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Wealth Masters Blog Reviews

admin — Sat, 17 May 2008 17:32:09 +0000

Reading around on the Internet before parting with any cash for an home business opportunity like Wealth Masters International can undoubtedly be a beneficial experience. But the ease with which information is available online is a double-edged sword.

If you find a review of Wealth Masters International on a blog, how can you be sure the blogger doesn’t have a vested interest in selling the program to you? Many programs offer affiliate commission to websites that help them sell their product – Wealth Masters International might be just one of these programs.

Clicking on adverts for Wealth Masters International is almost always going to lead to a site with a vested interest. Want a video with a guy telling you how his expensive car was paid for by Wealth Masters International? Then click away! These sites do have value, but they are not a good source for unbiased reviews.

iPhone coming to various African markets, Belgium, more

Fri, 16 May 2008 09:54:01 +0000

In a very brief press release, Orange, the iphone’s official carrier in France, announced an agreement with Apple to bring the iphone to “Orange customers” in Austria, Belgium, the Dominican Republic, Egypt, Jordan, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Switzerland and Orange’s African markets later this year.

Orange is the latest company to overlap other carriers with regard to iphone coverage in specific countries, further evidencing a shift away from the one-carrier-per-country model Apple has utilized thus far.

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Native Soulseek P2P app comes to the iPhone

Thu, 15 May 2008 09:05:30 +0000

Representing perhaps the first genuinely useful native peer-to-peer application for the iphone, iSlsk, which is capable of accessing the Soulseek music sharing network, has debuted.

SoulSeek was created by Nir Arbel, a former Napster programmer, and offers access to a vast peer-shared library of files, composed primarily of music. THe network boasts hundreds of thousands of active users.

The iSlsk iphone application allows users to search the SoulSeek database, select files for download, and even queue transfers. The music is automatically added to the iTunes library on the iphone and is instantly playable. You can see the application in action in the embedded YouTube video below. Tap here to watch it if you’re on an iphone.

Installation of iSlsk requires a jailbroken iphone. Follow our guide to third-party applications to jailbreak your iphone and get it ready for applications, then make sure you have the “Big Boss” repository added to Installer.app. This source should be added automatically when you install the “Community Sources” package as described in our guide, but you can also manually add it going to Installer.app and following these instructions: tap the “Sources,” button, then tap “Edit” in the upper-right corner, and finally “Add” in the upper-left corner. Enter the URL of the source you would like to add (thebigboss.org/repo.xml) and press “OK.” Installer.app will add the source, and you will be able to find the new application(s) in the normal “Install” menu.

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Singapore Airlines offers in-flight iPhone connectivity

Thu, 15 May 2008 08:47:54 +0000

Singapore Airlines has announced the integration of iPod and iphone connectivity starting today on its newly reconfigured, all-Business Class Airbus A340-500 flights between New York and Singapore, and between Los Angeles and Singapore from August. The mechanism projects iphone or iPod-stored content onto the in-seat 15.4-inch widescreen LCD via the standard 30-pin connector, which also supplies power and audio connectivity.

A press release states:

“iPod and iphone will still allow for the announcements and instructions made by Singapore Airlines cabin crew and pilots to be heard even while content is being played. Customers can take advantage of iphone’s airplane mode to safely use the iphone through the integrated system. iPod and iphone integration will commence with Singapore Airlines’ A345 non-stop flights from Newark - Singapore on May 15, and on the carrier’s Los Angeles - Singapore non-stops from August.”

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Legality of Salvia

admin — Thu, 15 May 2008 06:47:34 +0000

Salvia Divinorum is the legal drug that has enjoyed rocketing popularity with young people. Salvia is widely available on the Internet and this, combined with its perceived relative safety and short-lasting effects, have boosted its use. This peak may only be short lived, however, as a bill has been passed by California’s state Assembly (and is now in the state Senate) which will see the of Salvia to minors be made illegal. Illegalizing Salvia isn’t a simple black and white operation though, says Dr. Charles Grob of Harbor-UCLA Medical Center: “It is important to distinguish between salvia leaves chewed by natives and the chemically concentrated form that can increase the drugs potency by 10 or 15 times”. Assemblyman Anthony Adams whose bill is in the state Senate acknowledges that making the drug’s sale illegal might not be the most efficient and even-handed approach to Salvia’s control, but the risks it poses, he says, are simply too great.

iTunes’ Content Pricing Not in Crisis

Wed, 14 May 2008 21:04:39 +0000

Daniel Eran Dilger
Apple critics have been working to push the idea that the company’s pricing models in iTunes are in trouble and that HBO’s recent deal to sell shows for $2.99 per episode will cause a stampede toward untenably higher pricing. They’re wrong, here’s why.

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WWDC sold out with over 5,000 attendees

Wed, 14 May 2008 12:31:20 +0000

Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference, scheduled for June 9-11, has sold out for the first time ever. Attendance at the event has rapidly grown as interest in the Mac platform has snowballed in proportion to rapid new sales of Macs.

Build It and They Will Come.
This year however, WWDC is expanding to address the new iphone mobile WiFi platform, an new expansion Apple illustrated in WWDC marketing with a photoshopped doubling of San Francisco’s landmark Golden Gate Bridge.

Continues: WWDC sold out with over 5,000 attendees

O2 and Apple to make “joint announcement”

Wed, 14 May 2008 11:46:43 +0000

Further fueling already rampant speculation about the release of an iphone capable of operating on 3G networks, Telefonica O2’s chief executive officer Matthew Key stated that his firm and Apple will be making a joint announcement in the “coming weeks.” The statement came during a conference call following O2’s quarterly fiscal results announcement.

Representing perhaps the best evidence to date of a pending 3G iphone release, a screenshot of the current pre-release iphone OS 2.0 build shows a setting for turning 3G capabilities on or off. The setting is accompanied by the text “Using 3G loads data faster, but decreases battery life.”

Additionally, Apple has withdrawn the current-model iphone from its online store. The store currently displays the message “Currently Unavailable” for both the 8GB and 16GB iphone models.

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Installer.app troubleshooting

Wed, 14 May 2008 11:35:07 +0000

Though officially sanctioned third-party applications are, by Apple’s estimation, less than six weeks away, unofficial “jailbreak” applications distributed through Installer.app continue to enjoy widespread popularity. As an unofficial application itself, however, Installer.app is subject to some significant troubleshooting issues. The following is a guide to some of the more common problems encounter with the application.

First let’s look at some important information about the way Installer.app works.

The app stores configuration files in ~\Library\Installer and /var/mobile/Library/Installer. Here are the files you will find there:

LocalPackages.plist list of applications currently installed used by the uninstall feature to remove apps. This is the most important file and therefore you might consider keeping a backup copy of this file in a safe place after performing any installations. Loss of this file means that you cannot uninstall the applications and rebuilding the file is tedious at best and not recommended.
PackageSources.plist list of all the application sources the installer is currently using for installations. Keeping a backup of this file is also recommended since it contains a list of your favorite application sources.
RemotePackages.plist list that is generated every time the sources are refreshed. Contains all the packages available excluding the packages already in your LocalPackages.plist.
Temp the directory used for temporary file storage used by installers for downloaded content, zip files, extracted files, etc.
TrustedSources.plist list of all sources that the Installer App trusts. Attempts to install an application that is not from a trusted source results in a warning message to the user. Trusted sources would be for example Nullriver and other community sources.

The plist files are like OS X basic text XML files that should be edited very carefully. If you don’t know what you are doing be sure to ask someone for help. It’s important that the XML/HTML tags in the file are correctly formatted.

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Intelliscreen for iPhone offers locked screen info

Wed, 14 May 2008 10:06:51 +0000

Intelliscreen for the iphone was released today as a beta application, currently distributed under the jailbreak app umbrella. Essentially, the tool allows you too look at various information stored on the iphone — calendar entries, new email, SMS messages, news or weather — directly on the “Slide to Unlock” screen. In other words, with the application installed, you don’t need to unlock your phone to access these data.

Each item features smooth scrolling for so you can quickly browse through your data. The application will auto-refresh and you can jump to an application from it’s screen with a “swipe. ” You can customize both how the data displays and the content.

The application requires a jailbroken iphone. In order to install it, follow our guide to jailbreaking the iphone and getting it ready for third-party applications, then add this source to Installer.app: http://www.intelliborn.com/repo/Intelli.plist.

To add a source (as also detailed in our guide), tap the “Sources,” button in Installer.app, then tap “Edit” in the upper-right corner, and finally “Add” in the upper-left corner. Enter the URL of the source you would like to add and press “OK.” Installer.app will add the source, and you will be able to find the new application(s) in the normal “Install” menu.

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