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How to Change Your iPhone 3G Battery and Charging Port

I have been having a lot of problems with my iPhone 3G lately (wasn’t because I had it in my pocked on a night out and went to the bar on the beach!) One day I came back and my iPhone 3G jsut wouldnt charge. Thus, I thought it might be a battery issue. I bought a new battery and then followed this video and it worked perfectly.

Anyways, it turned out that it wasnt the battery and now it has to be the charging port. Thus, I have bought a charging port and now im about to follow this video on how to change a charging port.

Hopefully these videos help you as they have helped me sort out my iPhone 3G.

Install Google Music on Ubuntu

Google Music has finally made its way onto Ubuntu. Here is how to install Google Music Frame on Ubuntu:

Open the terminal and run the following commands

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:janousek.jiri/google-music-frame-releases

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install google-music-frame

How to Make Games for the iPad

iPad by Apple is a truly amazing tablet. It lets you do practically everything you can expect out of a tablet and no wonder if it exceeds your expectations. The best part of an iPad is that you can even use it to earn good money by becoming a developer. Now you can always develop new and attractive applications for iTunes App store, but what many people don’t know is that you can even develop Games for an iPad. Now that sounds interesting, isn’t it?

It indeed sounds lucrative to be able to create your own iPad games. You can use your own created game to use an as example of your skills for your prospective employers, as part of your portfolio, and of course, to earn money by selling it on App Store. What is important to note, however, that it is anything but a child’s play to create iPad games. One would need to dedicate a lot of time for mastering the skills that are necessary to create the game applications. You should be ready to spare a lot of your time as the whole process calls for much effort and considerable time. However, it is certainly not an impossible job; if you are determined you can do it.

Here is some information on what is required to create games for an iPad.

• Learn Objective C

Objective C is the programming language that is universally used to create applications not only for iPad, but also for iPod and iPhone. This process is time consuming and will require you to spend some dedicated time to study the subject everyday for some months at least. It might be easier to get yourself enrolled in a technical school to learn the subject in a most professional manner.

• Join the Apple’s iOS Developer Program

It costs 99 dollars per year to join this program. When you register yourself, you are allowed to download the latest iPad software development kit or SDK in short, test the developed applications on a virtual iPad and then finally upload it to App Store for selling.

• Develop and Code

Once you have gained the required skills, you can then start developing the game concept and start coding it. You may want to hire a graphics designer to do the graphics for your dream game; otherwise you would need to study to master the skill of graphics designing also.

• Testing Phase

It is very important that you test your game extensively before uploading it to App Store for selling. You can also distribute it to some of your friends with iPad to know their feedback. Catch and fix as many bugs as possible.

• Submit

Once the game has passed the testing phase, you can submit it to iTunes Connect through the “Program Portal” under your Developer account. The Developer Certificate given to you at the time of registration should be valid. You may not know but this certificate needs to be renewed every six months. Once it has expired, it can be purchased again via the Developer account.

How To Mod Your Xbox 360 Game

Today I am gonna show you guys how to mod your xbox 360 game in a couple simple steps.We are be modding Call of duty world at war. For this TUT you will need a empty USB formated for the Xbox 360 and A computer you can use and all the downloads Listed in the TUT.

  1. Go on your xbox and start up Call of Duty and select your USB
  2. Start A New Game and as soon as you can pull up the start menu pull it up and back out of the game
  3. Next Put the USB into your computer but do not open it
  4. Download USB Explorer and extract everything in the zip to the same location
  5. Start USB explorer As Admin and click file and then Open device
  6. Then click throught all the numbers until you get to a file called Savegame.SVG
  7. Then click extract and extract it somewhere save
  8. When it finishes Open up Modio or Horizon as admin
  9. Then Click Open a save and open up the save file you extracted
  10. Then download this save and then open it with Modio or Horizon too
  11. Next Copy the Profile and Device id from your unmodded one(the one from the USB) to the modded one(the one you downloaded)
  12. Then press rehash and resign a couple of times
  13. Now go back to USB explorer and click inject and then find your modded save(the one you downloaded)
  14. Now go to your xbox and put the USB in it
  15. The go back to System Settings/Memory/USB/Games/Call of duty world at war and copy or move it over to your xbox’s harddrive
  16. Then start call of duty up and select your harddrive
  17. Finally press Campaign and then Resume game(if this isn’t here you did something wrong) and press start and some text should come up in the upper left side of the screen
  18. Press the xbox button and the start menu should come up and then click save and quit and then go and play some zombies

This mod works online and offline but you must resume Campaign every time. Below is how the mod works and this mod does not allow you to use grenades or monkeys/moltiv for some reason. If you are the Host you and everyone else has Unlimited Ammo. If you aren’t the host you can give your self full ammo by pressing RB.

START = ACTIVATE MODS
LB = DROP YOUR CURRENT WEAPON(Good if you want other people to have your weapons)
RB = GIVES YOU ALL WEAPONS(If you aren’t the host use this every time you are low on ammo)
LEFT STICK = NOCLIP(Basiclly you can just fly around and throught walls but make sure to active god mode because some place will kill you)
DPAD RIGHT = GOD MODE(Make it so you can die)
DPAD UP = 9TH PRESTIGE
DPAD DOWN = 10TH PRESTIGE
DPAD LEFT = 11TH PRESTIGE

If you found this helpful tell all your freinds to check out this Article so they too can mod. Also Comment if you want another TUT on modding for another game.

How to Setup Ubuntu 11.04 LAMP Server

I have been setting up Linux servers a lot lately and I came across this great step by step guide that outlines how to install an Ubuntu Server as a LAMP Server. LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP. This step by step process helps to make the process as easy as possible and even if you dont have Linux Server experience Im sure you will be able to follow the process.

This tutorial is for Ubuntu 11.04. Click here to check out the full article.

How to Download Your Videos from Google Video

Google recently announced that they would be closing down their Google Video service on April 29. Users will only have until May 13 to download their videos from the Google Video service. There are three ways users can download their videos from the Gooogle Video service:

Use Download Button

There is a download video option that appears next to videos, however this doesnt seem to appear all of the time. If you click on the download link you should be able to save your videos.

Modify the URL

If you don’t have the download option listed above, you can modify the URL to get the download option to work. Just hover over the link “Edit Video Info” and copy the CID from the URL into the following link:

  • http://www.google.com/video/upload/DownloadVideo?cid=XXXXXXX&hl=en

Use Youtube-DL

Youtube-DL is a simple Python application that runs on the command line. The command to run after you install Youtube-DL is something like:

  • python youtube-dl -t google-video-url

Untethered Jailbreak for iOS 4.3.1 on Windows Using Snowbreeze 2.5

Here is a great step by step guide on how to jailbreak iOS 4.3.1 on Windows with Snowbreeze 2.5. Snowbreeze 2.5 for Windows is the equivalent of the PwnageTool 4.3 for Mac. Both of these programs use the same new untether exploit to jailbreak the devices.

Step 1: First up, download all the required tools and files to your Windows desktop:

  • Download and install iTunes 10.2.1 for Windows.
  • Download Sn0wbreeze 2.5 for Windows.
  • Download iOS 4.3.1 for iPhone, iPad or iPod touch.

Step 2: Start Sn0wbreeze, click the next “blue” colored arrow to proceed.

Step 3: Select the required firmware .ipsw file for your iOS device by clicking on the “Browse” button.

Step 4: Sn0wbreeze will now identify the selected IPSW file. Once done, click the next “blue” colored arrow to proceed.

Step 5: Now select the “Expert Mode”, followed by “Build IPSW” option to start creating your custom firmware.

Note: If your iPhone relies on a unlock, proceed only by selecting “Baseband Preservation Mode” option instead of “Expert Mode”.

Step 6: Sn0wbreeze will greet you with the following “Done!” message when the custom firmware has been successfully created.

Step 7: Now follow the onscreen steps to enter DFU mode using Sn0wbreeze:

  • Hold Power and Home buttons for 10 seconds
  • Now release the Power button but continue holding the Home button for 10 more seconds
  • You device should now be in DFU mode

If you have followed the steps correctly, you will get the following message from Snw0breeze

Step 8: Start iTunes, click on your iOS device icon from the sidebar in iTunes. Now press and hold Left “Shift” button on the keyboard and then click on “Restore” (Not “Update” or “Check for Update”) button in iTunes and then release this button.

This will make iTunes prompt you to select the location for your custom firmware 4.3.1 file. Select the required custom .ipsw file that you created above, and click on “Open”.

Step 9: Now sit back and enjoy as iTunes does the rest for you. This will involve a series of automated steps. Be patient at this stage and don’t do anything silly. Just wait while iTunes installs the new firmware 4.3.1 on your iOS device. Your iOS device screen at this point will be showing a progress bar indicating installation progress. After the installation is done, your iOS device will be jailbroken on iOS 4.3.1.

How to Increase the PHP Memory Limit: .htaccess file

I have recently found a few issues with some of our sites and the php memory limit. I tried to search for a quick fix and some of the article weren’t as basic as they needed to be, so here is our quick guide on how to increase the php memory limit of your site by using your .htaccess file.

  1. Find your .htaccess file using a FTP service
  2. Open the .htaccess file in notepad or a similar piece of software
  3. Add the following line: php_value memory_limit ?M
  4. Replace “?” with the with the value you need to replace it with. default size is normally  set to 32MB and a successful modification of the memory limit will show in your PHP info file.
  5. Upload the updated .htaccess file and your done!

Hope that helped!

Video: How to Install Ubuntu 11.04

It seems like the development of Ubuntu is a lot faster than OS X, Windows or any other operating system. With a lot of new versions being launched it is sometimes a little difficult knowing how to install the latest version of Ubuntu.

Here is a great video on how to install Ubuntu 11.04. Ubuntu 11.04 is the next version of Ubuntu that will be released to the public very soon.

How to Create Your Own Coming Soon Page

Have you ever wanted to create your own coming soon theme for your project? Well now you can, as Photoshop Plus have put together a complete step by step tutorial on how to do so.

Click here for the full tutorial…