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Vestalife Ladybug II iPod Dock

The Vestalife Ladybug II is a unique iPod docking station that allows you to enhance how you would enjoy your portable music player. Its features allow you to use it for both iPod as well as iPhone models. It is uniquely distinguishable by its flip down speaker wings, giving it an interesting look for an ordinary docking station.

The Vestalife Ladybug II features a digital amp as well as a built-in subwoofer that gives its users better digital sound quality despite its size. And just like most docking stations, the Ladybug II also charges your iPod once it is docked into the unit. It also has a slot for an auxiliary-in jack to use for other non-docking CD and other mp3 players.  A USB port is also available for connecting into your PC.  The Vestalife Ladybug II is available at the VestaShop for US$100.

Tom Tom GPS – New Zealand – App Review

Recently I added to Tom Tom GPS (New Zealand Edition) application to my iPhone and I thought that I would write a small review on the application and show our readers what its like to use.

Some of the things I found really handy were that:

• The app’s Points of Interest (POI as described in applications) was great, giving the ability for the user to see either on the map, or within the menu allowing you to not only find the nearest motel, hotel, petrol station, supermarket or pharmacy but also it has an option (A green icon to the right) allowing you to call them with easy access. It also allows you to quickly change your route.

• The maps are all bundelled into the application meaning that you don’t use any mobile broadband usage.

• TomTom has a range of iPhone vent mounts that allow you to mount the iPhone onto your dashboard, apparently this has been quite controversial in regards to New Zealand’s new “No cellphone use while driving law” as it does sometimes require you to press a few buttons.

• The app is easy to use, although at times it didn’t have exact locations of where I wanted to go as long as I knew what road/Street/ect that the location was on it seemed to be ok.

A few things I didn’t like about the application as a whole:

• Someones it seems to put me off going to the right and off the road having to recalculate the location again, which even though it only took a few seconds sometimes was annoying when coming up to intersections.

• It didn’t always have the road/street I was looking for in the search option. But yet the road would appear on the GPS when I was there.

• I don’t know if this is a carrier fault, or how the GPS runs but even when I was in full reception I would have gaps where I had “No GPS reception” yet the Maps app on my iPhone could pick up my location fine.

Overall the App is worth the $99 (I think thats what it’s worth) and I would well recommend it over a normal GPS as its ultra portable,  definatley worth the money that you pay for it, you have no need to buy more equipment and cables to add to your car while driving and also with the avaliblity of the mounts for iPhone it is by far the best option for a portable on the go navigational system.

If you need anymore help please dont hesitate to comment or talk to me on twitter (@damnELECTRIC)

Tane – AGeniusBlog.com

So.. How to jailbreak and unlock the new iPhone OS 3.1.*

Just quickly, I have been swamped by my personal life which is why I haven’t written anything in ages.

Well this Jailbreak is the most simple and the most broad, lets go through what happens and what to do.

First of all, this jailbreak will jailbreak all iDevice models, BUT, the iPhone 3Gs (with the NEW bootrom) will be a tethered jailbreak for the moment, as will the iPod 3rd Generation.

The iPod Touch (1,2) and the iPhone (3G ad old 3Gs) are untethered

The iPod Touch (3) and iPhone (new 3Gs) are tethered

Okay, lets begin.

1. Go to http://www.blackra1n.com

2. Scroll to the bottom on the page and click the icon for your OS (windows or mac)

3. Once downloaded, plug your device into your computer (close out of iTunes as well)

4. Then, open the blackra1n app on you computer and click “Make it ra1n”

5. Wait about 20 seconds and you are Jailbroken! If you have a tethered Jailbreak read 6, else skip to 7.

6. Re-run the Jailbreak to start your device. You will need to do this EVERY TIME you want to turn your device on, so either don’t let it turn off or be prepared with a computer.

7. On your springboard (on your device) there will be a blackra1n symbol, Tap it and download cydia. Don’t use Rock it is shite

8. If you want an unlocked phone, in the blackra1n app there is a button that says “sn0w” this is the unlock program, my phone is unlocked while I am on holiday and I have had no problems with it, some people are reporting loss/no signal etc. You will have to find out for yourself if it works on your device.

9. Open cydia, it will re-orginize and clean some stuff up, then crash and you will need to open it up again and do what you need to in cydia (winterboard, qTweeter,  install0us etc..)

And that, my friends is it. Simple aye?

If you liked this post, feel free to register to the site, as it will be coming back with even more tutorials, feel free to leave a comment, and if you really want to; buy me a beer

<3

Thomas.

P.S Hope you all had a wonderful holiday season.

Windows 7 Ultimate Cracked and Activated Permanently with OEM SLP Master Product Key (with SLIC 2.1)

Original Article From MyDigitalLife.info

Windows 7 Ultimate has been cracked, and can be permanently activated with OEM style instant offline activation which will pass Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) validation, before even any Windows 7 is officially released according to Windows 7 release schedule. All hell breaks loose when a Windows 7 Ultimate OEM DVD ISO from Lenovo been leaked and posted on Chinese forum. The ISO was quickly grabbed to retrieve boot.wim, which was then used to retrieve the OEM-SLP product key and OEM certificate for Windows 7 Ultimate.

Microsoft has updated the the SLP (System-Locked Preinstallation), a procedure that used to preactivate Windows operating system

for mass distribution by major OEM (original equipment manufacturers), to version 2.1 to support Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 while provided backward-compatibility for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 activation. Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 OEM activation is provided by SLP 2.0. SLP 2.1 requires SLIC imprinted in BIOS to be updated to SLIC version 2.1 too, which contains new Windows Marker.

After extracting the OEM certificate and OEM product

key, it’s confirmed that Windows 7 uses the same digitally signed OEM certificate (in .xrm-ms extension) that is been used in Windows Vista. Windows Vista OEM cert can be used in Windows 7 has been explained in Windows 7 forum. As OEM certificate is digitally signed by Microsoft with its own Private Key with OEM Public Key and OEMID (part of SLIC table in BIOS). The combination of correct Private Key, Public Key with OEMID will pass SLP validation as valid Microsoft license. Meanwhile, Windows Marker is signed by OEM itself based on OEMID and OEMTableID (both belongs to SLIC) using the private key that matches the public key. Thus, the same OEM cert can be used for many different SLICs, as long as OEMID remains the same, as in the case of SLP 2.0 and SLP 2.1, although Windows Marker has changed due to different OEMTableID.

The trick is to have BIOS modded to include the SLIC 2.1. The SLIC 2.1 can be modded into BIOS physically (hardmod or biosmod) or been emulated or simulated during Windows boots up (softmod). Various SLIC 2.1 BIN has been retrieved from various notebook computer that shipped with new SLIC 2.1 in BIOS to support the free Windows 7 Upgrade Option from Windows Vista. If you just bought a new PC, it’s possible to check if SLIC 2.1 exists in BIOS. The information can be used to mod the BIOS. If you’re not technically know-how, it’s possible to request for BIOS mod assistant, or wait for Windows 7 Loader or WoW7.

Last but not least (which makes no activation crack works properly so far) is OEM-SLP product key for Windows 7. So far no OEM-SLP product key required to activate Windows 7 as OEM offline instant activation been leaked yet as no machine has been officially ship in Windows 7 by OEM, until now.

The extracted Windows 7 Ultimate OEM-SLP product key, 22TKD-F8XX6-YG69F-9M66D-PMJBM, can be used to activate installed Windows

7 Ultimate system, which BIOS has a valid OEM SLIC 2.1, and corresponding OEM cert, even if it’s OEM cert meant for Windows Vista. Best news is that, the product key appears to be a master OEM-SLP product key for Windows 7 Ultimate, which able to activate many OEM brands, such as HP, Dell, MSI

and Lenovo. Checkout the discussion at Windows 7 forums.

Tip: It doesn’t matter if you have download and install Windows 7 RTM retail version ISO or Windows 7 RTM OEM version ISO. Just use the following commands to convert to OEM version:

slmgr.vbs -ilc OEM.XRM-MS (where OEM.XRM-MS is a valid OEM cert matching with SLIC 2.1 in BIOS)
slmgr -ipk 22TKD-F8XX6-YG69F-9M66D-PMJBM

Both 32-bit and 64-bit (x86 and x64) Windows 7 Ultimate system should and can be activated immediately. For Windows 7 Professional, Windows 7 Home Premium, Windows 7 Home Basic, and Windows 7 Starter, the OEM-SLP keys haven’t been leaked, thus can’t be OEM-activated yet. It’s expected that various Windows 7 activators, Windows 7 activation toolkits, Windows 7 Loaders and etc are expected to be released by various hackers soon. However, Microsoft may decide to block and blacklist this leaked master OEM-SLP product key. If true, other OEM-SLP keys from actual machine shipped from OEM has to be retrieved.