Track Who Views Your Instagram Profile

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Sorry to damage your bubble, however none of those jobs. It’s currently simpler than ever before to locate an individual on Facebook, through different resources and also directory sites by merely making use of one’s name, whether for a job or individual factors. However, this does not function unless the cellular phone has a chip set up on it. The Internet is swamped with blog sites as well as YouTube video clips that assert to have a particular variety of solutions or functioning approaches to aid you open this function. Users running an organization web page might additionally intend to comprehend the variety of individuals seeing them. Orkut formally made this function readily available to its individuals. Unfortunately, Instagram stalker is rigorous when it concerns their customer plans, and also does not provide any type of such attribute currently. Whatever the factor, we’re presuming that you as well want to see that saw your Facebook account given that you discovered this web page. Alternatively, individuals might want to learn that inspected them out simply out of inquisitiveness or to obtain an approximate action of their appeal online provided the raising propensities people to look for recognition.

At this moment, Facebook will certainly not enable any type of solution or code on any person’s account that breaks the personal privacy of Facebook participants – which consists of the personal privacy individuals feel qualified to when they watch your account. 7. Facebook will certainly currently present the account web page of that specific customer. Who is examining your account and interested in you? Perhaps among one of the most frequently asked inquiries regarding Facebook is just how to examine that saw your account, and also naturally so. You might additionally select to report them to Facebook also. Overall the video camera carries out remarkably well at this cost array. Instead, message the individual back as well as pleasantly doubt they’re authentic. Once your collector mobile application approves individual information from the individual, it becomes your duty to protect the very same.

Source: https://imagerocket.net/

While no mobile application matches the energy of Google Docs on a desktop computer or laptop computer, this main variation for Android is quite close. Samsung Apps is an enhancing choice of applications specially made for the TV, linking you for your favored electronic details like movies, sporting activities tasks, on-line video games, social networking, and also substantially a lot more. Real guys understand these pointers on just how to make on your own a lot more eye-catching to ladies; comprehend these suggestions very closely, which remarkable lady that captured your focus could be your future partner. But extra on this in the direction of completion of this post. There is NO method to recognize that you watched your Instagram stalker Profile. However, we do have something that’s most likely the closest to learning that saw your account. Learning that has been watching your account after that ends up being a demand. Is It Possible to Check Your Facebook Profile Visitors Officially? So unless you understand a cyberpunk or are a CIA representative on your own, you can not see your account site visitors.

Effective Technical Writing

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In over a decade of my technical writing experience, I have been rather amused to see how newbie technical writers execute their duties as a professional technical writer. Ironically although they possess knowledge of technical writing tools like Adobe Frame Maker or Robohelp, along with inborn writing skills, still somewhere they get lost when it comes to producing a well ‘constructed’ user guide or online help!

Yup, the word is ‘getting lost’! Many less experienced technical writer often forgot the fact that above all of their tools knowledge and writing skills, the most crucial aspect is ‘well constructed composition’! Many times even for small screens or modules, I have seen writers simply writing and writing without realizing the importance of ‘well organized composition’ of the content.

So what is well organized composition and how to achieve this goal? Well the answer is simple – trash the unwanted, focus ONLY on what is to be conveyed to the end user, and decide the most crucial element of all – the approach! As a technical writer you have to come up with a ‘approach’ that would help you organize and present the content of your document in a highly effective manner. For example, you have one new field that is being added to 10 screens. So you have to decide the approach on how are you going to present this new field to the end user? Are you going to mention it 10 times for all 10 screens? Or are you simply going to create a new chapter mentioning this new field and then simply place a reference link in all 10 screen chapter? Well the shorter, simpler and crispier is your approach, the better! Because users are impatient and want to have information as quick as possible! The best thing that the tools offer is the facility to add reference links! Reference links allows you to minimize the repetition of content and the length of your user guide as well! What is necessary to understand is when you write a user guide, you are providing information and at the same time you also are instructing the user on how to perform a specific function! So it is necessary that you gel both of these aspects and then present it in the simplest manner possible!

Remember as a technical writer you should understand that your end user is your student! He or she is completely unaware of the features that are you going to write about and hence it is very important for you to think of all aspects that will help you present your ‘story’ to the end user in the most effective manner. Well imagine or rather consider yourself as the Director of a movie! Yup, the movie (software) is written (coded) by the programmer, and now it is YOU who have been given this magnanimous task of ‘presenting’ this movie to the end user! So guess what would be your first stand? As a Director, the very first task would be to decide on ‘how to present’ this movie? What should be the ‘approach’? Many times a movie that has to be directed has many complicated sequences, just the way the software has many complicated screens or fields! But a seasoned Director knows how to present such complicated movies in a most effective manner! This is because he is a good analyzer! He breaks every aspect of the movie in bits and pieces, and then he analysis each piece of the movie and then comes up with a finalized approach! Similarly as a technical writer you have to break a module into pieces, analyze each of the screens and then come up with a finalized TOC (table of contents)! Once your table of contents is finalized then you are all set to start up with writing on each of the chapters!

Table of Contents is the blueprint of your approach! It displays How and Where you are going to mention features and functionalities of each module! Think like a ‘teacher’ or rather like a ‘friend’ when you write a user guide! Just imagine if your end user is standing next to you and asking you on ‘how to do, what to do, to get a desired outcome’ then how would you explain? Wouldn’t you try to explain it in the most easily understandable way? Wouldn’t you give one or two example, or demonstrations? Well certainly you would! So that is how you have to be when you are writing a user guide! Always imagine that your end user is standing next to you and asking you about a feature of the software and then start writing so that when you write you will be more sensitive to the end user needs and expectations! And eventually you will generate the most effective and usable user guide!

Thus to become an effective technical writer, some of the crucial aspects that you need to understand and implement are:

Analyze the features

Do not overload yourself with too much of information

Use only that information which needs to be conveyed in the user guide

Work on the ‘Approach’, try to ‘present’ the gathered information in simple, shorter and quicker way

Use Reference links wisely so as to minimize the repetition of content and as well as to generate a compact user guide which is not lengthy and boring!

 

Protecting domain names with trademarks

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In a recent editorial by Internet Business Law Services, the organization reviewed the importance of protecting trademark based domain names. According to the article, there are two crucial documents drafted by Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) that protect domain name owners from trademark fraud.

The first document, “Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy” (or Dispute Policy), serves as a dispute resolution tool to assist businesses in defending their domain names. The policy was implemented in 1999. The Dispute Policy protects registrars during trademark-based disputes and disputes arising from abusive registration of domain names (also known as cybersquatting). Top-level domain names with .com, .info, .org, .net, and .name are protected under the policy. It is imperative to note the terms of the Dispute Policy are automatically included within the registration agreement between the domain name holder and registrar. Per the Dispute Policy procedures, trademark-based disputes may be solved via arbitration, court action, or by agreement between the parties. Court action must be filed in a court with appropriate jurisdiction.

Overall, the ICANN Dispute Policy allows complainants to resolve specific controversies through administrative proceedings in front of an approved dispute-resolution service provider who is selected by the plaintiff. The complaint must be filed through an approved dispute resolution service provider. Resolution service providers can be found by visiting the ICANN web site.

According to the Dispute Policy, third parties must submit to the administrative proceedings when the plaintiff asserts one of the following to the service provider:

The third party’s (respondent) domain name is identical or confusingly similar to the trademark or service mark in which the complainant has rights.

The third party (respondent) has no rights or legitimate interest in respect of the domain name.

The third party’s (respondent) domain name has been registered and is being used in bad faith.

It is the plaintiff’s responsibility to support his or her argument. The third party is not allowed to transfer the domain name in question during these administrative proceedings.

The second document provided by the ICANN to assist in protecting trademark rights is the “Rules for Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution.” Often referred to as “Dispute Rules,” these procedural rules are applicable to domain name controversies solved via the Dispute Policy. The rules were founded in 1999 and are the required rules for the ICANN administrative proceedings. The rules establish the requirements of the grievance; necessitate proper notice to third parties of grievances filed against them and provides examples of proper notice; and determines the requirements of the third party’s answer. The response must then be filed within 20 days of the beginning of the scheduled administrative proceedings. If this is not done, the panel will provide a default decision.

5 Strategies for Online Business Success

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With the economy the way it is these days, there’s not a better time to start a business. Many successful businesses have been started during tough economic times, so if you’re afraid of starting one, don’t be. Follow these tips, and they’ll help you succeed much more quickly.
1. Choose a good topic for your product line.
What are you interested in? What background do you have? What do you feel passionate about? Whatever that is, build a business around it. You may create your own products, or you can sell affiliate products. It’s important to decide this up front because you don’t want to get stuck down the road with a business you hate. It makes it harder to market because you don’t want to, and your sales will suffer.
2. Do keyword research to help you reach your market.
If you want to effectively promote your products and services, then you will need to do some keyword research. Not only will this help you in creating marketing materials that will get you traffic and sales, as well as search engine optimization, you’ll also find out what your audience is looking for. It’s a lot easier to create products that sell when you give your audience what they want.
3. Build a website and use it to promote your products.
Approximately 50 percent of the offline businesses in the United States don’t have an online presence. Because of it, they are leaving a lot of money on the table. You can avoid this by building a simple presence online. A squeeze page and a blog built using WordPress is really all you need. Write and post to your blog regularly, comment on other blogs, and use guest blogging. Keep building your presence, and it will help your bottom line.
4. Build lists of prospects as well as customers.
List building will make your job easier. Only about two percent of those who visit your site will return. The rest you will never see again. If you want to keep your visitors coming back, then the easiest way to do it is to build a list and then build a relationship with those on your list. Send them articles and other useful material, as well as sending them a sales email once in awhile. Try to mail weekly if possible. If you mail too often, you’ll lose a lot of subscribers. If you rarely mail, some may consider your email spam.
5. Stay focused. Don’t try to do too many things at one time and make sure what you are doing fits in with your overall business strategy.
Your plan should be simple. Find a topic, build a simple website, set up a list, and start promoting. Only use one internet marketing technique to market and use it until you master it. Then learn another one. This way you don’t get overwhelmed. Anything you do in your business can be scaled, so just keep building.

HOW TO: Root the HTC Desire (Updated, Easier Method)

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Yesterday I posted how to root your HTC Desire, which was the first method made available by Paul @ Modaco.  Today he’s created a new method which is much easier.

Note:

  1. I take no responsibility for anything that might go wrong. You do this at your own risk
  2. This method will wipe your phone completely – so backup everything using either SMS Backup Restore/ Call Log Backup Restore / MyBackup Pro / Sprite Backup or any other backup apps available in the market
  3. You need a microSD card to create a goldcard as per the instructions.  At the end of it you won’t be able to use that SD card as a normal memory card.  Don’t use your primary SD card, use a spare, smaller card – even 1GB should suffice
  4. Any problems either post here, in the original Modaco thread (linked above)

Skip to the rooting method

Read this whole topic – it contains a ton of useful information as well as the instructions and downloads!

Remember that if you use this guide, you do so entirely at your own risk!

Welcome to my guide on how to root the HTC Desire!

Compatibility

This guide will allow you to root your HTC Desire, provided it has a bootloader version of 0.75 or below. To check this, turn off your device, then turn it back on with the ‘back’ key held. On the second line in green text you will see HBOOT- and then a number. Provided this is 0.75 or below, this guide should work for you.

O2 Germany devices are currently shipping with a 0.80 bootloader, and as such cannot be rooted using this guide at this time.

Desire rooting protection

Back in the early days of Android, rooting was easy. You had several options – you could flash stuff via the bootloader, you could flash an engineering bootloader, you could use kernel exploits – there were many ways of getting the low level access to your device that – in fairness – I think we as paying customers are entitled to. As time has progressed however, the manufacturers have made things harder and harder. The Desire is not a straightforward phone to root, for many reasons, including…

  • a ‘perfected bootloader’ that doesn’t allow flashing or booting of any images (even HTC signed ones)
  • a RUU flash process that does not allow downgrading of the bootloader to earlier versions
  • a kernel (that as yet does not have publicly available source) that as yet has no known exploits
  • a new protection method previously seen on the HTC Tattoo that protects key partitions from having write access. Even with SU access, it is not possible to write to the boot, recovery or system partitions.

In reality, the options for rooting a device this secure are limited. Even if a kernel exploit were found, the key partitions would still be unwritable, rendering su access useless. This was circumvented on the Tattoo very cleverly, using a specific memory address from a confidential Qualcomm datasheet, however this information is not yet available for the Snapdragon chipset used in the Desire (and indeed may never enter the public domain).

And so the root process becomes a process of methodically probing every possible point of exposure on the device, looking for the slightest chink in the armour. I found one and we’re putting it to good use! The downside is that it’s not as easy or as pretty as rooting a device that is actually DESIGNED to be accessible at the lowest level, such as the Nexus One.

Shame on you HTC for going to such unnecessary lengths (but that’s another story for another day).

What this root process provides and does not provide

The root process will…

  • flash your device with a new, generic 1.15.405.4 based ROM that has Superuser access
  • show you how to enter the recovery image in future, allowing you to flash update zips

The root process will NOT…

  • enable you to flash your device with a custom recovery image that can be launched easily by just holding down the volume down button when powering on
  • enable you to have write access to the /system partition in normal use of the device

Both of these limitations are being worked on of course.

Pre-requisites

In order to complete this guide, you need the following…

  • a HTC Desire
  • a PC
  • a microUSB cable
  • a microSD card (to be made into a ‘goldcard’)
  • the downloads below
  • balls of steel (actually, I just made that up)
Download

To be ready for the guide, download the following items…

  • the ISO image – DOWNLOAD / MIRRORS COMING SOON MD5: 854bdbb3c5898b15f92b5991204c9288

Once you have this on your machine, you’re ready to start!

The guide

Follow through these steps, one by one and at the end of it you’ll have a rooted Desire with the latest ROM.

Note: This process will wipe your device and there is currently no option to backup your device ROM before you start.

  • Make your microSD card into a goldcard by following these instructions (it’s a good idea to back up the contents of your card first!).
  • Unzip the file you downloaded to a directory, then open a command prompt / terminal window at that directory.
  • Turn off your HTC Desire, then turn it back on with the ‘back’ button held down. You’ll see ‘FASTBOOT’ written on the screen in a red box. Connect the phone to the computer.
  • In the terminal window, enter either (as appropriate, with no quotes)
    ‘step1-windows.bat’
    ‘./step1-mac.sh’
    ‘./step1-linux.sh’
  • When this step has completed, using the optical trackball, navigate to the ‘BOOTLOADER’ and then ‘RECOVERY’ option on the menu, using the volume buttons to move and the power button to select.
  • In the terminal window, enter either (as appropriate, with no quotes):
    ‘step2-windows.bat’
    ‘./step2-mac.sh’
    ‘./step2-linux.sh’
  • When this has completed, your device should be at the ‘recovery’ screen. Select the ‘wipe’ option, then select the option to apply an update zip from sdcard, and select ‘rootedupdate.zip’. This will take a little while, so go make a nice cup of tea. When the flash has finished, reboot, and you are DONE!

Troubleshooting

If you have any issues with the root process, post below, and we’ll do our best to help!

And finally!

If you wish to do so, you can express your appreciation by signing up to a MoDaCo Ad Free or MoDaCo Plus Account using PayPal or Google Checkout, as detailed in this post on MoDaCo
. As well as donating to support the work that goes into all the various MoDaCo activites, you get cool stuff like free software (there’s some great Android stuff coming too!), an ad free MoDaCo site and of course access to the MoDaCo Online Kitchen. All signups are very much appreciated.
Enjoy!

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Thanks to ChainsDD for his excellent new Superuser Permissions update and Amon_RA for the recovery image I butchered here.

HOW TO: Replace the Default Font

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This guide shows you how to replace the default Android font (Droid Sans) with a custom font of your choosing.

Requirements

  1. A rooted HTC Desire
  2. The font package zip file – link
  3. The font changer .apk file – link

Installation

  1. Copy the font-package.zip file to your SD card
  2. Reboot your phone in recovery mode – instructions below if you don’t know how:
    • Using adb: type in Command Prompt/Terminal: adb reboot recovery
    • Using Boot Control widget: click the widget and select Recovery console
    • Manually: turn off your phone.  Turn on your phone holding the power key down.  Select recovery from the menu that appears
  3. Select install zip from sd card and select the font-package.zip file
  4. Once the install is complete restart your phone.
  5. Install the Font Changer apk file (instructions here if you don’t know how)

How to Change Font

  1. Run Font Changer. You’ll be presented with a list of fonts that you can choose from
  2. Select a font that you like and a preview will appear
  3. If you’re happy press Yes, then press Yes again when prompted to restart your phone
  4. When it’s restarted you’ll see that the system font will have changed to your selection!

How to Revert back to the Default Font

  1. Download the font-reset.zip file from here
  2. Copy the file to SD card
  3. Reboot into recovery and install the font-reset.zip file. Restart phone
  4. Uninstall Font Changer from your applications

Credits

martino2k6 for the font changer apk and update.zip files (link)

HOW TO: Run PSFreedom On Your Desire (PS3 Jailbreak)

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IMPORTANT: Sony have released the 3.42 update which patches this exploit.  If you want to retain the ability to jailbreak don’t install this update!!!
Instructions are available here on how to avoid the update and still play online.

As mentioned in the Twitter article yesterday there’s an open-source exploit available for the Sony PlayStation 3 which lets you run Homebrew software on it.  This hack has now been ported to Android – this means you can now connect your phone to your PS3, run the jailbreak and be able to run homebrew.

Note

In order to use this you need to Enable PSFreedom first to launch the jailbreak on  the PS3.  Whilst it’s on you won’t be able to use the normal USB capabilities of your phone (adb, file transfer, charge etc), but straight after running it you can disable it.

Requirements

  1. Sony PlayStation 3 on the 3.41 firmware.  DO NOT UPDATE TO 3.42 (see here)
  2. A rooted phone running OpenDesire 4.0.4 – link
  3. Either: Enable PSFreedom Homebrew (link) or Enable PSFreedom BDMV (link).  BDMV is the one for backups.
  4. Disable PSFreedom (link)

Installation

  1. Copy the Enable PSFreedom File and Disable PSFreedom file to your SD Card
  2. Reboot the phone in recovery mode
  3. Select “install zip from SD Card“
  4. Select the Enable PSFreedom file
  5. Reboot your phone

Uninstallation

  1. Reboot the phone in recovery mode
  2. Select “install zip from SD Card“
  3. Select the Disable PSFreedom file
  4. Reboot your phone

How To Use

  1. Turn off your PS3 (unplug or turn off the switch on the back)
  2. Connect your phone via USB cable to the PS3 (make sure you’ve got PSFreedom Enable on using the Installation steps above)
  3. Restore power to the PS3 by turning the switching on or plugging the cable back in.  Don’t turn on yet
  4. Press the Power button and then QUICKLY press the Eject button.  If you do this right you’ll know because it takes a few seconds longer to start up
  5. In the Games section of the XMB (Cross Media Bar) you’ll see two new options.  If it’s not worked, repeat steps 1-4.
  6. Disconnect your phone and run the Uninstallation instructions to restore normal USB functionality

FAQs

  1. Do I need to repeat this every time I want to run the exploit?
    Yes, as it’s a soft-jailbreak the jailbreak needs to run each time you turn your console on.  There’s no harm in leaving your phone with PSFreedom Enable on if you don’t the USB features for a while.
  2. Will it only work on OpenDesire?
    For now yes.  The exploit needs to modify the kernel and for now it’s only been done for the OpenDesire one.  We’ll probably see the hack coming to other ROMs in the near future
  3. Can I Run Backups?
    Yes, if you use the BDMV file.  There’s a Homebrew Backup Manager which lets you install the contents of game disk to your hard drive.  After that you still need a disk in the drive (any disk) to launch the game.  Please be sensible with this and use it for games you own.  More detailed instructions (and warnings) on this here (first post, scroll down to the FAQs on backups).

HOW TO: Install the ADB Driver On Windows

Categories Development, Tutorials

Here’s a clearer guide on how exactly to setup the ADB drivers on Windows, with screenshots for each step.

  1. Follow the installation section of this post.  Ignore step 8 (“Windows: install the latest Android phone drivers using the instructions”)
  2. Browse to the android-sdk-windows folder:
  3. Run SDK Setup:
  4. Close the Refresh Sources box (pictured above) if it opens.
  5. Close the Choose Packages to Install box if that’s open too.
  6. Click the Settings option on the right
  7. Under Misc, check the box which says: “Force https://… sources to be fetched using http://…”
  8. Go on Available Packages and click the + (plus) sign next to the long URL (http://dl-ssl.google.com/android…) to expand it
  9. Select Usb Driver package and press Install Selected
  10. Select Accept under the terms and then press Install
  11. When the installation is completed, close the Installing Archives window
    x
  12. IMPORTANT: In your SDK folder you’ll now have a new folder called usb_driver.  This is the location to search in the rest of the tutorial when you’re required to locate the driver
  13. Make sure you have Device Debugging enabled on your phone by going to Settings > Applications > Development > USB Debugging and ticking the checkbox.
  14. Connect your phone via the USB cable.  You’ll notice the Debugging icon in the notification bar, and opening the notification bar will show “USB debugging connected”
  15. If you’re on Windows XP, follow the steps described in the Perform A Fresh Installation section here
    If you’re on Windows Vista or Windows 7, follow the steps described in the Perform A Fresh Installation section here
    REMEMBER: Where it says “Click “Browse…” and locate the folder where you copied the installation package.” it’s the directory in Step 12 above
  16. The drivers should now be fully installed.

Installing the drivers lets you connect your phone in debug mode.  This allows you to take advantage of the SDK tools, such as ddms which lets you take screenshots.  It also lets you easily install applications from your computer, browse files on your phone and if you start developing Android applications you can quickly test them out on your phone.

UPDATE: If the drivers don’t work for you then try using these drivers instead

HOW TO: Delete System Applications On Rooted Phones

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This tutorial shows you how to remove system applications that come installed on your phone, or ROM of your choice that you don’t actually want.

Notes

  1. If the ROM you are using has the Read/Write via Overlay Filesystem on then there’s no need to boot into recovery
  2. If you’ve used the S-OFF hack to enable full read/write access to your system partition then there’s no need to boot into recovery
  3. If you’re using the latest Amon RA Recovery, then you can just use the “Mounts” option to mount the system partition

Requirements

  1. A rooted phone
  2. The adb driver setup on your computer – how to

https://web.archive.org/web/20190327102035/http://myhtcdesire.com/tutorials/how-to-install-the-adb-driver-on-windowsVideo Tutorial

This video shows you how easy it is to do everything below!

Making the System Partition Writable

This change isn’t permanent, meaning that when you leave recovery mode your system partition will revert back to read-only.  It’s only temporarily writable so that you can get rid of those unwanted apps.

  1. Connect your Desire via USB cable
  2. Open the Command Prompt/Terminal on your computer (Start Menu > Run > Cmd)
  3. In the command prompt window type: adb reboot recovery
    Your phone should restart in recovery mode
  4. Type: adb shell
    The first character in the command prompt will change to a #
  5. Type: mount -o rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
    This mounts the system partition and gives you read and write access to it

Backing Up Applications

Before you start deleting apps, I’d strongly recommend backing them up onto your computer first.  Here’s how:

  1. Type: exit
    This leaves shell mode
  2. Type: adb shell ls system/data
    You should now see a list of all the apps (.apk files) in your system folder
  3. For whichever apps you want to backup type:
    adb pull system/app/<full_name_of_app.apk> <full_name_of_app.apk>
    where <full_name_of_app.apk> is the name that was listed in step 2
  4. If you look on your computer in the directory that Command Prompt is pointing to e.g. C:/Users/Ash then you’ll see a copy of that .apk file that you just backed up

Deleting Apps

Note: PLEASE make sure you’ve backed up any applications before deleting them.
Also, be sure that you’re not deleting any important system apps like Rosie (the HTC Sense framework!).  Deleting things like Quick Office, Peep, Teeter, Facebook etc is fine.

  1. Enter shell mode again by typing: adb shell
  2. Type: cd system/app
    This takes you into the system/app folder
  3. Type: ls
    This will show you a listing of the apps (.apk files) in the folder
  4. Type: rm <full_name_of_app.apk>
    where <full_name_of_app.apk> is the name that was listed in step 2
    This deletes the application permanently from your phone
  5. If in step #3 there was a <full_name_of_app>.odex file as well as .apk then delete that too using: rm <full_name_of_app.odex>

Rebooting

Once you’re done deleting your applications you can restart your phone and if everything went well then it will start normally and you’ll find that the deleted applications no longer show up in your app drawer.

Restoring Applications

If for whatever reason you decide that you want to reinstall those system applications you backed up, you can do the following:

  1. Make your system partition writable using the steps in Making the System Partition Writable
  2. Locate the apks you backed up before deleting
  3. Type adb push <full_name_of_app.apk> system/app/<full_name_of_app.apk>

HOW TO: Convert Your Desire Videos For Playback On PC (and other devices)

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This guide shows you how to convert the 3GP videos that your phone records into videos that you can play on your computer and on other gadgets and devices, like the Sony PlayStation 3.

Requirements

  1. MPEG Streamclip Video Convertor (free) – download here

Installation

  1. Unzip MPEG Streamclip into a location of your choice
  2. That’s it – there’s no installer for it or anything

Usage

  1. Connect your Desire to computer in Disk Drive mode
  2. (optional but recommended) – Copy the video you want to convert onto your computer somewhere
  3. Open the folder you extracted MPEG Streamclip to and run MPEG_Streamclip(.exe)
  4. Go on File > Open Files and select the file you want to convert
  5. Select File > Export to MPEG-4
  6. Use the following setings (most of them should be set by default anyway):
    • Compression: leave as default
    • Quality: 100%
    • Sound: MPEG-4 AAC
    • Frame Size: the one which says unscaled next to it
    • Frame Rate: leave blank
  7. Press Make MP4
  8. Select the location and filename of your converted video
  9. Wait while it converts (should be pretty quick)
  10. Test your video on your favourite video player

Notes

  1. For the frame rate setting, you could enter the frame rate of your source video
    I noticed after conversion that the framerate of my convereted video was one less than the source’s
  2. If your videos are already MP4 files there’s no need to convert.  They should already be compatible with most players

Alternative

Instead of converting to an MP4, you can also convert to an avi (in case you get issues playing the MP4)

  1. Press File > Export to AVI
  2. Use MPEG-Layer 3 or MPEG-4 AAC as the audio codec
  3. Make sure Frame Size is unscaled
  4. Enter a frame rate if you want
  5. Click Make AVI