Jailbroken Iphone

The above pic shows some of the programs I've used in jailbreaking my iphone, like blackra1n and cydia. The terminal in the pic is used to change your default root password

I don't know why it's taken me so long to jailbreak my iphone being as curious as I am. I think it was the scare of bricking my only phone aka lifeline :) , that has kept me from doing it. The thought of playing mario and older NES games on my iphone is what one me over. Plus I read up on some things to do at the command line that I found really intriguing.

If you are considering jailbreaking your iphone, think about why you want to do it first and if it's possible to do without jailbreaking. It's awesome to have an open and "FREE!" iphone, but it's now also open to more security threats. Not to mention that you may end up turning your iphone into a fancy paperweight.

If I haven't scared you yet, and you still want to jailbreak your iphone, I'll point you to some of the sources that I used when Jailbreaking my iphone. Now mind you my iphone is version 3.1.2. If you are an older version of iphone you may want to update it before applying the hack. There have been reports of problems where iphones that were jailbroken, not working after the update.

I used a program called Blackrain to jailbreak the iphone. It's very simple to do and was in fact done from a computer that wasn't my main one. Firstly have your iphone connected to your computer with it's cord. Then download and run the blackrain program. A simple box with one button will open up...click the button. Voila your phone is cracked :) yes that simple.

Now your phone is going to reboot, and you will notice that the blackra1n pic shows while your iphone loads.. don't panic and yell hax! it's ok. When your iphone is finally booted all the way up and you are logged in; you will find an application titled blackra1n. Go ahead and run that app. It will give you 3 options, select hacker. You will need the command line to change your root password later. When it came to packages, I downloaded the cydia package. You also have the option here to unlock your iphone so you can use it on different carriers other than ATT

Your basically done and free to do whatever you want with your phone. I recommend you poke around the packages and find things to install and play with. I also have links at the bottom of this post that you should look through. They talk about securing your iphone now that you've made it a little more vulnerable.

blackra1n website
securing your iphone article
changing your root password here

happy cracking
if you need any help, feel free to ask in the comments.

Happy New Years!

I know I'm a few days off the ball, but happy new years everyone! Hope everyone had a good time and ended the year with a bang. Thanks for the new year wishes @maggie and @maxivelasco. Also thanks to my friends on FB.

So this year is a great year, I've been waiting for this year for the past..iono.. 7 years, haha. Why? well it's the year of the tiger! I was born in 86, so that means this is my year :) No offense, but tiger is the coolest year of them all ;P

This year may have just started, but time is already looking scarce.. it could just be the time of year. But just in this month, wrk is going to get busier, I have school starting, and the new arena season for WoW starts. Gonna have to be at the top of my game for all 3 of those.

So for anyone who wants to know my new years resolution, how about one for my blog :)

This year, for my blog, I will get my hands dirty with some photoshop and create a new design for the blog

Xmas Card

So my mom asked me to help create a brady bunch look alike of our family. This is what I have so far. A lot of the images I had to work with weren't that great. Hopefully we can find some better ones, if not, my mom should do my idea and just take new pictures against a solid color wall. Oh wells.

Clean Your Computer!

One of the biggest most important things a computer user can do to extend the life of their computer and keep it running fast, is actually pretty simple... keep it clean! Keep the dust off that top, shake all of that food out of your keyboard, dust your monitor, and blow out the inside of your computer. Now I know a lot of people would cringe at the thought of having to open up their computer, and I assure you, it's not as bad as you think. If you're using a desktop, it's only two screws, and you don't have to remove or touch any of the computer parts. If you don't know what you are doing, or are not familiar with the inside of a computer, I recommend you don't touch any internal parts.

If you plan on blowing out the inside of your computer, like you should, make sure to only use a can of compressed air that states it's for electronic devices. These can's of air have, I believe it's called frion, that keeps the air in the can dry so you don't spray electronic parts with moisture. Just make sure to use the included straw, and do not, do not turn the can upside down to spray with. The frion will come to the top and spray whatever, or whomever, you are pointing it at. This stuff burns, trust me, I've had canned air fights back in computer class lol.

Before you go to spray out your computer, make sure it is turned off. Then once it is completely shutdown, go ahead and pull the power plug off the back of the computer.. better to just be safe. Now (I'm talking about a tower)take out the two screws holding the side onto the computer. If you were facing the front of the computer, you would want to remove the left side. If you were to remove the right side, you would see the motherboard blocking you from seeing the rest of the inside. The side doesn't pull out, you have to slide it towards the back of the computer, just give it a nice tug... it'll be ok ;) Now take your can of air, make sure you are using the straw. If it doesn't blow any air out, you may have to pull the tab off the top of the can. Go all out with the air, blow anything and everything you can. You want to mainly blow at fans where dust likes to get trapped. Blow off those cards that stick out towards you from the motherboard. Once you are sure you've blown off everything, go ahead and piece back together your computer, you're all done. :)

I came up with this post, because I recently cleaned out a friends computer. He just started having computer problems, of the weirdest kind, and his computer hadn't been opened in years. When I first opened his computer, I was expecting the worst. I had my phone ready to record any video of the layers of dust that I'd see and blast it on facebook. When I did open his computer, my first impression was that it was extremely clean, but as I started to pull cards out (you don't have to do that) and blow off things, dust started flying out of everywhere. His video card alone, which turned out to be his problem, had gobs of dust flying out of it.

So hopefully this helps some people out there. If you are good about keeping the inside of your computer clean, the hardware will last you a lot longer. If you are using a laptop, you have a little more work to do. Generally you just pop off a plastic piece right below your lcd, right be where it mounts into the keyboard. You should see a couple screws that are holding your keyboard in place. Remove those and lift up the keyboard. This should give you full access to the inside of the laptop. Now that is for most laptops, like 90% My laptop at home is not like that. So you may want to refer to the documentation that came with it, or documentation on the manufacturers website.

Computer Expansion Slots

Types of Computer Expansion Slots

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So according to the above comic, I have a 1 in 4 shot of striking gold. This comic was drawn by NPC Comic. It's a very good comic about a gamer girl and her cats. I highly recommend it if you are in the mood for some lite reads.