With the release of the latest version of iOS 6.1.3, Apple showed why it is always one step ahead of the competition. This version is more developed and has a lot of bug fixes.

If you are considering on jailbreaking your smartphone, it is good to know that Apple has fixed the Evasi0n untethered jailbreak bug for iPhone 5, 4S, iPod Touch 5G, iPad mini, 4, 3 and iPad 2.

Jailbreak iOS 6.1.3 Devices

Same goes for the newer devices because the option to downgrade iOS 6.1.3 firmware is not available. However, if you are in possession of A4 powered iOS device you will be able to perform tethered jailbreakon iOS 6.1.3 firmware.

After running some tests, we have confirmed that the latest generation of devices such as iPhone 5, iPhone 4S, iPad and iPod touch 5th-generation cannot be jailbroken. However, if you are in possession of and older device you will be able to perform tethered jailbreak using the newest version of Redsnow.

Supported Devices:

• iPhone 4
• iPhone 3GS
• iPod touch 4G

It is important to know that if your device is using iOS 6.1.2 you MUST NOT update to iOS 6.1.3 because there is a possibility of wasting your evasi0n untethered jailbreak. In this session I will focus on explaining how to jailbreak your iPhone using redsn0w only for the older devices as I’ve mentioned above.

Jailbreaking Requirements:

The requirements for jailbreaking your device are:

1. Redsn0w (version 0.9.15b3)
2. iOS 6.1.3 Final can be downloaded from here (Navigate to iPhone / iPod touch / iPad / Apple TV and download your firmware)
3. You must have iOS 6.0 IPSW, if not you can download it by clicking here. (Navigate to iPhone / iPod touch / iPad / Apple TV and download your firmware)

So now you are ready to start the iOS 6.1.3 jailbreak process.

IOS 6.1.3 Jailbreak Instructions:

Step 1: First thing that you need to do is to download iOS 6.0.

Step 2: Download Redsn0w 0.9.15b3 and Launch it.

Step 3: Click the Extras button and click on Select IPSW. Afterwards navigate Redsn0w to the unaltered iOS 6.0 IPSW which you previously downloaded.

Step 4: While running Redsn0w, click on jailbreak and follow the instructions provided. Shortly afterwards you will be reminded to select and install Cydia.

Step 5:After you complete the prior steps you will be informed to enter DFU mode with the assistance of the Redsn0w wizard.

If you have successfully completed all the steps, Redsn0w should initiate and the process of jailbreakusing the Limera1n exploit should begin. If you want to install additional tweaks and packages to your device you can install it from Cydia.

Final note: It is important not to forget that this is tethered jailbreak so if your phone loses power due to malfunction or reboots it will be back on the state before it was jailbreaked. But this time if you want to return it to the current state all you have to do is to plug your phone to your computer, start Redsn0w, select Extras and select the Just Boot option and the process of jailbreak automatically will start.

Unlocking your IOS 6.1.3 iPhone

The newest Apple iOS firmware can be unlocked with Ultrasn0w, SAM tool, X-sim, Gevey sim, R-sim card and factory unlock method.

That’s it! Enjoy your newly iOS 6.1.3 jailbroken iPhone or iPod touch.

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It’s usual for iOS users to resort to iTunes when it comes to management of media and apps. However, there’s a limitation; only those apps are available that are linked to the iTunes account.

If the user tries to use another computer to make a transfer, all the current data on the iDevice is going to be erased, and we’re sure this may have happened to all new iOS users.

Download iTools software for Windows & Mac

We have a found a great solution in the form of iTools. This works on both Mac and Windows PC, and can be used on any computer and supports iPod / iPad / iPhone. To download the latest version of iTools please click here.

Things required too Transfer Apps, Music & Pics to your iPhone, iPad or iPod:

• USB charger of iOS device.
• An iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad.
• App files needed to be installed.
• iTools for Windows / Mac downloaded.

App Files Search on Windows

Step 1: Launch iTunes.

Step 2: Click on Apps that are under Library on the left pane.

Step 3: Now go for a right-click on any app and select Show on Windows Explorer.

Step 4: The other way to search is resorting to C:\Users\User\Music\iTunes\iTunes\iTunes Media\Mobile Applications.

App Files search on Mac

Step 1: Start iTunes.

Step 2: Click on Apps visible under library placed on the left pane.

Step 3: First right-click on any of the app, then select Show in Finder.

Step 4: The other way to search for them is by heading over to: User/Music/iTunes/Mobile Applications.

How to use iTools to transfer apps without iTunes

Step 1: Start iTools and connect the iDevice until iTools detects it.

Step 2: Click on Apps from the left menu on the next pain.

Step 3: To make a transfer, see the top of iTools window. An Install button will be present there; click on it. Next, select the app that’s needed to be transferred and in the end, select the Import button by clicking on it (it’s present at the right low of the dialog box’. The other way is to drag the file of the app to iTools window (main one).

Step 4: A message is going to be presented to you saying ‘Uploading file’, and after a while, the app will be installed without any hassle, and will be there on your iDevice and also the main window of iTools.

You’re done! Go to your device’s home screen and the app should be there.

Conclusion

The iTools software is pretty handy, and it avoids the lengthy iTunes process and best of all, it can be used on any computer. There isn’t even a need to sing in to the Apple iTunes account of the original owner to complete a transfer.

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When bombs exploded at the Boston Marathon on Monday, my Facebook feed was immediately filled with urgent messages. I watched as my friends and family implored their friends and family in Boston to check in, and lamented the fact that nobody could seem to get a solid cell phone connection. Calls were made, but they got dropped. More often, they were never connected to begin with. There was even a rumor circulating that all cell phone service to the city had been switched off at the request of law enforcement.

That rumor turns out to not be true. But it is a fact that, whenever disaster strikes, it becomes difficult to reach the people you care about. Right at the moment when you really need to hear a familiar voice, you often can’t. So what gives?

To find out why it’s frequently so difficult to successfully place a call during emergencies, I spoke with Brough Turner, an entrepreneur, engineer, and writer who has been been working with phone systems (both wired and wireless) for 25 years. Turner helped me understand how the behind-the-scenes infrastructure of cell phones works, and why that infrastructure gets bogged down when lots of people are suddenly trying to make calls all at once from a single place. He says there are some things that can be done to fix this issue, but, ultimately, it’s more complicated than just asking what the technology can and cannot do. In some ways, service failures like this are a price we pay for having a choice and not being subject to a total monopoly.

Maggie Koerth-Baker: The problem of not being able to reach loved ones on the phone during an emergency isn’t exactly new, right? Land lines had to deal with this, as well. Just to refresh our memories, what happened when land lines got congested with call traffic?

Brough Turner: Well, say you’d have an earthquake in California. This was for the old Bell system. The national long distance routing has a set of standard, predefined routes and it had network control centers in New Jersey and other places. Things would get overloaded and they would manually intervene by putting access restrictions on new calls coming into the area that was congested. In the 60s, 70s, and 80s they would let through one out of every five call attempts. They were doing that manually and just arbitrarily to reduce congestion. Over time things got more automated. During the long-distance competition of the 1990s, AT&T introduced computerized routing and started using automated rate limiting. It all really got quite sophisticated before the whole industry went away.

MKB: What about with cell phones? We aren’t talking about wires anymore, so what’s really going on behind the scenes when we say that the phone network is congested?

BT: First off, different cell phone providers use different technologies, different systems. I’m talking about the GSM system used by AT&T and T-Mobile. I know less about the Qualcomm version that’s used by Verizon and Sprint. They evolved in different ways and the details are different, but the same basic principles are the same for all. With 4G, by the way, that’s changing. Everybody is converging on the technology that comes from that GSM tradition.

In general, though, there are a bunch of different places where congestion can happen. Networks consist of different technologies, and different levels. You start with the mobile switching center that may cover a large area. There are only one or two mobile switches for Eastern Massachusetts. We’re talking about a room full of racks, full of computers and other switching elements. The densest switch is in China, and they have something that will serve more than several million customers at a time.

So you have the mobile switching center. Then you have groups referred to as radio node controllers. There are dozens to hundreds of these conrolled by one switch. They’re located closer to the radios and they deal with handoffs between different radios.

Then, of course, you have the individual radios and that’s where you see antennas on top of and on sides of buildings. Those are everywhere. Each of those is a cell, and in each cell you have users who are connected to the network.

MKB: So this is really about how you, as a cell phone user, move around a physical area? You get handed off from one radio to another, from one node controller to another, and as you travel a lot farther, from one switch to another?

BT: Yup. The other thing about the radios is that they have different sizes of cells. You’ve got regular cells and then smaller sub-cells. You also have larger overlay macro-cells that are really big. They try to handle you within the small cell you’re closest to. But it’s a trade off between capacity — they’d like to have lots of small cells for that — and coverage — they don’t want to put 100k small cells everywhere. So you might have a cell that covers a mile ara and then smaller cells within that that handle most of the traffic.

Interesting thing is that most people are actually stationary, sitting on their butts. For most people, calls originate from one or two locations and they stay there the whole time. But we have to have this incredibly complicated system to deal with the 5-8% of people who move around. Maybe less than that.

MKB: So what happens when you suddenly get a lot of calls happening within one cell?

BT: They can offload some of that to a macro-cell. When it’s a planned event — the Boston Marathon, for instance, before the bombings — they can bring in aditional mobile cells. They park little trucks around the edge of the event. All those radios, though, have to connect back to the radio network controller. If it’s an installed radio it’s probably a wired connection — copper or fiber. But when you can’t get that, then they use point-to-point wireless. Either way, they call that the backhaul.

In different parts of the system different things will get congested. In some cases, the specific cell site might be overloaded and macros are also overloaded. In other cases, it’s the backhaul that gets overloaded. And that doesn’t even have to be an emergency to cause that. There’s this great story where [telecommunications expert] David Reed was driving from New York to Boston in the middle of the night. His wife was driving and he was sitting there with one of the first iPads that had 3G service, and has they drove through Connecticut he was running speed tests along the way. Just to see the different responses in different cells. And at one point, he was limited to, like, 3 mbps. It was 3:00 am, so it wasn’t about lots of people using the system. It was just that he was driving through a cell where the only backhaul was two T1 lines. So 3 mbps was the maximum anybody in that cell could ever get. And this was like a 20 mile stretch of highway.

MKB: So there was only so much information that could go in and out at a time. Wow. I know that channels, the actual wireless signals from and to your phone are also important. Can you talk about those?

BT: There are a bunch of separate channels in the wireless system. But the big division is between a control channel and all of these traffic carrying channels. Control channels are used for a lot of different things. For instance, they’re used for call set-up and call tear-down. Your handset looks on a particular control channel for permission to make a request. It uses the control channel to request to make a call, like, “I need enough capacity to set up call,” so then the system can find the traffic channel with enough free space. But they’re also used for sms messages. Which is interesting.

MKB: Yeah. I’ve heard that, when you’re in a situation where lots of people are placing phone calls, it’s often easier to get a text message through. Is this why? And, if so, is it a good way to use the system? What I mean is, is the system as a whole better off if you text your friend in Boston to check in, rather than trying to call him?

BT: Yes. It’s much better. The SMS messages have a relatively light footprint, first of all. The second thing is that they’re asynchronous. If they can’t get through this instant, they keep trying. If it gets over the radio to the cell site, it will get through. Even if it’s delayed for 30 seconds or something. With voice you’re either connected or you’re not, and when you are that means that the traffic channel is tied up until you’re done talking. More likely, it means you never get connected because traffic channels are already saturated.

MKB: In an emergency, can the cell phone companies limit access to the network the same way the Bell system used to do with land lines?

BT: Yes. Now this is a piece where I know what equipment these large carriers have, but I don’t know how they’ve chosen to implement capabilities that are there. So one way they can do this is they can bar new traffic being originated by people based on “class”. There are typically 10 classes for regular subscribers and another six classes that handle things like 911 calls and emergency services. They can control which classes have access at the level of cells, or by groups of cells, or all of Eastern Massachusetts if they wish.

I’m not clear on how automated all of this is. They definitely have the ability to have it totally automated. There’s technology you can buy from Ericsson that features call-load-triggered access class barring, so it automatically invokes certain policies about who can place calls in an area if the traffic there exceeds a pre-determined threshold. But that’s an extra feature and you have to pay extra for it … I guarantee it’s in the range of 10s of thousands of dollars per mobile switch. So who knows what decision the carriers made about that. It might have been automated and it might not be.

What I am sure of is that they set up priorities for people with fire and safety access classes. And I think it’s also clear that the Verizon mobile switching center was overloaded on Monday. The effect I observed in Massachusetts was you could not place a call from a landline into the Verizon mobile network for some period of time. They blocked all incoming calls for some period of time. But within the network [Verizon to Verizon] some number of calls were getting through. I didn’t succeed, but some friends did after trying for 5 or 10 minutes. In overload cases they won’t turn off everything. They’ll say fire and safety get through immediately and maybe 10% of the other calls get to go through. They don’t throttle down to zero, though, because you don’t know if somebody desperately needs to make that connection.

MKB: Is this an issue that can be fixed? In some of our background conversations before this interview, I got the impression that this isn’t all about what the technology can do, but also what companies do with it. That there’s a lot of trade-offs people make and congestion like this during emergencies are one of the side-effects of those trade-offs.

BT: In the end, it does come down to trade-offs. That’s true of any network. You’re interested in coverage first and then capacity. If you wanted to guarantee that a network never had an outage your capital investment would have to go up orders of magnitude beyond anything that is rational. So each network is trying to invest their budget in ways that make network appear to perform better.

The cost of providing temporary extra capacity for the Boston Marathon, that’s something that’s in the budget and they plan for that event. But when you get something unexpected like a terrorist event, or an earthquake, or damage from a hurricane or tornado, then you have trade offs between capital and how robust your network is. Every time you have an event people say, “Oh, they didn’t invest enough.” But you look at New York City after Hurricane Sandy and Southern Manhattan was under 6 feet of water — all the buried infrastructure was lost. Meanwhile, in other places, a significant number of cell sites were knocked out because connections ran on overhead poles and got knocked down by trees. The antenna site literally got destroyed. Interestingly, you can lose 30% of your cells and stil get coverage. Coverage was there in New Jersey after Sandy, even with 1/3 of the network out. The catch is there wasn’t much capacity.

MKB: Are more robust networks something that could be regulated? I ask because I’ve gotten the impression that some people are concerned that when cell service is congested during a disaster, there will be a cry for the government to do something … and the unintended effects of that would actually leave us with a cell system that we maybe don’t want, something that gives a few corporations a lot more power.

BT: I honestly don’t know how you could regulate it to work the way you wanted it to all the time. Reliability on the old Bell system was relatively high … and we paid the a high price for that as consumers because to get that level of service they got to be a monopoly and they got to charge us a rate that allowed them to make a return on their investments.

With cellular systems, competition seems to drive more optimal decisions. We don’t have as much competition as we used to, but there’s still some. You really want at least four-to-six carriers, and most places it’s really only like three or three-and-a-half. For the public, we have to have a trade-off between getting coverage we want and being stuck with a monopoly. You look at electricity or fixed-line phone systems, and there are regulations on those industries about how much coverage and capacity they have to have because it has to be a good system — you as the consumer have no other choice. They’re monopolies.

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The battery meter should display in the tray by default if a battery is detected in the system.

• Let’s try setting this manually. Please right click on the System Tray to surface the context menu (task bar).

• Choose “Properties” off of the context menu–this will bring up the “Taskbar and Start Menu Properties” dialog box.

• Select the “Notification Area” tab. At the bottom of the tab, is the “Systems Icons” area.
• There is a check box for “Power” or you can change to “show icon and notification”.

• Please “check” the check box and click the Apply or OK button.
• The Battery Meter should show up in the tray.

Hope this helps.

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Google launched its “MyGlass” companion app in the Google Play market on Tuesday. The app will be integral to connecting the augmented reality glasses to a smartphone, and it’s likely that the application was published since the early Explorer Edition of Google Glass is shipping to early adopters any day now.

Judging from the screenshots, the application will allow you to keep track of the location of a pair of Google Glass, follow other users who also own the product, choose what applications are available through Google Glass — such as Gmail or Google+ — and view other basic information, such as the device ID.

Google also launched a browser based setup and Mirror API for those looking to start developing “Glassware” applications.

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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia is currently rolling out a new software update for its Nokia Asha 310 (RM-911) devices, namely version 7.37. 

According to the company, the new software release arrives on devices as a minor update, and will be pushed out both over-the-air and via the Nokia Suite desktop application.

“We are currently rolling out a new software update for Nokia Asha 310 (RM-911): v.7.37. This is a minor release and should be already available for most customers both via FOTA and Nokia Suite, except for India where this update is not currently available,” the company announced.

Following the update, Asha 310 users will be able to use Wi-Fi even without a SIM card, and will also see VoIP audio quality improvements.

In addition, they will benefit from general performance and usability enhancements, as well as from a fix for the Try & Buy game purchasing.

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Check this out its fun discovering something like this. If you’re video chatting at night or in an area with limited lighting, you can brighten your face by opening up a blank white web browser window. This is obviously a really simple tip, but it’s kind of fun to see how surprisingly useful blank browser windows can be (like speeding up Safari on the iPhone 3G).

The simplest way to create a blank browser window is to open up about:blank which works in every modern browser.

The idea is probably taken from Photo Booth, which uses an all white screen as a virtual flash of sorts to brighten your mug when you take a picture (you can disable that by holding down the Shift key). I’m guessing it won’t be long until some developers start creating wrappers for FaceTime, iChat, and Skype to have this in some form of native app.

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Samsung is under investigation by the Taiwanese authorities for allegedly hiring people, mostly students, in order to “post malicious comments” online about their main Android competitor, HTC. The Taiwanese Fair Trade Commission said, through spokesperson Sun Lih-chyun, that ”the case was set up last week after we received complaints”.

Apparently, documents surfaced showing Samsung’s involvement in recruiting students in order to criticize HTC, while praising Samsung at the same time, anonymously, on the internet. If Samsung is found guilty the company could be fined Tw$25 million (about $835,000).

Samsung Taiwan has not been informed, as per the subsidiary’s claims, about the investigation, but on its Facebook page it was published that it regretted “any inconvenience and confusion from the Internet event”. Furthermore, “Samsung Taiwan has halted all Internet marketing such as posting articles on websites”.

Source: AFP

Via: BBC

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Ever needed a quick place to paste some text or make a quick note while you’re doing web work? Using a neat trick, you can turn any web browser window or tab into an instant notepad that you can write in, copy and paste out of, and even adjust the font sizes within. There really isn’t much to this trick, and it works in just about web browser on just about every platform, whether you’re currently in OS X, Windows, Linux, or whatever else.

All you need to do is copy and paste this into the URL bar, the hit Return:

data:text/html, <html contenteditable>

After you hit return the page will clear and you’ll be able to start typing away. Paste in to your hearts delight, anything that is text based will go in, but images won’t. The little scratch pad is completely ephemeral however, so don’t expect to save anything from it directly and if you quit and relaunch the browser, your text will no longer be there (though the editable notepad will remain, just blank).

That little snippet can be bookmarked or saved as HTML, making it instantly accessible, and if you use Safari’s Reading List you can make it sync over to another Mac, iPad, or iPhone if you want to use this on the go. That means the little instant browser notepad also works in iOS in both Safari and Chrome, though admittedly it may be less useful on the mobile side of things, and because it won’t save data, don’t expect it to replace the actual Notes app in iOS and OS X as a super syncing clipboard anytime soon.

This handy trick was found by Macgasm, and they offer a nice little tip idea if you plan on using it often: text substitution. That allows you to type something like ‘mknotepad’ to expand out the entire code snippet, which is obviously much easier to remember, here’s how to quickly set that up:

• Open System Preferences from the  Apple menu and go to “Languages & Text”
• Under the “Text” tab, click the + icon to add a new text substitute
• the left “Replace” column, add your shortcut (like “mknotepad”) and under the “With” column, paste in the code snippet: data:text/html, <html contenteditable>

This should look something like this:

Close out of System Preferences and type “mknotepad” anywhere for it to expand automatically into the snippet, it works in URL bars but if you plan on using it often in a browser it’s probably best to just create a bookmark. Some third party apps will need to be relaunched for text substitution to work properly, so keep that in mind if the replacement isn’t functioning as you’d expect.

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