Its finally in a usable situation, and I can acknolwledge that this is the First Usable ICS ROM for Galaxy Note N7000.

What works:

• Everything.

Known Issues:

• Few minor bugs and whistles here and there.
• Performance is great but not the best.

ICS 4.0.3 Running on Galaxy Note:

How To Install Android ICS 4.0.3 on Galaxy Note N7000

Download and Copy the ROM to Sd card on your galaxy note.

Step 1. Root your Galaxy Note, if not already. Use this guide (CFRoot).

Step 2. Using CWM or Volume Up + Power + Home button to enter the CWM recovery mode.

Step 3. Choose apply update from sd card > choose update from sd card.

Step 4. Browse and select and click home button to select the zip you copied earlier. Flashing would begin, wait till it finishes.

Step 5. Go back to main menu and Factory reset and clear cached data. Reboot.

You should now boot into Android ICS 4.0.3.

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A new product called Ubuntu for Android has been announced that will bring the popular Linux distribution to high-end Android smartphones. This will be no fork or port, it would be a complete Ubuntu desktop experience that runs along with Android, without compromises.

Ubuntu would run when Android phones is docked, just like Motorola Atrix did. Users would be able to dock the device with external monitor and keyboard / mouse, to enjoy full and portable desktop system: Carry your PC in your pocket.

Video Demo of Ubuntu on Android

Architecture & Ubuntu  Runtime on Android

Ubuntu for Android runs on top of the Android kernel, more specifically optimized for dual and futuristic multi-processor ARM based Android devices. Ubuntu on Android provides good amount of integration with the Android environment on the user’s phone, which is way better than running an isolated Ubuntu dual booting with android.

Ubuntu Apps, Deep Android Integration

It includes a number of desktop applications like Chromium Web browser, the Thunderbird e-mail client, the Gwibber social networking program, the VLC video player, and lots of other software to chose from. There is even a unified contacts app that syncs with Android address book. It also works well with Social networking accounts configured in Android. They are configured by default in Gwibber.

Ubuntu gets full access to network connectivity i.e. Wifi , Bluetooth, 3g, 4g. Ubuntu TV environment is also part of Ubuntu for Android, a full media center experience when it is plugged into a television.

The Ubuntu for Android would be demoed at Mobile world congress 2012 (MWC) and you can already register for your interest here.

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iOS 5.0.1 lets you bypass the Lockscreen without much of an hassle. Immediately, you’ll get access to recent calls, contacts, favorites and you can even make calls without unlocking with the password.

The security flaw is said to be present on all iPhone versions running iOS 5 i.e. iPhone 3GS, 4, 4S. Your iPhone may not have been Jailbroken, but the hack still works.

Its not very straightforward but repetitive attempts leads to the vulnerability that opens the Phone application without unlocking. It occurs when attempting to reply to a missed call notification from the lockscreen while the network is ‘searching’ for a signal. The iPhone Islam team replicate the search network requirement by removing the SIM card, waiting until searching shows up in the top left hand corner of the device and then swiping the missed call notification on the lockscreen to reply to the call. However, an easier way to do is to take the iPhone to a weak signal area or use the antennae gate to reduce the signal.

Once successful, device immediately gives access to the Phone application on the iPhone Contacts list and viewing an individual contacts data. It also allows quick launch of the SMS and email applications which can be abused in a large umber of ways.

Well, It’s embarrassing Apple! There’s no fix for this as of now.

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Mountain Lion comes with several new apps that will seem quite familiar to iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch users. Reminders, Notes, and Game Center have all made the move to the Mac.

Summary of the Features in OS X Mountain Lion:

9. Reminders
The good old iOS 5.x Reminders app is now on OS X Mountain Lion. With reminders app, you can set a reminder date, change priorities, shuttle information within lists, and sort tasks by date. Of course they sync across devices.

8. Notes
Same note taking app now spans all OSes OS X and iOS alike.
Notes on OS X Mountain Lion has flexible formatting choices, and also allows you to insert inline images and links. It syncs with iCloud, Gmail, yahoo, etc.

7. Messages

Messages replaces iChat with extended features, it lets you send and receive messages between iOS devices and other OS X Mountain Lion. It also works on 10.7.3 today.

6. Twitter Integration

Like iOS, Apple has integrated Twitter into OS X Mountain Lion. This integration would enable users to tweet links, photos, and content from the share button built into Apple’s Safari, Notes, Reminders, Photo Booth, and iPhone apps, and from third-party apps that update to support the integration.

5. Notifications
Android and iOS 5.x lovers get the same unified notifications system.
Its a perfect replacement for the Growl, the most popular notification system so far on OS X, Linux. The notifications are said to only appear on screen for a brief time to minimize.

4. Share Sheets

Android’s Share intents are beginning to show magic in OS X. With Share Sheets, users would be able to share info with apps that understand how to handle that info. E.g. you can post images to Flickr, send videos to Vimeo or share Web pages from Safari with one click.

3. iCloud integration
OS X Lion is Cloud ready with soem nice integration for OS X Mountain Lion. The iCloud sync goes beyond just Documents, with the iCloud file storage support for TextEdit. and also third-party apps via APIs.

2. Game Center

You can now challenge your friends for games and top scores across OS X Mountain Lion, iOS 5: iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad.

With the Game Kit APIs, developers will be able to create multiplayer games that work across all those platforms. Expect mass porting of iOS games to Mountain Lion this year, and more games on Apple’s platforms.

1. AirPlay Mirroring
You can now project your computer’s desktop to a TV connected to an Apple TV. Mirroring display has never been easier. DLNA standard had been around for more than 5 years, but still, it was never as easy as AirPlay.

Other new features in OSX Mountain Lion include a Chinese language GUI, a search/URL bar for internet searches, similar to that found in Google Chrome, a VIP mail area for your favorite contacts, similar to Priority Inbox in Gmail, and a Re-open windows setting for Shutdown and Restart commands.

What’s your favorite feature?

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Normally, you’ve to wipe, factory reset while installing custom Mango ROMs for WP7. Reinstaller is here to help the data loss.

You can now backup and recover all your apps via Reinstaller later.

Reinstaller is easy to user, just launch and tap Connect. You are redirected to Microsoft’s app page, where you have to scroll down and tap “Proceed anyway”. Signin with your Windows Live ID and password. When done, Reinstaller will retrieve your app download history. Click next and wait for the app to populate the list of all your downloads.

When listed, click back and install the apps all at once. Choose the apps that you wish to download back.

The app is recommended for ROM modders and even casual users.

Download Reinstaller from Market

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Next iPad would be called iPad 3 rather than iPad 2S. The upgarded would be huge as compared to the last time when iPad 2 barely had few differences over iPad 1.

Next iPad 3 event is scheduled for the first week of March, and Wednesday is a traditional day for Apple to hold these types of events.

iPad 3 would be all about Retina display with humungous  resolution of 2048×1536.

In order to drive this ultra high resolution display, it would need a powerful GPU and CPU. Apple might upgrade A5 to A6 with quad core processor and quad core GPU. Quad-core makes more sense since evidences for quad-core processor has been found in iOS 5.x  code.

It could be time when Apple finally adopts 4G LTE networking with iPad 3,and then move it to iPhone 5.  4G would be powered by a Qualcomm chipset. Apple could release a 4G LTE variant model, targeted at Verizon, AT&T, Rogers, Bell, and other carriers and an non-LTE version for other places around the world.

The camera would be upgrade to 5MP or 8MP with support for HD video. But camera would not be their priority, since they still have to stick to $499 price line.

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To give you an idea, Time-Lapse is a photography technique that is useful when you are trying to capture slowly but gradually changing events, such as sunrise, growing plants, the movement of clouds. Technique involoves capturing images at regular timestamps. When played back at standard frame rates, everything seems to be fast forwarded, and the results are bedazzling.

You can now shoot Time-lapse Video on any Android device with a simple app.

App is designed to allow all mobile / Tablet cameras to take time lapse shots, the application features:

• Powerful rendering engine based on LibAV
• Well designed UI improving visual and usability
• Capture resolution up to 720P on the full version
• Cool effects applied while capturing or before rendering
• Capture timer based on time or frames
• Render as MP4, MOV or FLV
• No restrictions for capture length or frames
• Video trimmer
• Easily adjustable settings
• Upload directly to YouTube, Facebook and many others

Download Lapse it from Market

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Ubuntu installer is the easiest application that helps you install Ubuntu on your Android, without hassles. All you need is a rooted Android having kernel with Loop support. (scroll to the end for list of supported ROMs / devices)

Setup is very simple, the app downloaded from market includes everything you need to install Ubuntu. It endorses a customized Ubuntu 10.10 image optimized for the ARM processor.

The advantage of this Ubuntu installer over other is that it allows you to run a full Ubuntu system within android. i.e. You can still make calls, text, and use android without having to reboot your phone, no dualbooting or multibooting required.

Ubuntu Installers’ Key features:

• Run ubuntu within Android.
• Access to both Android & Ubuntu at same time.
• Highly optimized for ARM devices.
• LXDE Desktop (very lightweight)
• Ubuntu update manager, Software centre fully operational.
• File system access: Ability to access files on your SD card and internal memory from Ubuntu.
• Set resolution: Ability to set screen size on boot (you no longer have to download a certain image for different screen sizes!)
• Choose Ubuntu Installation type: ‘large‘ and ‘lightweight‘

Large version includes:

• Download size: 1.5GB, Installation size: 3.5GB.
• UI: Gnome, LXDE
• Lots of Apps, idealistic for development: Firefox, Thunderbird, openoffice.org suite, GIMP Image Editor, Emacs Text Editor (geared towards programming), C and C++ build-essential, Java JDK, Python, TeXlive and TeXmaker LaTeX editor, Transmission BitTorrent Client, eVince PDF Viewer, File Manager, Terminal, Image Viewer, Leafpad Text Editor, Synaptic Package Manager and Ubuntu Software Center with all repositories enabled, SSH server, Gnash.

Lightweight image includes:

• Download size: 500MB, Installation size: 2.5GB once.
• Basic apps required for everything to work.

Ubuntu Installer Compatibility chart for Android phones / tablets:

Download Ubuntu Installer from AndroidMarket.

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The hackers had been threatening Symantec in a series of e-mail negotiations with what they thought were representatives of Symantec. The group is known as Yamatough, Indian hacker force operating under the umbrella of Anonymous, had been demanding a $50,000 payoff from Symantec to keep the source code private. Emails are published to Pastebin. Hackers tell Reuters that their intention was never to get the money but to release the code.

“All the Symantec source codes are now on sale! PcAnywhere, System Works, Internet Security and Norton GoBack with Utilities, NAV”, hacker said in one of his tweets. Source code is now available on Pirate bay.

Symantec was prepared for the code to be posted at some point, and has developed and distributed a series of patches since January 23 to protect our users against known vulnerabilities.

“At this time, Symantec recommends disabling the product until we release a final set of software updates that resolve currently known vulnerability risks.”

“We have been conducting direct outreach to our customers since January 23 to reiterate that in addition to applying all relevant patches that have been released, customers should also ensure that PCAnywhere version 12.5 is installed, and follow general security best practices.”

On January 23, Symantec released a patch to secure PCAnywhere 12.5. And then on January 27, the company rolled out another patch directed toward PCAnywhere versions 12.0 and 12.1. The hackers, who call themselves The Lords of Dharmaraja, originally claimed they found the code after breaking into servers run by Indian military intelligence. But Symantec later revealed that the group had captured the code for PCAnywhere and other products by breaking into the security vendor’s own network in 2006.

But Symantec has insisted that since all the source code dates back to 2006, customers of the current versions of these products are at no risk. Though that may be true, the entire incident does raise the question of how a security vendor, of all companies, would be so vulnerable that its key source code could be stolen.

“As the extortion attempt by Anonymous indicates, we’re working with law enforcement right now, Therefore, given the active investigation, we’re not in a position to provide specifics on the incident at this time.”

Symantec is of course sitting silent, they are working on a number of things in order to prevent such mistakes in future:
Improved Network Defenses, Compartmentalized Access to Information, Improved Source Code Security, Improved Process Controls, Employee Education.

Anonymous believed that companies like Symantec had been creating scareware, malwares and spreading them to networks in order to scare users and promote it’s security products. What do you think, is that what Symantec and other security companies do?

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Several Jailbreak Cydia alternatives have been proposed, the most effective being Spire, but its way to complicated to achieve for a normal user. Other than that you actually need iPhone 4S for Spire.

The new Application called Sara is a Siri clone, that lets you install Siri-like app on iPhone 2g, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPod Touch, iPad 1, iPad 2, without iPhone 4S. To be honest its better than Siri!

Sara is free voice recognition utility that goes beyond Siri’s reminders or driving users crazy with nonsensical conversation. Sara is much more versatile – allowing users to train it to accept new commands, when trained to do so.

It’s described by its creators as having an “open” brain, allowing those in the know to create plug-ins for special commands fairly simply. Soon Sara would get a wide variety of plugins. Even at the time of writing, it had some impressive features like ability to scan barcodes and QR codes and indicating which businesses in a user’s locale sell that particular product or service.

Sara goes beyond Siri by supporting 37 languages. Too good to be true? It was all developed in a month’s time.

How to Install Sara on iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad

Open Cydia and add source “http://isoftjsc.com”. Search for “Sara” and install it.

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There have been multiple attempts to ban, digrace, discourage, litigate Pirate bay, but it has survived and will survive. Pirate bay, moved their domain from TLD .org to .se to get out of U.S.’s control. Now, they are actually becoming Torrentless. They are getting rid of all the torrent files as they move to magnet links, which make them 100% clean.

One of the advantages of the transition to a “magnet site” is that it requires relatively little bandwidth to host a proxy site. This is needed, because The Pirate Bay is currently blocked in several countries, and more are bound to follow in the months to come.

Without torrents, the Pirate Bay also becomes extremely portable which makes it possible for people to download a personal backup. Using script called  “allisfine” we managed to copy the title, id, file size, seeds, leechers and magnet links of 1,643,194 torrents. Comments were not copied to keep the files as small as possible, and the end result is a full copy of all magnet links on The Pirate Bay in a 90 megabytes file, 164 megabytes unzipped.

Download Pirate bay zip, while it lasts.

With the release of the copy everyone can now download a personal backup of The Pirate Bay in a few minutes. If you want to, you can search these text files to get almost any torrent but its not going to be convenient, but fun for sure.

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Better the cable, less the cross-talk, less the noise, better signal you get. But is it the same for digital cables like HDMI? Short answer, you DON’T need an expensive cable. Long answer: read on.
Signal Quality & Factors

HDMI & DVI use Transition Minimized Differential Signaling (TMDS).

Transition Minimized: The binary data  (1s and 0s) at the source of a Bluray or HD box is not exactly the 1s and 0s your TV uses to create a picture. Before sending the signal out via the HDMI output, the 1s and 0s are optimized to minimize how many transitions there are. So instead of 10101010, the transmission may look like 11110000. Even though you might think the whole data is changed, its not hard to re-contruct the data at receiving end.

Differential Signaling: Each HDMI cable is actually multiple, small copper wires. Two versions of the data are sent over different wires. One of these is out of phase with the “real” signal. The TV receives all the data, puts the out-of-phase signal back in phase, then compares it to the “real” signal. Any noise picked up along the way will now be out of phase, and as such it is effectively negated and ignored.
This is exactly how Twisted pair in LAN networking works, there is no affect of external noise.

In digital world, either its all right or all wrong, no change of something in between.  With HDMI signal, you either get everything and it’s perfect, or it isn’t perfect and you get nothing.

When there can be a problem

But there are scenarios where you’ve a long hdmi cable and you can have trouble in signal quality. If HDMI cable is faulty (this means one of the wires inside cable is broken) you would get white pixels.This a very rare scenario & is called Sparkles more like snow or sometimes static white pixels: image credit: cnet

Sparkles are not noise. They are failures that denote something is broken and you need a new HDMI cable.

No difference in Quality, whatsoever

But the thing to remember is  that there is NO way that one HDMI cable would have “better picture quality” than another.
All the claims about differences in picture quality are remnants of the analog days, which were barely valid then and not at all valid now.

This is true for both Video & Audio, in fact audio has even better error correction, no way one cable is better than another.
Types of HDMI Cable

There are only 4 types of HDMI cables:
High Speed (also called Category 2) 1080p with or without Ethernet, and Standard Speed (Category 1) 1080i with or without Ethernet.

There is no difference in 100hz, 120hz, 200hz, 240hz cable. Its only 4 types of cables that we already mentioned. Everything else is a marketing gimmick. You don’t need a new HDMI cable for 3d, its all fake.

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Google’s Self driving cars have been doing well. If you’ve ever wanted your own self-driving car, this is your chance. Sebastian Thrun, instructor of the Stanford AI class is opening up a new class that will teach everyone who enrolls how to program a self-driving car in seven weeks. That’s right within 7 weeks, you will learn all the algorithms, and Data structures required to make it possible.

The robotic car class is being taught alongside a CS 101 “intro to programming” course. The lectures start from very basics of programming and you will go all the way to how to make a search engine from scratch in seven weeks. The “Building a Search Engine” class is filled with awesomeness.

Programming a Robotic car is going to be a 7 weeks tutorial as well. You can start registering now to receive a notification when its ready.

This class, taught by one of the foremost experts in AI, will teach you basic methods in Artificial Intelligence, including: probabilistic inference, computer vision, machine learning, and planning, all with a focus on robotics. Extensive programming examples and assignments will apply these methods in the context of building self-driving cars. You will get a chance to visit, via video, the leading research labs in the field, and meet the scientists and engineers who are building self-driving cars at Stanford and Google.
Prerequisites: The instructor will assume solid knowledge of programming, all programming will be in Python. Knowledge of probability and linear algebra will be helpful.

Syllabus:
Week 1: Basics of probability
Car localization with particle filters
Week 2: Gaussians and continuous probability
Tracking other cars with Kalman filters
Week 3: Image Processing and Machine Learning
Finding objects in sensor data
Week 4: Planning and search
Determining where to drive with A* search
Finding optimal routes with dynamic programming
Week 5: Controls
Controlling steering and speeds with PID
Week 6: Putting it all together
Programming a self-driving car
Week 7: Final Exam
Exam testing your knowledge

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The HUD glasses look like Oakley Thumps having a front-facing camera used to gather information and could aid in augmented reality apps. the camera can of course shoot pictures, even in the dark using a small flash. Camera is extremely small yet ranging upto few megapixels.

However, there are differences from a standard heads up display (HUD). This one is only for one eye. It is not transparent nor does it have dual 3D configurations. Among its cool features, the navigation system currently used is a head tilting-to scroll and click. We’ve leant that it is very quick to learn and once the user is adept at navigation, it becomes second nature and almost indistinguishable to outside users.

Not just that, you can control the glasses with voice input and output could also be voice. It is speculated that this device runs Android OS on an older generation hardware ~1GHz ARM A8, 256MB RAM and 8GB of storage. So it also a phone or perhaps can integrate well with phone in your pocket?

We can only speculate what it could become, but it already sounds awesome.

and yes, Motorola already demoed something related to 3d glasses at CES:

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Release date for Galaxy SIII launch was been touted to be mid-May by South Korea’s Electronic Times News. Galaxy SII is the best selling Andorid smartphone, soon the trend would shift Galaxy SIII. Samsung has been doing really well with Android smartphones, selling millions of each galaxy Note, Galaxy SII, every month. They are betting big with smartphones and tablets ranging devices with 20 different form factors from screen sizes 3″ all the way to 10.1″, with all those options, they can’t really go wrong.

Galaxy SIII Full specs

• CPU: 1.5 Ghz Quad core Cortex A9 (or dual core 1.8Ghz Cortex A15) processor (Exynos 4412 not Tegra 3)
• GPU: Mali T604 GPU (atleast 4x times powerful than current Mali 400 of Galaxy SII, Galaxy Note)
• RAM: 2GB of RAM.
• Camera: 12 Megapixel Rear, 1080p video recording @30fps, 3MP front.
• OS: Android ICS 4.0.3 and soon Android 4.1 with TouchWiz 5?
• Storage: 16GB internal, external SD card expandable upto 32gb.
• Screen: 1280×800 HD (or 1280×720) screen on 4.6″ Super AMOLED Plus with Corning Gorilla glass.
• Battery: 2000 mAh
• Connectivity: Wifi, 802.11abgn, Wifi Direct, Bluetooth 4.0, NFC
• Data / Network: 4G LTE and 3.5G HSDPA.
• Sensors: Accelerometer, Gyroscope, Proximity senors.

Mali T604 GPU Performance [video]

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Our previous guide:  Install Mac OS X 10.7 Lion on your PC was rather difficult for beginners, this one is going to be way more simpler, thanks to the UniBeast.

UniBeast + MultiBeast makes thing smooth and easy. You can Clean Install OS X Lion 10.7.2 or update Snow Leopard 10.6.x to 10.7.2.

Pre-requisites:

All  you need is:

• Existing Mac OS X – For preparing bootable USB. You can borrow your friend’s Macbook or even do it via any hackintosh.
• 8GB or Larger USB pen drive
• OS X Lion Install application (via Mac App Store) OR Official Apple OS X Lion Install USB drive. (Buy it at apple.com or Apple store)

You can easily pirate an OS, but we recommend you buy OS X Lion, that ways your hackintosh becomes semi-legal.

Update: We’re trying to make this OS X Lion guide compatible with OS X Lion 10.7.3 Update. Stay tuned.

How to Install OS X Lion 10.7.2 on PC [Laptop, Desktop] using USB

Step 1. Creating Bootable USB drive

I. Formatting your USB pen drive:

• On a Mac OS X, insert blank 8gb usb drive,  Open Disk Utility (Applications > Utilities).
• Select your USB drive on left and click Partition tab on the right. Click Current, and choose 1 Partition.
• Give it a name e.g. Geeknizer.
• Click Options, select Master Boot Record and hit Ok.
• Navigate to Format tab and choose Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and Apply, then Partition.

II. Modding OS X Lion with Unibeast.

If you’re using Install Mac OS X Lion Application (downloaded via App Store), make sure its available in Applications folder. In case you’re using OS X Lion USB drive, make sure its connected and mounted.

• Download UniBeast and run it. (You’ll need to register on tonymac forums)
• Proceed normally, when asked for destination choose your USB drive (geeknizer) that you formatted earlier.
• Choose your installation type: Mac App store Install Mac OS X Lion or Thumb drive. If you will install this on a Laptop, check mark third option “Laptop Support” too. Click continue, then Install.

Sit back and relax while your USB pen drive (geeknizer) is prepared for the Hackintosh.

Step 2. Installing OS X Lion on PC

Go to the PC you would want to hackintosh.

I. Preparing BIOS:

• While booting, press F12 (or f10 on older PCs) to enter BIOS settings.
• Go to boot priority and set USB-HDD to highest.
• Set HDD SATA mode to AHCI.
• Set ACPI to S3
• Set Xtreme hard drive to Disabled.

Now reboot your PC with geeknizer USB plugged in and you would be booted into Chimera boot screen that lets you boot from USB drive. For booting into installer, you may need to enter following flags.

• Nvidia cards are supported by default. For AMD Radeon 6670 type – “PCIRootUID=0″
• For Unsupported graphics  type – “GraphicsEnabler=No”
• Boot in single-suer mode – “-s”
• Boot in verbose mode – use this if you face any issues, this will show detailed error messages that you can post in comments section at the end of the post – “-v”
• Boot in Sage mode – Try this if you fail to boot into installer – “-x”

II. Preparing Hard disk partition for OS X Install

When you see the installation screen, follow the following steps, skip them if you’re upgrading from Snow Leopard.

• Warning: This will erase all data on your HDD.
• Open Disk Utility ( Menubar > Utilities). Select your target Hard disk on left > Partiton tab > Choose 1 Partition > Options > GUID Partition Method.
• Give it a name e.g. LionGeek, Format > Choose Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
• If you wish to install side-by-side with windows installation, create a new partition instead and format it with Mac OS Extended (Journaled). However, using HDD exclusively for OS X Macintosh installation would avoid a lot of trouble.

III. Proceeding with the Installation

• Proceed with Installation and when Installer asks you the location to install Lion to choose LionGeek.
• When installation completes, restart system.

IV. Booting the First time

• At this point your LionGeek is not bootable, boot from geeknizer USB drive and choose LionGeek when prompted.
• Download Multibeast, the one stop solution to fix Boot, all drivers  for Audio, Graphics, Network. It also includes system utilities to repair permissions and more.
• Go to DSDT database and Download DSDT corresponding to your motherboard. It would download a .aml file, move it to Desktop.
• Run MultiBeast’s UserDSDT, select the .aml file and proceed with the install. Reboot when done.
• Run MultiBeast and install any other drivers you may need to make your hardware peripherals like Sound, Network to work.

You should now have a fully self-booting OS X Lion installation.

Updating Hackintosh to 10.7.3 & later

One thing to remember is that updating to pretty straightforward and you won’t run into issues, but it’s good to check tonymacx86′s blog when updates are released to see what you’ll need to do. In most cases you’ll just download the latest update from Apple directly (rather than running Software Update), remove Sleepenabler.kext (provided you’re using it), and then re-install it and any overwritten drivers using MultiBeast.

In most cases, the only driver you’ll have to reinstall is the AppleHDA Rollback, because that driver needs to be installed directly into your System Library where OS X makes changes. If you made any edits to graphics drivers, the update may overwrite them so you’ll need to make those edits to the new, updated drivers as well.

Download the updater directly from Apple rather than Software update. If you ever get into trouble, restoring from a backup is considerably less time-consuming than going through this entire process again from scratch.

Its easy to be lost somewhere in the middle, feel free to ask questions via @geeknizer or +Geeknizer or in the comments below. Thanks to Tonymac for making it possible.

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The core & features

All modern smartphone OS like iOS 5 & Android ICS 4.0.x support Multicore processors ground up. However, WIndows Phone 7.x is still lying in dark with no support for dual ormulticore processors. Windows Phone 8 will change this, by endorsing a same kernel as Windows 8. Windows Phone 8 would also support NFC, and full device encryption. Microsoft will also implement a “tap to share” capability, to enable easy sharing of content between phones, desktops, laptops, and tablets.

Windows Phone 8 is codenamed “Apollo” and will support processors with up to four cores, four different (and unspecified) screen resolutions, NFC for contactless payment, and removable microSD storage.

Data Management

Coming on-par with iOS & Android, Windows Phone 8 will now include full device encryption, based on the same technology as desktop Windows’ BitLocker encryption. WP8 Apollo will sport richer support for Exchange ActiveSync policies, and Systems Center inventorying and management. There will also be greater support for private deployment of custom line-of-business applications.

Inheriting Windows 8

Under the bonnet, lot of features would be inherited from Windows 8 desktop OS: networking stacks, security subsystems, and multimedia support, web browser i.e. Internet Explorer 10. To further improve web experience on WP8 devices,  Microsoft plans to use server-side compression and proxying to reduce the amount of data needed to load webpages by a claimed 30 percent.

Apps & compatibility

WP8 would provide full backward compatibility for apps designed for WP7. The “most” code will be portable between the desktop and the phone. We would expect this to mean that Metro-style applications written using Windows 8′s WinRT will be readily portable to WP8 with minor modifications.

Windows 8 copies Android’s Intent based sharing to communicate with other apps, nicely renaming the concept to “contracts” that enables applications to communicate with each other in certain standard ways. Of course, it comes to Windows Phone 8 too.

WP8 also include a monitor for per app data metrics, similar to that of Android ICS & Windows 8 “Data Smart”.

Music, VoIP, Cloud Integration

You will also get the latest Microsoft’s acquisition, Skype integrated well into the WP8. Skype would be integrated directly to phone’s dialer, like Google Voice on Android. Hardware OEMs will have more control over the camera application, enabling features such as smile detection and burst shooting.

As of today, Windows Phone 7 uses the desktop Zune client to sync music and video; this will be dropped in favor of cloud by using SkyDrive, just like iCloud on iOS5, or Google cloud on Android.

You will be  able to listen to your music collection on a new Windows Phone 8 handset without ever having to pair it to the PC, over the SkyDrive. This syncing will also extend to the Xbox.

WP8 would finally bring Windows Phones upto the level of iOS 5, Android 4.0 ICS, only year later. Lets hope Microsoft doesn’t get there late, this time.

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XDA developer sztupy’s USB Host Controller takes advantage of native OTG Host functionality (available in many high-end Android devices) makes it easily accessible for the end user. The app is capable of showing the connected usb devices, and lets you mount external harddisks and connect as mass storage devices to the filesystem.
It does most of things very well and it has the ability to reload partition tables and reseting USB devices. It can also control the USB Host functionality of S5PC210 devices with the appropriate kernel patch.

USB Host API was made available for 3.x and above Android devices, but this app doesn’t depend on it and hence can run on older android 2.x devices, but requires root access.

If your device doesn’t have native USB OTG functionality, there are kernel patches for some older devices to enable the functionality, most notably for:

• 5PC210 based Samsung phones (Galaxy S, Captivate, Nexus S)
• QSD8250 based HTC phones (G1, Nexus One, Desire, Incredible)

You can find appropriate kernel drivers for these phones here:
- Hummingbird / Samsung phones
- Snapdragon / HTC phones

USB Host Controller mode on Samsung Galaxy S [Video]:

App ran well on Galaxy S, galaxy SII, Galaxy Note in our tests.

To give it a try, download USB Host controller from Android Market.

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XDA developer mnomaanw has successfully installed Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows XP and Linux on HTC EVO 3D in a fairly easy process. To summarize, all a user needs to do is download the required software, modify a file or two and run the apk.  And it boots into Windows.

This Windows port for Phones is one of the best ever. It does fair justice to the hardware buttons, touchscreen by giving you fairly easy controls.

How to Install Windows 95, 98, XP on Android Phone: HTC EVO 3D

Pre-requisites: Windows 95/98/XP Image: ISO or .IMG. (IMG preferred and tested).
Step 1. Download bochs.apk [mirror] and SDL.zip [mirror]. Put SDL.zip on root of sdcard/
Step 2. Put the Windows 95/98/XP disk image .img/.iso [(need to change setting in bochsrc.txt accordingly (iso not tested yet)] of any operating system in SDL folder and rename it to “c.img”.
Step 3. Run Bochs apk. Let it boot (takes a while) and enjoy.

Note: Use this bochsrc.txt to use a folder called “HDD” on your sdcard as a drive in windows. Replace the original bochsrc.txt withthe one stated before. Further updates on xda thread.

Instructions for input controls are as follows:

• To emulate touchpad on touchscreen and left/right mouse buttons on volume
• You can also click touch screen to generate mouse left button click.(this does not work everytime)
• Back = BackSpace, Menu = Enter, left-upper corner click generates TAB
• left-lower corner click popups keyboard

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Right now developing apps for Jailbroken iOS devices hasn’t been streamlined. One had to include several dependencies manually.  iOSOpenDev aims to help Tweak developers to convert the ideas into app for Cydia Store in matter of minutes.

iOSOpenDev is essentially a ‘template for tweaksters’. iOSOpenDev makes development of  Jailborken apps a breeze whether they’re based on Activator, MobileSubstrate, Notification Center or command-line. It does all the routine jobs like building debian packages (.deb files), and provides all the necessary facilities in order for you to submit your tweak into a Cydia repository: BigBoss or ModMyi repos.

Prior to iOSOpenDev, you had to do a lot of steps with Theos manually. iOSOpenDev comes packed with Xcode templates for creating jailbreak-style tweaks, including Activator listeners, command line tools, dynamic libraries, NotificationCenterwidgets, SBSettings toggles, and Mobile Substrate tweaks. It does not use ‘Theos’, however. Normally, jailbreak app developers do not use Xcode or other development tools of Apple iOS to create their packages. And since AppStore App developers use Xcode extensively, this is a golden opportunity for them to learn how to prepare packages for Cydia distribution and create tweaks for the jailbreak community.

iOSOpenDev is currently at a beta stage, but it should get better with time, of course its the first step towards Open development on iOS, way to go.

Video of a template for building SBSettings Toggle:

James is currently finalizing packaging and testing across multiple OS X installs to iron out any critical bug and ensure stability. The templates (along w/ a config for Xcode & SDK to allow such builds) will be publicly available in a few days.

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Note: This app is just for fun, it doesn’t cause any damages to anyone other than annoyance. Use it with precaution.

The project is similar to the Upside-down-ternet project: from the phone you can flip pictures on someone’s computer upside down. There are couple of fun things you can do with this app. It lets you:

• Flip pictures on someone’s PC.
• Change Google searches keywords,
• redirect websites to some other sites,
• and many more features to come.

App works well in combination with Shark for Android – combined they allow you to capture packets when logged onto wifi networks.

Simply install from the Android Market (on a rooted device running >2.2), and download the setup files from the application. This requires about 600MB free SD card space. The program needs the phone to be rooted, and have busybox (most custom firmwares have this).

Developers can contribute at Launchpad (main project) and Sourceforge.

Download the App from Market.

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With 800 million+ users, its a country of its own. Facebook would file IPO around Wednesday of next week (i.e. Early Feb 2012). Morgan Stanley would be leading the deal, but it could fall into hands of Gold man sachs as well, who valued them last year.

Of course Facebook and other investors have refused to talk about the matter but its already going deeper as me news resources. People familiar with the matter have said the company is targeting an IPO sometime between April and June.

A $10 billion Facebook offering would rank 4th among IPOs for U.S. companies. It would beat the record set by Google Inc., which raised $1.9 billion in 2004 at a $23 billion valuation. At a $100 billion valuation, Facebook would be worth about the same as McDonald’s Corp. and nearly half of Google. The IPO will mint a new generation of Silicon Valley millionaires on the level not seen since Google’s offering. Some 3,000 people work at Facebook.

Like Google, Facebook’s revenue is driven by advertising. In 2011, Facebook achieved $3.8 billion revenue.

For last few years, Facebook was reluctant about going public but it all makes more sense now as they could start gaining some financial benefit from an IPO, rather than stay private but have to release its financial information.

This year, the overall market has risen, and on Friday other Internet stocks rallied on news that Facebook would soon file for a deal. “,” said Max Wolff, an analyst at GreenCrest Capital, which researches companies going public.

The recent IPO climate hasn’t been particularly strong, but the excitement around Facebook is still enormous.

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SwitchMe lets Android users switch User accounts, Profiles just like they can do it on a Windows, Mac OS X PC. SwitchMe allows users to create profiles specific to their needs. Those profiles are saved, can be loaded whenever and users can create new profiles that are on whole new installations on Android.

SwitchMe is a unique application for root users that allows you to log in and out of multiple installations of Android just as you would on a desktop computer. The technology behind SwitchMe saves all of your applications and data, protects it and stores it as a file in memory. You can then log out of an account and log into a fresh installation of Android or another account with its own unique content.

You may create as many profiles as the memory is capable of holding. Some of these may require very little free memory because they contain few apps, others will be larger as they contain many applications and lots of cache and data.
The uses for such an app are plentiful, as ftgg99 explains:

Privacy – the most obvious benefit is that you can securely share one device among multiple users, which gives you privacy and peace of mind.

Testing – if you are a developer, you can use profiles as clean sandboxes to test your applications and their interaction with the system.

Gaming – with multiple installations of Android on a single device, you can now play online MMOs as different characters.

Speed – the games your kids play slow down your tablet, but with SwitchMe you can easily create profiles without games or instant messengers.

Battery life – when the battery is low but there are important emails or documents to edit later, switch to a profile which only contains these essentials.

You can download it from Android Market for free. Checkout XDA forum for further details.

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