Pal’s blog…

If you are among the numerous past xbox owners burnt by the infamous RROD and were holding out to replace the box with the new re-designed XBox 360 S, chances are, you have a lot of content on your old xbox which you want to transfer to you new shiny xbox.

Ideally, you should have been able to just connect your old xbox the new one and transfer your content, but that requires an official “Xbox 360 hard drive data migration transfer kit” (seriously, that’s the full name)… Microsoft being greedy as always, doesn’t include this cable in the new Xbox and wants you to pay $15 + shipping for it.. not a bad price, but considering you only need it once and that is because of Microsoft’s decision to change the HDD design in the new console (for good reasons) and having just forked out a good $300 on the new console, it is ridiculous to pay that kind of money to MS again.. so if you are still with me, not all is gloomy.. read on for a couple of free solutions… (more…)

Within 24 hours of apple releasing the Gold Master (final) version of iOS 4 (new name for iPhone OS 4), the hacker community, or in this case, just one guy (or gal?) has released patches to the Pwnage Tool 3.1.5 to support this new OS… and naturally I had to try it out

I followed the instructions posted on redmondpie.com here: http://www.redmondpie.com/how-to-jailbreak-ios-4.0-with-pwnagetool/ which were pretty clear and precise, but due to a couple of mistakes in the instructions posted there, Cydia wasn’t working, but otherwise everything else was good and my base-band was still intact. However, after some searching around I found the problems that caused the cydia failure and tried to correct them and succeeded. Here I am posting a concise  how-to for anyone interested. (more…)

I am a sucker for new software, especially when it’s free. I briefly tried the Moblin 2 when Intel released the first beta last year and liked the UI and the way it worked on the tiny netbook screen. Moblin, short for Mobile Linux, was supposedly built with netbooks and nettops in mind and seemed pretty and fun but thou basic functionality all worked right out of the box, but a lot of hardware was still not working at the time and I quickly forgot about it… well, almost forgot.. until Meego 1.0 was released. (more…)

I noticed a weird behavior with my iPhone’s safari browser for the past few days. Whenever I use the google search on iPhone from safari, the results are listed just fine, but when I try to click on any of the results, I see a “Error 404″ (page not found!) page. This happens with any links on google search results page. Have you noticed something similar and still trying to figure out how to fix it? then read on..
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OK… I started out writing about my experiences on 3.1.2 and how I loved the ease  of jail breaking and unlocking using black weather apps, but my intention of this post is to share my experience with 3.1.3 update (supposedly a trivial update) before I forget like everything else. So read on… (more…)

Default desktop on UNR

  Everyone was getting a netbook lately and so did we… why not, they are relatively cheap (I meant, less expensive.. though same can be said of build quality on a lot of these in the market), tiny, ultra mobile and well, can do what a computer on the go should be able to do. We first got a MSI Wind U120 and really liked the not so small screen in a amazingly small package, but the keyboard was something that annoyed me a lot.. but again, that is to be expected in such a size right? Anyway, we found enough gripes about the MSI that we returned it our favorite store.. Costco and got a Samsung NC10, which supposedly has a better keyboard, more battery life, has bluetooth and built better than the MSI… (more…)

A couple of years ago, I was coding AJAX web apps the plain old way of creating an XMLHttpRequest object to communicate with the server and painfully parsing the XML responses… well it was fun for a thing or two, but once people started demanding more and more of the dynamic behaviour, it really got worse to code AJAX scripting from scratch… especially since I specialize in coding the server side components, I really didn’t want to be a full time javascript/HTML developer. That’s when I started to look around for some help in a form of open source scripting libraries and found DWR. (more…)