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How to use MSN inside of Google Talk
April 14th, 2010 by Connor McBrine-Ellis | View Comments | Filed in How Tos, Online
uTorrent 2.0s uTP REALLY Kills Your Speed
April 14th, 2010 by Connor McBrine-Ellis | View Comments | Filed in Apps, How TosHey everyone! I just got the new uTorrent update, as it was rolled out a couple weeks ago, and it updated in like two seconds after clicking Yes.
I then went on TorrentFreak, and I read that in this uTorrent update there is a new protocol developed by BitTorrent Inc and Bram Cohen, called uTP – and it basically throttles your downloads so that the ISPs don’t have to. I don’t believe that by limiting global download speeds we will see any sort of improvement in our internet – likely it will give our ISPs who are already sluggish at upgrading their infrastructure another reason not to spend money on infrastructure upgrades.
To disable UTP fully, then go to Options > Preferences > Advanced and set bt.transp_disposition to 5.
Then go to Options > Preferences > BitTorrent and uncheck Enable Bandwidth Management.
Tags: bittorrent, bypass, disable, hack, internet, options, preferences, Torrent, uTorrent, uTP
iPod Touch App – Cube Runner Bonus Level Packs
March 6th, 2010 by Calvert Kennedy | View Comments | Filed in Apps, How TosIf you’d like some extra levels for your Cube Runner iPod Touch game that we recently reviewed you’ve come to the right place!
It’s as simple as going to add new level pack. and typing in one of the URLs found at the bottom of this post.
I am not 100% sure these are working, so if they don’t, blame the forum I got them from – but please leave a comment letting us know whether they did or didn’t work for you! These were tested to work on cube runner one and not two, and it is the first version of cube runner, so it may be outdated.
cr2://cuberun.org/$$$$.txt
cr2://cuberun.org/.nNoobEatern.txt
cr2://cuberun.org/0000nightmare.txt
cr2://cuberun.org/00camylles00canal00.txt
Tags: app, apple, bonus, cube runner, ipod, itouch, level, media, mp3, Touch
Change Windows 7 Logon Background
November 1st, 2009 by Connor McBrine-Ellis | View Comments | Filed in How Tos
Pic stolen from blogsdna.com
One really neat way to customize windows to your personal preference is to change your logon screen background. In Windows 7, this is possible with no additional software, but that is a bit tricky.
We’re going to show you how to perform this with a very small software tool that is virus-free. This tool is called Windows 7 Account Screen Editor.
You can choose any image you’d like and set it as your logon screen!
If the image you choose is too large, then it will automatically resize it for you!
This handy little tool is a great download, and when you’re done with it, because there’s no installing required, you can simply delete the tool! You don’t need to leave it on your hard drive because the feature is built into windows!
Tags: background, customize, feature, hack, wallpaper, windows, windows 7
Wordpress Category to Tag Converter
October 28th, 2009 by Connor McBrine-Ellis | View Comments | Filed in How Tos
If you’ve imported your blog from Blogger and find that all of your Labels turn up as Categories, when you were using them as if they were tags back when you were using Blogger, here’s how to batch-convert (convert more than one at once) them to Tags.
In your wordpress admin, go to Tools and click Import. Then in that list, click Categories and Tags Converter, which “Converts existing categories to tags or tags to categories, selectively”. Then it will show you a list of all your Categories and allow you to convert them.
This tool was particularily helpful on this blog when moving it from our old site on blogger.
Watch Hulu in Canada
October 22nd, 2009 by Connor McBrine-Ellis | View Comments | Filed in How Tos
Watching Hulu, the american TV show streaming service, is usually prevented by Hulu’s geoblocking, yet some in the past have found ways to bypass that through proxies. Hulu is now implementing Proxy detection, which makes it even harder to watch the last few episodes of your favorite show in high quality.
You can watch Hulu using Hotspot Shield, but you have to make sure that the Hotspot Shield server you’re using is the White Plains, New York server. To do this, just connect to Hotspot Shield, and then go to ip-adress.com and it will tell you which server you’re using. If it’s not the White Plains server, then just disconnect from Hotspot Shield and then try reconnecting till it assigns you to the White Plains server.
This also should get Pandora and Spotify to work outside of the US.
Enjoy your new free streaming media, and don’t forget to post in the comments section and tell us if it works!
Tags: audio, bypass, hulu, internet, media, meebo, streaming, video
Downgrading from WMP 12 to 11 in Windows 7
October 20th, 2009 by Connor McBrine-Ellis | View Comments | Filed in How TosWindows Media Player 12 in Windows 7 has a new UI that doesn’t include as many sleek transparency features as WMP 11 did, and Microsoft also for some reason removed the Advanced Tag Editor, one of my favorite features because my WMP Custom Album Art tutorial uses it, and because you can edit a whole albums tags in batch.
I see no real benefit to using Windows Media Player 12, as Windows Media Player 11 seems, at least to me, to be a much more well-rounded, and better looking too, music / video organizer and player.
How to install Windows Media Player 11 onto Windows 7:
- Go to the start menu, type services.msc and hit enter.
- Stop the Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service.
- Install this registry edit (zipped): Take Ownership Context Menu Hack.
- Now take ownership of these items by selecting them in Windows Explorer and then right-clicking them and selecting Take Ownership in the context menu:All files in “Program Files\Windows Media Player\” folder
All files starting with “wmp” in System32 folder
wmploc.dll.mui in “System32\en-us\” folder.
- Download Windows Media Player 11 for Windows 7 and install. If you get an error message saying that wmploc.dll.mui is in use by a process, then kill sidebar.exe. You’ll need to restart after install Windows Media Player.
- Run regedit and delete the key “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Setup\Installed Versions”.
- If you want a good Windows 7 theme for WMP 11, check this one out:
http://bogo-d.deviantart.com/art/7-for-Windows-Media-Player-11-105796300
This skin is quite amazing – it combines the best elements of both WMP 11 and 12 to make an amazing looking skin.
I hope that you’ve enjoyed my tutorial, and enjoy your newly installed WMP 11 on Windows 7!
A better version of this tutorial: http://www.askvg.com/how-to-get-windows-media-player-wmp-taskbar-toolbar-back-in-windows-7/
Tags: 11, 12, audio, microsoft, Music, vista, windows, windows 7, windows media player, WMP, xp
Screenshots in Mac OS X
October 18th, 2009 by Austin McBrine-Ellis | View Comments | Filed in How Tos, Offline, TechA great feature of Mac OS X is the Screenshot feature. It is more highly developed than Window’s rudimentary Print Screen, and the combinations in which you can use it make the possibilities endless. This does not need any download what so ever, which is great!
Here’s the 3 screenshot keystrokes for Mac OS X. All of the screenshots you take will show up on your desktop.
- This takes picture of your whole screen (does the same thing as Print Screen, but I think it’s superior because it saves the file at the same time instead of just copying it to the clipboard).
Apple Key + Shift + 3
- Select an custom sized area by dragging with the mouse – select any area of your desktop.
Apple Key + Shift + 4 - Your cursor will appear as a camera. It takes pictures of the blue selected area that shows up when you hover over certain items. It’s very handy for taking a picture of just one window or a certain area of the screen.
Apple Key + Shift + 4 + Space
Tags: MAC OSX, Print Screen
How to Jail Break your iPod Touch 2G
October 11th, 2009 by Severin Kempf | View Comments | Filed in How TosWarning: Jailbreak at your own risk! It is quite safe, because it is nearly impossible to brick your iPod, yet you will lose data that you had on your iPod, to save any important data, choose to back-up your iPod when restoring it.
When Jailbreaking, if your iPod won’t turn on, then use the restore in iTunes.
First of all I’d like to clear up a couple things.
JailBreaking is not illegal however things like ROMs are illegal, It is quite safe with no confirmed cases of an iPod Bricking.
and last of all there will be times you think your ipod is bricked, in this case use what I call the 3 Rs, Rese when t, Restore and Respond
Reset your iPod by holding the Power and Home Buttons, if you do not know what they are, you shouldn’t be trying to JailBreak your iPod, at the same time until your iPod seems to shut off in this case keep holding the buttons until the boot logo appears.
Restore on your computer.
And Respond on this post.
Disclaimer: My Daily Tech does not take any Liability to anything that happens while you are Jail Breaking your iPod.
Ok so when your ready to start Scroll down
Ok so first of all, you’ll need to figure out what firmware you have to do this
go on your iPod > Settings > General > About > look down the list until you find version.
Ok so now that you have your firmware version you need to determine if its newer than 3.0 e.g. 3.1.1, it is 3.0, or it is lower than 3.0 e.g. 2.1.1, 1.1.1
Ok well a redsn0w does not work with Firmware Version 3.1.1 so you’ll need to wait for them to update it.
Ok now your ready to start, You must have:
- redsnow (the o like symbol there is actually a zero) which can be downloaded from this site http://redsn0w.com/
- You Current Firmware e.g. 3.0 (which I will be working with) Click here so you can download any of the available firmwares in the second drop down menu
- an iPod Touch 2G
- a USB to iPod Cable
- iTunes (to restore your iPod) doesn’t matter which version.
Ok so
First of all, to make everything easier to find.
Put a New Folder on your desktop named “Pwnage”
Copy redsnow and your firmware to “Pwnage”
If you have firmware 3.1.1 you can either wait for a jailbreak to be released, or downgrade.
To downgrade:
ON COMPUTER:
1. Open iTunes
ON IPOD:
- Plug iPod into computer and then turn off.
- Make sure that iPod is turned off and plugged in.
- Put iPod into DFU mode. (Instructions below)
- Hold down power button for 3 seconds.
- Without letting go of the power button also hold the home button for 10 seconds.
- Let go of power button but keep holding home button until iTunes says it has found an iPod in recovery mode.
- You are now in DFU mode.
ON COMPUTER
- iTunes will say that it has found an iPod in recovery mode.
- iTunes will ask you to restore your iPod. Do not hit restore right away.
- Option-click restore on a mac and shift-click restore on a PC. This will allow you to browse for a IPSW (the firmware).
- Navigate to your “Pwnage” folder and select your custom firmware you want to downgrade to e.g. 3.0.
- Hit Select
- Wait for your iPod to restore with your new… err old, firmware
- You now have a downgraded iPod Touch
If your iTunes returns an error message after going through the restore process, Such as “Cannot restore iPod Touch”, don’t fret you just didn’t put it into DFU mode. So Try again and follow the Instructions exactly as they say.
JAILBREAKING
ON COMPUTER
- Restore your iPod if you haven’t already. DO NOT sync anything with it after restoring.
- Open redsn0w
- Browse for the Firmware your iPod is currently running.
- Wait for the IPSW to be Confirmed.
- Select wether to install Cydia or Icy (cydia and icy are like the installer app, they let you download content such as themes, apps, emultors and more) or both if installing both you may get error 20 when downloading content. Refer to trouble shooting for help.
- Make Sure your iPod is plugged into your computer, then shut it off (by holding the sleep/wake button until a slider appears on the screen that says “slide to power off.”) then click next.
- Quickly hold down the sleep button for 3 seconds the ipod should display the boot logo then also hold down the home button without letting go of the sleep button for 10 seconds, then let go of sleep and keep holding home button until the screen turns white, then you can let go.
- Redsn0w will now upload the 1st, 2nd and 3rd parts. Then reboot after uploading each one which will make the white screen flash.
- From here on redsn0w will do the rest for you. It takes a while so just let it sit. It’s now uploading the ramdisk which will take a while
- It will also upload the kernel.
- Once the kernel is uploaded your done with the part on your computer.
- Just Click Finish. (BTW the finish button is normally at the bottom, it just glitched)
ON IPOD
Your ipod will now have a logo like the one below with a status bar.
and your done.
Trouble Shooting
Error – 20 Redo the redsn0w process and check only the cydia source and not the icy choice.
More trouble shooting items will be posted as problems develop, if you have a problem leave it in the comments below.
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Tags: 3.0, iPod Touch, Jail Break, redsn0w
Customizing Firefox for Windows 7
October 9th, 2009 by Connor McBrine-Ellis | View Comments | Filed in How TosWhen you install Firefox on your Windows 7 RTM installation, you’ll find that it isn’t exactly optimised for Windows 7’s Aero interface.
Firefox 3.7 will support Windows 7’s jumplists, and the theme will include more ‘glass’, but if you want to get the nice glassy look that 3.7 will sport right away without having to wait, you can get it right now on Firefox 3.5!
Firefox 3.7 New Theme
And we can get pretty much the exact same theme easily using the extensions I’m going to show you. Here’s the final result:
Firefox 3.5 modded
So let’s get to work!
Strata40 by SpewBoy
Strata40 is almost a complete clone of the new Strata (as in – the name of the default Firefox theme) for Firefox 3.7. It doesn’t include the glass component though, so it sort of looks like it would if you were using Windows Aero Basic.
IMPORTANT: If you don’t do this, the theme won’t look right. Go to the View menu and then go to Toolbars, and then click on Customize. You need to switch a couple things around. Move the stop button from its current position to directly after the address bar, and then put the reload button right after where you just put the stop button.
In this way they’ll combine, so that when a page is loading, it shows a red stop button that you can click to stop the page from loading, but when the page isn’t loading, then it turns into a refresh button. Saves a ton of space, and looks great at the same time.
StrataGlass by SpewBoy
StrataGlass adds all the aero effects you could want to Strata40! It is a great add-on, and is a must have for achieving that 3.7 look. Don`t use StrataGlass with any other theme other than Strata40 because it will just give you an error.
Fission by zeniko
Fission adds the 2px little orange loading bar that runs just below the address bar in 3.7 to Firefox 3.5. It`s really quite a beautiful little loading bar, and it gives you a neat thing to watch while your pages are loading.
Hide Menubar by yuoo2k
Hide Menubar does exactly what it`s called, and it does a pretty good job of it too! It works like the way that the new menubar works in Internet Explorer 8: press alt, and then it shows up.
Tabs On Top UserStyle by SpewBoy
This actually isn`t an addon – it`s an UserStyle from userstyles.org. It works with the addon called Stylish (you`ll need to install Stylish first for it to work). I tried it in Greasemonkey and it didn`t work. This adds a bit of a Chrome twang to the whole theme, and it`s easily togglable through the little Stylish logo on the statusbar, so you can switch between tabs on top and tabs underneath as much as you want. A great little addition to the whole pack of plugins I`ve already provided.
Anyways, I hope that I`ve helped you, and I think that you`ll greatly enjoy your modded Firefox!