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TIME's 25 Best Blogs of 2009

2009-02-17T17:09:00.000-08:00

TIME has released its list of best 25 blogs of 2009. Following are the first ten:

Talking Points Memo
Huffington Post
Lifehacker
MetaFilter
The Daily Dish
Freakonomics
BoingBoing
Got2BeGreen
Zen Habits
Paul Krugman

For complete list and details, check out TIME.

Official QuickPWN Jailbreak 2.2.1 for Windows is available

2009-02-03T09:36:00.000-08:00

Official QuickPWN Jailbreak 2.2.1 for Windows is available now. Check it out here:

http://tr.im/dpy3

In my case, QuickPWN froze while updating the firmware and I had to do it the second time to get things working. But for most part, things went smooth as usual.

Official QuickPWN 2.2.1 Jailbreak for MAC is out

2009-01-30T10:53:00.000-08:00

The iPhone Dev Team has just released the official QuickPWN 2.2.1 jailbreak for MAC users. Check it out here:

http://tr.im/dpy3

iPhone dev-team says that official Windows version of QuickPWN hasn't been released yet but should be available sometime soon.

QuickPWN Jailbreak Firmware 2.2.1 for iPhone & iPod Touch is out

2009-01-30T01:58:00.000-08:00

QuickPWN has been updated to jailbreak for firmware 2.2.1, within few days of Apple's releasing the new update for iPhone, iPhone 3G and iPod Touch. I just installed it on my iPhone and everything went smooth except for few minor hitches which I have to owe to my new Windows 7 Beta. QuickPWN crashed couple of times before finally installing the new firmware.

You will have to download the 2.2.1 firmware and the new 2.2.1 version of QuickPWN to install the update. Unfortunately the new jailbreak is only available for Windows right now but the Mac version should be out anytime soon.

http://www.quickpwn.com/2009/01/jailbreak-firmware-2-2-1.html

UPDATE: This is an unofficial release, so approach with caution. As per iphone dev-team, they would be releasing official QuickPWN version for Windows (2.2.5) sometime soon.

Dual booting Windows 7 with Windows Vista

2009-01-17T23:49:00.000-08:00

Amid all the drama surrounding Windows 7 Beta being offered as a free public download, I got hold of one copy and a product key. Very anxiously I sat down to partition my Windows and opened the disk partitioning tool provided in the Vista. But this is what it showed me when I tried to shrink my C: drive:

Even though I have 15 GB free on my C: drive, disk partitioning tool is not allowing me to shrink it at all. After doing some research, I found out that it may be because my hard disk is configured as a basic (or static) disk. OS can change space allocations only in dynamic disks but to convert a basic disk to dynamic one means wiping everything out and reinstalling again.

This led me to the discovery of a wonderful partition editor called GParted, which is a free but powerful partition application. It is available as a bootable ISO image (called LiveCD) as well as a bootable USB version (called LiveUSB). USB version seemed to be the obvious and easier choice and it was a breeze to download and setup on my flash drive.

Follow the steps outlined on the How-To Geek blog to partition your disk using GParted. I encountered no problems partitioning my disk using GParted though I had to repair my Vista afterwards because partitioning process renders your main OS unbootable. Nothing to be worried here as you won't lose any data and whole repair process can be easily performed using a bootable disk for Windows Vista installation.

After partitioning, it was a breeze to install Windows 7. So far I am thrilled with Windows 7 and pretty sure that it will prove out to be a much better deal than Vista, if nothing else.