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Install Windows Vista from a USB drive

I’ve always wanted to be able to install Windows from a USB drive, because I know that it’s faster from most other media, including CD/DVD, Network and external hard disks. A USB drive works exactly like an SSD drive, which has no moving parts, which makes it less prone to damage, and it’s a lot faster.

Yesterday I created a bootable Vista Ultimate SP2 USB drive and started a clean install on my eeePC. (1.6GHz Atom, 2GB Ram, 32GB SSD). I must say I was very surprised by the speed of the installation. My USB drive is a Corsair Flash Voyager GT 16GB, and it’s extremely fast when reading and writing. This made the Vista installation go a lot faster than my usual external USB CD drive and the whole process was finished within half an hour.

So! How can you make a bootable Vista USB drive? First, you must have a Vista PC. Cause I tried it on my work XP PC and the ‘list disk’ command in ‘diskpart’ could not find my USB drive. So just plug in your USB drive, open a command prompt, and type the following commands:

diskpart
list disk
select disk 1 (assuming that your USB drive is listed as disk 1)
clean
create partition primary
select partition 1
active
format fs=fat32
assign
exit

Then copy your Vista DVD on the USB Drive, and you’re done!

Remember that the computer you’re installing on must support booting from USB, and configured to boot from it.

Posted by Nucleus on Thursday 23 July 2009 - 06:10:41

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Is Facebook Past Its Prime? - By Hillary Rhodes, for PC World

This article was taken from MSN’s website. It seemed interesting and does make some good points.

Nobody left to 'friend'? Too many friends anyway? Why Facebook when you can Twitter? In the here-today-gone-tomorrow world of social media, these common complaints may mark the beginning of the end of Facebook's enormous popularity.

Is Facebook on its last legs? Is it going to pull a MySpace on us? Will Facebook be the Internet's hip site du jour one day, then suddenly lose the love and affection of most of its followers the next? We hope not. But various irritations associated with the site could contribute to its eventual demise.

In the first quarter of this year, the "bounce rate" -- the percentage of visits to Facebook.com that consist of a single page view and then a quick exit -- has grown by 19 percent, according to Internet traffic research firm Alexa. Though that statistic hardly qualifies as conclusive proof of Facebook's imminent demise, it does raise the possibility that a large number of Facebookers are surfing over to the site, finding little there of interest, and promptly leaving.

Here are some reasons Facebook might be losing its grip on people's online networking lives.

1. Facebook veterans are defecting to Twitter

People who delight in constant updates are the lifeblood of Facebook -- but many of them are flocking to Twitter. When it comes to intense scrutiny of everyday trivialities, Twitter thoroughly out-Facebooks Facebook, where two or three status updates a day is the maximum before you start looking like a loser.
And even though you can update Facebook from your phone, Twitter feels more mobile. It gives the impression that you're out and about, simultaneously doing something important and tweeting about it, whereas updating your Facebook page implies that you're sitting by yourself at a computer with nothing better to do.

2. People who actually have lives don't use Facebook

If you're starring in a major motion picture or negotiating a trade agreement with Austria or training for next month's triathlon or competing for a spot on the space shuttle, chances are you're not spending much time on Facebook. And if you are doing any of these things and happen to have a Facebook page, you probably aren't maintaining it very diligently.
There's a growing sense among Facebook users that the amount of time a person spends on Facebook may be inversely proportional to how much is going on in the person's (offline) life. Perhaps unfairly, you may get the impression that only bored and boring people have time to tell their friends that they love the new pita bread at Trader Joe's.

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Posted by Nucleus on Tuesday 21 July 2009 - 00:17:42

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GPS on iPhone

Today I installed NAVIGON Mobile Navigator on my iPhone 3G. I must say, although my country (Cyprus) is not supported, I am very impressed with the simplicity of the application. It supports a huge list of Europe countries and has some useful features.

- 2D and 3D map displays
- Can be used in portrait and landscape format
- Precise voice announcements
- Intelligent address entry
- Reality View Pro (realistic display of motorway interchanges and exits)
- Lane Assistant Pro
- Real signpost display
- Speed Assistant with adjustable audio-visual warning
- Day and night mode for map display
- Direct access and navigation to contacts saved in the iPhone's address book
- The latest NAVTEQ map material including more than two million (EU version) places of interest (POIs)
- Navigation is automatically resumed after an incoming phone call
- Quick access to user-defined POIs in the area and along the route
- Take Me Home function with a single click
- Automatic language selection to match the iPhone's user language

More info on Apple store.

Posted by Nucleus on Wednesday 24 June 2009 - 02:22:29

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Ultrasn0w for iPhone 3G has been released

Good news for all iPhone users worldwide! Ultrasn0w has been released! This will allow you to use your iPhone with any GSM provider in the world. Head over to the iPhone Dev Team Blog website to read the instruction on how to get it

Posted by Nucleus on Tuesday 23 June 2009 - 00:48:56

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Jailbreak for MAC released

Yesterday the iPhone Dev Team made a release. Just the Pwnage tool though, which is used to Jailbreak an iPhone 3G v3.0 on a MAC. It seems that Windows users will have to wait for a few more days for the Windows version to be released, or you can do like I did, and install MAC on a PC [link]

I haven’t tried Jailbreaking the iPhone yet though, I’ll wait until Monday morning because one of the developers of the Jailbreak said that they’ll be working through the weekend on the Jailbreak and unlock. In any case, this is good news even if we have to wait for a few more days.

If they don’t release the QuickPwn tool (Jailbreaking on Windows) until Monday morning I’ll just jailbreak my iPhone using MAC, and since I have a factory unlock version, I’ll let you know how the Jailbreak works.

UPDATE:

I flashed the iPhone using Redsn0w, which was released a while ago. Works great!

Posted by Nucleus on Friday 19 June 2009 - 23:27:49

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Problems with the Jailbreaking

According to the latest update from the iPhone Dev Team, the YouTube app might not be working on jailbroken iPhones. On Thursday morning they’ll release the Jailbreak and if since then they don’t manage to fix the problem, they will at a later point.

Bad news, but at least it’s just one app. I assume that all the other will be working just fine.

Time will tell.

Posted by Nucleus on Thursday 18 June 2009 - 07:59:23

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iPhone OS v3.0 Problem Continues

The problem with not receiving calls and SMS with the new firmware still persists. I’ve already opened a forum post in Apple forums and I’m still waiting for a reply. A possible workaround to fix the problem could be enabling 3G.

Since I’ve enabled it I haven’t had a problem so far, but enabling 3G is something I want to avoid, due to battery drain issues. It doesn’t make sense. I’ve never had these problems with v2.2.1

Update:

To resolve this issue I disabled ‘Push’

Settings - Mail, Contacts, Calendars - Fetch New Data <---Turn this off

Problem solved!

Posted by Nucleus on Thursday 18 June 2009 - 03:34:10

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iPhone OS v3.0 Officially Released

Last night Apple released the official version of the iPhone 3.0 firmware through iTunes. To my disappointment, this official release is exactly the same size as the Gold Master release, which was seeded to the developers right after the WWDC a few days ago. (235.575KB). This would mean that the problems I had with receiving calls and SMS will still be there.

But since hope dies last, I upgraded my iPhone to the new firmware anyway, and now all that’s left is for the iPhone Dev Team to release the new QuickPwn so that I can have my favorite apps on my iPhone again

Posted by Nucleus on Wednesday 17 June 2009 - 22:42:11

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iPhone OS v3.0 - Unlock & Jailbreak

As expected, the iPhone Dev Team announced that the new iPhone firmware version 3.0 has already been cracked in a way to unlock the iPhone on any GSM carrier. The unlock software is called ultrasn0w and it replaced yellowsn0w.

It will of course be released after Apple releases the new firmware through iTunes today and it will also release QuickPwn for jailbreaking. So all we can do now is keep hitting the ‘Check for Update’ button in iTunes and wait for the new firmware.

Posted by Nucleus on Wednesday 17 June 2009 - 03:08:32

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Video Conference software

I am currently in the process of searching for good web video conferencing systems. I found plenty of hosted ones, but my main requirement was to be independent of any internet servers. Plus I wanted wide OS compatibility, and that would mean that the creator of the software would have to have clients for MAC, Windows and Linux, or I could just find a system that would use flash.

So I found [link], and after a brief video chat with their support department I was convinced that this was the solution I was looking for. The price is not too bad at all, and I would be able to install the software on one of my own servers, or even a virtual machine (though not recommended) and be up and running immediately.

Posted by Nucleus on Tuesday 16 June 2009 - 05:48:16

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