Category Archives: Hardware

Everything related to physical devices/objects

Samsung SE-T084M

The SE-T084M is an external USB burner with everything but BluRay burning. Firmware RPC1 RPC1 means removing the region code or region-switching lock from the drive. Normally the DVD drive is set to your region (1..5) so that you can only play DVDs from your region. You can change this region 5 times with the… Read More »

Analog TFT calibration

If you have connected your TFT via an analog VGA cable, you might have some blurry vision or even flickering in some cases. If the following picture shows some flickering or looks blurry, your display needs calibration. To calibrate your display, go to Randy Simons’ page and do the following:

Tips & Tricks for the iPhone

Mark mail as unread There’s a somewhat hidden way to mark messages as “unread” in the mail app: When viewing a mail,touch the Details link in the upper right. Then find the Mark as unread link below the subject. Access Network Monitor If you like to see the reception status of all the cells you’re… Read More »

T-Mobile HotSpot

Registration To get your login credentials, you have to send a SMS with the word open to 9526 (at least in Germany). After that you’ll get a SMS in return containing your login data. Bookmark You can add a bookmark to Safari with the following link: (Replace USERNAME and PASSWORD with your data.)

Flash in Safari

(Found here.) You need to have a jailbroken iPhone for this. Add the repository http://d.imobilecinema.com/ to Cydia and find the iMobileCinema. After installing it, you should be able to watch Flash movies in Safari (most of the times).

Develop iOS Apps

real Apps Pseudo-Apps Pseudo-Apps is what I call the apps which are actually a bunch of HTML pages with JavaScript and some JavaScript-API for accessing the iPhone internal features. These open in a WebKit-control so that they are basically some spiced up websites. Web-Apps

Appulous

Appulous is a special AppStore for jailbroken iPhones. The problem of the original AppStore is that you can’t test the applications. You are mostly dependent on the reviews – if there are some. Appulous lets you test drive most applications from the AppStore. To install it, add the following source to Cydia: http://cydia.hackulo.us . Then… Read More »

Apple iPhone Jailbreak

See Wikipedia for a description of WHAT a jailbreak is. Jailbreak from Linux You’ll need SUN VirtualBox with working kernel modules and a working Windows VM. Repositories for Cydia There is a long list at alltechrelated.com with plenty of repositories for Cydia. Noteworthy apps Some interesting apps from the Cydia Installer: