How To Get Free Apps on iDevices For Free Without Jailbreaking

Have you ever wanted the free apps that you can get once your iDevice is jailbroken but not wanted to lose your warranty or the hassle of un-jailbreaking when you have to take it to the shop for repairs.

Then this is for you, i have been trawling the internet as i accidently updated my device to a non jailbreakable version, but i still wanted my apps that i use all the time, but didnt want to pay for them, thats when i cam across a nice little application from a chinese developer, you dont need to speak chinese as the process is self explanitary.

Follow the steps beloew to get yourself on your way in as little as 5 minutes.

All you need is the following

An active Internet connection
A iDevice on any iOS
An this Application Here

When the app has downloaded double click on it to set it up then follow the steps.
Step 1

Click on the highlighted button.
Step 2

Select the Highlighted options
Step 3

And again select the highlighted option to continue
Step 4

Leave the defaults in place and click the highlighted button
Step 5

Leave the ticks in the box and click the highlighted button
Step 6

Click on the highlighted button to continue.
Step 7

Leave the tick in the box and click on the highlighted button this will finish the install of the application and open it up automatically.

Once the Application has opened up it may look a little daunting at first, and you may think that your going to need to learn Chinese to work it out but that's not the case its a pretty simple interface to work out to get the apps you want, follow the instructions below to get going.
Step 1.







When the application has opened it has 2 main areas, The Search Bar and the Top 100.

Step 2

Enter the name of the App into the search bar and click on the button to the right of the white X in the gray box, one the search has completed you will see the results below with images that you will recognize from the app store, if you hover over the name you will see that it changes to a red button as per the image above. Click on the button and it will start downloading, to check the progress click on the option highlighted at the top next to the number 4

Step 3

Here is where you plug in you iDevice, if iTunes opens please close it as we don't want to confuse the process, once its plugged in hit the highlighted button and it will start to push it to the iDevice

Step 4

You will see the progress of the transfer, once it gets to 100% you can unplug your iDevice and then check to see if it has been transferred correctly
Enjoy your free apps i will post troubleshooting tips below also

Troubleshooting

If you get any apps that do not want to open or close straight away when you try to open it then you may need to reconnect the iDevice back into the computer and then click on the button














You will see that when you have click the button you get a new window in the middle of the screen click on the button that is highlighted and let it run through the download

Once the Download has finished try to open upp the app again and it should work fine.

You may also get a warning about opening an app that is from another developer, just click on yes or continue, once i have a screen shot i will update the blog with the exact message.

Happy Free Apping.

Reset Mac OSX Admin Password

This one has bugged me for a while, i support a few mac users at my workplace and also we have a mac at home, but how do you go on if you have forgotten the admin password,

You cannot install any apps as you have to input this password every time (unless you have no admin password), you may be thinking that you will have to format the computer and reinstall OSX so that you can install things again, whilsts this is an option it is also time consuming you can also restore a backup from your time capsule, but this may not fix the issue also as if the admin password has been set since the install then it will still remian on the current install.

So i hear you thinking how can we fix this ???

Ok so what we will do today is reset the default admin accounts password, it is pretty simple but you will need to have a copy of the OSX Install Disk.

For 10.7.X

Start from the Recovery HD by holding down the Cmd and R keys while starting your Mac.  If that doesn't work, hold the Alt/Option key instead -- that will show a window with all possible startup sources, including the Recovery HD -- select it. you can also use the CD Drive and boot from the disk.

Choose Terminal and type resetpassword all together with no spaces and press the return key.

For 10.6.X and Earlier.

To start up from your OSX Install disc, insert it in the SuperDrive or plug in the Software Reinstall drive on a MacBook Air.

Wait for the Mac OS X Install DVD window and double-click the Install icon;  or power down, then start up while holding down the "C" key.  Either way, that takes a few minutes.

Select your language when prompted.

On the next screen, select Utilities in the Menubar, then Reset Password.

The next option is the next step for both of the above, the Password Reset Window

 

Select the drive/partition and account you wish to change.                                  

To change the password, type it in both places, and a hint, then click theSave button.

To reset the home folder permissions and ACLs, click the Reset button.

Reboot the Mac and there you go the password is now reset without having to reinstall the Operating system and saved yourself heaps of money from not having to take it to the shop.

 

Issues with Windows Live Movie Maker 2012

Are you having issues with Windows Live Movie Maker 2012, this could be because you have a intel onboard graphics card that only supports DirectX 9, if this is the case you will get a message saying that your hardware does not meet the requirements to run the application, this is technically not true.

You just need to install an update from microsoft to allow it to run on your current hardware.

Follow the links below for both 64bit and 32bit systems and you will be up and running in no time at all.

For 64Bit Click Here

For 32Bit Click Here

Missing Messages on Facebook

Have you even tried selling items on Facebook ?

 

Never seemed to get a response by a personal message or someone says they have PM'd you but it never arrived in your inbox.

This is pretty common and there are hidden messages in your inbox, if like me you dont normally fully open your mailbox just use the drop down menu and click the new message then check this out.

Click on the Drop down then onto show all at the bottom on the drop down.

You will notice that there is the word Other next to inbox, Click on this and you will see all the messages that are from people who are not in your friends list and probably people who have said they have PM'd you on your selling sites.

Once you have opened this for the first time it will then appear next to the word inbox on the drop down menu.

Orbit Downloader Removal - Chrome Users

Have you installed the Orbit Downloader and realised its crap and annoying and want rid of it. (Google Chrome Users)

Run through the normal uninstall process from Programs and Features, then reboot.

Once you have rebooted and you next go to download a file you will notice that it would appear to be still installed.

So Open a new tab in chrome. 

Type (chrome://plugins) into the address bar, find the orbit plugin and disable it.

For internet explorer i believe you can just delete the folder in the APPDATA folder in your profile, ask if you cannot find this.

Windows 8 - D3DCompiler_43.dll Missing

Since Installing windows 8 on my Laptop i have noticed that i have had a few issues loading my games via steam and also standalone ones,
The error that i have come accross is Direct X related and is 2 different DLL files that are missing D3DCompiler_43.dll and also D3DCompiler_42.dll, as per image below.

To Fix this simply go to microsofts website and downlaod the latest Direct X installer and run it, once it has finished restart your computer and then try the game again, this has happened
to me twice in the last 2 days the first time being the 42 dll and the second being the 43 dll.

God Mode - Windows 8

Like in Windows 7, you can also add the God Mode Shortcuts to your desktop in windows 8. God Mode gives you more than 230 shortcuts, all the control panel and setting items that you have on your computer.

Follow the steps below to add God Mode to your computer.

1. Create a new folder anywhere on your desktop. Right click on your Desktop and create new folder.

2.Once created, rename the folder from ‘New Folder’ to this exact code, Including the words GodMode at the front.

GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

Once you have copied the text above press the enter key.

The folder icon will change to the Control Panel Icon.

Open up the shortcut to reveal over 230 items to chose from, all of which can be found in various ways from searching on the Start Menu or within the Control Panel itself.

Windows 8 Shortcuts and Tips

Navigating Windows 8 can be a nightmare if you are used to the start button, and also depend on it so much.

Here are a few shortcuts and helpful tips to get you on your way, as i already mentioned in an earlier post you can get the start button back with the stardock app.

• Press the Windows key to open the Start screen or switch to the Desktop (if open)
• Press the Windows key + D will open the Windows Desktop.
• Press the Windows key + . to pin and unpin Windows apps on the side of the screen.
• Press the Windows key + X to open the power user menu, which gives you access to many of the features most power users would want (e.g. Device Manager and Command Prompt).
• Press the Windows key + C to open the Charms.
• Press the Windows key + I to open the Settings, which is the same Settings found in Charms.
• Press and hold the Windows key + Tab to show open apps.
• Press the Windows key + Print screen to create a screen shot, which is automatically saved into your My Pictures folder.

Task Manager

The Windows 8 Task Manager has been significantly improved over previous versions of Windows. Some of the new changes include showing a total percent usage at the top of your Processes, which makes it easier to determine total memory and CPU usage, improved Performance graphs, a Startup tab to see startup processes and their impact to system performance, and the App history tab (as shown below) that gives you the total resources an app has used over a period of time. Press Ctrl + Shift + Esc to start exploring the new Task Manager.

Windows Search

With Windows 8 if you are on the start screen you can simply just start typing to search for anything you are looking for, weather it be an app or a file, just type the letters and your results will start to appear on the left hand side.
The Search is also found through Charms and can also be opened by pressing Windows key + F.

Hot Corners

The corners on your screen are hot corners and give you access to different Windows features. Below, is a brief explanation of each of these corners.

Bottom Left-hand corner

The bottom left-hand hot corner of the screen will allow you to access the Start screen, if you're in the Start screen and have the Desktop open, this corner will open the Desktop from the Start screen.
Right-clicking in the left hand corner will open the power user menu.

Top-left corner of the screen

Moving the mouse to the top-left corner and then down will display all the apps running on the computer. Clicking and dragging any of these apps to the left or right-hand side of the screen will snap that app to that side of the screen. Each of these open app icons can also be right-clicked to close or snap.

Right-hand side of the screen

On the full right-hand side of the screen will be given access to the Windows Charms.

Join Openfiler to Windows Domain

This one has been a thorn in my side for weeks, i have tried many different guides to join our openfiler to the domain, each time it would never give me the groups in the listing, then i thought lets just go back to linux basics.

I had already made the change in the security to allow enable NTLMv2 response, this got me a little further as it would add the openfiler computer into the domain computers group but using the GUI never worked for me along side it taking an age to reload the page after it had done.

So what to do...

Firstly i logged in to the GUI and then went to System and Secure console, logged in as my root account type cd / and enter, then i just thought ill just run the string to join it to the domain in here, so i did the following (net rpc join -U Administrator@domain)pressed enter and was asked for the password for Administrator @domain i put in the password and pressed enter and it said successfully joined give it a reboot and viola, checked the group and there were 9 whole pages of groups and all of the users in my domain.

You can also check that it is joined correctly by using the following command in the shell (net rpc testjoin) if it is successfully joined you will recieve the response (Join to "DOMAIN" is ok)

I can now administer my shares using my domain groups.

New Lightening to Micro USB now available in the US

It looked for a short while that the Lightening to Micro USB connector was going to only be available in Europe, but Apple has decided to sell it in the USA too, the tine adapter finally made its way to the US Apple store website for only $19 US (over in Europe, it's £15 / €19) i am not sure of the release date for Australia but it wont be too far away.

Will this be one of many adapters converting us from the lightening connector, me personally am still waiting for the connector to allow me to use my existing dock, although im doubtful it will allow me to charge my phone when it arrives.