Friday, June 17, 2011

Top 5 Most Addictive iPhone Games of 2011

Here is the list of top 5 most addictive iPhone games for 2011. According to some surveys, above 50% of iPhone owners have 5 games installed in their devices on average and a good percentage of these iPhone owners spend good hours each day on these games. We are not talking about some heavy, sci-fi or combat iPhone games with 3D graphics and consoles, these are simple but extremely addictive iPhone games which offer an amazing gameplay. Check out the details after the break.

Doodle Jump

Doodle Jump iPhone Logo
Doodle Jump is one the top selling iPhone apps of all time. It's an amazing and insanely addictive game. It's easy to learn, yet difficult to master. In Doodle Jump you guide and control Doodle the Doodler by using your iPhone's tilt on a springy journey upwards. Doodler should jump on small platforms and during the journey it should pickup the incentives in the form of jet-packs, springs and at the same time the Doodler should avoid black holes, monsters and broken platforms. Doodle Jump is available for download at iTunes for $0.99.

Angry Birds

Angry Birds iTunes Logo
Angry Birds is also one of the best selling iPhone app across the Europe and is highly addictive. It's basically a puzzle game in which players use a slingshot to launch Angry Birds at pigs who apparently stole their eggs. Pigs are protected in different castles and players can use unique destructive powers of the Angry Birds to destroy the pigs. Angry Birds features 120 levels, each level require challenging physics-based structure demolition, logic, skills and bird force to destroy the enemy. Angry Birds is available for download at iTunes for $0.99.

Fruit Ninja

Fruit Ninja iTunes Logo
Fruit Ninja (known as Fruit Ninja HD for iPad) is a popular juicy action game enjoyed by millions of players around the world. In this game the players needs to slice different fruits thrown up in the air by swiping their fingers across the screen, extra points are awarded if a player slice multiple fruits together. The players need to avoid touching bombs which are thrown up occasionally with the fruits, the game ends if a bomb is sliced. The game features multiple gameplay modes and difficulty levels. Fruit Ninja is available for download at iTunes for $0.99.

Canabalt

Canabalt iTunes Logo
Canabalt is basically a little stick man running along roof tops, players tap the screen to make him jump at the right moments so he doesn't die. Canabalt is one of those rare games who make simplicity a strong selling point. The game stylish monochrome graphics and small details like obstacles and flocks of birds really add fun to the gameplay. In short, Canabalt is a simple but an amazing iPhone game. Canabalt is available for download at iTunes for $2.99.

Flight Control

Flight Control Logo
Flight Control is an oldie but it's still an extremely active game. Over 3,000,000 copies have been sold so far and still counting. Flight Control is all about landing planes and helis, tracing their landing paths so they don't collide with each other. Basically, the players need to perform the role of air traffic controller at an airport. The airport features multiple runways for small and large airplanes and a helipad for helicopters. Players need to draw the landing path to direct each aircraft designated runways, and the no. of aircrafts increase with the score which increases the difficulty level. The games ends if two or more aircrafts collide or crash with each other. Flight Control can be downloaded from iTunes for $0.99.
If you haven't tried these amazing games before, do try them and let us know your experience in the comments section below.

Google chrome for linux

Back in February I posted a list of Linux web browsers. I mentioned that a stable version of Chromium (the open-source basis for Google Chrome) would soon be available for Linux. I see that Chromium is now available in the Ubuntu repositories and a rpm package is also available for Fedora based distributions as far as I can tell.

Alternatively, you can now download installation packages for a stable version of Google Chrome for Linux. Packages are available in 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora and openSUSE. Chrome is also available in the Ubuntu canonical repository.


I installed the 64-bit version of Chrome on Xubuntu and it certainly appears to be very fast. I have yet to attempt all my usual web-based tasks on Chrome, but what I have tried has worked well. The growing collection of extensions for Chrome mean that I may be in a position to use it as my main browser rather than Firefox, although I may wait and see what the upcoming version 4 of Firefox has to offer.

Google targeting Apple iPad with Chrome tablet?

Google Android was always going to be the heart of many Linux-based iPad like devices. That's not news. What is news is that Google and Verizon appear to be working together to create a Chrome operating system-based tablet.

According to a report from the Download Squad, HTC is building the Chrome OS tablet. The device will be sold in partnership with Verizon starting on November 26th. That date is already engraved in every retailer's heart as Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving and usually the biggest shopping day of the year.


After those nuggets of news, everything else that's been written about the Google Chrome tablet has been pure speculation. Yet I can believe this core of the story. Google already worked with HTC to deliver one of the first Android smartphones: the currently developer-only Nexus one.

On the carrier side, everyone who pays any attention to telephone company business-buddy relationships knows that Verizon and Google have been working closely together since the announcement of their net neutrality plan. So sure, the business relationships to make a Chrome tablet a reality are in place.

Besides, I think Google wants to jump-start the Android/Chrome tablet market. The very first Android tablets, like the Augsen GenTouch78, have been less than impressive. Just the very hint that Google may be making an iPad competitor already has buzz going.

That last part may also be important in its own right. Lately, Apple and Google have been getting along like cats and dogs. I think Google would be very, very — one more time, with feeling — very happy to put a spanner in Apple's hopes for an iPad Christmas.

How to Change the Favicon in Blogger


Blogger supplies every blog with the standard orange "B" blogger favicon. Having your own unique favicon is a great way to give your blogger template both a distinct and explicit brand. These small 16X16 pixel images will most definitely help your blog stand out from the rest of the blogspot blogs.


What is a Favicon?
A favicon is a small 16X16 image located at the top of your browser in the url bar.

How to Change your Favicon
  1. First go to Layout >Edit HTML in your Blogger Dashboard.
  2. Backup your existing template before making any changes!
  3. Place the code below directly below the tag in your template.
  4. Now save your template.
  5. Once your template is saved view your blog and make sure to refresh the page and delete your cookies.
Creating your own Favicon
  1. Replace the image URL (2X) with your own 16 pixel by 16 pixel image hosted on the internet.
  2. http://bsaves.com/HowHero/Blogger%20Templates/moonspot/images/favicon.ico
  3. You can host your own favicon blogger image at sites such as ImageShack; PhotoBucket; Flickr; etc.
  4. Check out this Favicon Generator Tool which allows you to upload an image and it will format it for you!

Intel-McAfee deal baffles security analysts

Several security analysts today expressed surprise that Intel would purchase security tool maker McAfee, noting that at first glance the move makes little sense for a pure hardware firm.

Intel Thursday agreed to buy McAfee for $7.68 billion, which analysts are calling a premium price tag.

"I'm baffled," said Peter Firstbrook an analyst with Gartner in Stamford, Conn. "I don't see any synergy at all between McAfee and Intel."

At best, he added, the acquisition could be a good venture capital investment for Intel. "And they may get a little cross R&D benefit from the deal as well," he said,

In fact, analysts said, the deal could prove beneficial to McAfee rivals like Symantec, Sophos and Trend Micro, at least in the short term. Each can be expected to move quickly to try and take advantage of a distracted McAfee prior to the deal's closing and during the integration phase, they said. "McAfee is going to be a little bit distracted for sure. It's probably good news for Symantec," and the other vendors, said Firstbrook.

Intel president and CEO Paul Otellini, said this morning that the acquisition was driven by Intel's belief that security has become a fundamental component of online computing.

"With the rapid expansion of growth across a vast array of Internet-connected devices, more and more of the elements of our lives have moved online," he said in a statement, adding that McASfee will bring to his firm "incredibly talented people with a track record of delivering security innovations, products and services ... [that are used to make] the Internet safer and more secure."

Intel said that McAfee will be a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel reporting into the Software and Services Group.

Firstbrook predicted that efforts to integrate McAfee's security technology into Intel hardware platforms will likely be a time consuming process, and noted that it could have been achieved more chickly and cheaply by simply partnering with security companies.

"It's a different product, it's a different market, it's a different customer base," Firstbrook said. "Intel moves in terms of quarters and years. McAfee has to move daily in terms of responding to [security] threats. One operates much higher in the stack. The other is much lower in the stack."

McAfee's enterprise customers are likely a bit puzzled by the move, said Andrew Jacquith, an analyst at Forrester Research in Cambridge, Mass.

"McAfee customers in many cases have reasons to be worried, and not just because of this deal," he said, noting that many users are already upset with McAfee over a flawed security update that crippled thousands of corporate PCs.

"In the wake of McAfee's DAT issue many customers were already looking for other suppliers," he said. Uncertainty over Intel's plans for McAfee "may accelerate that trend," he said.

Intel's purchase, though puzzling to the analyst community, is not the first time that a hardware company has purchased a security vendor.

For instance EMC purchased RSA in 2006, and IBM has gained security tools from Rational, Ounce Labs and WatchFire in recent years, Just this week, Hewlett-Packard said it had purchased Fortify, an application security vendor, for an undisclosed amount.

Pete Lindstrom, an analyst with Spire Security in Malvern, Pa., did say that the deal could help Intel diversify its business over the long term. "Intel is a big company flush with cash looking for ways to diversify. It's no secret Intel is interested in services, and McAfee has some interesting security services in the cloud," he said.

Download Sn0wbreeze 2.4 Beta 1 to Jailbreak iOS 4.3.1 on iPhone, iPod Touch & iPad

iH8sn0w (@iH8sn0w) has just released Sn0wbreeze 2.4b1 which can jailbreak iOS 4.3.1 on iPhone 4/3GS, iPod Touch 4G/3G and 1st-Gen iPad. Those iPhone 3GS users who can not use Ultrasn0w 1.2 to unlock their iPhone can now upgrade their basebands to iPad baseband 06.15.00 using Sn0wbreeze 2.4b1. Except iPhone 3GS (Old Bootrom), it is a tethered jailbreak for all iDevices.

Sn0wbreeze 2.4b1

Supported iDevices:

  • iPhone 4 » Tethered
  • iPhone 3GS (Old Bootrom) » Untethered
  • iPhone 3GS (New Bootrom) » Tethered
  • iPod Touch 4G » Tethered
  • iPod Touch 3G » Tethered
  • 1st-Gen iPad » Tethered

Official Changelog:

  • Ultrasn0w now works for the following basebands:
  • (01.59.00 / 04.26.08 / 05.11.07 / 05.12.01 / 05.13.04 / 06.15.00)
  • Ultrasn0w is NOT compatible with the folllowing basebands!
  • (02.10.04 / 03.10.01 / 04.10.01 / 05.14.02 / 05.15.04)
  • iOS 4.3.1 is now supported.
  • iPhone 3GS users can upgrade to 06.15.00 baseband now under Unlocks section in Expert.
  • Upgrading your iPhone 3GS baseband to the 06.15.00 iPad baseband hack to unlock MAY cause you to lose your GPS!
Ultrasn0w, MobileSubstrate and Cydia is fully working. In order to use Cydia and other jailbreak functions, you must boot your iDevice using iBooty tool. If you are on Mac, you can use PwnageTool bundles to jailbreak your iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPod Touch 4G & iPad on iOS 4.3.1.
UPDATE 1: How to Jailbreak iOS 4.3.1 on iPhone, iPod Touch & iPad with Sn0wbreeze 2.4b1?
UPDATE 2: Unlock iPhone 4 & iPhone 3GS on iOS 4.3.1 with Ultrasn0w 1.2

Download Links:

Download iTunes 10.2.1
Download iOS 4.3.1 for iPhone 4/3GS, iPod Touch 4G/3G, iPad 2/1st-Gen
Download Sn0wbreeze 2.4b1 for Windows

Download PwnageTool Bundle to Jailbreak iOS 4.3.1 on iPod Touch 4G

After releasing iOS 4.3.1 PwnageTool bundle for iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS and iPad, DjayB6 (@DjayB6) has just released PwnageTool bundle for iPod Touch 4G users. DjayB6 has also updated Ramdisk Fixer to v1.7.2 which now fixes error 2 during custom IPSW restore through iTunes.

Note: Although you can jailbreak your iPod Touch 4G on iOS 4.3.1 using this bundle but still it will be a tethered jailbreak. Tethered jailbreak means you have to use TetheredBoot Utility to put your iPod into tethered jailbroken state on every restart. If you do not care about tethered jailbreak, proceed to the instructions below or wait for iOS 4.3.1 untethered jailbreak. Comex (@Comex) and Chronic-Dev Team (@P0sixninja) is already working on iOS 4.3.1/4.1 untethered jailbreak.
iOS 4.3.1 Jailbreak on iPod Touch 4G

Steps to Add iPod Touch 4 PwnageTool Bundle to PwnageTool 4.2:

  1. Download iOS 4.3.1 PwnageTool bundle for iPod Touch 4G | Direct Mirror
  2. Download official PwnageTool 4.2 for Mac OS X | Direct Mirror
  3. Right-click on PwnageTool 4.2 app and choose Show Package Contents from the conext-menu as shown in the screenshot below:
  4. PwnageTool (Show Package Contents)
  5. Now navigate to the following location and place bundle file (iPod4,1_4.3.1_8G4.bundle.zip) in FirmwareBundles directory.
  6. Contents/Resources/FirmwareBundles/
    iOS 4.3.1 iPod Touch 4G PwnageTool Bundle
  7. Close all opened windows of PwnageTool and move the PwnageTool app to /Applications directory.
  8. PwnageTool (Applications)
  9. Rest of the instructions to patch PwnageTool with Ramdisk Fixer and steps to create iOS 4.3 custom IPSW for iPod Touch 4G can be found here. Follow from step 6 to step 28, while doing the following changes:
    • In step 10, choose stock iOS 4.3.1 IPSW for iPod Touch 4G
    • iPod4,1_4.3.1_8G4_Restore.ipsw
    • In step 20, browse to iOS 4.3.1 custom IPSW for iPod Touch 4G which should be present on your desktop
    • iPod4,1_4.3.1_8G4_Custom_Restore.ipsw
    • In step 23, use iBSS.n81ap.RELEASE.dfu and kernelcache.release.n81 from the extracted directory.
    • In step 26, use the following TetheredBoot Utility command:
    • /Users/Jaxov/Desktop/tetheredboot/tetheredboot /Users/Jaxov/Desktop/tetheredboot/iBSS.n81ap.RELEASE.dfu /Users/Jaxov/Desktop/tetheredboot/kernelcache.release.n81
      iPod Touch 4G TetheredBoot Utility

Download Links:

Download iTunes 10.2.1 for Mac OS X
Download iOS 4.3.1 for iPhone 4/3GS, iPod Touch 4G/3G, iPad 2/1st-Gen
Download PwnageTool 4.2 for Mac OS X
Download iOS 4.3.1 PwnageTool bundle for iPod Touch 4G
Download Ramdisk Fixer 1.7.2 for all iDevices
Download TethetedBoot Utility for Mac OS X

Det svåraste med Ubuntu?

Att installera Ubuntu är busenkelt och tar max en halvtimme om du har en slö dator, men sen blir det värre…
Att installera program i Ubuntu är nämligen jättervårt. Jag ska nu avslöja varför det är så där jättesvårt. Det är jättesvårt för att man försöker göra som man är van från Windows eller MacOS, det vill säga letar runt på tusen och ett ställen på Internet och då är det svårt, för att det är fel sätt.
Tänker man i stället ungefär som man gör med en iPhone eller en Android-lur hittar man snart det rätta sättet och då är det busenkelt. Tittar du under Program, så hittar du Programcentral för Ubuntu och där bör du hitta vad du letar efter. Har du mer avancerade och speciella behov finns det några andra verktyg också, men du reder dig nog med Programcentral för Ubuntu de första åren i alla fall.

Programcentralen är kanske inte jättesvår att hitta trots allt

Det finns massor av program att välja bland, för alla upptänkliga behov

Har du ett hum om vad du letar efter är det enklare att söka
Nå, ett annat, mer reellt problem är att programmen heter annorlunda. Letar du till exempel efter Photoshop för Ubuntu så går du bet, men du hittar Bildredigeraren GIMP som gör ungefär samma sak. Du hittar inte Word, men du hittar OpenOffice.org Ordbehandlare, som gör samma sak och kan hantera Word-filer, den behöver du inte ens tanka hem eftersom den finns med från början.