HOWTO: Backup and Restore Cydia Apps
Posted by Mr. IT Guy | Filed under IT in General
This guide is geared for people who wants to upgrade to the newer version of iPhone firmware, but have too much Cydia based apps to reinstall.
- To make life easier, move Cydia out of Categories or unhide it
- SSH into your iPhone and run the following command:
dpkg --get-selections > installed.packages
- Transfer the file you just created (installed.packages) to another system/location (I SFTP it into a linux box)
- Upgrade your phone and use quickpwn
- Reinstall openSSH from Cydia
- SSH into your iPhone and get the “installed.package” file
- Run the following command:
dpkg --set-selections < installed.packages; dselect
- Run the following command:
apt-get dselect-upgrade - After everything is completed, run the command:
reboot
HOWTO: Outlook Error Message “A secure connection to the server cannot be established.”
Posted by Mr. IT Guy | Filed under Howto, IT in General, Microsoft
I keep on receiving the following message “ERROR: ‘A secure connection to the server cannot be established.’” when trying to connect my Outlook 2007 to my mail server. I pulled my hair out thinking that Windows Vista/Microsoft Outlook certificate and trust setting is the problem. I stumbled onto a solution that finally solved it. The problem is my Courier IMAP server.
As it turns out, Outlook doesn’t support SSLv3. I had been using Thunderbird for the longest time without any problem, but since I had to test Outlook 2007 for business purposes.
To fix the issue, I changed my Courier IMAP setting from:
TLS_PROTOCOL=SSL3
to
TLS_PROTOCOL=SSL23
Tags: email, IMAP, Microsoft, Outlook
Fine Tuning Synchronization of Google Mail, Contacts Calendar with iPhone
Posted by Mr. IT Guy | Filed under Howto, IT in General, iPhone
Google has just launched a service where you can sync your Google mail, contacts and calendar with iPhone through the use of Exchange connection. The method described on the Google’s main page will delete all contacts and calendar. However, I only want to sync my Calendar and not my Contacts. So, instead of using the automated method, I manually fine tune what I want to sync by doing the following:
- Go to Settings -> Mails, Contacts, Calendars
- Create a new Exchange account
- Set the information as follows
- Email:
@gmail.com - Username:
@gmail.com - Password:
- Server: m.google.com
- Email:
- Choose which you want to sync