Okay, I ran into this problem a couple of times, so I’m posting the solution — because it’s really easy. Here’s the problem: Despite having all your iDevices set to sync wirelessly with iTunes, they don’t show up in iTunes when you open up the application.
Solution? REBOOT YOUR ROUTER. Has worked for me three or four times now.
Take care.
Okay, I don’t know if I’ve ever mentioned this, but I stopped using Windows Media Player a loooonnng time ago. I switched over to something called VLC — VideoLAN Player. The C comes from “client”, but since it’s no longer a client it doesn’t really apply…but they kept the name because it was already well known.
VLC is great for playing all sorts of video files. It’s minimalist, it gets the job done, and it doesn’t take up that much space. More important, it’s far more stable than Windows Media Player. And it’s 100% free. So if you’re looking for a video player without frills that *works*, give VLC a try.
The only thing it doesn’t do is stream to, say, a PS3. Conceivably, it could be altered to stream, but it’s not supported. Right now, that’s the only thing I still use WMP for.
You can download VLC from the offical website here:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
Enjoy!
Okay, here we go. Greenpois0n has released a jailbreak for A5 devices. Currently it’s only available for the Mac, but a Windows version is “coming soon” (sorry to disappoint those of you without a Mac — just have some patience).
The jailbreak is called “Absinthe”, it’s untethered, it works (verified), and you can download it here.
Now, let me add a couple of tips. At the end of the jailbreak process, the tool will tell you to “Unlock the screen, if necessary, and tap the Jailbreak icon”. Note that when you unlock the screen, you will NOT see an icon titled “Jailbreak” but you will see an icon titled “Absinthe”. That’s the one you want to tap on.
If Absinthe hangs for any reason, go into settings, and turn VPN on and then off again. This should fix any hanging problems. If it doesn’t, reboot, and try VPN on-off again.
For more detailed instructions, try here: http://www.iphonehacks.com/2012/01/how-to-jailbreak-ipad-2-absinthe-ios-5-0-1-ios-5.html
Happy jailbreaking!
Hey all, I’m just here to let you know, once again, that there is still no jailbreak for the iPhone 4S or iPad 2. The latest scam I saw today really annoyed me, because it’s trying to take the limera1n/blackra1n good name and sully it. It’s a “product” called ”Easyra1n”. I think the reason that this particular one is cropping up is because we are actually close to a real A5-device jailbreak from the hard-working pod2g. Last week, pod2g tweeted that he had successfully jailbroken an iPhone 4s, and posted screen shots of it. He went on to say that the jailbreak might be available as early as this week.
However, a few days after that, pod2g had to take that statement back, as it turned out that the exploit he used to jailbreak was based on an iPhone developer kit and doesn’t work with a regular old iPhone 4S. So at the moment pod2g is working on a way to translate the dev kit jailbreak into a jailbreak that will work for the rest of us. So, obviously, the jailbreak has been delayed again. Hopefully not for TOO long, though.
In the meantime, I repeat, THERE IS NO JAILBREAK FOR IPHONE 4S OR IPAD 2 YET! Anyone who asks for your money for a working jailbreak for those A5 devices is scamming you out of your cash! Do not get taken by these a-holes!
Again, for all things jailbreak, visit http://limera1n.cc.
There are currently rumblings on Twitter that Fidel Castro has died — go to http://hashtags.org/castro to see them — however it is also believed this may be a hoax to spread a virus via email. So if you get an email saying Castro has died with a link, or, worse yet, an attachment, I would STRONGLY advise you NOT TO CLICK ON IT. I will follow this and post if Castro has actually died. If you see no post from me, assume it is simply a virus. This happened a few months ago, the exact same scenario…
In response to a recent comment I received, I’m uploading the latest version of the XBox 360 controller emulator for you guys. Note that this is an executable file, not just the DLL and the .ini file I gave you before. You use this executable to customize your controller and it generates the DLL and the .ini file, which you then put in the folder where the executable for your game is.
Get the new executable here: http://kiplange.com/x360ce.exe
Also, as an aside — I’m currently using the D3 tool (Dualshock 3 Tool) from MotioninJoy, that allows you to use your PlayStation 3 Dualshock 3 controller as a wireless XBox 360 controller — provided you have a bluetooth adapter/dongle. There are two downsides to it — it’s a bitch to get working, first, and, second, to use the bluetooth capability, you have to load a special driver for your adapter that precludes use of any other bluetooth device. So if you’re using a lot of bluetooth devices, it’s not worth it — although you can still use it wired, with a USB cord. Google “d3 tool” or “motioninjoy” to find out what I’m talking about — perhaps I’ll put a direct link up when I get time, but I don’t have it right now. Anyway, I’m getting off course — the point I wanted to make is that if you use the D3 tool, DO NOT use the 360 controller emulator! Your Dualshock 3 will work just like a 360 controller, and using the controller emulator files will just screw up the buttons bigtime.
Happy gaming!
To all of you out there looking to jailbreak your new iPhone 4S (or your iPad 2 running 5.0 or 5.0.1), I want to make sure you know that, as of right now, there is NO jailbreak for the iPhone 4S. There *is*, I believe, a semi-tethered jailbreak for the old 4 and earlier, and a jailbreak of earlier OSes for the iPad 2 (the problem they’re having is with the new A5 chip that’s in both the iPhone 4S and iPad 2). But nothing for the 4S and no 5.0+ jailbreak for the iPad 2.
However, there are some sites on the Internet that will pop up if you google “jailbreak 4S” and promise to jailbreak your phone — for a fee. KNOW THAT ALL THESE SITES ARE SCAMS. They take your money and run. The real jailbreak, when released, will be free to all. DO NOT PAY GOOD MONEY TO SOME JERK PRETENDING HE CAN JAILBREAK YOUR 4S OR IPAD 2 FOR YOU! Because he can’t.
For the latest information on all things jailbreak, visit:
It looks like a 4S and iPad 2 iOS 5 jailbreak are not TOO far off in the future, so keep your fingers crossed. And here’s a bit of free advice: Whatever you’ve updated to, be it 5.0 or 5.0.1 (my new iPhone 4S shipped with 5.0.1, I would have preferred 5.0, but there’s nothing I can do about it) — DO NOT UPDATE FURTHER IF YOU WANT TO JAILBREAK YOUR IDEVICE. The new jailbreak will most likely be for iOS 5 and *possibly* iOS 5.0.1, but beyond that, they won’t have jailbreaks for newer iOSes for quite a bit of time. So just leave your iDevice with whatever version of iOS you currently have, do NOT update, and you will be jailbreaking pretty soon — with a little luck.
In 1984, my parents were in an electronics store looking to buy me an electronic typewriter for Christmas when I was in the fourth grade. They picked the typewriter out, it had simple word processing. While waiting in line, my mother, a technical writer, went to look at a brand new Mac 128k. She came back to my father and said, “Put the typewriter down. We’re getting this.” And thus began my love affair with Apple.
I stayed with Macs until 1996, when I finally traded in my (overclocked) Mac LC III for a Dell setup. I wanted to be able to play more games, and the games all seemed to be out for Microsoft systems. I never felt fully comfortable using a PC. I’m using one right now, and I still don’t feel comfortable with it. But I know the setup better than I know a Mac setup now, and the parts are cheaper. But I recently bought a MacBook Pro, and immediately fell back in love with Macs. I use it all the time now. And the gaming field has been a leveled a bit; more games are available for Macs now. I used it every morning to surf the web — until I gave in and bought an iPad 2. For the longest time, I thought, you know, I have no use for an iPad. I have the MacBook; that’s plenty. I have an iPhone (I bought the first iPhone when it was released, and have bought every once since then, and if God is willing and AT&T waives the $250 “premium” fee, I will be ordering one on Friday — if they don’t, I’ll be ordering one on November 19th — an iPhone 4S, that is…I specifically wanted this one because I thought it might be the last iDevice Jobs had direct input into…). But then the iPad came, I opened up the box, fiddled with it for 5 minutes, and instantly fell in love. Now I use my iPad for virtually everything, although I do write on the MacBook, and my PC is still my main computer for gaming, or for work (especially HTML or graphic design work). If I could afford one, though, I’d buy a top-line Mac desktop without blinking.
My only regret is that Jobs didn’t enter the gaming field and release something to kick the Xbox 360′s sorry ass. I have a PS3 and love it, but imagine what Jobs would have created. What’s that? You can’t imagine what he would have created? That’s the point! He would have released something so funky, so out there, so…Jobs…that it would have changed the entire console gaming industry forever.
So there’s the story of how Steve Jobs changed my life. Thank you, Steve, thank you. And when you get up to Heaven, I have a feeling God is going to want an iPad.
Godspeed, Steve Jobs, Godspeed. You were taken too soon. You were the Thomas Edison of our time. I am honored to have lived in the era that saw your greatness realized.
This was driving me nuts. I’m an old-school Eudora user — version 7.1.0.9, you can keep your fancy new open-source Eudora; I love the one I have.
After a recent Windows update, all the fonts in Eudora suddenly looked bold…or bigger…something was wrong. And it was annoying the hell out of me. I couldn’t seem to fix it by changing or resetting fonts, no matter how hard I tried.
However, after a little bit of searching on the Internet, I came across a fix for it that worked, and returned fonts back to normal. It was also mentioned that this can be used to return fonts in web browsers back to normal after a Windows update gives you the same problem (I am running Windows 7 64-bit).
It’s pretty simply. Go to the display control panel. Set the resolution to something different than you already have it. Keep the changes. Go back, switch it back to the resolution you want to run at, keep changes again.
This fixed it for me. Good luck!
This problem almost drove me insane. I’ve spent weeks wrestling with it. Finally gave up and got an nVidia Card. But before I installed the nVidia card, I tried one last thing, and it WORKED to enable Crossfire! I can’t find this solution anywhere else on the Internet, but I can find a lot of people searching for it. This also applies if you’re getting artificating and crashes and BSODs with Crossfire enabled.
Here’s my fix. I cannot guarantee it will work for you, but I hope it does.
(Before step 2, where you will opening up the computer, take standard precautions — shut down the PC completely, and remove the plug from the electrical socket to the back of the computer’s power supply, to make sure it isn’t getting *any* power at all)
1. In My Computer, choose “Uninstall or change a program”. Select ATI Installer. Express remove all AMD components/software. Shut down.
2. Open up the computer. Locate both video cards. The primary video card will have two power supply cables (six pin) running out of black ports on the back.
3. Locate the *linked* adapter/video card. In my setup, this one was on top. This one will, most likely, NOT have power supply cables running out the back of it — that’s the problem.
4. There should be two free power supply cables — they will be somewhat connected with the two power supply cables running to the linked adapter. Again, they are six-pin.
5. Plug the two power supply cables to the *linked* adapter/video card.
6. Close everything up.
7. Reboot normally. Once rebooted, use your browser of choice to navigate to the ATI website. Choose “previous drivers”. Select the 10.7 drivers and install them.
8. After 10.7 drivers are installed, reboot again (normally). Open up the Catalyst Control Panel; make sure you see the Crossfire option under the menu.
9. Go to the ATI website again and download the very latest drivers (currently 11.8) and the latest Catalyst Application Profiles (currently 11.7 CAP3).
10. *Without* uninstalling the 10.7 drivers, install the 11.8 drivers and the 11.7 CAP3s.
11. Reboot (normally). Go to the Catalyst Control Panel. Confirm that Crossfire is still there. Go to Crossfire Configuration under Gaming, or Performance. Make sure Crossfire is enabled. If not, check it, and hit apply. It may automatically uncheck the box no matter how many times you try. Don’t worry.
12. Reboot again (last time, hopefully). Go into the Catalyst Control Panel. Make sure Crossfire is enabled (it should be).
13. Pick a game, preferably one that you KNOW goes over 30 frames per second. Fire up Fraps, a freeware framerate-monitoring program, or the equivalent, if you don’t want to use Fraps.
14. Launch the game. Enjoy the increased Crossfire performance.
15. Revel in the fact that you have just pwned Crossfire. 
**Warning — the cards get VERY hot. I did not run this for an extended period of time; instead I switched my ATIs out and put in a top-line nVidia, as I am going to buy another one as soon as I can and SLI-link it to future-proof myself somewhat**
