting to see places from a bird’s perspective. Aside from local searches and more businesses in their search engine, Google Maps is also pretty light and can even run while Apple Maps is open, so you can get two results and compare which is better.

Recently I installed a new ROM to my phone and discovered all my media files (Music I have on my SD card, and any ring tones and alerts on the system that came with the ROM) were showing duplicates and sometimes more then two. At first I figured this was an issue with the ROM and ignored it. After installing a different ROM I discovered the same problem.

To Fix This:

1. Open Settings > Applications
2.  Select the All tab.
3. Scroll to find “Media Storage” and select it.
4.  Select Clear Data and confirm you would like to do this. (Note: Media will appear to be gone from phone if you don’t follow the next step.)
5. Restart phone.

6. Done!

Note:
- Menu names may vary between Android ROMs.
- Also, I have not experienced this with stock ROMs but I imagine it could happen.

PREFACE

This guide is originally written by Corey DeGrandchamp who is an author on Tech Jawa, so it is posted here as well. For the original article (same content) please visit http://corey.degrandchamp.com/2012/02/01/guide-setup-working-siriproxy-three-little-pigs/

This guide is to tell you how to setup your own PRIVATE (or I suppose public…) SiriProxy server using the extremely well put-together “Three Little Pigs” proxy. It allows iPhone 4S’s and in the future iPad 3′s to feed Siri authentication keys/tokens to the server for other iOS devices to use. It also allows the use of SiriProxy plugins which allows for some advanced commands and very tech-savvy individuals to use Siri for things like home automation. We won’t get into that much of it, we just are trying to get iPhone 4 users up on Siri!

REQUIREMENTS

iPhone 4S (Or a friend/family member willing to help, even remotely).
iPhone 4 or 3GS running iOS 5.0.1 jailbroken. Save time by installing Spire on it now!
A dedicated, or VPS server running Ubuntu 11.10.
PuTTY, or a way to remotely access your server.

THANKS

First off, this guide is based on one written by Jeudi, but I had a ton of trouble with his. This should be some touch-ups and command changes, so thanks to him for the original, or else I would have been totally flying blind with all the Ruby stuff that follows (even though that’s where I had the most trouble…) Also thanks to Jacob and James who were kind enough to feed me some keys during testing stages.

STEP 1 – SERVER SETUP

Get your server setup!
If you haven’t already, go ahead and install Ubuntu 11.10.

Install all available updates, this can usually be done while installing the OS even.

Once all that is set, be sure to update your root password if it’s a brand new server.

sudo passwd root

Once you’ve changed your root password login as root, if you’re using a server with a GUI, make sure you log in as “Other” and then put root as the username and the password you just created.

STEP 2 – INSTALL BASICS

Issue all the following commands, if you get errors for dnsmasq that’s ok, but you shouldn’t get any other errors at this point.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y nano
sudo apt-get install -y dnsmasq
sudo apt-get install -y build-essential
sudo apt-get install -y openssl
sudo apt-get install -y libreadline6
sudo apt-get install -y libreadline6-dev
sudo apt-get install -y curl
sudo apt-get install -y git-core
sudo apt-get install -y zlib1g
sudo apt-get install -y zlib1g-dev
sudo apt-get install -y libssl-dev
sudo apt-get install -y libyaml-dev
sudo apt-get install -y libsqlite3-0
sudo apt-get install -y sqlite3
sudo apt-get install -y libxml2-dev
sudo apt-get install -y libxslt-dev
sudo apt-get install -y autoconf
sudo apt-get install -y libc6-dev
sudo apt-get install -y ncurses-dev
sudo apt-get install -y automake
sudo apt-get install -y libtool
sudo apt-get install -y bison
sudo apt-get install -y subversion
sudo apt-get install -y gcc
sudo apt-get install -y g++

If you get a dnsmasq starting error.

sudo nano /etc/dnsmasq.conf

At around line 78, change

#user=

to

user=root

Sane and close by pressing CTRL+O then Enter then CTRL+X.

STEP 3 – INSTALL RUBY

Download & Install RVM

sudo apt-get install -y rvm

sudo bash < <(curl -s https://raw.github.com/wayneeseguin/rvm/master/binscripts/rvm-installer)

Activate RVM

[[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && . "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm"

Add RVM to your .bash_profile

echo '[[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && . "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" # Load RVM function' >> ~/.bash_profile

If you're using putty or remote terminal access, restart it now.

Next install Ruby 1.9.3

rvm install 1.9.3

If you get a rvm command not found error, try this...

ln -s /usr/local/rvm/bin/rvm /usr/bin/

and then retry the previous step.

Set RVM to use 1.9.3 by default.

rvm use 1.9.3 --default

STEP 4 - RUBY SETUP

Run the following commands.

rvm gem update

rvm gem update --system

Edit gemrc

nano ~/.gemrc

Add this line with a return at the end.

gem: --bindir /usr/local/bin --no-ri --no-rdoc

To save and close .gemrc, press CTRL+O then Enter then CTRL+X.

Install the following gems.

rvm gem install eventmachine - -with-ssl-dir=/usr/bin/openssl
rvm gem install httparty
rvm gem install rails
rvm gem install json
rvm gem install uuidtools
rvm gem install rake
rvm gem install bundler
rvm gem install CFPropertyList

STEP 5 - INSTALL WEB INTERFACE

Run the following commands.

sudo apt-get install -y libmysqlclient-dev

rvm gem install mysql

sudo apt-get install -y apache2

Test if your server is online by going to http://server.ip-or.hostname/

Next we need to get PHP ready.

sudo apt-get install -y php5

sudo apt-get install -y libapache2-mod-php5

Restart Apache

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Install MySQL

sudo apt-get install -y mysql-server

Connect to MySQL

mysql -h localhost -u root -p

Create the required database

CREATE DATABASE siri;

Type exit to close the MySQL session.

Install phpMyAdmin

sudo apt-get install -y phpmyadmin

When it asks you which package to reconfigure automatically choose apache2, and answer yes to the second question.
This will also ask for your password three times.

Edit php.ini

sudo nano /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini

Change around line 932, find

;   extension=msql.so

Change to

extension=msql.so

To save and close, press CTRL+O then Enter then CTRL+X.

Prepare phpMyAdmin

sudo ln -s /usr/share/phpmyadmin /var/www/phpmyadmin

Then restart Apache

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

You can test by going to http://server.ip-or.hostname/phpmyadmin/

STEP 6 - INSTALL THREE LITTLE PIGS SIRIPROXY

Clone the git repo.

git clone https://github.com/jimmykane/The-Three-Little-Pigs-Siri-Proxy

Change your directory.

cd The-Three-Little-Pigs-Siri-Proxy

If you have a security alert, continue with yes.

Generate the SiriProxy gem.

rvm all do rake install

Make a .sirproxy directory.

mkdir ~/.siriproxy

Move the config.

cp ./config.example.yml ~/.siriproxy/config.yml

Set up your own config.

sudo nano ~/.siriproxy/config.yml

You'll need to set your database password and change your.siri.proxy.server.com to your IP or hostname.
Save the file. CTRL+O then Enter then CTRL+X.
Edit openssl.cnf

sudo nano /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf

Around line 148, find this...

commonName  = Common Name (eg, YOUR name)
commonName_max  = 64

And directly below it, add this.

0.commonName = Common Name (eg, YOUR name)
0.commonName_default = guzzoni.apple.com
0.commonName_max = 64
1.commonName = Common Name (eg, YOUR name)
1.commonName_default = YOUR.IP.OR.HOSTNAME.HERE
1.commonName_max = 64

Close by pressing CTRL+O then Enter then CTRL+X.

Time to generate the certificate.

rvm all do siriproxy gencerts

Now you MUST install this ca.pem on the iPhone 4S and the iPhone 4/3GS that will be using Siri via Spire...
Email it to yourself, or you can put it on the web portion of your server for quick access via Mobile Safari.

sudo chmod -R 777 /var/www

cp /root/.siriproxy/ca.pem /var/www/ca.pem

With the above method your ca.pem is located at http://server.ip-or.hostname/ca.pem

Now we must bundle SiriProxy.

rvm all do siriproxy bundle

Then create the tables in the siri database.

rvm all do siriproxy gentables

STEP 7 - SETTING UP DNSMASQ

Setting up the dnsmasq.conf

sudo nano /etc/dnsmasq.conf

At around line 63, find the following

#address=double-click.net/127.0.0.1

Under it, add this...

address=/guzzoni.apple.com/YOUR.IP.OR.HOSTNAME

To close dnsmasq.conf, press CTRL+O then Enter then CTRL+X.
Then restart dnsmasq with the following.

sudo /etc/init.d/dnsmasq restart

STEP 8 - INSTALL WEB INTERFACE

We need to move some files, issue each of these commands.

cd

sudo chmod 777 /var/www

sudo cp -R The-Three-Little-Pigs-Siri-Proxy/webInterface/* /var/www/

sudo chmod -R 777 /var/www

Next we need to edit the config, if it gives an error ignore it for now.

nano /var/www/inc/config.inc.php

In this file, you'll want to replace your hostname with your hostname or IP address, as well as set an admin username and password for the web interface. Be sure to update your MySQL password here as well to your root password!
Close the file by pressing CTRL+O then Enter then CTRL+X.
Now we test...

mv /var/www/index.html /var/www/index.html.bk

Head to http://server.ip-or.hostname/
You should see the Three Little Pigs interface!

STEP 9 - START SIRI PROXY

First let us make sure named isn't interfering with dnsmasq.

sudo /etc/init.d/dnsmasq stop

sudo killall named

sudo /etc/init.d/dnsmasq start

Let's start SiriProxy now...

cd ~/The-Three-Little-Pigs-Siri-Proxy

rvm all do siriproxy server

If you'd like a way for the server to restart on crash, launch via this method.

cd ~/The-Three-Little-Pigs-Siri-Proxy

./siriproxy-restarter

STEP 10 - Configure Phones

If your server is behind a firewall make sure you forward all the proper ports, including 53, 80, and 443 for the server!

Start with the iPhone 4S, make sure you installed that ca.pem from earlier, that we dumped to the web address. From there you'll want to edit the DNS settings on your iPhone 4S that MUST be connected to (any) WiFi access point. Add your server IP address followed by a comma to the front of the DNS server list. This allows the proxy server to take requests for Siri (guzzoni.apple.com).

After that, have the 4S user use Siri, it should work fine, and it will feed it's authentication key to the proxy. Be sure at least one iPhone 4S user is using that DNS server to feed a key to the server once every 24 hours!!!

Next just point Spire to your proxy, https://your.server.ip.or.hostname.com/. Use siri...

SOURCES

http://www.paradox-productions.net/

http://am3yrus.over-blog.com/article-installation-of-jimmykane-s-the-three-little-pigs-siri-proxy-on-ubuntu-11-10-vps-97476772.html

http://k2designlab.wordpress.com/2012/01/01/multi-process-siri-proxy-with-automatic-authentication-for-iphone-43gsipod-touch/

https://github.com/jimmykane/The-Three-Little-Pigs-Siri-Proxy

http://www.howtoforge.com/ubuntu_lamp_for_newbies

https://github.com/plamoni/SiriProxy/issues/145

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=514214

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/screen-manages-multiple-sessions-on-one-terminal.html#more-1415

http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/phpmyadmin

http://www.rackaid.com/resources/linux-screen-tutorial-and-how-to/

http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/rubyonrails

http://www.liberiangeek.net/2011/03/login-root-ubuntu-11-04-natty-narwhal/

http://www.the-tech-tutorial.com/?p=1868

http://www..linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/ruby-rake-install-error-on-siriproxy-925111/

The latest and greatest installment in the Call of Duty franchise just went live yesterday on XBOX 360, PlayStation 3, and PC. One issue that comes up every time a new CoD game is released is the NAT type issues. The game lists three different NAT types when you’re in the multiplayer section, they are Strict, Moderate, or Open.

Strict is a pretty severe issue for most, and that means your traffic really isn’t getting through to the game and you’ll likely have issues joining and hosting games if you can even play at all.

Moderate isn’t something to be hugely worried about unless you notice issues getting into the games. Most likely moderate would keep you from hosting games yourself though and should be fixed.

Open is where you want to be, all traffic between the game and the host/server is free flowing.

On XBOX 360 and PlayStation 3, you should just set a static IP address to your console and put it in the DMZ (De-Militarized Zone) on your router. The DMZ is a big security risk for a PC, but it’s nothing to be worried about the consoles.

If you’re like me, and on a PC and have a NAT type of Moderate it will drive you insane until it is fixed…

The quickest way to solve this, is to be sure UPnP and NAT-PMP are ENABLED on your router. Look around in the settings as each router is different, but be sure to enable them, or check the boxes next to those options. If you were at Strict before this should get you to Moderate, but there’s one more step to get from Moderate to Open, and that is actually a simple solution.

Open up Windows Firewall with Advanced Security and create new Inbound and Outbound rules for “iw5mp.exe” (Located in Steam\steamapps\common\call of duty modern warfare 3\) and be sure to explicitly allow all connection both inbound and outbound.

The default location for iw5mp.exe is as follows…

C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\call of duty modern warfare 3\iw5mp.exe

If you’re on a x64 system, it will be similar, just inside the Program Files (x86) folder instead.

Restart your PC for good measure and fire up the game one more time and verify your NAT type is now Open.

If you want in on this action, you’ll need both a Steam account (valued at a minimum of $50.00 USD) and an account on SteamGifts which is the website we facilitate our giveaways through. Just click on the SteamGifts link and use the green button to sign in through Steam. You’ll need an invite code, but you can get one from someone in our Steam group, so just ask around in the comments sections and see if you can get one from us!

SteamGifts features a “top contributors” list as well, and we’ve topped the charts! This is even with other members creating giveaways for our group under their own name and not our central group name, so this is an impressive feat for us!

This is only for a week as well, which is quite impressive. A big thanks goes to JacobRyan for making that possible by donating a huge number of Halloween themed giveaways for us to raffle off!

Get in on the action now, and let us know if you have any suggestions or changed you’d like to see made on the group or the site in general!

That’s right guys, we are giving away a copy of RAGE! The giveaway is for a Steam copy of RAGE on the PC. It is being facilitated by the SteamGifts website.

In order to enter you must be a member of our Tech Jawa Steam group as well as a member of SteamGifts.

Here’s the link for the giveaway!

http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/c1vu0/rage

There isn’t much more to say, except GOOD LUCK!

Yatterman will be doing a live stream of DOTA 2 for a full 24 hours.

He’s going to be keeping us entertained with voice over as well, but the best part about this is that the money he’s raising doing this is 100% being donated to charity! His stream has even already been featured on the official DOTA 2 blog!

Here at Tech Jawa, we will feature Yatterman’s stream on our live page over at www.techjawa.tv all day on October 15th 2011. You can also check it out on his own Livestream channel as well.

Be sure to support the cause and read up on the charity as well. All the details can be found on the Extra Life website!

You must be a member of our Steam group to enter the giveaway, as well as a member of the SteamGifts website. The giveaway is open until 5pm tomorrow night, in essence making it some Friday Night Combat.

Head on over and enter the giveaway!

http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/Ricvb/monday-night-combat

But in the meantime, the server is back up, but it’s not what you might expect. It’s a creative server, as every user has unlimited resources, can fly, no health meters, etc.

The server location (as always) is minecraft.techjawa.com

The creative mode server is really just a placeholder and a stress test on our current system over the next few months up until Minecraft version 1.0 is released. This will be the point in which we switch back over to a survival/adventure server. This will be the complete game, and will be much easier to maintain and keep up to date.

Until then, please do not get upset if maps reset, or disappear, rollback, or anything else that may happen, as I again state, this is simply a stress test and experiment on our current hardware and connection until version 1.0 drops in November 2011. Thank you, and we look forward to seeing everybody back on the server when we switch back over to survival/adventure mode!

You can read the source article here!

1. You’re going to need to disassemble your CR-48 device. THIS STEP CANNOT BE SKIPPED. There is a small metal strip inside the case that touches a sensor on the motherboard of the unit. This protects against the BIOS being written over. To do this you want to remove all the screws on the case (circled in the image below). You’ll need a very tiny screwdriver for the small black screws, be careful not to strip them like I did or you may never get the casing off. You also have to remove the back two rubber feet (they’ll stick back on without issue don’t worry!) and remove the screws underneath as well. Once the screws are removed, start removing from the monitor hinges pulling upward carefully, work your way around to the side OPPOSITE of the power input, that side will come off very cleanly and allow you to avoid any breakage on the side with the input ports.
2. After you have the case removed, go ahead and flick the developer switch ON as shown below. Set the netbook on a smooth surface (since it doesn’t have it’s bottom, make sure its nothing metal) and plug the device in and turn it on. The CR-48 should tell you that the verification of Chrome OS is turned off, let it sit at this screen for a moment and it will eventually start “erasing the stateful partition”. Let the process complete and reboot. Upon reboot you’ll be at the Chrome OS setup screen as if it was out of a new box. You’ll want to at least get as far as when it lets you select your WiFi network. Be sure you’re connected to the network before continuing!
3. After you’re on WiFi, press Ctrl+Alt+Forward to drop to a shell.
4. Enter the username as chronos with no password required.
5. Now that you are logged into the shell, we need to download the BIOS file. issue the following command. wget http://www.techjawa.com/cr48bios.bin
6. It’s up to you to backup your current BIOS, you can do this by the issuing the following command. sudo flashrom -r backup.bin
7. It’s also up to you to BACK UP THAT FILE! Do something, copy it to your flash drive, boot into the CR-48 developer mode and email it to yourself or something. You’ll figure it out if you want it badly enough.
8. After you’ve taken care of that, or not if you don’t care about restoring it, we need to flash the new BIOS. Just issue this command. sudo flashrom -w cr48bios.bin
9. Wait for the process to complete, reboot, and that’s it. Now follow whatever guide you’d like for your specific operating system, and remember if you’re installing Windows 7, reset the BIOS to optimized defaults!
10. Enjoy! And don’t forget to replace the cover and attach all the screws again!