How To: Install Apps on Your iPhone Easily, No Hacking Skills Required

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If you wanted to install third-party native software in your iPhone but you didn't had the necessary technical knowledge or courage, the newly updated iPhone Installer.app will make it so easy that it will be very hard to resist. We have tried it in Mac OS X and, as you will see in the tutorial after the jump, it works perfectly -including the installation of applications over Wi-Fi and EDGE. [Updated 4:45PM EST]

Once you download the application from the link below, you only have to connect your iPhone to your Mac (PowerPC and Intel will work, we have tried both) and run the script from the Mac OS X Terminal. Doing this is quite simple:

Preparation

• Download the installation file to your desktop.

• Connect your iPhone to your computer using the provided cable.

• Deactivate the iPhone automatic synchronization in iTunes before proceeding and close iTunes.

Steps

• Go to Utilities in your Applications folder and find Terminal.

• Double-click on Terminal.

• In the Terminal, go to the folder that contains the application installation script. You can easily do this by typing cd in the command line, then space, then dragging the iPhoneInstaller folder into the Terminal Window. This will automatically paste the path in the Terminal. If you saved the iPhoneInstaller folder to your desktop like we told you, it will look something like this:

cd /Users/your_user_name/Desktop/iPhoneInstaller/

Hit the return key to change to that folder.

• Now run the script, which is called get_installer.sh, by typing the following:

./get_installer.sh

• The script will now run, asking you what version of firmware do you have. If you updated your iPhone, you will have 1.0.1. If not, select 1.0 by typing the option.

• The script will automatically download the necessary restore file from the Apple servers.

• When it's done, it will prompt you to hold the home button (with the square) and the powerbutton (on the top) at the same time (hold first the home, then hold the power).

• When the message "Connect to iTunes" appear in your iPhone, release the buttons and let the thing do its magic.

The iPhone will restart and you will find a new icon in your home screen:

You can disconnect the iPhone now. If you want, enable automatic sync in iTunes before disconnecting.

Now you will be able to install applications from the Installer. This is extremely simple. Just open the Installer application and select the software you want to install.

One more thing: before installing any new applications, you may want to update the Installer itself by clicking on the "Update" tab.

Installing applications

When you start Installer you will see only a handfull of applications. They are Nullriver's apps, which include a BSD Subsystem and MobileTerminal. To access all third-party software available, do the following:

• Launch Installer on your iPhone. It will connect to the Internet and register the available packages.

• Click on Community Resources package inside the Install tab.

• You will see the detail. Click on the Install button.

• After installing, you will see all the third-party applications currently available for iPhone.

• Click on any of them, hit the Install button and enjoy.

Extremely smooth and easy. Our congratulations to the Nullriver people for a truly great piece of software.

UPDATE: As someone points out in the Digg comments, the other thing you should do after updating the Installer and before start installing applications is to install the Launcher application. The reason: the iPhone springboard (the home screen) won't scroll, so if you install many applications, you won't be able to access some of them. The Launcher gives you a way to access all non-Apple apps from a scrollable list.

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Facebook is working on tools for the age of 13

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For 13 years, the creation of accounts on Facebook is officially prohibited. But demand is high, and the social network closes each day thousands of accounts opened by children - without being able to control them all. According to a study by the Consumer Report, minors of less than 13 years more than 7 million would use the social network, for some with the agreement or even the help of their parents.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Facebook began working on tools that would allow parents to monitor their children on the social network. They would allow parents to validate requests for friends of their children or to authorize or refuse the installation of applications including.

"Recent reports have shown how it is difficult to enforce on the Internet age limits, especially when the parents want their children access online services," said a spokesman for Facebook interviewed by the Wall Street Journal. The first social network in the world however considered not a possible opening of service at the age of 13, even though its founder Mark Zuckerberg already expressed in the past for a wider opening of its site.

LEGAL DIFFICULTIES

But an opening at the age of 13 would pose legal problems, especially in the United States, where the Act strictly governs the collection of personal data for children. In 2011, Playdom, a social games publisher acquired by Disney, for example had an agreement amicably for $ 3 million with the US authorities, which had launched a procedure against the company for breach of the privacy of minors of less than 13 years old. The Federal Trade Commission is currently working on a study of the legislation in force since 1998, that could lead to a change in the law - and Facebook accounts show that the company has spent more than 600,000 dollars in lobbying on this issue.

A possible opening to the age of 13 would not cause a new debate on how the social network protects the privacy of its users. The rules implemented by Facebook, a vote takes place this week on the confidentiality of the service rules, triggered by the association Europe vs Facebook campaign, which has already initiated a procedure against Facebook with the authorities European.

From : Lemonde.fr

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The founders of Google will going to the US commission of commerce

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.According the Agency Bloomberg, Sergei Brin and Larry Page, the two founders of Google, have been summoned by the Federal Commission on trade (FTC) for issues relating to abuse of a dominant position.

Since June 2011, the FTC investigates Google business practices, including its social network Google +. According information from Bloomberg, the investigation would focus in particular on the fact that the firm of Mountain View search engine may promote other services at the expense of competing services.

According information of Bloomberg, Eric Schmidt, former Chief Executive of the firm of Mountain View, replaced by Larry Page from April 2011, already was heard by the commission on Tuesday, June 5. Jon Leibowitz, Chairman of the Committee, indicated hope that the investigation be closed by the end of the year, before seeing if the FTC would continue Google to justice.

From : Lemonde.fr

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HTC Desire V: a smartphone dual SIM 4 inches on Android 4.0

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.seems that HTC does not want to put an end to its range of smartphones Desire, whose first name has been a relatively important success. Indeed, while the Desire C is available recently, the manufacturer also offers Desire V. It resumed the outline of One V with specificity that may interest some: it integrates two SIM card slots.

The Desire V has a 4 inch touch screen that displays a definition of 480 x 800 pixels. Its measurements are 118.5 x 62.3 x 9.3 mm for a weight of 114 grams, with its battery of 1650 mAh. It has come to place just at the level of the HTC One V which measures 120,3 x 59.7 x 9.24 mm to 115 grams (only 1500 mAh hand drums), but with a screen of 3.7 inches only.It is hosted by a (probably single core) processor running at 1 GHz which is supported by 512 MB of RAM. 4 GB of storage are also the part, and a microSDHC card reader to add up to 32 GB more.

Connectivity includes the 4.0 Bluetooth and Wi - Fi 802 .11n ready. In addition, an optical sensor of 5 megapixels with autofocus and LED flash is present on the back of the smartphone. Here again, all these technical features are not reminiscent of the V One of the Taiwanese manufacturer.

As mentioned you in the introduction, Desire V has two SIM card slots, but which one is capable to support networks 3 G / 3 G +, the other merely standards GSM / GPRS. Of course, it comes with Android 4.0 and it has the HTC Sense 4 user interface. It can also receive free of charge for two years to 25 GB of storage in Dropbox.

For the moment the Desire V is available in China and Taiwan, but it should soon arrive in Europe, rest now to know when and at what price.

From : PCInpact.com

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Android continues to grow and more than 900,000 activations per day

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.It is via a published message on Twitter that Andy Rubin, the founder of the Android company acquired by Google in 2007, announced that the mobile operating system now exceeds 900,000 activations per day. Closer to the million, but the pace still seems to calm down a little.

No. plans to leave Google.Oh, and just for same completeness - there are over 900,000 android devices activated each day:-) @Scobleizer

-Andy Rubin (@Arubin) June 10, 2012

Regularly, different Google representatives spoke to the average of the number of terminals (smartphones and tablets mixed) activated each day. Here are a few key figures to monitor:-May 2010: 100,000 activations

-End June 2011: 500 000 (+ 100 000 in 2 months) activations

-December 2011: 700,000 activations (+ 150 000 in 6 months)

-Late February: 850 000 (+ 150 000 in 2 months) activations

-Today: 900 000 activations (+ 50,000 in about 4 months)

By comparing the figures to those of last year, Android has increased from 500 000 to 900 000 daily activations, is almost a doubling. From 2010, the progression is still more spectacular as it reaches 900%.

The pace of these last four months seems a little slow because we have only 50 000 activations in addition on this period. Remains to be seen if launch of Galaxy SIII, which had registered 9 million pre-orders, will enable Android beyond the mythical bar of the terminals million.Andy Rubin benefits the crossing to debunk the rumour began to become more and more persistent: his possible departure from Google. Of the admission of the person concerned, he has no intention to leave at this time. The way, via a message posted on Google +, he gives us an appointment for June 27, the day of the opening of the Google I/O in San Francisco.

From: PCInpact.fr

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The most remarkable buildings of the world !

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Burj Khalifa in Dubai, is, by far, the highest skyscraper in the world. With 828 metres high (including antenna), Burj Khalifa exceeds more than 200 metres the towers of Abraj Al Bait Towers, Mecca, its first competitor. Burj Khalifa also holds the record for the largest number of storeys, and the fastest elevator in the world!

Bahrain World Trade Center. Located in Manama, this building was the first to integrate wind turbines, auto producing more than 10% of its power consumption. The two twin buildings are built and oriented to retrieve the winds from the Gulf and accelerate their speed

the Gherkin in London, located in the heart of the City. Designed by the team of Norman Foster and inaugurated in 2004, it is built to consume twice less energy of a classical building. Systems of circulation of air and light in particular between each floor provide a better temperature control.

The Taipei 101 Tower. Thought as a turquoise blue prepared bamboo, it is certainly one which visually represents the more the spirit of Asia. This tower has long held the record for the tallest skyscraper in the world, before the construction of Burj Khalifa in Dubai, which exceed more than 300 metres.

Probably the Petronas towers. Located in Kuala Lumpur, these two twin towers, 88 floors (8 being the figure of the prosperity in Asia), have long held the record for height, before is the Taipei 101 tower to be built. If they are more the highest, they remain the most massive.

The city of Arts and Sciences in Valencia. Designed by Santiago Calatrava, this cultural complex houses various buildings: auditorium, aquarium, Imax Theatre,... 15 years were necessary to ensure that the entire complex is completed (2006). The complex hosts more than 4 million people per year, much visit the impressive aquarium, the largest in Europe.

The Esplanade ("Theatres on the Bay"), at Singapore. Seeing this strange, pungent form, is acknowledge you not a fruit? This building is inspired by the durian, one of the most consumed fruit in Asia. A particular goût…, than non-connoisseurs like that rarely. Located on the sea front, the Plaza hosts several theatres.

The House dance ("Dum Tančící" in Czech), Prague, designed by Frank Gehry and Vlado Milunić. Comprised of two buildings, such as two people dancing together, this building is also often called "Ginger & Fred". If the building mainly houses offices, it also houses a French restaurant, the Pearl of Prague, one of the most famous of the city.

The Guggenheim Museum in New York. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, this building houses which was the first of the Guggenheim museums. The Guggenheim Museum remains in the minds of many people. Taking the form of a Nautilus shell, this museum to see all of the works of almost continuously: from the top, it descends along a circular ramp, to the rhythm of its own not.

It is certainly in the most unimaginable way create the building, or across, the more disproportionate, the Abraj Al Bait Towers in Mecca has been designed: high of more than 600 meters, these towers are hosting the largest hotel in the world, the largest area on the ground that no other building has never covered (1.5 million square metres)a visible clock 17 kilometres in full night, six times more impressive than Big Ben in London!

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History will recall Bill Gates, not Steve Jobs

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Say what our descendants will be remembered, or not, is a perilous exercise. Yet this is the bet that did Malcolm Gladwell, the author of the tipping point, a Conference in the Toronto public library, arguing that history would remember more than Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, reports The Verge. According to Gladwell, amorality (the absence of moral sense in the decision-making) is an essential feature to be a leader who has success. He adds: "There is no moral leaders, if they were moral leaders would not big businessmen". In his latest book, Outliers, the author a success already tried to explain the factors that separate the people very well successful people to mean success, says CNN. Bill Gates, as Steve Jobs, as head of Microsoft for one and Apple to the other, were "capitalists without mercy". But the difference is that Bill Gates, once retired, turned this amoral behavior by spending all his money in philanthropic projects. Since 1994, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has given more than 2.6 billion (EUR 2.06 billion) for works of charity throughout the world, says CBS. Gladwell says that there are statues of him in the poor, notammeng countries because, "with its money, there is a chance that we can eradicate malaria". And this is precisely why that is remembered in fifty years of Bill Gates, according to Gladwell, and not not for what he has done with Microsoft. Because, if today we idealize the businessmen for their ability to create wealth, on the long remembered more of their impact on the world. During the Conference he also made unflattering comments about Steve Jobs: "All the ideas he has ever had came from someone else." And it was the first to say. He has attributed the merit of many things. He had no shame. It was a businessman and entrepreneur extraordinary and brilliant.

From : http://www.slate.fr

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