How to Jailbreak And Unlock your iPhone With Blackra1n And Blacksn0w On Mac If you are looking to jailbreak or unlock your iPhone, here is a tutorial on how you can do it with Geohot’s blackra1n software. This tutorial is for Mac users only. If you are a Windows user, you may read the corresponding jailbreaking guide here. Some important points to note before we start: Hacking your iPhone could void its warranty. So please proceed with caution and at your own risk. Make sure that you have iPhone OS 3.1.2 installed on your iPhone. The jailbreak requires 05.11.07 baseband . If you have a new iPhone 3GS (updated Bootrom), BlackRa1n only supports a tethered jailbreak. This means that once jailbroken you should not let your battery die. If it does die you will need to reconnect it to the computer and use BlackRa1n to boot it. Please take a backup of your iPhone, refer to this post for more details. After you have successfully jailbroken your iPhone, please checkout our article on tips to keep your iPhone secure. Instructions to Jailbreak: Step 1: Visit Blackra1n website on your Mac and click the Apple logo at the bottom of the screen. Step 2: Download the Blackra1n ZIP file on to your machine. Extract the executable blackra1n.dmg file. Step 3: Your iPhone or iPod needs to connected to the Mac hereon. Once you ensure that the iPhone is connected, run blackra1n.exe file Step 4: The jailbreak process is now ready for start. Click on the ‘Make it ra1n’ button.
Step 5: The following set of events occur on your iPhone: Your iPhone is now placed in the recovery mode The iPhone display replaces the recover mode screen with a picture of Geohot Your iPhone reboots Step 6: Jailbreaking is complete. You are shown a popup message from Geohot announcing the completion of the same. Press OK to finish the process. At this stage, you will be able to see the blackra1n icon on the springboard of your iPhone. If you are also looking to unlock your iPhone, follow the next few steps: Instructions to Unlock iPhone: Step 1: You need to be connected to the Internet at this stage. Once you ensure this, tap on the blackra1n icon to open the installer screen Step 2: Select sn0w and tap on the Install button on top of the screen Step 3: Pressing the Install button will download the required package. Once the download is complete, you are shown a post installation log screen that confirms the completion. Step 4: The unlocking process is complete. You can confirm this by viewing the sn0w icon on the springboard. Step 5: Once you are done with this, you may choose to uninstall blackra1n. To do this, simply tap on the blackra1n icon and tap the Uninstall option. This should successfully unlock your iPhone. This is one of the easiest ways to jailbreak and unlock your iPhone. You can choose to support Geohot by visiting the Geohot’s website and making a donation there.

In this article we are going  to give you  basic tips which when apply would give you a better battery backup on the device.

By Disabling wi-fi : you should disable your wifi option to connect to the Internet while you are not using this service. To do this Go to settings > wifi option and click on the off switch to turn this off.

By Decreasing Brightness : iPad offers you with a  high brightness option which would make it even display anything while you are in bright light or else in a total low power area. By default the settings would make the iPad to run at 50% of the full brightness, which you can reduce by visiting the settings > Brightness & wallpapers option.. Also you can select the Auto-Brightness option which would automatically configure brightness.

Close background Applications : The iPad now supports multiple applications which would run the background while you have closed them.

By Disabling sounds : For this you need to visit the Settings > General > Sounds. You  find five different options to Increase/Decrease or switch to On/Off based on your  choice, though this disabling all of these decrease the battery usage.

By Disabling Push Notifications : Applications like IM+, Mails send you Push Notifications when there is a new message, in the form of a small box on the screen.

• Increase Fetch Interval : Some of the iPad applications are developed in such a way that they would update the data on regular intervals. examples of this would be the Email Notifications or else RSS Readers data updates. To set this up you need to choose Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Fetch New Data and tap Manually. In order to increase the fetch interval, visit the Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Fetch New Data and tap Hourly.

HTC Desire Accessories

If you’re one of the proud owners of the HTC Desire, then it is time to get accessorizing. Luckily, you’ve come to the Cellphone Accessory site for your HTC Desire which features the largest selection of custom-made accessories specially made for your new HTC Desire. Firstly, one  of the most important accessories is a screen protector to cover that  beautiful 3.7-inch screen.HTC Desire Cases If you’re looking for a way to protect the  Desire while conveniently carrying it,Cell Phone Accessories then you need to look at our  selection of Cases.

Techhail is conducting a contest in which the lucky winner will be given Nokia 5230 XpressMusic is a touch screen mobile similar to Nokia 5800.

To participate in this contest you need to do the following:

You can win 5230 by tweeting, commenting and writing about this contest in your blog. If you tweet the message you get one entry ticket for the lucky draw. Commenting on the blog entitles you for one ticket and a review on your website/blog gives you 10 tickets.

This contest will run until Jan 31st 2010 11:59pm IST and winners will be announced on Feb 1st 2010. One Winner will be selected randomly and will be sent the box packed Nokia 5230. This contest is open for all my blog readers across the world. So try to gather maximum tickets and win the Nokia 5230 from TechHail.

link- http://www.techhail.com/blogging/win-nokia-5230-by-tweeting-commenting-in-techhail-giveaway/2847

Special thanks to samrat p for this giveaway

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Nokia has forgotten about your loyalty and moved all of its focus onto the N900.

This update (Symbian v20.2.019) is the third that the N97 has received since its release in June. However, this is the first major one, due to the amount of enhancements and depth of the improvements to the device

how to update to Firmware v20 using your device.

1. Select Applications > Software Update in your device’s menu.
2. Choose the applications you’d like to update.

3.   Follow the instructions on the device display

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Today I will be sharing with you guys a quick tip on how to obtain sharewares for free from software.com giving the free software licenses to registered users.

follow the few simple steps below.

1. Go to this page

2.enter the vault code 1234567.Now you will see

3.now register and login.

4. just download that you like enjoy..