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Run PHP 5 as default using .htaccess

Myo Kyaw Htun — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 07:14:09 +0000

You will notice that recent released version of WordPress requires PHP version 5 to run on your site. Some web hostings are still using PHP 4 while many web hosting offers both PHP 4 and PHP 5 in their shared hosting packages that they allow you to switch between PHP 4 and PHP 5 with their hosting administration. If you can’t find this option, you can enable by using two lines of code in .htaccess file.

AddHandler x-httpd-php5 .php
AddHandler x-httpd-php .php4

If you already have .htaccess file, add those lines which I mentioned above. I hope this helps!

iPhone / iPod Touch in DFU Mode

administrator — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:11:07 +0000

DFU mode = Device Firmware Update mode

DFU mode is a mode where the iPhone or iPod Touch will be made to force a restore of the firmware into whatever version firmware it is given.

Getting your iPhone or iPod Touch into DFU mode is somewhat tricky, and it may require some practice because timing is essential to get it to DFU mode and not into recovery mode.

WARNING!
This tutorial will show you how to put your iPhone or iPod Touch into DFU mode. Please try this at your own risk, as I am not responsible or will not be held accountable for any damages done to your phone. Although there may be a resolution to almost all errors, please read the instructions carefully when downgrading so you won’t encounter any problems along the way.

1. First, Open up iTunes, plug in your iPhone or iPod Touch to the USB port. Turn on your computer’s speaker and make sure it is loud enough that you can hear it.

2. Hold down the Home button (located on the front bottom of your iPod Touch/iPhone) and the Power button (top left for iPod Touch and top right for the iPhone with the screen facing you) simutaneously, until the screen goes black and the device turns off. (past the red slider/slide to power off screen)

3. Now let go of the Power button, but continue to hold the Home button. Your iPhone or iPod Touch should have turned off and the screen should not be on.

4. After around 10-20 seconds, you will hear a noise (beep/ding) from your computer as if it had just recognized a new hardware device, now iTunes should recognize it in DFU mode.

5. After iTunes recognizes the iPhone or iPod Touch, let go of the Home button otherwise it will go into recovery mode and you will have to do the entire DFU process over again.

6. You will know when you have put your iPhone or iPod Touch correctly into DFU mode when the display is blank and that you do not have anything on your device.

Now you can install any iPod Touch/iPhone firmware on to your device via the iTunes SHIFT recovery method.

Jailbreak for iPod Touch 2G

administrator — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:52:48 +0000

Here is the Jailbreak for iPod Touch 2G!
It is simple to Jailbreak you iPod with QuickFreedom. QuickFreedom does a good job of explaining everything. If you still don’t know how to, here you go:

1. Click Here to download the installer.

2. Install and Open QuickFreedom.

3. Click Jailbreak. [Screenshot]
* The next page will check to see if LIBUSB has been installed. If it has then you should see a green check, if it has not then click the install button to the right.
* The Same applies for the the Original Firmware 2.2.1. If you don’t have the firmware already installed click Download. Then Browse to find it in your download folder.

4. Once both have been installed click Next.

5. Check Install Installer (recommended). Check Use Custom Boot Logo (if you want a custom boot logo). [Screenshot]
* Once Checked, a window should open asking you what type of boot logo you want. You can also use your own custom boot logo here as well. [Screenshot]

6. Click Create Firmware.
* Takes about 5-10 minutes depending on your specs.
* A window should pop up saying, “Your ipsw has been completed and patched successfuly”.
* Click OK.
* You should also see that you now have a new Custom Firmware.ipsw on your desktop.
* Click Next.

7. Connect your iPod to the computer and put your iPod into DFU mode.
* After doing so the log should state, ” iPod Connected in DFU Mode, Press Start-Prejailbreak“.
* If for any reason it says, “iPod not found” just unplug your iPod and plug it back in.

8. Press Start Pre-Jailbreak.
* Your iPod should Turn White.
* A window should pop up saying, ” iPod successfully put into Pre-Jailbreak Mode.
* Now restore your custom firmware in iTunes. This file is located on your desktop“.
* Click OK.
* Click Next.

9. It will tell you how to restore you custom firmware. Do this by:
* Opening iTunes.
* Hold Shift & click Restore.
* A browse window will open.
* In the browse window, find the Custom Firmware.ipsw located on your desktop. Click it.
* Click Open.

10. Your iPod will now restore.

11. After this a iTunes window will open telling you it has been restored and that it is now restarting.

12. iTunes will now ask you to setup the iPod.

13. You have now Jailbroken your iPod Touch Second Generation!

Original Firmwares (iPod Touch 1G/2G, iPhone 2G/3G)

administrator — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 03:42:53 +0000

How to Uninstall Cydia Application Directly from Springboard

administrator — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 11:10:10 +0000

I expect everyone of you have used Cydia to download iPhone apps for your jailbroken iPhone. Cydia is great but one thing I dislike is I cannot uninstall Cydia application directly from home screen (or what so called springboard). In order to remove a Cydia app, you’ll need to launch Cydia and go to package screen to uninstall the application.

The recent release of CyDelete finally solves the uninstallation problem and bring much convenience to iPhone or iPod users. CyDelete allows you to uninstall any Cydia application directly from the home screen using the same way as you remove other iPhone applications from App Store. You can simply tap and hold on the icon of Cydia application you want to remove. You’ll then see a “X” showing up. Tap the “X” and CyDelete will prompt you for confirmation to remove the Cydia package.

That’s the same way you remove iPhone apps from App Store. Cool, right? CyDelete is available for download from Cydia and it’s absolutely free.

Passing Parameters To SWF File with Actionscript 3.0

administrator — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 07:51:13 +0000

Recently I had a project to build a Flv player with flash. The video file name and the title were to be passed to the flash file as parameters from the html file. Since I had not done passign parameters to flash file with AS 3.0 I search the net to see how its done. There were many tutorials and the solution seemed very simple and straight forward. So I left this part to the very end of the project. But when I tookup this part it didn’t work as expected. Finally I figured it out and thought that I will share it with all of you.

How to pass parameters to flash (swf) file

First we will begin with the passing the variable to the SWF file from the html file. This was where I went wrong. I tried the following ways that didn’t work for me.

finally what worked was including the parameter in the javascript as shown below.

AC_FL_RunContent(
'codebase', 'http://......',
'width', '500',
'height', '400',
'src', 'flashfile',
 'flashvars', 'par1=hello&par2=world',
...........
)

AC_FL_RunContent(
'codebase', 'http://......',
'width', '500',
'height', '400',
 'src', 'flashfile?par1=hello&par2=world',
...........
)

Publish your flash file and edit the html file generated to add the ‘flashvars’.

Accessing flash variables with actionscript 3.0

Now we need to access these variables from flash file with actionscript. The flash variables are included as properties of ‘root.loaderInfo.parameters’. So to access our parameters we simply have to write,

trace(root.loaderInfo.parameters.par1);

trace(root.loaderInfo.parameters.par2);

NB:
If the SWF file is called directly by the browser the parameters can be passed in the traditional way that they are passed to the script files (url embeded)
eg : http://yourdomain.com/flashfile.swf?par1=hello&par2=world

Shorten Urls with HiSo

administrator — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:17:34 +0000

Url shortening become popular along with the microblog. When you’re sharing long web url with your followers on Twitter, it will short your url with Tinyurl. But Tinyurl doesn’t have tracking feature for shorten urls. Hiso is another Url shortening service that will not only make your url shorter but also give you the clicks stats and refferal sites. It offers an API so that you can integrate with your application.

gotoAndPlay() and gotoAndStop() in Flash Actionscript 3.0

administrator — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 08:08:17 +0000

gotoAndPlay() and gotoAndStop() are two function that help to control the playhead in flash movieclip. gotoAndPlay() cause the playhead to jump to the specified scene and frame and continue playing , where as gotoAndStop() causes the playhead to jump to the destination and stops from progressing further.

Usage

gotoAndPlay(frame:Object, scene:String = null):void
gotoAndStop(frame:Object, scene:String = null):void

Parameters

scene The scene name to which the playhead is sent. eg: “GameScene”

frame The frame number or label to which the playhead is sent. eg: 10 , “LoadFrame”

In AS 2.0 the order of scene and frame parameters to the functions are reversed. If only one parameter is passed, this value will be considered as the frame number or label. The play head will be moved to that frame in the present scene.

Eg:

mc1.gotoAndPlay(mc1.currentFrame + 10);//goes to frame number (mc1.currentFrame + 10
)

mc1.gotoAndPlay("Load", "Scene_Score");// Frame='Load', Scene='Scene_Score
'

gotoAndPlay("end"); // goes to frame labeled 'end' in the current scene

Name of Country and their 2-Character Alphabetical Country Codes as PHP Key-Value array

administrator — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 08:11:56 +0000

Its quiet a tedious job when it comes to developing a dropdown input field in which the user have to select a county, as part of their address, Nationality, etc. Think if you have several of this fields in your form. When you want to change you have to change each and every one. More over, if you have to select one option depending upon user input or some database value, your will either have to have ‘if’ statement in every ‘<option>’ tag or use javascript to select the option when the page loads. As I am a lazy guy, decided to have an array containing the names of the countries as values and the 2 digit alphabetic country codes as key. Now you can see how easily you can add change and manipulate these select field.

The array can be use as follows:

Several PHP array and string function can be used to manipulate this array to get your desired results. These are some useful PHP functions that you can use:

Google

SonyEricsson Secret Codes

administrator — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:52:21 +0000

When you are looking at unlocking Sony Ericsson phones, be it free unlock software downloaded from the internet, unlocked calculator or paying for the unlocked phone services, most of the times, you will need to retrieve and supply the IMEI number of your Sony Ericsson phone.

If you are non tech guru, you might not know what an IMEI number is and how to go about getting it from your Sony Ericsson cell phone. Not to worry too much about that as this article will list some of the secret codes being used in mostly in Sony Ericsson mobile phone and how to go about getting them.

Take note that all the secret codes listed in this article are generally suitable for most of the Sony Ericsson cell phones models, but there might still be some that don’t work. Also, these codes are for your reference and you are using them at your own risk. We are not liable for any damages caused to the phone due to trying out of these codes. We don’t accept any complaints. Try it at your own risk!

SonyEricsson Secret Menu

-> * <- <- * <- * (-> means press joystick, arrow keys or jogdial to the right and <- means left.)

You’ll see phone model, software info, IMEI, configuration info, sim lock status, REAL time clock, total call time and text labels. You can also test your phones services and hardware from this menu (main display, camera, LED/illumination, Flash LED, keyboard, earphone, speaker, microphone, radio and vibrator tests).

IMEI Number

*#06#

Lock Status (SIM Lock)

<- * * <-

Do not lock your phone if you don’t know the unlock code. This is another good check before you buy any phone, especially second hand ones. If phone is SIM locked, you may not be able to switch to other GSM operators.

Shortcut to last dial number

Shortcut to SIM numbers

On main menu type a number and press #