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[SOLVED] Migrating Google Reader from GMail to Personal Domain Google Apps with Starred Setting

Mr. IT Guy — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 21:55:58 +0000

I was using a mix of personal domain email and GMail for a long time. I now migrate to Google Apps and find that Email and Calendar can be transferred easily. The harder one to figure out is how to export the starred items in my Google Reader. Here’s how to migrate starred items.

Login to your gmail (old account)
Goto Settings -> Import/Export
Export OPML file and save it
Goto Settings -> Folder/Tags
Check the box for “Your Starred Items”
Above that, click on “Change Sharing” and choose “Public”
Click “View public page” (preferrably on a new tab) and click on the “Atom Feed” icon
Copy the URL to the clipboard
Logout of your old account and login to your NEW account (works with account switching too)
Goto Settings -> Import/Export
Import the OPML file you downloaded earlier
Go back to Google Reader main page
Click on “Add a Subscriptions”
Paste the URL from the public page atom feed
You will now have a new feed for all your old starred items. Star each of them now.
After you star each of them, you may remove the atom feed and also delete the other feeds from your old account.

[SOLVED] iPhone 3GS Stuck in DFU (Black/White Screen)

Mr. IT Guy — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 23:41:47 +0000

My 3GS was on 4.0 JB and I tried to update to a clean 4.3.3 using sn0wbreeze. Alas, it went into DFU during the restore and never came back. I have inclination that it may have something to do with boot animation. I tried to use iReb, fixrecovery, redsn0w, limera1n, etc but nothing works. Regular iTunes restore always returns with error code varying from error 21,22, 23, 1600, etc. But, I noticed one thing, when I tried to use redsn0w, it seems that the phone reboots, shows a blank white screen then go back to black screen and stuck there.

I was about to give up when I stumbled upon iRecovery. First try, it doesn’t work. It complains about not finding the phone. So, I tried to use redsn0w to restart the phone and see that glimmer of white screen and see if iRecovery would be able to hook itself to the boot session during that moment. So, I fired up redsn0w and repeatedly run the command “iRecover -s” in the command prompt. I basically pressed up and entery over and over during the process.

The first try didn’t work and I have to redo it again. The second was the charm and it JB properly.

Latest iRecovery Version Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?nmn25bnjzy3
LibUSB Win32 Download: http://www.mediafire.com/file/ywhxqzdoimg/iHackintosh%20iRecovery%20Package%20for%20Windows%20&%20Mac.rar

Android on iPhone

Mr. IT Guy — Tue, 25 May 2010 00:21:41 +0000

To spare typing and posting time, I’ll post the link to the guide that I followed:

http://www.idroidproject.org/wiki/Installing_iDroid_(Linux)

That link is actually for a Linux, so I uses VirtualBox and a Linux (Ubuntu) image file. From there I followed most part of the guide.

However I’ll post my observation (on 2G):

It’s running way too sluggish
Call sometimes doesn’t work (stuck at the calling, but not really dialing)
Phone becomes really warm and battery drain is too much
There’s not enough button
Overall condition is not really usable for daily use

Couple notes:

If Wifi connects but browser not going anywhere, try the DNS fix
All “adb” type commands require the download of SDK
If Virtual Box can’t connect to the iPhone when doing the ‘./oibc’ portion, you may need to shut down and restart your virtual machine (including the Virtual Box itself)
Going to Apple’s recovery mode (for upgraders) from the openiboot would require you to hold the “Menu” button after choosing the iPhone mode

Post comments for questions and help on how to install iDroid.

[HOWTO] Backup and Restore Cydia Apps

Mr. IT Guy — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:53:09 +0000

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.”

Mr. IT Guy — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:47:20 +0000

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

[HOWTO] Fine Tuning Synchronization of Google Mail, Contacts Calendar with iPhone

Mr. IT Guy — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:05:30 +0000

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
Choose which you want to sync

NemusSync Failure to Sync with Error Domain=GoogleAccounts Code=-1

Mr. IT Guy — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:30:10 +0000

After upgrading my iPhone to firmware 2.2, I had a problem with NemusSync. Everytime I try to sync, I received an error message “Failure to Sync” then the error code “Error Domain=GoogleAccounts Code=-1″. After scouring the web I found that I had to delete 1 file. Just to be safe, I actually move the file.

The file that needs to be removed is/var/mobile/Library/Calendar/Calendar.sqlitedb. There are some sites that talk about changing the permission, but I have not tried that. If you want to try changing the permission, you should try changing it by running the command chown mobile:mobile /var/mobile/Library/Calendar/Calendar.sqlitedb

NOTE:If you have calendar events on your phone that you haven’t sync to GCal, it will be erased after removing the Calendar.sqlitedb. Also after you move the file, you will need to run the calendar apps at least once.

[HOWTO] Grab MP3 From Youtube FLV File

Mr. IT Guy — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 06:12:53 +0000

First of all, youtube shows video clips and not audio clips. When you grab a file from YouTube it’s usually an .FLV file. You may grab it from online services like GrabFlv.com or use applications similar to TubeTV. The FLV is a video file and we need to grab the audio portion of it. The software I use is call iExtractMP3. This software feature a drag and drop and single button clicking to extract (NOTE: I emphasize the term because the software uses extraction method rather than re-encode the audio. This results in higher quality audio since whatever the poster put, this is the same file you get).

Alternatively, there’s also another file conversion service offered by Zamzar. I have not used the service before, but it seems that the process is simply point the URL to the video that you want and you’ll receive the link for the audio.

[HOWTO] iPhone Hacking – Custom Ringtone and SMS Notification

Mr. IT Guy — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:26:01 +0000

Following up on the earlier iPhone hacks is customizing the most common audio: ringtone and SMS notification. Apple has locked down custom ringtones and profit from them. The biggest problem is, their selection is scarce and sucks. Here’s a simple guide on how to upload the Ringtones:

Choose an MP3 file and trim it to 30 seconds or less – I use Audacity (download link) to do it
Import that MP3 into iTunes
Goto iTunes -> Preferences (for Mac) or Edit -> Preferences (for PC)
Navigate to Advanced -> Importing tab and set the “Import Using:” to AAC
Find the trimmed MP3 file inside iTunes, right click and choose “Convert Selection to AAC”
Right click the AAC version of the file and choose “Get Info”
Note the path to the file as indicated by the “Where” section under the “Summary” tab
Navigate to the location of the file and copy it to desktop
Change the extension of the copied file to “.m4r”
Open the files in iTunes and it should be automatically inserted under Ringtones category, which then can be transferred to iPhone

NOTE: I have tried to use “SoundConverter” and set the file type to be m4a. This actually doesn’t work. When I did it that way, the file will be uploaded but won’t be able to be played. It might have something to do with the file size generated by “SoundConverter” being too large.

SMS Notification is slightly more complicated than the Ringtones counterpart. SMS notification actually can’t be added, only modified. I also recommend shorter file for SMS notification. Here are the steps I take:

Trim MP3 files using Audacity (usually SMS notification should be shorter, roughly 3-4 seconds should be good)
Import the MP3 file to iTunes
Change the iTunes import to AIFF (Follow the ringtones guide to change importing mode in iTunes)
Find the AIFF file and copy to desktop
Change the extension to “.caf”
SFTP to the iPhone using Cyberduck (Mac) or WinSCP (Windows) or any other SFTP software
Navigate to the following directory: “/System/Library/Audio/UISounds”
Change one of the “sms-received
.caf” file to “sms-received_
.caf” where
is an integer from 1 to 6 that is least preferrable
For example: Rename “sms-received6.caf” to “sms-received_6.caf” to replace the Electronic with custom sound
Upload the file on the desktop using the old name of that was changed
For example: if “sms-received_6.caf” is changed to “sms-received_6.caf”, upload the file using the name “sms-received6.caf”
Choose in iPhone the replaced tone
For example: if you replaced sms-received6.caf, then you should choose Electronic

UPDATE: Ringtone should be set to 30 seconds. Another way to trim the music is to use iTunes’ ‘start time’ & ‘stop time’ field. This field is accessible by right clicking the song then choosing Get Info -> Options. After performing that, you export the file as AAC then rename it.

UPDATE: As one commenter mentioned, the SMS Notification hack only works on jailbroken iPhone

[HOWTO] Fix Apple’s WebKit and JavaScriptCore Framework Error

Mr. IT Guy — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 23:59:49 +0000

The error message:

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Symbol not found: __ZN3KJS11Interpreter4markEv
Referenced from: /System/Library/Frameworks/WebKit.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/WebCore.framework/Versions/A/WebCore
Expected in: /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaScriptCore.framework/Versions/A/JavaScriptCore

The probable cause:
All fingers seems to point to the Safari and Security update. This happens mostly on Tiger system, but it happens on a brand new Macbook on the way being updated to the latest version after opening the box.

Resolution:
This error is solved by replacing the Webkit.framework and JavaScriptCore.framework; however there are not that many walkthrough on how to replace the frameworks. Here’s a guide on how to replace the framework:

Download Pacifist
Download Leopard 10.5.4 Combo Update or Tiger 10.4.11 (Intel) Combo Update or Tiger 10.4.11 (PPC) Combo Update
NOTE: This method has only been tested and confirmed on the Leopard version. The tiger version is only an educated guess
Open pacifist (trial version is okay) and use it to open the package (the .pkg file that is available after mounting the 10.5.4 combo update)
Navigate to find the System/Library/Framework both in the Pacifist and Finder
Drag and drop the Webkit.framework and JavaScriptCore.framework from the Pacifist to the Finder (admin password will be asked, confirm file replacement as needed)
Restart your computer