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Once you have jailbroken and updated to ipad baseband 06.15.00 unlocking you iphone is fairly simple.

1. Open cydia and choose user when asked

cydia installed iphone 3g 3gs

user type cydia

2. Update Essentials when asked, when done cydia will restart just go back to cydia when it does

cydia update essentials iphone 3gs 3g

updating cydia database

cydia updating iphone 3gs 3g

3.Once cydia is updated it should restart springboard (cydia) just go back to it, on the bottom you will see sections go to manage, then select sources, once in sources select repo666 and install ultraSn0w

manage sources cydia

cydia repo66 ultrasnow

install ultrasnow to unlock iphone 3gs 3g

3.Once you click ultrasnow you should see  a black screen installing it, at the end you will see on the bottom reboot device touch it for it to restart. This is the part where I enter a gsm sim card thats not ATT, I use T-Mobile, or Simple mobile. When it restarts it should say waiting for activation, be patient it takes  a few minutes then you should see iPhone Activated. And thats it you have a gsm unlocked iPhone.

installing ultrasnow to unlock iphone 3g 3gs

iphone waiting for activation

iphone activated unlocked 3gs 3g

as you can see the time in waiting for activation and activated are different is because I actually unlocked two phones and on the first one forgot to take a picture when it was it was waiting for activation.

Congratulations you have an unlocked iphone 3g 3gs

To unlock an iPhone first you have to jailbreak it. You need to make sure exactly what you want to do, when unlocking a phone  you will have to change the baseband from whatever it is to 06.15.00 the ipad baseband. Apple does know about this glitch and does not let you update regularly through itunes, if you do and have the0 6.15.00 baseband and you try to update you will get an error.  If you just want to jailbreak it you don’t need to update to ipad baseband and can update regularly through itunes.

Necessary software:

RedSn0w

IPSW for the specific OS version I am on 4.2.1 but this tutorial should be good  up to atleast 4.3.3

iphone about screen

iPhone 3G and 3GS use different IPSW make sure to download the right one.

This is where I get my IPSW from http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=750

if it says iphone1,2 = iphone 3g  iphone 2,1= iphone 3gs. Make sure to download the right one.

Grab redsnow from the internet and make sure to put it all in the same folder or atleast where you know where it is at.

jailbreaking iphone folder

1.  Once you got everything in order click on redsnow, browse to your corresponding IPSW (should be the same version as your OS).

Once RedSn0w identifies it  you should see this

Jailbreaking unlocking iphone 1

2. Once RedSn0w  successfully identifies the IPSW click next for the 3G you should see this screen, the 3GS gives you same screen with much less options but the ones that matter are “install Cydia” and “install iPad Baseband”. Install cydia is just for jailbreaking, if you need to unlock it to use your phone with any GSM Carrier you need to update the baseband too.  This tutorial were going all the way make sure to check both.  And turn your phone off. By holding power button(top right hand corner).

3.You will be told  to turn off your device, it should be off already on this part you need to make sure you know a bit  of phone anatomy. Power button is top right, the home button is the button on the bottom center of the screen.  Once you know this continue, it should tell you to  hold powerbutton 3seconds, then click and hold the home button for about 10seconds and finally release powerbutton and keep holding the home button until it goes into dfu mode.

jailbreaking unlocking iphone 3

4. During DFU mode, you should see the pineapple and computer loading into the phone screen just wait until the phone finishes downloading and installing cydia. Dont disconnect until it says done, but even then i keep it connected.  It should restart by itself and when you go to settings about should be able to see your  baseband updated to ipad baseband.

jailbroken iphone 3gs 3g about screen

On your home Screen you should see Cydia already installed

cydia installed on 3g 3gs iphone

Congratulations you have just jailbroken your iPhone with the possibility of unlocking it which is what we will do next.

I”ve had a  few issues while jailbreaking my iPhone. One that I just kept on ignoring for a while was that Youtube wouln’t work on a jailbroken phone. I ignored it because I really didn’t care, the device is mainly used as a phone.

Not connecting to youtube is one thing another one is not being able to connect to a server when jailbreaking my device. So I noticed that it wouldn’t download the necessary files in cydia after cydia was already installed. Without those files  you cannot unlock your phone or put in third party apps. Wondering what was going on I tried the standard trick  used on all electronics that is restarting it. I restarted it and tried to connect to the cydia server and youtube again to see if it would actually connect and it didn’t. I was wondering what was wrong, when i noticed at the top center of the screen the time was out of sync.

cannot connect ot youtube iphone

I remembered that I had a  smartphone that somehow the time wasn’t syncronized  and I couldn’t use online banking because the timezone and the time on the phone were off. Once the timezone and the phone matched I was allowed to use online banking on that particular phone.Once I remembered that I knew that could of been the issue all along. Obviously this issue lasted a few hours, kind of hard to have a normal life with the wrong time on your phone especially if its also used as  a watch.

Back to the iphone this is how you fix it. Either sync it with iTunes  or Go to settings/general/Date& Time and put set automatically off  and manually fixed the time on the iphone. Once the time was fixed  I was able to watch youtube videos not that it matters but more importantly able to download the necessary files from the cydia server to unlock and use third party apps on my phone. Fixing the time (hour and year)  should fix the youtube error and cydia server connection issues.

I had a domain name that was about to expire and noticed that there was a difference in rates between two domain name registrars. I’ve used both so I made  a choice of going with the one that was easier to deal with and more favorable for someone on a budget.  On this particular case it was godaddy,  another factor that played in was that I just wanted to see how difficult it really was to transfer domain name between the two providers.  The process of domain name transfering is actually straightforward, there is very little programming involved I made sure to take pictures so that anyone who is not happy with their current provider can change it themselves.

1. The first step in  transfering domain name is in to go to your current registrants site and unlock your domain name and email yourself the authorization info or EPP Key

transfering domain from enom to godaddy

2. Go to godaddy website and authorize the transfer process

If you havent done so already  on their home page there is a  navigation menu hover over where it says “Domain” and you should see the option “Transfer Domain” on a drop down menu

Click on it and follow their payment procedures. Once thats out of the way we can move on.

3. Go to My Account

4.Go to Domain Manager

5.Inside the domain manger there is a green navigation bar, hover over the first option “Domains” you should see an option there saying “Pending Transfers”

5. Inside “Pending transfer” you might be asked for the key that you emailed your self so have it ready. Once its provided your transfer will continue and it will be a few days, it took me three days for the transfer to complete.

How Long Does the Domain Transfer Take?

It took three days, at the very last day, I got an email from my current registrar asking me to authorize the transfer and I did and the transfer was completed.

Have fun with your new registrar : )

So doing the normal search engine optimization here in austin I was able to get another small business into first page on  one of the targeted  keywords. The keywords they wanted to rank for went from no where or 100 something in position to twenties and tens aka first and second and third pages.  Right now I am working on getting this specific business to show up more on google maps, I got them showing on first page on one of the main keywords on google map but I want the other targeted ones to start showing there too. Needless to say they are showing up more on less competitive keywords all over the place both on maps and normal search engine queries. By the end of the month, I plan to have atleast another of the competitive keywords on the first page.

It’s amazing how long it takes to get the site ranking but the potential business from being first page is what gives many of us patience. When SEO goes wrong or  done with haste a website can be penalized and banned from major search engines. And that is not good for anyone or business in general. Which is why when trying to get someone to do SEO for your site you should probably check for some past work.

I just got back from Albuquerque when a friend called me up that his phone was messed up more specifically a blackberry curve 8530, was showing up app error 523 on the sprint network/carrier. I’ve only played with iphones  jailbreaking unlocking and all sorts of stuff, just recently opened one up and saw the actual inside of one but thats a different story.

This is for : blackberry curve 8530, carrier sprint and computer os used is  windows more specific windows 7

After looking up for solutions I found out that we just needed to reload the OS.

Reloading the OS ( read atleast twice  so you dont waste time)

All you do to fix this error is go to the carriers website and download the Operating system for the phone.

This is the website to go and download the os  https://www.blackberry.com/Downloads/entry.do?code=FC3CF452D3DA8402BEBB765225CE8C0E

Install the software downloaded, and go here C:\Program Files\Common Files\Research In Motion\AppLoader

To start make sure your blackberry is NOT connected, and also take off the battery.

click on the Apploader

the app loader wizard will come up

click next connect blackberry immediately

connection will go from comm to USB-PIN:UNKNOWN

Immediately click next this will stop your blackberry from the constant reboot/restart phase.

Now reconnect your battery to blackberry because it will reload but stop connecting to the computer, if not connected you will get an error and will have to do everything again so make sure you follow this instructions read atleast twice.

If done correctly this is what you will see , blackberry reinstalling the software itself.

fixing app error 523 on blackberry

After a few minutes it could take up to ten who knows just be patient you should have your black berry fixed

fixed blackberry curve from app error 523

Anyone know when starcraft phase 2 is coming out? Kind of boring having to sit here in the computer just coding and having nothing fun to relax.   I know the game is coming out in July, but I also heard and read that there is a phase two. If anyone knows whats up let me know. Appreciate it over and out…

The moral of this story watch out for quotation marks when transferring your css code from html to external style sheet. I checked my  recently made website template  for cross browser compatibility and everything was fine. So I made an external style sheet and then starting making the web pages that I needed. And felt like everything was fine, and that’s what i thought for a week, until today. Just out of curiosity I checked for browser compatibility however when I viewed the website on Internet Explorer 7 I was extremely surprised, at the mess the web site looked like. I was actually embarrassed, I’ve coded many websites and a mistake like this are hard to make. Not only was the website not properly displaying but also my blog.

Once I noticed something was wrong, I quickly set out to fix it. I edited the CSS file and nothing would change, on the website itself. I was getting frustrated thinking, that the css file was not properly connected to the html file. So I decided to check for errors, and and could find nothing, I made sure that the css and html files were properly connected.  .And knew that somehow internet explorer 8 and all the other browsers, ignored an error,  that IE 7 didn’t.

Since the html, file seemed error free and w3 validator told me so, I moved on to the CSS validator. And found that I had a closing quotation mark, that I left from transferring css from html to my CSS  style sheet. Once the closing quotation marks were taken out, the site displayed exactly as i wanted it to display. Having an external style sheet can and does save a lot of hours when modifying a website, but we need to be careful to check that there are no errors, when you transfer code from one source to another.

I just finished coding for a website, that I had to  make IE7 compatible, everything went smooth because I  knew the normal procedure. However, we had a section that had a list of objects listed in unordered lists. When I viewed it on IE7 I noticed that the bullets to the left did not show up.

I tried changing the margin, padding, and even width of the list, thinking that they were being eaten up by lack of space or negative margins and padding’s. But after going through the  margin,width and padding, the bullets or discs would still not show up. Then I decided to look it up on the search engines, as we know almost any question that we  may have is easily answered there.

So after browsing page after page, I came up with the solution. If you are making a  website ie7 compatible and working with lists and you need the bullets/discs to the left to show up you need to put this in the ul section “list-style: disc inside;” that should solve the problem of bullets not showing  up.

So I was working with a database driven website, I transferred correctly from the server to work on it on my computer, and I knew it was correct because I checked the mySQL files on both the server and local installation and they looked exactly  the same at first. The problem I had was that, when I installed the CMS system in my computer to work on it, the CMS would work as a fresh install. But the files that I transferred such as web pages and work were not being read. I  reinstalled it many times thinking It was a problem with local files, and even reinstalled my local server.

But the real problem was in the mySQL files, the local installation was reading the mySQL but not the tables I wanted it to read. It was reading table fields from the fresh  mySQL installation those table fields had no prefix, the ones I transferred had a prefix on them so they were  just being ignored. After a few days of frustration, I opened the mySQL file both files side by side went line by line and with a little luck and help I noticed the difference. I just erased the table fields from the fresh install and replaced it with the modified table fields I wanted to use, modified as in the prefix erased. Thats how I solved a database transfer  problem, I am sure there are better ways of doing it but for now I know of one thing to look out for when transferring databases.