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Do you know about Spotify? I have been using it to stream music cleaner and faster than Lala since early last year. If you live in the US, chances are you have no idea what I am talking about. There is apparently only 30,000 American users or less, according to Spotify. Even if there are thirty thousand, this is tiny compared to the amount that would actually use this incredible streaming service if it were widely known and/or officially available to United States citizens. The launch date was supposed to be “late 2009″ but it sort of faded away and since then, nothing  has happened.

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What Spotify is and why you need it: Spotify is the best streaming music app available on the planet, with high quality sound at nearly instant speeds. It has nearly every song you can think of and also allows you to create playlists and access them anywhere you sign in. With a premium account, you are able to store and access thousands of songs on your device for listening without internet connection. Spotify was designed to look and work like iTunes, and it is intended to attract iTunes users. Official Spotify clients run on Windows, Mac and there are iPhone/Android OS versions. There are also opensource versions built to work for various platforms, and the Xbox.

It turns out that Warner Music label has been the force behind the delay, refusing to grant rights, even after almost all other major labels have agreed.  Spotify is afraid that a launch without access to Warner artists’ music, would fail. Spotify is completely free if you have an invite, with location check, ads and commercials, but the Premium ad free, location indiscriminate version requires a monthly fee of 9.99 Euro and to be set up in a supported country. You can fake the location, but the premium can not be cracked (anymore) as far as I know.

Spotify is based in Sweden, home also to the infamous torrent website The Pirate Bay, and was founded by two entrepreneurs, Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon. Most interesting, though, are some of the people involved in developing the program. These include Ludvig Strigeus, creator of the extremely popular Bit Torrent client uTorrent, which has become popular largely due to its small memory footprint – something Spotify definitely shares. Little wonder, then, that Spotify is being touted as the legal alternative to music piracy.
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The large library of media is actually a cloud of data, and is stored on a network of servers and also other users’ computers, functioning as a P2P. This hybrid technology really is the future of streaming media. The supported countries each had free open beta accounts available, but unfortunately closed last year, when Spotify for iPhone came out. Before this happened, I used a French proxy to grab a free account. Free accounts are now closed, unless you have an invite, but you will still have to trick Spotify into thinking you are in a supported country. Proxies don’t work anymore, to fake your location, you must use a VPN.

If you can’t get an invite online, through a friend, and can’t register a free account, you can purchase a subscription to use this incredible service. If you do fork over the cash, thankfully Developer Joachim Bengtsson has implemented the “Despotify Library” to create the “Spot” opensource iPhone client. Available on Cydia, this Spotify client will let you access the millions of songs and your unique playlists on your iphone. The official Spotify iPhone app can also be obtained from various sources.

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If you are ready to try out this amazing service, you will need to start by changing your IP to a French, United Kingdom, Norway, Netherlands, Spain or Sweden address. The best way to do this for free is to use UltraVPN. On Windows, it is as simple as creating an account, download their OpenVPN based client, install, restart your computer (to open socket Win-32), and log in with your new details.

For Mac, you will need to install Tunnelblick or Viscosity and also download and open a “config file”, like this  one, in the application that you chose, and sign in to UltraVPN.

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When you get connected to UltraVPN, you will be assigned a new IP address. Go to Google, if it shows up in French, it worked! Now you can go to Spotify and create an account and download and install the free client. To view the page in English, go to the address bar and change the “fr” in the URL to “int” and hit enter. If you have a free account, you will need to stay connected to the VPN until Spotify is open and running. Once it is, you can disconnect from UltraVPN as you have already passed the location check and you can return to full bandwidth.You will need to periodically log in to Spotify through the French IP to continue to use the service. If it detects your account is out of country for more than 14 days, it will be shut down, until you connect with UltraVPN again.

If you paid for your subscription, enjoy using Spotify on your iPhone with Spot from Cydia or the official App you obtained. After you set up your account using a French IP, you will not need to use the VPN again.

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I read on Techcruch that they were discussing the fact that Bing might be the new default search engine on iDevices which is just a rumor right now (thank g-d), but due to the fact that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is rumored to be speaking at the coming WWDC (on June 7th) it sounds like its possible that the rumors are true.

But since these are all rumors I saw on AllthingsD they were saying that Bing is not going to replace Google as the default search engine only that they will add the option for it like they have for “Yahoos” search engine (which you can enable by going to Settings/Safari/Search Engine).

Please tell me what you think if Bing should be the default search engine or are you happy with Google and why would love to hear from you guys,

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Alot of you following googles I/O might have seen the new android 2.2 (aka froyo) and want to try it out or want to start to develop on it or just test apps for it so heres how to install a emulator on your desktop.
Warning: best if used on a more powerful computer (netbooks will strain)

First: Download the sdk.

1. Extract the folder and open the “android” folder that extracted.
2. There you’ll see a few folders open the “Tools” folder and click the “android” script to run the Emulator builder.
3. Now in the emulator builder go to the “Available Packages” tab.
4. There choose the packages that are selected in the picture and click “install selected”.
5. After they finish downloading and installing go to the “Virtual Devices” tab and press “new” (on the right side).
6. So the the input will be as follows in the picture: (size depends on how much memory you have but you can always add a SD Card) 
7. Now go back to “Virtual Devices” and click on your newly made emulator and click “Start” on the right side.

And now you have a basic emulator.

How to add applications:

1. your going to need to download Eclipse IDE for Java Developers (you’ll need to choose the IDE for Java Developers from the list).
2. Install the Android Development Toolkit in Eclipse.
3. Point the ADK to the directly where you’re keeping your Android SDK files (the same place where you extracted the SDK earlier, unless you moved it).
4. Import and run Android apps. (You’ll have to search the internet for Android apps you want to try. The file format is .apk, and many sites host them independently of the Android market.)

Update: for PC users make sure you have Java installed it doesn’t come preinstalled.

And thanks to Gizmodo for the top pic and the links for the downloads

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This is a trick showed to me by @creamers it’s for all you google app users who want push mail for updates on there google apps.
First you want to enable the google sync here.
Next on your iDevice make a Microsoft Exchange account (in Settings/Mail/Add Account).
There to fill it for your app like this:

Email:          username@domain.com

Server:         m.google.com

Domain:         your domain
Username:       username@domain.com
Password:       ********

SSL: YES

Note: for jailbreakers in cydia you can find a tweak called MultiExchange it’s a paid app only costs $0.99 enables you to add multiple exchange account which then enables multiple push from google apps check it out.

And that’s it for questions you can contact creamers on twitter @creamers or by email creamers@creamersrealm.co.cc

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So since the androids OS been open source all along (unlike the iPhoneOS) iPhone developers more known to the world as “hackers” have been wanting to put the Android OS onto the iPhone which a developer known as PlanetBeing has done as you can see here.
WAIT before you do press the link and check that out check out iHackintosh Blog here for a really good guide on how to install it to the phone.
This is very buggy so anything you do is at your own risk.

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