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iFile v1.2.0-1 crashes and blacks out on iOS 4. Here’s a strange tip to fix that.

I have been trying to get iFile running on my iPod touch 2g ever since I installed iOS 4. I did some research and found the weirdest fix ever to get an incompatible version working. According to Jaxov, if you have iFile 1.2.0-1, this is the fix for you. Even if you have iFile 1.3.0, this tip should work. Read more…

As you may have seen some developers have made their apps iOS 4.0.1 or 4.0 compatible and also require 4.0 or greater to run. Now this makes a huge problem for users of the 2g iPhone, 1g iPod, and iPad.

I have personally tried to install about five apps on my iPad that used to be 3.0 minimum version and now these “dumb developers” are making their apps 4.0 minimum. I am using an iPad, and there is no 4.0. I want the latest version of the app and I don’t want to have to manually edit every single ipa file to change the minimum version. If you didn’t even have the app before the upgrade, it is now unavailable for your device in the App Store.

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Pwnage Tool 4.0 4.0.1 was recently released by the Dev Team and I got a request to clarify the devices that are currently Jailbreakable by this and other methods. You can find the Dev Team’s post that states the same information here. All devices running 3.1.3 or 3.1.2 or iPad 3.2 can be quickly and easily Jailbroken by Spirit, and every jailbroken iPhone can be currently unlocked by Ultrasn0w 0.9.3.

After the break, there is a list of devices that can and cannot be jailbroken on 4.0, and guides for the methods you can use for each device that can!

This info is as of  4:13 pm est on 6/23/10. The post has already been updated once, so check back often for more info and helpful guides to the newest releases.

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A lot of you guys have had, or are having problems with Cydia,  or you are getting errors. I am going to show you guys how to fix most of the problems, first of all you will need iFile.

You will want to open iFile and navigate to /var/lib/apt/lists.You will see a lot of black pages and a folder named “partial”DO NOT ERASE/DELETE THIS FOLDER!!!!. Tap “Edit” on the top right corner and double tap on one file it should select all of them, deselect “partial” folder and delete the rest of the stuff.

Now just go to cydia and refresh (your changes tab will be empty at first) then that’s it it’s fixed.

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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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