iOS 5 Comparison: iPhone 3GS vs iPhone 4

While it seems most iOS 5 features will work just fine on the iPhone 3GS, the proof is in the pudding. Here's a video from AppleRumors.it (translated), an aptly named Italian Apple blog. 

They do a side-by-side comparison between the iPhone 3GS and the iPhone 4 and it gives a good sense of the speed differences between the two. 


It seems 3GS owners (including myself) have nothing to fear from iOS5.

Save your data from hackers

How to protect our personal data from hackers

source-yahoo.com

Washington, June 12 (ANI): Computer hackers have an ability to cause chaos by using personal data that they have stolen. But the theft can be prevented if people are careful with their information.

On Sunday 12 June 2011, 2:46 PM

Personal finance expert Carmen Wong Ulrich shared advice during a talk on 'The Early Show on Saturday Morning' on how to protect personal information and what to do when hackers get their hands on it.

"The first line of defense is always your passwords, and the information on your computer," CBS News quoted Ulrich as telling co-anchor Betty Nguyen.

"Make sure you go right to your computer, change your log-in information and password information on everything from your credit card accounts to where you shop through retailers and your email, as well because, as we saw-Google and Yahoo - the hackers are coming in from everywhere," she said.

Ulrich, author of 'The Real Cost of Living', said almost three-quarters of us use the same password on several accounts.

"Please stop doing that! Protect the banking part as much as you can, because the hackers will come in from the company side. But they're coming in on your side, too," she implored.

"Also, use one computer, if you can, to do your banking. I know it's hard (with everyone using so many different devices). Try to do it all on one computer. That limits exposure.

"And, never, ever do banking or do transactions online on an open Wi-Fi. It's very tempting because it's so easy. You could be sitting in a coffee shop or the airport or wherever you are. Squatters will sit there and scour that Wi-Fi. So definitely don't do that.

"And don't use your debit card online. This runs counter (to conventional wisdom), because credit cards, people say, are bad. But a credit card protects you and your cash.

"Of course, there's (a) liability (limit) with your debit card. But who wants their accounts emptied of cash? Instead, use your credit card online, so at least you don't expose yourself, cash-wise," she stated. (ANI)

Fact about football!!

 Did you know? -Did you know that a football is eleven inches long and the distance around the football is 28 inches.
-The first football ever used was round.
-A football weighs between 14 and 15 ounces.
-Also did you know that a blitz is when the defensive fullbacks, the halfbacks, and the safeties run toward the line of scrimmage trying to knock down the quarterback before he can throw a pass. When the linebackers and the halfbacks run through the line of scrimmage they are blitzing.
-A fly is a play that the wide receiver runs. The fly is when the wide receiver runs down the side line and catches a pass and keeps on running until a man catches him.
-Another play for the wide receiver is the button hook. The button hook is when the wide receiver runs straight and then turns around so he's facing the quarterback. Then he takes a few steps backward and waits for the pass.
-A down and out play is run by the receiver. First the receiver runs straight and then he turns and runs toward the nearest side line.
-An End Sweep is a simple play. A running back takes the ball and either runs either right or left. The last play is call an I formation. It's an offensive formation where three men are lined up one behind the other.
-Did you know that the players are assigned certain numbers to represent their positions.

* 1 to 19 for quarterbacks and kickers* 20 to 49 for running backs and defensive backs
* 50 to 59 for centers and linebackers
* 60 to 79 for linemen
* 80 to 89 for wide receivers and tight ends
* Centers may also be assigned numbers up to 79 and defensive linemen and linebackers, 90 to 99
Defensive players can have any number.

-Some players that carry or catch the ball wear very tight pants so that when they are running no one can grab their pants to stop them.
-For each play there are 11 players for each team on the field.
-Only 2 players can use their feet to move the ball. (Kickers and Punters)
-2 types of kicks can score points. Field goals for 3 points. Extra points for 1 point.
-P.A.T. stands for Point After Touchdown.
-If offense doesn't make a first down after 3 plays, the team punts the ball to the other team.
-The quarterback starts all the plays.

Useful IPhone Applications You Should Install

source - hongiat.com

So when someone came up to you and asked, so what’s so great about the iPhone. You’ll probably show them how cool the cover flow is, or maybe how you can multi-touch zoom in and out of the photos; flipped them, etc. I’ve got to be honest, those are part of the attractions why I got myself an iPhone even when its not officially launch here in my country but however I’ve found cooler stuff in iPhone – the ability to support tones of cool applications and most importantly, rich 3rd party application developers.

Here are some iPhone applications you should install, or at least try using them.

1. Community Resources

   Developed by Nullriver, Inc this is your gateway to more 3rd party applications upon installed.

2. IApp-A-Day

   iApp-a-Day is a project initiated for November 2007, aiming at contributing one application a day to the community. Worth checking out.

3. OpenSSH + BSD Subsystem

   Installation of these two application allows you to access your iPhone via sFTP. This means you can access structure and files of your iPhone. Transfer your files as easy as dragging them in/out with FTP client.

4. SummerBoard

   
   SummerBoard allows iPhone users to install more themes and wallpapers, making your iPhone more interesting.

5. Cuztomize

   
   Cuztomize gives you more control over your iPhone. It allows you to cuztomize default iPhone assets like dock background, carrier iamges, Wifi images, bar images, edge icons, airplane icon, alarm icon, bluetooth icon, lock icon, loading image, badge graphics, phone keypad image, battery images, sound images, hud image, chat balloons images, main slider, power slider, call slider, highlight mask, system sound, calculator background, weather icons, weather background, notepad background, etc.

6. Vnotes

   
   Voice recording is not build-in in a default iPhone but with Vnotes, you can record voice notes and playback anytime you wish.

7. ISplit

   
   This is a very handy tool for those who like to go dutch on meals with friends but having problem calculating how much each individual have to pay. Option of tax, tipping calculation included.

8. NES

   
   This is a NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) emulator. Upload your ROMs to given folder and enjoy NES games on your iPhone. Save games are also supported.

9. WeDict

   
   As the name speaks, mobile dictionary with tones of dictionary files available in Community Resources.

10. Apollo

    
    Apollo is the first and perhaps the only application based IM for iPhone for current time being. It supports AIM, ICQ, MSN and .Mac accounts.

11. Finder

    
    Finder behaves like Mac’s finder. Search through your iPhone file structure with functions like Create, Modify, Send files.

12. Lockbox

    
    Lockbox allows you to keep important information like account username/password, credit card infomation, etc all behind a password protected screen.

13. Navizon

    
    Navizon GPS application that make use of Wifi to track your current position and sent it to Google map. Very useful for route navigation.

14. PDFViewer

    Transfer your PDF files to your iPhone and view them with this application.

15. RSS

    
    Keep all your feed reading under one roof, read them all from your iPhone.

16. Sketches

    
    Sketches allows you to do more than just snapping photos. It gives you an option to sketch and sendphoto instantly to friends via email.

17. ToDoList

    
    Keep your Todo list organized, with functions like priority settings, categorizing, etc.

osama bin laden was a sex machine : osama's wife

Osama bin Lothario: Terror chief 'was a sex machine who would vanish into the bedroom with his wife for days'

Osama Bin Laden was a sex machine according to his first wife Najwa bin Laden

Osama bin Laden used to have sex with his first wife for days on end whenever he came back from waging Jihad.

The former Al Qaeda leader would vanish into his bedroom with Najwa bin Laden upon his return and not come out until they had properly reacquainted themselves. 

Asked by an interviewer to name her favourite time when living with the terrorist, she replied: ‘The sleeping time’.

Najwa was the first of six wives of bin Laden and married him at the age of 17. They had ten children together but divorced before the 9/11 attacks.

She was interviewed by U.S. investigative reporter Jean Sasson for her biography but the journalist yesterday revealed details which have not come out before.

‘When I asked Najwa what her favourite time of day was, she admitted that it was "the sleeping time",’ Sasson said.

She added that Najwa was not referring to actually going to sleep but ‘that’s when he (bin Laden) was giving her all his attention’.

‘Omar (her son) said that when he was a child, Osama would come home from Afghanistan and take Najwa into the bedroom and they wouldn’t come out for days,’ she said.

At the time of bin Laden’s killing, he was living with three later wives in a compound in Abbottabad in Pakistan where it has been reported that U.S. soldiers found herbal viagra.

Osama bin Laden in 2007 and one of his six wives, Amal Ahmed Abdul Fatah

Sasson said she ‘wouldn’t be surprised’ at all if that were true.

‘He had a younger wife, plus two other wives there. I remember that on the day a clinic opened in Saudi Arabia for men who were impotent, cars lined up through Riyadh waiting.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2002152/Osama-bin-Laden-sex-machine-vanish-bedroom-wife-days.html#ixzz1P34ImsQL

fix and prevent iphone from freezing!!

Freezes and crashes are generic iPhone problems that can occur in any iPhone software, from Safari to Maps. In this excerpt fromTake Control of Your iPhone, I cover iPhone freezes and crashes, explaining what’s going on, how to recover from them, and how to avoid them.

Note: Applications vs. Widgets: Each program on an iPhone falls into one of two categories: applications (Phone, Mail, Safari, and iPod) and widgets (the collection of items, from Text to Settings, that appear above the main four application icons on the Home screen). Apple refers to the latter category as both widgets and applications in its various documents. The main difference is that widgets tend to be smaller, single function programs (akin to Dashboard widgets in Mac OS X) while applications are more full featured (akin to programs in the Applications folder of Mac OS X).

A quasi-third option is currently the only option available for third-party developers to create software for iPhone: Web-based applications. These are run from Safari and are often referred to simply as Web applications.

Handle freezes

While running any of iPhone’s applications or widgets, your iPhone may suddenly stop responding to your touchscreen gestures. Even pressing the Home button produces no effect. Typically, any display activity, such as a Web page that is loading or a video that is playing, halts as well. When this occurs, the iPhone software has “frozen.”

Another symptom of a freeze is that the iPhone screen remains black, as if it is not turned on (although this symptom may also be caused by a “dead” battery).

To unfreeze an iPhone press and hold down the Home key for about six seconds. If this works, you are returned to the Home screen, with (hopefully) everything working again. If a force-quit fails to unfreeze the application, try further actions as described ahead in this section (begin with Restart, below).

Handle crashes

When you’re working with an iPhone application or widget, the iPhone may suddenly toss you back to the Home screen. When you return to the program you were using, you may further find that some of your recent changes have been lost. For example, a Web page that you had closed may now be back. When this occurs, it means the iPhone software has crashed.

After being dumped back Home, you should simply return to what you were doing and hope the crash does not recur. If the same crash does happen again (and sometimes again and again), try restarting your iPhone (described next). This often helps because many crashes are caused by a combination of events that won’t reoccur in exactly the same way after a restart.

Restart

To restart an iPhone, press and hold the Sleep/Wake button (the physical button at the top of the iPhone, next to the SIM card tray) until a red (and white arrow) slider (adjacent to the words “slide to power off”) appears on the screen. Drag the slider to power off your iPhone. Then press and hold the Sleep/Wake button again until the Apple logo appears. Wait a few seconds for iPhone’s startup sequence to finish, and you should be back at the Home screen.

While I refer to this procedure as a “restart,” some Apple documentation refers to it as a “reset.” I prefer “restart” both because it is consistent with the same action on a computer and because it avoids confusion with other meanings of “reset” for the iPhone.

Force restart

If your iPhone is really confused, even holding down the Sleep/Wake button may have no effect. In such cases, you can generally force the iPhone to restart by holding down the Sleep/Wake and Home buttons simultaneously for around 10 seconds.

Although I have seen no official confirmation of this from Apple, I expect that the difference between a normal and a forced restart is that the former restart is more “graceful,” making sure that all files that should be closed before restarting have done so.

iPhone crash data on your Mac

While the iPhone doesn’t provide feedback when it crashes, it does keeps track of the event behind the scenes. The next time you sync your iPhone with iTunes, you get a message that states: “Your iPhone contains diagnostic information which may help Apple improve its products.”

The message that appears in iTunes when you attempt to sync an iPhone that has had a crash since the previous sync.

This message means that one or more crashes occurred since your last sync. It three buttons:

• Send to Apple: Click this button to forward details of the crash to Apple (hopefully helping them figure out the cause and how to fix it)
• Don’t Send: Click this button to dismiss the dialog.

• Prevent freezes and crashes

  The complete solution for dealing with freezes and crashes is to know not only how to recover from them, but also how to eliminate them in the future. You can’t prevent all freezes and crashes, but you can minimize them by keeping the iPhone and iTunes software updated and by making sure your iPhone has sufficient free space and memory.
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  Update your iPhone

  You should update your iPhone’s software whether you have a specific problem at the moment or not. Updates fix known bugs in existing software and add new features. More specifically to our discussion here, if a bug in Apple’s software causes a recurring problem, the ultimate solution is for Apple to fix it via an update.
  By default, iTunes automatically checks for such updates at regular intervals (you can disable this by unchecking “Check for updates automatically” in the General pane of the iTunes Preferences window). You can manually initiate a check at any time by clicking the Check for Update button in an iPhone Summary tab in iTunes.
  If a check reveals that an update exists, the Check for Update button changes to Update and a dialog appears, informing you that “a new iPhone software version is available.” From this dialog, you can click either Download Only or Download and Install. If you choose Download Only, another dialog eventually appears that again states that “a new iPhone software version is available” and provides buttons for Install and Don’t Install.
  These dialogs have “Do not ask me again” checkboxes. I suggest that you disable those boxes to be sure you are asked about each update before it installs. Of course, your computer still should not install an update without your knowledge, but why take chances? You’re better off having to confirm again, just in case reliable reports on the Web indicate that a given update makes things worse rather than better.
  The update file downloads to ~/Library/iTunes/iPhone Software Updates/. For minor updates (such as from 1.0.1 to 1.0.2), the names of these update files typically end in Update.ipsw. However, for more significant updates (such as from 1.0.2 to 1.1.1), iTunes uses the restore file (Restore.ipsw) for both updating and restoring.
  Update requires re-activation? After updating your iPhone, you may see an alert that says “Activating iPhone.” In this case, you must be in an area where you can access the AT&T network for the update to complete. If the message persists, try moving to a different location.
  If you get an error message: When updating your iPhone, you may receive error messages. If this happens, and the update fails, try doing a restore first. This should get things working again, and it will likely provide the latest version of the iPhone software. However, to be certain that no newer version is needed, and to confirm that all now seems to be working, click Check for Update again after the restore is complete.
  Note: A Stealth Update?: When Apple released iLife ’08, they included a new Web Gallery feature, which can receive a photo sent to it from an iPhone. To accomplish this, a “Send to Web Gallery” button appears as an option for a photo on the iPhone, via the Camera or the Photos application.
  Surprisingly, this new button appeared a day or so after iLife ’08 was released, without requiring any update to the iPhone software. This led to speculation that the iPhone software was updated, via the EDGE network, without any notification to the user. Apple has never confirmed how it was done, and there are other possible mechanisms that could have accomplished this feat. Still, it’s worth noting that new features may appear on your iPhone without warning.

  Update iTunes too

  To make sure that syncing and other interactions between iTunes and your iPhone go smoothly, which in turn can prevent your iPhone from crashing and freezing, always update to the latest version of iTunes. iTunes updates contain software specifically relevant to the iPhone (notably the AppleMobileDevice and AppleMobileSync software installed in several locations of the/System/Library—such as the AppleMobileDevice.kext file in /System/Library/Extensions, and the equivalents in Windows).

  Provide sufficient “breathing room”

  By “breathing room,” I mean two things:
  • Don’t use up every last whit of drive space: Leave at least 250 MB free at all times. This is because the iPhone needs space to create temporary files. Without sufficient space for these files, a crash may occur. You can tell how much free space remains by checking the usage graph at the bottom of an iPhone’s Summary tab in iTunes.
  • Don’t overload iPhone’s memory: For example, if you check a mailbox that starts downloading 200 messages to your iPhone and then shift to Safari and start opening several Web pages, you are asking for trouble, likely in the form of a crash.

  Check the iPhone’s diagnostic data

  Some iPhone problems are specific to a particular version of the device’s software or hardware. As such, it can be useful to know exactly which versions of the various components you have. Even if you can’t directly use this information, it can be valuable to a tech support person (such as an Apple employee at a Genius Bar). Such data is stored in two main locations:
  • About: Tap the Settings -> General -> About. Here, you’ll find the Version number and Modem Firmware number, which you can compare with the numbers of the most recent updates (as may be listed on Apple’s Web site or other Web sites where such matters are covered) to confirm that you have the latest versions.
    The Wi-Fi Address and Bluetooth numbers may also be needed for troubleshooting (as covered later in this book).
  • Field Test: More esoteric are the “field test” data. To access these, go to the keypad of iPhone’s Phone application and enter: *3001#12345#*
  Then tap the Call key. A Field Test screen appears from which you can access such data as Network Information and Cell Information.
  The most interesting tidbit here is found if you tap the Versions item. This reveals the LCD Panel ID. If an apparent problem with your display is linked to a specific version of the LCD panel (as determined from information found on the Web or obtained from Apple), this will tell you if you have the problematic panel.
  source - macworld.com
• Show Details: Click this button to open a folder in the Finder where the crash data are stored:/Library/Logs/Crashreporter/MobileDevice/youriPhone .
  The exact contents of this folder depends upon the crash history for your particular iPhone. For example, if Safari has crashed, you’ll find a file with MobileSafari at the start of its name and .crash at the end (with numeric data in the middle). You can open the file in any text editor. Or, if you change the file’s extension to .log, double-clicking the file opens it in Mac OS X’s Console utility. It’s unlikely that you’ll glean much information from these files, but you may find a clue to the cause of a crash.

The crash dialog also has a “Do not ask me again” checkbox. Leave it enabled to avoid being told about crashes in the future. But what if you enable it and later change your mind?

You can reset it by Control-clicking (or right clicking) on the name of your iPhone in the Devices section of iTunes and then choosing Reset Warnings from the contextual menu.