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Rogers recently replaced all ‘Cannot Find Server’ page due to mistyped web addresses to a Rogers-Yahoo searching page which provides website suggestions.

For example, when Rogers user mistyped ‘Google.com’ as ‘Google.cim’, the browser will automatically redirect the keyword as a search request to ’search.rogers.com’. This searching service is provided by Yahoo!, and contains ads.

This feature might be a great idea for future Firefox update, but only change the search engine to Google.

Via Weiphone.com

These iPhone themes are collected from the Internet for jailbroken iPhones (iPod Touch) with Summerboard installed. Theme folder should be placed in \var\root\media\library\summerboard\theme\ folder.

Notes: All themes are English, and all copyrights belong to the authors.

1. Beijing 2008

2. Notepad

3. China Wind

4. Hang’s Black

5. Mud

6. Zazoo’s Golden Armor

7. Blue Tears

8. Zazoo’s CoolBlue

9. YellowQ

10. BlackWood

GoDaddy is offering a free domain name registration with subscription to IndyCar newsletter. Thanks Tinkleondabeach

1. Click here
2. Enter your information, and check the checkbox
3. After receiving your code, click here to register the domain name of your choice

If you prefer not to give our your credit card number, select “Gift Card” as your method of payment

Via Slickdeals.net

From FasMx, via Weiphone.com.

Claim: All copyright belongs to Sega and FasMX (author of the patch).

This tutorial will teach you how to open the access to all the 105 levels in the iPhone Super Monkey Ball games. This tutorial requires your iPhone, iPod Touch to be jailbroken,have OpenSSH installed in Cydia, if you don’t meet the requirement, check this tutorial.

• Download statebin.zip
• Extract state.bin from the zip file, and upload it to/var/mobile/Documents/ use OpenSSH
• Change the permission of state.bin to 644 or 0644 depends on the SSH client you are using (if the previous number is 3 digits use 644, 4 digits use 0644)
• If it doesn’t work, copy state.bin to /user/Documents/, and also change the permission.
• Now play Super Monkey Ball again, you will see that you have access to all 105 levels!

Note:Reset the high score if the game crashes
Also, if the game crashes during loading screen, please restart the iPhone.

Note: this post is completely written with the wordpress app, even the pictures are taken from the iphone and uploaded directly to the server.

I just got this wordpress app from Apple App Store, and I decided to write a review actually using it.

First you need to setup your wordpress account (from any server). Then Wordpress app will retrive recent posts list of your blog.

The posting feature is the best feature of this app. You can choose tags, catagory of your post. Pictures can be uploaded through your photo library or camara. However the pictures can only show at the end of the post.

In addition, you can preview your post in the actual blog (like in a browser). Password and post date setups are also available.

The wordpress app only support plain text input, or you can manuelly enter HTML code. The app runs fairly fast and without glitches. All together this is a great app but new feathers are needed to make it better.This app can easily become the future trend of blogging.

To celebrate the release of Firefox 3.0, MoZhi Internet (Chinese Firefox Marketing Company) announced the new mascot of Firefox in China, the G-Fox.

The letter G has different meanings, such as ‘good’, ‘great’, ‘guide’, or ‘gateway’. The G-fox represents that Firefox is a ultimate web browser.

G-Fox and the Olympics

G-Fox Wallpapers

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Change: So the author of Aurora Feint left a comment about the stored phone numbers and emails, and said they are only for community features of the game. There are no evidence of Aurora Feint actually uploading information to their server. But we hope in the next version of Aurora Feint, users should get informed after entering the game and preferably a option that let users to choose if they want to enable this community feature.

Original Conversation:

# Jason Citron Says:
Hey there,

Can you please correct this article? I’ve written a detailed outline of what we’re doing with people’s contact list data on our web site. The short answer is we only store what you type in to our application on the web server. We never spam, rent, sell, or do anything funky with your personal data.

If you have any further questions feel free to ask me personally.By the way, preventing the application from writing to the account data file will break your save games.- Jason CitronP.S. We are posting the privacy notice now. It should be live by noon PST.# admin Says:

admin Says:

Well, the problem is that users are not told by Aurora Feint that they are actually using the information stored in the Contacts application, and the personal information collected by the app is definitely not submitted through your website.So I would like to see you guys inform the users that you are actually using the contacts information from the iPhone, and let users to choose if they want Aurora Feint to use it for Community Features.

Thanks

-Stephen

Aurora Feint is a popular free App Store game, it even got to the top 25 list from official Apple site. Bur recently users report that they found Aurora Feint secretly collection iPhone (iPod Touch) Contact information.
So first I installed Aurora Feint from App Store and run the game for about few minutes.

Then to test if Aurora Feint actually collect person info, I added two Contacts, one email address, one note entry, and web history of google search.

Now I ran the game once again, clicked through the game so it gets the time to steal my personal info and store it XD.

Okay, now let’s check the result. Btw you will need a jailbroke iPhone and OpenSSH installed to access iPhone directory. Connect your iPhone from your computer through SSH client. Go to
/private/var/mobile/Applications/*****(Randomly generated code with iMmo.app in it)/Documents
There should be a file named iMmoAccountData , download the file and open it use any text editor.

And now, what do you discover? Oh My GOD, it’s the contact information I just entered!

Are you disgusted by Aurora Feint now? Time to delete it!

However, if you still want to play this game without it collecting anymore personal info, here is how to do it.

• Delete the original iMmoAccoutData in Documents folder
• Create a blank file named iMmoAccoutData and put it in the same folder
• Change the permission to 444 so Aurora Feint cannot modify this file any more.

Obviously Apple got some work to do about iPhone user privacy and properly managing App Store platform, so personal info cannot be easily collected without users notice.

From the screenshots, you can see that Symbian increased the screen resolution to 640*480. Buttons are enlargeable for touch screen controls.

Calculator, Contact, and Calender

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Note:This tutorial also apply to iPhone (not sure about 3G), make sure you setup Bootneutor properly during the process for unlocking the phone.

Note 2: The newest PwnageTool 2.0.1 has just been released, I recommend you to use it. People who are having trouble with the previous version (such as 1600 error), you should give 2.0.1 another try.

iPhone Dev Team has just released the PwnageTool 2.0 for Mac OS X and I will write a walkthrough for jailbreaking an iPod Touch.

What you will need: PwnageTool 2.0, a copy of the original 2.0 Firmware for iPod Touch (i used 5A347), an iPod Touch with any firmware or status, and Mac OS X (prefer Leopard)

1. Open PwnageTool 2.0 and choose Expert Mode (trust me, its not hard to work with. Click ‘iPod Touch’, then ‘next’.



2. Click “Browse for IPSW” and open the iPod Touch 2.0 firmware you’ve just downloaded.



3. In the next window choose “General” then continue.

   

4. Choose the root partition space for 3rd-party applications, I chose 1GB just in case.



5. Then pick the applications you want to be pre-installed into the firmware (pick whatever you would like to have installed)



6. Choose Cydia Installer.



7. Here comes the fun part of it, you get to choose custom boot logo and restore logo. (I am a Raptors fan my self XD).



8. Pick a location to save your jailbroken firmware and watch PwnageTool go to work!
9. After the building is done, it will ask if your iPod had been pwned before, choose according to your situation.



10. PwnageTool will then give you detailed instructions to put your iPod to DFU Mode.



Note: If PwnageTool says ‘failed to enter DFU mode’, follow the tutorial to do it manually.


11. Now you are done working with PwnageTool, open your iTunes 7.7 and it will say “iTunes detects iPod Touch in recovery mode…”. Hold Alt key then press the restore button, iTunes will let you pick the firmware file to restore. Choose the custom firmware PwnageTool made and start restoring.



12. After the process is completed, set up your iPod in iTunes just like how you usually do it.



13. Now your iPod is fully jailbroken and has Cydia installed.







Note: There are still some capability issues exist for Cydia Installer under 2.0 firmware, some apps and functions may not work properly.

Good luck, please comment your feedback.

Post from iPhone Dev Team Blog:

Here you go.

We’ll be releasing a more official announcement soon, but we wanted to get the tool out there. We sincerely hope you enjoy using it as much as we enjoyed making it

Enjoy!