For the iPad 2, this jailbreak was pretty late. Apple had secured iPad 2 pretty well and some even said that the iPad 2 jailbreak may never come. Not until a couple of days ago, when @comex announced that it was ready, after the glitch where a beta tester had leaked the unfinished Jailbreak to the world.

For the iPad 2, here are the steps:

1. Ensure that you have Internet connectivity on your iPad, via WiFi or 3G.
2. Go to Settings -> General -> About and note the ‘Version’ from there. It should be 4.3.3. If Yes, skip to step 11.
3. If the Version is less than 4.3.3, please search Google for ‘Download iPad 2 ipsw 4.3.3‘. The first search result that you find should be good enough, (limera1n.cc or redmondpie).
4. Choose the File corresponding to your iPad (WiFi, WiFi+3G, CDMA/GSM). Remember, selecting the wrong file may result in another download! No other harm will be caused as iTunes will not restore it to your device.
5.  Connect your iPad to your computer and start iTunes.
6. iTunes will connect to your device. iTunes will tell you that an update for your device is available. Ignore this advise at the moment.
7. Right click on the device in the left pane and select backup, just in case something nasty happened.
8. Once the backup is complete, select the device once again in the left pane. You will see the home screen of the device, with the option to ‘Check for Update’ and ‘Restore’.
9. Press ‘Shift’ and click ‘Restore’ of you are on Windows, or ‘Option’ and click ‘Restore’ if on Mac. Choose your recently downloaded ipsw and let the restore begin.
10. Once the restore is done, eject your device from the computer.
11. Check that Internet is active on the iPad.
12. Open Safari and type http://www.jailbreakme.com in the address bar.
13. You will see a button ‘Free’ on left side of the screen.
14. Touch the button. It will turn in a green Install button. Tough it again.
15. Safari will automatically close at this time. Don’t Worry. Your Job is done!
16. Somewhere on the Home Screen, you will find the Brown Cydia icon, installed or downloading.
17. You Are Freed!

Post questions if you have and I will be glad to assist where I can.

This information is posted as is, and is for educational purpose. Please check your local laws before you Jailbreak your device.

After reading the story, it is clear that the company has lost what they one had, Leadership. It is both, in business and in company HQ. Nokia is facing the lender’s syndrome, you have invested so much in someone or something that you can’t let go of it now. Nokia has built a system around symbian. With the Ovi store, they tried to replicate Apple App Store and Android Market. They failed probably  because they didn’t realize that the people who are buying their phones are not the ones who are interested in applications. The typical Nokia customer now is one who wants a phone with basic features, a device useful for voice communications.
Someone who has the money to spend on applications may as well buy an iPhone or a phone running Android, something that has an established ecosystem. Windows Mobile 6.5 with Titanium and what not was a flop because it didn’t have all that I want from my HD2, and more. I run Android on my phone because it gives me the power to write this post, something that I can’t do on Windows Mobile. Despite being a Windows mobile fan, I had to choose Android because it has the flexibility and expandibility to adapt to my needs.
Nokia needs to rethink and probably drop MeeGo and symbian.

If you can’t beat them, join them!

This means that the mobile phone subscriber can now say goodbye to bad customer service, call drops, unwanted services, spam sms, marketing calls etc from their existing provider and move to a new and better (!) service provider.

“Now you can leave the pirates and join the thieves!” is what a user pointed out on twitter!

I think it is true to a great extent. All the service providers are marketing their 3G services. It is almost impossible to find out if your city is covered in their list (important if you live in a small city), except one provider that has a list, surprisingly Reliance! They are all promising high-speed internet and giving you an option to check if your handset supports 3G, but none of them tells you that your city may not yet be covered with 3G service. So much for their Advertising Standards!

Well, for all those who are still planning to move to a new provider, or planning to change between CDMA and GSM, here is the information. And yes, you can port a CDMA number to a GSM provider, which means that a number from Reliance/Tata/Virgin/MTS can be used on Airtel/Vodafone/Idea/Tata/Aircel etc. and vice-versa.

SMS –

PORT <10 Digit Mobile Number>

to 1900.

You will receive a UPC, Unique Porting Code, which you will use as an identifier with your new provider. Walk into the store of the new provider of your choice, ask for a Customer Application Form, fill in the form and provide the UPC. You will need a Photograph, Address and Identity Proof.

Once you have done this, you will receive a new SIM card and you will have to clear the complete billed/un-billed outstanding with your old provider. Your new provider will let you know once the port is ready. You will get an SMS on the old SIM, to inform you to replace your old SIM with the new SIM in the phone. This process should take no more than 7 working days.

Remember, you will need a new phone if you are changing your service from GSM to CDMA or vice versa.

Happy Porting and Calling on the New Provider!

Commonwealth Games Federation
10th Floor
16Piccadilly
London W1J 7NR
United Kingdom.
Date: Thursday October 08th 2010 draw no. 1537

CWG Winning No.02 20 33 40 43 46 BONUS 14

Dear Winner;

Your e-mail has won you $750,000.00 (SEVEN MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND
U.S. DOLLARS ) from Commonwealth Games Promotion on our 2010 charity bonanza.The winning
ticket was selected from a Data Base of Internet Email Users, from which your Address came out as the winning coupon.You are therefore requested to
All details should be submitted to the address below

send your Bio-datas to presenter (Prize Administrator) via Bellow
Information:
Claims infomation
Name: Mr.Godwin Best
E-mail: commonw@europe.com

Kindly provide us with the below.

Full Name………….
Address…………
Phone Number…
Occupation…..
Sex…….
Age…….
Amount won……

Take note that all our winners from Asian (China,Indian,Pakistan e.t.c) ,you should claim there Winning amount in our UK office,also this is not a scam. you can only win once.

Mr.OJ Borg
Award CO-ORDINATOR.
COMMON WEALTH GAME FEDERATION.

Please don’t forget to congratulate me in comments!

This is about the software that I installed on the machine. I have heard a lot of people complain that there aren’t enough software for Mac. I had similar apprehensions about the Mac when I bought it. I have been using it for a few days now and I now know the most important software that you may want for your Mac.

Begin with MS Office. No doubt there is no other application that can even come close to it, even on a Mac. I downloaded the trial version of iWork and instantly realized that this was not what I could work with. I am used to working with my words, numbers and presentations in particular manner. I cannot change it instantly. I think I found it easier to work with iWork but simple things like different common shortcuts made me download and purchase the Office for Mac instantly. Highly Recommended.

Browsers. You cannot ignore Chrome. Google may be called evil or anything but the browser works flawlessly in Mac. However, if you are a download junkie like me, you will have to get another amazing browser, which is the most extensible and safe browser, Firefox. I didn’t find any good extension like FlashGot to pass all the RapidShare links to PSD.

Downloader. Progressive Downloader is the best application to download large files. It is like any other download manager for Windows, integrated very well with Mac. I like the interface and the ease of use. The best part is that it monitors clipboard and will start download automatically when a link is clicked at.

Compression. While there are inbuilt mechanism for unarchiving files, get The Unarchiver. It makes life a lot easier. I would say a must have.

VLC Player. No explanation needed, but if you still want one – the best audio video player available out there, IMHO. Yes, it plays avi!

uTorrent. If you don’t already know, stay away from it.

Instant Messengers. While Adium is a good option, I would also recommend Nimbuzz. I use Nimbuzz on my phone and I have been very happy. It connects to all popular services, with the option to make calls to Landline and Mobile phones.

EDIT: With inputs from Shishir Sharma

If you are on Twitter then you can follow me @ranaonline and also install Tweetie for Mac. This is one of the best applications for using Twitter on Mac. The other options like Tweetdeck or Twitterrific are also worth a look, however if you want simplicity, Tweetie should be your choice.

If you miss your note-book while working on your notebook, you can save some paper with SlidePad. It is a simple application, which slides from the left side of the screen once installed. It helps you take notes in the meetings without any distraction and without eating any screen space. The only problem may be that it might stick out when you don’t want it to, but that’s a small price to pay for a free and very useful tool!

Thanks Shishir for introducing me to these two!

‘All New Experience’! Well the thought caught on me and I decided I WILL use a Mac, even if it was a low powered one, unlike my current quad-core 6 GB 16″ HP laptop. I was now looking for an opportunity to buy a Mac and one such presented me when I was in Canada for a family vacation. The family friend we were visiting had not one but two MacBooks. They had recently released a compilation of their music, working solely out of Garageband. I was impressed.

I decided to pay a visit to the nearest Apple Store, which was in the huge West Edmonton Mall, and I was amazed. The Apple store was pretty and full, usual, I was told. We entered and started to explore our options. There was the MacBook and the MacBook Pro. I has already started liking what I saw. I decided that I will buy the 13″ as I was planning to use it primarily as a mobile device and not as a replacement of my desktop. Also, I was not sure if I would be able to use it very well and so I thought I would spend only a reasonable amount on it.

The machine was for CAD 1250 and Apple was kind enough to give a CAD100 discount to students. The Genius, who was helping us buy our Mac also told us that we could get an iPod worth CAD219for free if we applied for the rebate. I didn’t refuse!

So here I am, with my all new MacBook Pro, working with all new set of software and still trying to come to terms with things like multitouch! I am sure with a little training and some googling, I will be able to use this as my primary machine. I will also post more from this experience, starting with the list of software that I installed first on the Mac to port my work from a PC.

The first time I actually saw an Android phone was in April 2010, when I had a chance to see the Motorola Droid at AdTech in San Francisco. I found it to be very confusing when compared to my awesome HTC Sense interface on HTC HD2. I have been a die hard fan of Windows Mobile and to think of any other OS was taboo for me. I used the Nokia E71 for some time and I found the stupid Samsung Omnia i900 better. When I compared Android with Windows Mobile,  I thought it was still work in progress. Having said that, the adventurer in me still provoked me to try Android but my wallet didn’t allow for a change of the phone in less than 6 months, when we were talking about more than $800!

I was tracking the project on XDA, where the super developers were trying to port Android to the best phone of times, the HD2. I finally learned that a port was available where voice calls weren’t available. I went ahead and downloaded the build and ran android on the phone for the first time. It was not even close to a beta but I searched a bit more to find www.gamesquare.co.uk, where there were usable builds of Android for HD2. I immediately changed the build, which only meant replacing the Android folder on the SD card.

Android has become my choice of OS on the phone now. Initially there have been problems like a robotic voice and high echo to the other party receiving the call, I have even used a tape to cover the mic because the sound was too high. The development of android was faster than one could expect and there was soon a well designed build available for daily use. The only problem was high battery drain, a full charge would last for about 6 hours under normal usage.

SetCPU solved this problem as well. It is a program that sets the clock of CPU according to your usage and requirement, to ensure that you do not waste battery when the phone is idle. The mail application connects to Gmail, Google Apps Accounts and any other company Exchange account with ease. During the time of writing this post, I heard that Microsoft released Exchange ActiveSync for Windows Live Mail (aka Hotmail) but as the website rightly says, there is still an issue with connecting to m.hotmail.com for PUSH updates.

So much for Android at the moment. I will be glad to share more details once I continue using it for a longer period.

Written on the WordPress application for Android!!

Federal Bureau of Investigation
J. Edgar Hoover Building
935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20535-0001

From: Agent Thomas Green
Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3)

(IC3 accepts Internet crime complaints from either the person who believes they were defrauded or from a third party to the complainant.)

My name is Agent Thomas Green of the FBI, I’m using this medium to inform you that we recieve a complaint about some internet frauds attempt which involves you and some culprit. Your complain has been reviewed and approved for immediate actions.

After our thorough scrutiny, we realise that you have been defrauded in one way or the other by some people claiming to have huge funds waiting for you. Some of the culprits reside in your country while some are outside of your shore. We have so far arrested atleast 6 people involved in these schemes and further investigation is still in progress.

Meanwhile, the FBI compensation department has agreed to refund a partial amount of the money recovered from the culprit totalling the sum of US$250,000.00 (Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand US Dollars) to be returned to you. To avoid any illegal/fraudulent act, these money has been preloaded into an ATM card for your own conveniences and you can cash it at any ATM machine in your country.

To utilize your claim, we request that you provide the following information for proper filing:

Your full name:_____________________
Your mailing address:_______________
Your mobile number:_________________

Fill appropriately and send to our paymaster via email:

Agent Fredy Simon
e-mail: fredysimon@aol.com

For security reasons, your Personal Identification Number (PIN) code has not yet been activated until your final review.

Best regards,

Agent Thomas Green
Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3)
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

While I post this here, I want you to know that I know at least 3 instances where people have fallen prey to this Nigerian scam and lost their money. They feel bad not because of losing money only but more because they were well educated and knew that there is no dead relative, old banker, Iraqi General or Oil Baron who would leave money for them.

Greed!

I got an iPhone because I wanted to see what is it in the phone that people don’t mind waiting in queue for weeks to buy it. I got it last November and used it for a couple of days, finally realizing that it was meant for my wife who is a casual techie. I wanted my Windows Mobile back, which meant getting the all new HTC HD2, the powerhouse!

When I heard about iOS 4, which is funnily termed as the world’s most advanced mobile OS by Apple, I wanted to see what was in there. I connected my jailbroken and unlocked phone to iTunes and it was quick to offer me the upgrade to the World’s most Advanced Mobile OS!

The *primary* features that iOS4 offers are Multitasking, Folders, FaceTime, app Platform, performance and stability, security and the fact that it works World over. Is it all that is required to make an OS the world’s most advanced mobile OS? I have been using all these (except FaceTime) on the Windows Phone platform since the first phone I bought!

I call Windows Mobile OS a platform because I think it is not an OS but actually a platform that allows people to develop on it and improve it. Any of the above features, which are a part of the OS (not hardware dependant like the phone works world over), have always been available on Windows Phone. The ability to manage apps in folders sounds as if we are getting something still in it’s infancy, Windows allows you to manage the entire file structure! You can manage all the files, applications, pictures and whatever is there on the phone in an explorer like structure.

XDA-Developers and HTC make a great software and hardware combination for the Windows platform. The fact that I can change anything, even the OS flavor on my phone, in max 30 minutes without thinking about anything, gives me the satisfaction that I own what I paid for!

I think the openness (and I have not used android yet) of Windows Phone makes me love the platform. Apple may make great products and they may be ‘cool’, I want something that works according to me and not according to the manufacturer!