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Download Google Chrome OS Torrent

Raju — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:36:44 +0000

Earlier today we spoke about Google announcing the release of their much hyped Chrome OS source code and provided some exclusive Google Chrome OS Screenshots to get an idea on how it looks.

If you consider yourself as a Geek God and want to try out the Chrome OS yourself, you can download Google Chrome OS through torrents. The Chrome OS image from torrents can be run using VirtualBox from Sun.

Download Google Chrome OS Torrents

Download Google Chrome OS Torrent via TPB. GDGT also have uploaded a Google OS build themselves.

Once you are done downloading the torrent/GDGT build, read the step-by-step guide prepared by TechCrunch to install Chrome OS on your PC/Mac/Linux via the VirtualBox.

The default login to Chrome OS is your Google username and password. But my sincere suggestion is to create a dummy username on Google just for testing out the Chrome OS, so that you nullify any risk coming via torrents.

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10 More Google Wave Gadgets to Play With

Raju — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:44:22 +0000

Just around a month back I had shared some cool Google Wave gadgets which I had listed down just after getting a Google Wave invite. A month down the line, I thought of revisiting Google Wave to check out any new gadgets to play around it. Most of them are still in beta, so be aware that few of them might not work as expected, but most of them will.

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10 More Google Wave Gadgets to Play With

1. Dr. Musical Wave

Dr. Musical Wave is similar to Lasty, which we saw in the previous list of Google Gadgets. It tells what a last.fm user is listening, Music compatibility between people, Similar artists to an artist you like and more. The good thing is, all of this with pictures to make it look colorful. Just add dr-music@appspot.com to your contact list and then to your wave.

2. Napkin

Napkin is a Google Wave Gadget written in Adobe Flex that allows you to do quick “back of a napkin” sketches within a Wave. It lets you draw or plot or mind map. Here is the direct import link to get started with collaborative drawing gadget for Google Wave.

3. ClackPoint

The ClackPoint gadget for Google Wave enables you to add audio-conferencing to your waves with a single click. Each wave with the ClackPoint gadget installed has its own private audio-conference, with participation available directly through the browser using our Flash 10 plugin, or via telephone using the provided code. Non-Wave participants can also be included by using the phone and sharing a participant code. In order to get started with Clackpoint, here is the direct import link.

4. Code Snippet

This is a default gadget available via Google Wave. So you must install it as an extension. it is simple and easy to use and I find it useful as well.

5. Dicerolling robot

Dicerolling robot for Google wave allow rolls in a lot of systems (d20, NWoD, GURPS, etc) with free switching between them and it allows each system to use its own syntax and result display that is most convenient for that system. Add dice-y@appspot.com to your contacts list and then to your Wave to get started.

6. Collaborative Sudoku

Collaborative Sudoku is a simple Sudoku game gadget for Google wave. Check out the direct import link to get started with Sudoku gadget on Google wave.

7. Ribbit Conference Call

The Ribbit Conference Gadget allows Wave participants to escalate an online collaboration session to a real-time audio communications session, allowing participants to talk with each other while collaborating. The Ribbit Conference Gadget is persistent in the Wave. You can download the Ribbit Conference gadget here.

8. Ribbit Message Gadget

The Ribbit Message Gadget allows Wave participants to connect to a Wave by calling an associated dial-in number and leaving an audio message. The Ribbit Message Gadget displays a transcription of the audio message along with the actual audio message attached as an MP3 file. A Ribbit Message “robot” automatically tracks recorded messages and responds to requests from the gadget. It is not yet available for download, watch out this space for an update.

9. Hobbity

Hobbity is a Google Wave plugin that will change your long URLs to shorter ones. It uses migre.me API to shorten the URL. Add hobbiturl@appspot.com to your contacts to get started.

10. Polly

Creates a Wave to poll recipients and store their answers. Users are able to dynamically alter their choices. Add polly-wave@appspot.com to your contacts link and then to your wave to get started.

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Fix for the iPhone Worm – ‘ikee’

Raju — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:39:48 +0000

If your iPhone is jailbroken and if you see the below image as your home screen, it is time to tighten your ~~pants~~ security and fix your worm affected iPhone.

A hacker named ikex has created what’s apparently the first iPhone worm, and it’s currently infecting jailbroken iPhones across Australia. The “ikee” worm, as it’s being called, takes advantage of the fact that jailbroken iPhones with SSH installed all have the same default root password of “alpine,” and once in the system it changes your wallpaper to an image of Rick Astley and then tries to install itself on other jailbroken iPhones on the network. On the top of the screen it says “ikee is never going to give you up”. If you have been affected, luckily there is no harm done as this virus was more of an experiment than anything else.

Once an iPhone has been infected by ikee, it automatically starts searching for other iPhone’s on the cellular network that use the root:alpine username/password combination. Once it finds another vulnerable iPhone, it installs itself and begins the process again and this goes on like a nuclear chain reaction. ikee virus will disable SSH access on your iPhone and will change the background image to that of “Rick Astley” as can be seen in the screenshot above.

To protect your jailbroken iPhone or iPod touch from ikee virus attack or any other similar attacks in the future, you must change your default SSH password now.

How to Change Default SSH Password and Fix ikee Virus on iPhone?

1. Go to Cydia and search for MobileTerminal app and then install it on your iPhone. Once you have successfully installed MobileTerminal, reboot your iPhone.

2. Start MobileTerminal app and type the following command to change the root password

login

Press enter. And then type

root

as your login and ‘alpine‘ as your current root password.
After logging in, Type

passwd

Press enter.

3. It will now prompt you to enter a new password (twice). Simply enter your desired new password again.

Now. it should all be fine.

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Anonymous Browsing via IP Privacy – Free License Giveaway

Raju — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:30:09 +0000

Update: Entries are closed, winners will be announced shortly

IP Privacy is a hide IP address software that allows user to access blocked websites and bypass filters. Other than providing online anonymity, the application also provides online privacy by cleaning online tracks. IP Privacy is compatible with all the popular browsers. The application has premium high quality proxies, which allow users to surf the web safely without affecting the browsing speed.

The application is both anonymous browsing software and a browser cleaner which means that the risk of being tracked by thieves is lower to zero.

Other functionality of IP Privacy:

- Add proxy option : allows users to add a specific proxy into the list
- Live Update : allows users to periodically check whether if there are new proxies embedded into the list
- Test proxies in advance
- Clean online tracks

IP Privacy – Free Licenses Giveaway

IP Privacy software normally costs $39.95 per license. But they have been kind enough to share 20 licenses, each valid for 6 months, for the readers of TechPP. To get a chance to win a Free license of IP Privacy, all you have to do is leave a comment below with a valid eMail address, so that if you get selected as one of the winners, licenses can be mailed to you directly. Moreover, the license will be generated exclusively for you depending upon the email id. So be sure you have given a valid eMail ID.
In order to improve your chances of winning, you can retweet this post using the retweet button on the top right, and leave another comment mentioning your twitter username/status URL.

The giveaway will end at 23:59 PM, November 12, 2009 IST (GMT+ 5.5). Winners will be selected by lucky draw.

TechPP’s decision is final and TechPP reserves the right to change the terms and conditions of the giveaway without prior notice. Make sure you SUBSCRIBE to the RSS feed or by Email, so that you will get to know if you win and also when there are more exciting giveaways on TechPP in the future.

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10 More Free VPN Services for Anonymous Browsing

Raju — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:25:04 +0000

Few months back I had shared Top 5 Free VPN services and many of the readers found it very useful Few of them requested for more such Free VPN services and here I present 10 more Free VPN clients for anonymous browsing.

For the uninitiated, VPN stands for Virtual Private Networks and if you ask me why you would need to use VPN, check out the reasons below

Protect privacy
Anonymous browsing
Bypass geographical blocks from certain websites
Get secured connection
Bypass ISP Blocking

10 More Free VPN Clients

1. ItsHidden

ItsHidden is a free VPN solution that has opened up a BETA test to the public, who can now privatize their Internet traffic – including BitTorrent transfers in no time. ItsHidden was set up with torrent users in mind, allowing them to hide their identities from ‘third parties’ who choose to snoop on their activities. It has both free and paid services and works on all Platforms including Windows, Mac, Linux, IPhone etc.

2. LogMeIn Hamachi

LogMeIn Hamachi provides a secure way of setting up a VPN, a LAN over the internet. It is highly secure and since there is no setting up of the firewall, it’s easy to install. Apart from connecting two computers, it also enables sharing of files and resources and remote desktop control with Remote Desktop. It’s free for non-commercial and personal use. It provides encrypted tunneling across public and private networks.

3. GPass

GPass helps you bypass censorship and blocked web sites by tunneling network traffic through encrypted proxy servers. It is particularly popular in China. GPass is easy to use, and requires no setup on your part unless you want to do a little tweaking. It’s also impressively fast for a proxy.

4. AnchorFree Hotspot Shield

Hotspot Shield from Anchorfree helps to fix and solve unencrypted wireless network connection issue. Hotspot Shield keeps the Internet connection secure and anonymous on public networks by creating a virtual private network (VPN) between the notebook, laptop, desktop computer or iPhone and AnchorFree Internet gateway. This impenetrable tunnel prevents snoopers and hackers from viewing users’ email, instant messages, credit card information or anything else you send over the network.

5. LOKI Network Project

Loki Network Project is a free VPN service and SSL based free VPN server which base on US. You can use it with free without registering as a member. Do not expect great speed as yet.

6. Your Freedom

Your Freedom is not exactly a VPN service but functions like one. It provides both a free and paid service. Free service limits to six hours of usage per day (up to 18 hours per week). You need to install a client on your system and a user name & password to use this.

7. Ace VPN

Ace VPN makes use of open-source VPN client OpenVPN to provide its services, you simply install the client and use pre-configured config files to connect using your username and password. It has both Free and Paid options. The paid service is one of the cheapest ones out there.

8. FreeDur

9. LinkIdeo

10. JAP VPN

Hope you found this post useful! Let us know if you know of any other Free VPN service.

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15 Stunning Augmented Reality Apps for iPhone

Raju — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:12:54 +0000

A number of new augmented reality applications for the Apple iPhone have launched in the Apple App Store over the past few days, thanks to the new firmware release (v3.1) which supports the augmented reality technology on iPhone 3GS phones. 3.1 firmware gives developers the ability to lay data over the camera viewer, and these apps can take full advantage of this new capability.

Below is a list of super cool Augmented reality apps for iPhone. Some of them are already available in the App store and some will be available in coming days.

10 Stuuning Augmented Reality iPhone Apps

1. Layar 2.0

Layar is a tool to browse the world. It enables exploration, more informed decisions, serendipity and fun. While looking through the phone’s camera lens, a user can see houses for sale popular bars and shops, touristic information of the area, play a live game, etc. Layar is crafted to act as a browser that allows for these different apps to be used, rather than being single purpose.

2. Bionic Eye

Bionic Eye makes use of the iPhone’s camera to bring alive the area you are in like never before. It helps you find your nearest fast-food chain, coffee shop or underground stop, all with 360-degree functionality. Currently it works all over US, UK, France and Tokyo.

3. Robotvision

Robotvision uses the power of Bing’s local search feature to show you nearby attractions in your vicinity, including ATMs, art galleries, bars and pubs, coffee shops, gas stations, gyms, hospitals, hotels and motels, movie theaters, restaurants, rest stops, schools and tourist attractions. Robotvision also shows you Twitter updates from people in your area, based on geotagging information embedded in the tweets; and Flickr photos of nearby attractions.

4. Fairy Trails

Fairy Trails from Freeverse, a game that invites users to activate a “fairy detector” by shaking their iPhone. The game then presents them with various fairies, fireflies and butterflies that are superimposed on their phone’s video screen, and that they must then tap in order to collect them in jars.

5. cAR Locator

cAR Locator is an iPhone 3GS app that shows you in the camera viewfinder where your car is located and how far away. Just press “Save Location” when you get out of your car, then point your iPhone camera in any direction and you’ll be reminded where your car is.

6. TAT Augmented ID

TAT Augmented ID utilizes the clever Flickr face recognition tech from the guys at Polar Rose to recognize a face and surround them with their social networking profiles from sites like Facebook, Twitter and Last.fm.

7. Wikitude

Wikitude is a cool augmented iPhone application that helps you explore your surroundings effectively on your phone. Point of Interests (POIs) are displayed on your screen, and you can find what you are looking for on your phone like never before. It’s free too.

8. Cyclopedia

Cyclopedia shows you information about nearby landmarks and historic locations in your iPhone’s viewfinder. Point your iPhone’s camera at the Statue of Liberty, for example, and it will overlay the Wikipedia entry for that landmark. Cyclopedia relies on the 65,000 entries on Wikipedia that are geotagged.

9. Worksnug

Worksnug uses the iPhone 3GS compass, camera and GPS to give you information about the best public places to park your laptop and work. The forthcoming app will overlay information about venues such as coffee houses, including a score based on availability of Wi-Fi, power sockets and even the quality of the coffee.

10. SREngine

SREngine is designed to recognize objects, such as the front of a house, shop or something on the street. The application can then offer you different actions depending on the type of object. For example, point the iPhone at a shop and it will tell you what it sells and give you its phone number. It is still in prototype stage though.

11. buUuk

buUuk is a free augmented reality app and if you are planning to go to Australia, New Zealand, Tokyo, Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand, or maybe Dubai, buUuk is the app you need. Uses your GPS to find locations all around you.

12. Nearest Tube

Nearest Tube is a UK only iPhone app that shows you train/tube stations in the vicinity. On loading the app, you will see the Tube lines displayed in their respective colours and holding the phone up will show you the distance to the station and what lines they serve.

13. Cheap Gas

The Cheap Gas iPhone app is a gas station locator for your iPhone 3GS with an Augmented Reality View that shows you icons of nearby gas stations and prices in the direction where you’ve pointed your iPhone’s camera.

14. AR Compass

AR Compass is a great app for travel, camping, and outdoor activities. Now this is what one could call a truly modern compass.

15. FirePower

FirePower is a very interesting augmented reality game for iPhone that lets you shoot at cars on your phone. Great for stress relief.

Although these augmented reality iPhone apps leave some things to be desired, they are the first wave of a new kind of app that that is bound to dramatically change the way we find information.

Have you downloaded any augmented reality iPhone apps?

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Zakta – Personalized Social Search Engine

Raju — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 06:20:24 +0000

Zakta is a personal and social Web search engine where you can find, personalize, share and discover information from the Internet. In general, social search engines try to improve the relevancy of search results by utilizing a collaborative approach that includes editing and voting on results. Zakta, unlike other social search engines, can be considered as a “Personal Research Assistant” with its ability to dig deeper to get the required information and ability to manually edit and save the results.

The search process itself is a flexible and logical one, as results are split into categories, and related topics and subtopics are provided all the time to enrich the experience of the user. Zakta allows you to edit and use the search results and share it with others as Guides. You can even collaborate on a search with your friends or colleagues just like working on a shared document.

Let us get this right. Zakta is not competing with search engines like Google and Bing. I would still use Google for quick information, but when it comes to searching in detail, Zakta comes in handy. Say, you are looking for the Best Engineering schools in a particular city or planning for a vacation in some country or even researching for a health ailment, you better use Zakta.

The How Zakta can Help page is a great resource to understand what Zakta has to offer for bloggers, entrepreneurs, travelers, teachers etc. In order to access all the available features, you would need to Register first.

Zakta is no ordinary search engine. Zakta gets smarter with each search and each user interaction, and as a Zakta user, you benefit from a system that improves its results continuously. There are hundreds of user guides already made available by some users. You can check them all in the Guides page.

Zakta also has a Firefox Plugin that allows you to clip anything from any web page directly to your Zakta ClipPad or Guide.

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Unlock iPhone 3G 3GS OS 3.1.2 firmware with UltraSn0w

Raju — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:29:22 +0000

The following step-by-step tutorial will help you unlock your iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS with the latest iPhone 3.1.2 firmware using ultrasn0w. This unlocking guide applies to iPhone 3G and 3GS only. Before you can follow these instructions you must have a jailbroken iPhone if you haven’t jailbreaked your iPhone 3G then follow our guide on How to Jailbreak iPhone 3G on OS 3.1.2 Pwnage Tool.

UltraSn0w is a small daemon that is launched on boot. It injects the payload at boot and also whenever there is a baseband reset. You won’t notice anything about it other than that your third-party sim now works. Once you have a Jailbreaked iPhone then you can use these easy steps to Unlock your iPhone.

Note: This unlocking guide will work for you only if your Modem Firmware (Baseband) version is 04.26.08. If you have upgraded directly to iPhone 3.1.2 stock firmware from iTunes then you are pretty much out of luck for now.

How to Unlock iPhone 3G 3GS 3.1.2 firmware with Ultrasn0w?

1. Download and install the latest version of iTunes if you haven’t already.

2. Follow the guide here to jailbreak your iPhone 3G or 3GS using PwnageTool on firmware 3.1.2.

3. Once you are done with the jailbreak, you can now unlock your iPhone running jailbroken firmware 3.1.2 by using ultrasn0w 0.9.

4. Press to launch Cydia Installer from your Springboard.

5. Press to select the Manage tab at the bottom of the screen and touch on Sources

6. Touch on “Edit” and then on “Add”. You will be prompted to enter a url source as seen in the screenshot below. Type “http://repo666.ultrasn0w.com” and touch on “Add Source”.

7. Cydia will now automatically update your sources by following a series of automated steps.

8. After installation is completed. Search for “ultrasn0w” in Cydia and install this application. This app will automatically unlock your iPhone so that you can use it with any carrier.

9. Now press the Home button then power off and power on the iPhone. You do this by holding down the power button for 3 seconds then moving the power slider that appears to the right. Press the power button again to turn on the phone.

10. You should now be able to insert the SIM of your choice!

Update 1: I can see from the comments most of the people who are saying the tool didn’t work are having baseband 5.11.07. I had clearly mentioned in the article (under Note) that this will work only for users on baseband 04.26.08

Update 2: Good news! Blacksn0w to Unlock 05.11.07 Baseband on iPhone 3.1.2 Firmware

Update 3: Unlock iPhone 3.1.2 baseband 05.11.07 With BlackSn0w

Thanks RedmondPie!

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Jailbreak iPhone 2G,3G,3GS OS 3.1.2 with Pwnage Tool (Mac + Windows)

Raju — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:07:17 +0000

Update: Jailbreak iPhone 3.1.2 with blackra1n RC3 for 05.11.07 baseband also

Apple released the iPhone software update – OS 3.1.2 few days back and the latest firmware update contains a baseband firmware update 5.11.04 like firmware 3.1 and it’s is not compatible with Ultrasn0w. Unlock baseband 5.11.04 cannot be done with any utility as such. But thankfully, the iPhone Dev team has released the PwnageTool program that let’s you update your main firmware without touching your baseband firmware.

Here is a simple to follow guide which shows you how to upgrade and unlock your iPhone 3G from Firmware 3.0 to Firmware 3.1 without upgrading your baseband. All you have to do is download a custom firmware, this custom firmware is created with Dev team Pwnage Tool that strips out the baseband update from the upgrade.

Download Pwnage Tool 3.14

* PwnageTool 3.14 Torrent [Official Release]
* http://downloads2.touch-mania.com/PwnageTool_3.1.4.dmg
* http://download.sourcekills.com/PwnageTool_3.1.4.dmg
* http://old.bielsipod.de/Daten/PwnageTool_3.1.4.dmg
* http://www.hackthatphone.net/PwnageTool_3.1.4.dmg
* http://miphone.ca/iphone-dev/PwnageTool_3.1.4.dmg
* http://www.appleturk.net/ATWT/PwnageTool_3.1.4.dmg
* http://www.apfelphone.net/dl/PwnageTool_3.1.4.dmg
* http://apfelportal.de/host/images/dev-team/PwnageTool_3.1.4.dmg

Are you eligible for Pwnage tool or not?

iPhone 3G,3GS 3.0/3.0.1 redsn0wed – YES
iPhone 3G,3GS 3.0/3.0.1/3.1 pwned – YES
iPhone 3GS 3.1/3.1.2 blackra1ned – You can jailbreak but can’t unlock

Guide to Jailbreak iPhone 2G 3G 3GS on OS 3.1 Windows

1. Download the custom firmware and place to your desktop. These custom firmware are Jailbreaked and contains Cydia for using the full potential of jailbreaking.

2. Put your iPhone in Recovery mode by following instructions -
a) Turn the device completely off and disconnect it from cable/dock.
b) Hold down the home button.
c) While holding down the home button connect to a computer with a cable (easiest) or dock.
d) Keep holding down the home button until you see a connect-to-iTunes
screen You are now in recovery mode.

3. Launch iTunes, hold the shift key and then hit Restore button. For Mac hold Option key on your Mac and then hit the restore button. Once the upgrade is finished you haven’t need to jailbreak it again since it was already jailbroken.

Note: This is a tested procedure by many iPhone users all over the world but we are not responsible for any damage. Do this at your own risk. As a matter of fact, we at TechPP discourage the users from jailbreaking their phones.

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Jailbreak iPhone OS 3.1.2 with GeoHot’s Blackra1n

Raju — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 03:26:43 +0000

Apple announced the latest upgrade to iPhone OS 3.1 – firmware version 3.1.2 early last week and if you are waiting to jailbreak iPhone OS 3.1.2, the sad news is that the iPhone Dev team is yet to release the Pwnage and redsn0w tools. But the good news is that, if you are waiting to jailbreak your iPhone, GeoHot has just released BlackRa1n, which will allow Windows users to jailbreak their iPhone with OS 3.1.2.

Jailbreak iPhone 3.1.2 OS with Blackrain

Warning: The current update of Blackra1n only supports iPhone OS 3.1.2, do NOT use this tool if you are using an earlier version of iPhone OS. We have unconfirmed reports that BlackRa1n supports iPhone OS 3.1 as well, but we are not sure.

Also, do not upgrade to 3.1.2 using iTunes if you want to keep your unlock. Baseband cannot be downgraded.

Download Blackra1n for iPhone/iPod Touch

You can download BlackRa1n to jailbreak iPhone and iPod Touch OS 3.1.2:
Download blackra1n

Once downloaded, make sure to update your iTunes to the latest version.

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