» HowTos

Watch Manny Pacquiao vs Juan Manuel Marquez Live On Your PC Like A Ninja *UPDATE

gianviterbo — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 02:54:52 +0000

I know you guys are quite desperate in looking for a legit live streaming link or solution to watch Manny Pacquiao vs Juan Manuel Marquez III. I’ve tested the solution below and I can guarantee you that you don’t need to answer any survey-whatevers to get the link.

Follow these steps:

1. Download Sopcast. Go this link and download the latest build. Select either Mirror 1 or Mirror 2.

2. Install the software and launch it.

3. Login as Anonymous.

4. Once you’re in, click on the Live Channels tab

5. Scroll down to USA channels.

6. And Select 35999. Sportin’ Wood

Alright, guys! Gotta watch now. Alvarado vs Prescott is up!

UDPATE

Pacquiao won – Majority Decision. Marquez contested yet again. Many believed Marquez should have won the fight. What do you think?

Jailbreak your iPhone 4 like a Ninja

Giancarlo Viterbo — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 14:24:18 +0000

You finally got your iPhone 4 (you rich b$#@ard), and you’re itching to jailbreak and unlock it? Don’t fret, because the easiest way to Jailbreak your iDevice has arrived. Yes, it doesn’t care if you own an iPhone (2G to 4), iPod Touch (1G to 3G) and iPad! Introducing, Jailbreakme – a browser based jailbreak for all iDevices including iPhone 4 running on iOS 4.0 and 4.0.1.

There are some easy requirements though before you can jailbreak your iDevice:

Jailbreakme requires your device to be activated or hacktivated. Activate it by purchasing Globe micro SIM card. Globe is an official iPhone carrier so their SIM should work on the iPhone 4.
Jailbreakme requires your device on 3G service or WiFi connectivity

So here’s what you do:

Browse to www.jailbreakme.com through our device and wait for the complete page load. Once your page loads swipe your finger across “Slide to jailbreak”.

JailbreakMe << click this if you’re reading this on your “jailed” iPhone 4.

Now wait and watch while your device will begin to download the data necessary to execute the jailbreak procedure.

Wait a few seconds while installation finishes and a new popup will warn that Cydia icon is added on the springboard.

SIM unlocking the iPhone 4 isn’t available yet, but once it’s available, unlocking will be very easy. Simply install ultrasn0w through Cydia like you did on older iPhone models and your iPhone 3G S and/or iPhone 4 should be unlocked.

*Update: The iPhone DevTeam finally released their new version of ultrasnow which can finally let you insert your Smart and Sun Cellular sim cards to your iPhone 3G/3Gs and iPhone 4. Check out this post.

Fix Purple Screen and Jailbreakme errors:

Browse to jailbreakme.modmyi.com instead of jailbreakme.com
Clear your Mobile Safari cache, go to Setting >> Safari and hit the clear history, clear cookies and clear cache button. Now try again to jailbreak.
A simple reboot and then reinstalling jailbreak is good enough to overcome these random problems

[HowTo] Dual Boot Maemo 5 and Android 2.1 Eclair on N900

gianviterbo — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 05:26:23 +0000

DJ_Steve and E-Yes of Maemo.org forums managed to install and dualboot Android 2.1 and Maemo 5 OS on their N900. I was able to do it myself on my Nokia N900 and I’m here to share you the steps I followed.

The following steps are basically similar to DJ_Steve’s instructions. I just managed to modify it to help those who are not familiar with UNIX. I want to tell you that I am not too familiar with the said language as well, but I successfully installed the Android OS on my N900.

First off, there are stuffs that you primarily need in order to go through the process.

1. Knowledge of how to flash your device

- This is very important for many reasons. (1) Should you “brick” your device, you should know how to “bring it back to life”; (2) Flashing the Kernel image provided by DJ_Steve is the same with how you flash firmware/eMMC to your device.

2. DJ_Steve’s Android RootFS: http://www.loadsofspace.net/NITDroid-0.0.3-1-Eclair-WiFi.tbz2

This is currently the available RootFS (Root Filesystem) compiled by DJ_Steve. This is the main OS that will be installed into the Linux Partition of your MicroSD card that we will create later.

3. DJ_Steve’s Kernel Image: http://www.loadsofspace.net/zImage-0.0.3

This is a custom kernel provided by DJ_Steve.

4. 1 MicroSD Card

I highly suggest that you format your MicroSD card first. In this way, you will not accidentally flash the Maemo eMMC later during the process of preparing the memory card.

5. Idea how to edit files and run commands via a terminal linux based PC/VM

This is another crucial requirement. This is going to be so easy if you are reading this tutorial via a Linux-based operating system like Ubuntu/Fedora. Otherwise, if you don’t have an installed Linux OS, I suggest that you grab yourself a VMWare Workstation and an Ubuntu Karmic Koala Image, and install it in your PC-running Windows via virtual machine. In that way, you won’t go through the process of repartitioning your hard drive and “physically” install the Linux OS in the new partition. A Linux-based operating system is required to proceed.

HOW TO:

1. Install Extras-Devel repository by clicking this, and download and install Bootmenu-n900.

In this way, you will be able to access installed OS on the available partitions, which we will prepare later by turning on your N900 while the physical keyboard is open.

2. Download DJ_Steve’s latest Android RootFS above using your linux virtual machine/linux os.

It is important that you do this via the Linux operating system and not via the Windows system because the RootFS will be uploaded into the Linux partition of the MicroSD card later.

3. On your Linux OS, mount your microsd via either n900s usb storage or direct via a card reader (probably faster to do latter) then find out the device node assigned to it on you linux system (dmesg will give you easily enough) then run the following (/dev/sdb is the node the microsd shows as on my system):

Mount your MicroSD card either in the Nokia N900’s storage (not recommended) or directly via the card reader (recommended method) then check out the device node of the card on your linux system.

Open ‘Terminal’ and type ‘dmesg’ to check the device node. You would notice that there would be /dev/sdc or related nodes that will appear on the terminal. My 16gb MicroSD card was identified as /dev/sdc. Carefully check the device node, and see to it that the one you identified is not the Phone Memory (if your MicroSD card is IN the Nokia N900).

If you formatted your MicroSD card a while back, it would simply appear as /dev/sdc (no /sdc1, /sdc2/, sdc3, etc). Assuming that this is the case, do the following steps.

Code

fdisk /dev/sdc

+xM (x is the size of the partition in MB, a formality and not used by android so make it small say 100)

This process will correct and prepare the partition for the next stage.

4. Create the filesystems in the 2 partitions you just created:

Code

sudo mkdosfs /dev/sdc1

This code is to create a filesystem on the first partition recognizable by Windows.

Code

sudo mke2fs -j /dev/sdc2 -m0

This code is to create a filesystem on the second partition recognizable by Linux. This is where we shall install the Android RootFs later.

5. The next thing you need to do now is to mount the second partition.

Code

sudo mount /dev/sdc2 /mnt

This worked flawlessly on my computer but should you encounter several problems, here are the things that you should do:

If it tells you that you don’t have permission to mount because you are not the owner of /mnt, add ‘-o’ after the /mnt. It should appear like ‘sudo mount /dev/sdc2 /mnt -o’.

If you can’t find any /mnt on your Linux filesystem, just ‘sudo mkdir /mnt’ to create an /mnt folder in the root directory of the filesystem.

6. Remember where you placed DJ_Steve’s Android RootFs and extract it by doing the following commands.

Code

cd /mnt

sudo tar xjvvpf ../NITDroid-0.0.3-1-Eclair-WiFi.tbz2

Extraction of the Android filesystem in the mounted partition will take sometime. Afterwhich, unmount the partition by entering the command below:

Code

sudo umount /mnt

7. Power off your N900 (if you did all the partitioning process while the MicroSD card is in the N900). Otherwise, insert the MicroSD into your N900 and then power down the device.

8. At this point, you many now turn off the virtual machine running a Linux OS, and return to Windows.

This is optional as you can also do this via the Linux OS (VM or Partition). What is important here is you would be able to flash the kernel provided by DJ_Steve.

9. Boot your n900 into ‘flash’ mode (hold ‘u’ on keyboard as you connect usb cable)

10. Assuming that the ‘zImage’ file is placed where ‘flasher-3.5′ is placed, run the following command to flash the kernel into your device.

Code

flasher-3.5 –set-rd-flags=no-ext-wd,no-lifeguard-reset –enable-rd-mode -f -k zImage-0.0.3

-R

Once you hit return/enter, the device should reboot and return you back to Maemo.

THE BACK COVER MUST BE IN PLACE OR THE SYSTEM WILL CRASH.

The next steps are crucial in being able to boot Android using Bootmenu-n900, which may be downloaded through Extras-Devel repository. Assuming that you have already installed Bootmenu, SSH to your N900′s filesystem and go to /etc/bootmenu.d/. Create a file named ‘android.ext.item’ in the bootmenu.d folder and edit the content of the file.

‘android.ext.item’ should have the content similar to this:

ITEM_NAME=”Android (external SD, partition 2)”
ITEM_ID=”android3″
ITEM_DEVICE=”${EXT_CARD}p2”
ITEM_MODULES=”mbcache jbd ext3 fat vfat”
ITEM_FSTYPE=”ext3″
ITEM_FSOPTIONS=”noatime”

You may also do this via your N900 Xterminal. Just follow this method .

Here’s DJ_Steve’s video tutorial so you can follow what he and I did to successfully put Android in your phone.

Part 1:

Click here to view the embedded video.

Part 2:

Click here to view the embedded video.

Now that everything’s all set, power down your N900, slide out its keyboard and power on the device back again. At this point, you will notice that the boomenu will execute and will allow you to select 2 choices of OS – one for Maemo and other one for Android.

For those of who are interested on the progress of this project, you may also look at NitDroid V2 forum discussions here. Don’t forget to support DJ_Steve, by click this. Currently, the compiled Android OS for N900 isn’t complete as it doesn’t have any phone features, sound, bluetooth and accelerometer.

If you have any questions, feel free to drop your comments below. If you know how to simplify the steps, please write it down on the comments section as well.

How to Initially Setup Your New N900

gianviterbo — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:34:38 +0000

Congratulations on your new Nokia N900. I assume that you’re a geek and you know a bit about unix and networking that’s why you bought that phone. If you want to learn how to maximize the purpose and value of your phone then I guess you need to learn some N900 basics. I also assume that you have already updated your N900 firmware to Nokia N900 Firmware Updated to 2.2009.51-1.

I’ll cover 3 topics for now:
1. How to add extra repositories in order to install more applications.
2. How to integrate Yahoo!, Gmail and Facebook in Contacts and Conversations. (Update: Live now!)
3. How to Install SSH on your N900 and be able to access its filesystem. (soon)

Let’s begin:

How to add extra repositories in order to install more applications.

This is basically one of the primary and easiest tasks you should do after unboxing your N900. Please be aware though that I am not encouraging you to install untested and development-stage applications from dev repositories because it may damage your phone. There is also a high probability that untested and dev-stage apps are not yet optified thus may eat your RAM and make your phone perform very very very slow if not useless.

Enable Maemo.Org Extra Applications

The N900′s application manager has a pre-installed (but disabled) maemo repository ‘maemo.org’.

+ Tap the Application Manager Drop down menu

+ Click Application Catalogues

+ Tap ‘maemo.org’ repository then uncheck the Disabled.

+ Exit the Catalogue details and let your N900 refresh the Catalogues. You may now install Applications from Maemo.org. You may install applications like ‘Conversations Inbox Desktop Widget’, ‘Flashlight’, ‘Gonvert’, ‘iNes’, etc.

Enable Extras-Testing Applications

Enabling this repository can give you access to more applications. In order to enable this repository, visit this website using your N900 and click the image below.

Click this on your N900 to enable Extras-Testing

You can also do it manually by adding these details into the catalogue:

+Goto Application manager –> Application catalogs –> New

Catalog name: maemo.org extras-testing

Web address: http://repository.maemo.org/extras-testing

Distribution: fremantle

Components: free non-free

Enable Extras-Devel Applications

Enabling this repository can give you access to even more applications. As mentioned earlier, I do not recommend that you install applications in this repository because it may seriously damage your phone. In order to enable this repository, visit this website using your N900 and click the image below.

Click this on your N900 to enable Extras-Devel

Goto Application manager –> Application catalogs –> New

Catalog name: Maemo Extras-devel

Web address: http://repository.maemo.org/extras-devel

Distribution: fremantle

Components: free non-free

Click this to proceed to How to integrate Yahoo!, Gmail and Facebook in Contacts and Conversations.

How to Integrate Google Calendar with Facebook

gianviterbo — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 13:56:07 +0000

There are 2 things that I can’t live without – Google and Facebook. Other than Microsoft Outlook, I use Google applications especially Google Calendar to keep me posted on the events that I should be in for the whole year! If I wish to invite other people to grace the event I’m organizing, for instance, I can simply integrate my Google Calendar events on Facebook to create a “shoutout” for everybody to read through Facebook Events invitation.

Here’s how you can integrate Google Calendar with Facebook? There are basically 4 easy steps. See my video below for full instructions. Be sure to click HD to view the instructions in greater detail. Click the Youtube video to view annotations.

Step 1: Go to Events on Facebook.

Step 2: Click to ‘Export Events’ at the top and Copy the URL.

Step 3: Log in to Google Calendar, Select Add, and Add by URL.

Step 4: Paste the URL into the Public Calendar Address Box and Press Add.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Now, to be able to manage, view and share your Google Calendar to Facebook, I highly recommend this application: My Google Calendar

Add Your Name on Taskbar Clock [Windows 7/Vista]

gianviterbo — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 01:53:36 +0000

Okay, so you just got your new laptop pre-loaded with Windows Vista or 7? Here’s a way to easily personalize it by adding your name beside the taskbar clock.

Click Start > Control Panel > Regional and Language Options > Customize Button (Additional Settings) > Time tab. Here, change both the AM and PM letters to any name you wish. Click Apply > OK.

Look at the demo below.

Click here to view the embedded video.

If you wish to revert to default settings, simply click the Rest button or change the customized name to ‘AM’ and ‘PM’.