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5Row Alternative Keyboard for iPhone submitted to Cydia

Erik — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 05:33:27 +0000

5Row Alternative Keyboard is simply an add-on to iKeyEx Keyboard developed by KenntyTM~. The add-on will hopefully be available in cydia soon. This will help users avoid the nightmare of installing the add-on manually through SSH.

Note:

Make sure to use mix and match 5Row Alternative with an input manager and put a name for the keyboard bundle if it doesn’t show up automatically.

Updated iPhone Modified Keyboard

Erik — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 03:02:38 +0000

The author of iKeyEx Keyboard, KennyTM has updated his great software! You can download it here

I also updated and optimized my keyboard layout. You can download it here

Screenshots:

iPhone Mail Exchange Server Support

Erik — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 14:10:48 +0000

I’ve been using the the iPhone mail app to sync my contacts, calendar and emails through exchange server. One thing I noticed was that there was no setting to limit the file size of every email received. Even if you set the email limiter on server side, the iPhone wouldn’t recognize it. This is very crucial especially to KB/bandwidth based data plans since every kilobyte cost money. After getting frustrated about it, I began to study the behavior of the iPhone mail app and realized that Apple automated everything to prevent users from making mistakes but sacrificed user control.

So how does it work?

WIFI

If your iPhone receives the email through wifi, the iPhone will automatically download any email below 1 MB (regardless of any setting like number of preview lines and etc). So if you have an email with 999KB worth of text and 800KB attachment file, iPhone will download them all even if you didn’t view the email. The number of attachments do not stack, it will download any attachment below 1MB and let you manually download beyond 1MB whether you like it or not.

3G/GPRS

If your iPhone receives the email through GPRS/Edge/3G, the iPhone will automatically download any email below 125KB. The difference here is that if the email content does not have any attachment and it is below 125KB, the iPhone will download it automatically even if you didn’t view the email. But if the email has an attachment, the iPhone will just download the header(will show the preview lines if set but will not download more than that). When you start to view the email with attachment, that’s the time where the iPhone starts downloading anything below 125KB. The rule is the same with wifi where the attachments do not stack up, each attachment will be checked if it’s under 125KB.

Hopefully I managed to give the iPhone mail users insights on how it works with exchange server.

iPhone Modified Keyboard

Erik — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:09:43 +0000

I’ve been using the iPhone 3G for months and it’s really hard to get used to the standard keyboard. I tried to look for alternative keyboard layout and I found ikeyex keyboard developed by KennyTM. The tool can be only installed in jailbroken iPhones. You can download the latest release from his site which is “hk.kennytm.iKeyEx3-0.1-99j.deb” and make sure to also download “hk.kennytm.5RowQWERTY-0.1-99h.deb”. I’ll be including my own keyboard layout and feel free to use it.

How to install a deb file.

1. Go to cydia and download OpenSSH. After installing the file, restart your device.

2. Download WINSCP .

3. Check your Wifi IP address in your iPhone by going to Settings>General>WIFI>IP

4. Load winscp and input your iPhone’s IP address. User: root Password: alpine

5. After successful connection winscp will show your iPhone files and directories. Copy the 2 ikeyex files anywhere in the iPhone.

6. Load the console window and type dpkg -i hk.kennytm.iKeyEx3-0.1-99j.deb. After finishing the install type dpkg -i hk.kennytm.5RowQWERTY-0.1-99h.deb.

7. Respring your iPhone

8. Go to settings and you will see a new option.

9. Set the keyboard you want. (You’ll be able to use the 5 Row QWERTY Keyboard by KennyTM)

If you want to install my personal keyboard layout:

1. Download the file here

2. Step 1-6.

3. Extract the rar file and make sure it’s 5Row.keyboard folder when extracted.

4. Copy the folder in your iPhone – /Library/iKeyEx/Keyboards

5. Respring your device

6. Mix keyboard in ikeyex settings and you will see a keyboard named 5Row.

7. Add the keyboard layout.

8.Respring your device.

It should show like these.

Enjoy!

Removing “Use the web service to find the correct program” Dialog

Mark — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:17:43 +0000

Did you noticed that every time you open file with unknown extension or file type, it opens this dialog box:

Chances are, if the software is not installed then that dialog box wouldn’t make any difference. It would even improve you productivity if you could skip that single step every day.

Yes, you heard it right, you can skip that dialog box forever. There are 2 ways to do it, by importing registry entries or by manually modifying the registry.

Below are the steps by importing registry entries:
1. Download the disable-open-file.reg to disable the dialog
2. Download the enable-open-file.reg to enable the dialog

Below are the steps by manually modifying the registry
1. Go to the following path using Registry Editor (regedit.exe).
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
2. Add a new DWORD 32bit with a value name “NoInternetOpenWith” and set the value to 1 to disable the dialog box or 0 to enable the dialog box.

I hope this makes windows less annoying for every day use.

KB974571 will break LCS 2007 r2

George — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:40:56 +0000

Today you came into your office and your phone rang endlessly. It seems that the entire company is trying to reach you because “THEY CANT SIGN IN TO THEIR COMMUNICATOR”.

You log in to your server and found that FRONT END service is STOPPED. You restarted the service but failed. Checked the EVENT LOG and found that an error Source: Schannel.

And dig futher and found these errors:
Source: OCS Server
Category: 1000
Event : 12290

You did a quick dnsflush and tried again to restart the service thinking that it might just be your certificate provider but no its dead. If you had this problem I have had it today.

Well lets get to the point. Browse to your EVENT log on your OCS / LCS and look for errors. If you have something like this:

Description:
Event Type: Error
Event Source: OCS Server
Event Category: (1000)
Event ID: 12290
Date: 10/16/2009
Time: 7:52:47 AM
User: N/A

Description:
The evaluation period for Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 has expired. Please upgrade from the evaluation version to the full released version of the product.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Then whats causing this is KB974571 (MS09-056: Vulnerabilities in CryptoAPI could allow spoofing) This update will cause the LCS or OCS server to show running with the evaluation version and then noting it as expired. Your Front End Server will indicate that it is stopped while other services is running. We ran LCS 2007r2 but i believe it applied to LCS 2005 as well.

Uninstalling the patch is the only way to currently fix this issue. Delaying the install of KB974571 is recommended.

Afterward rebooting your server will solves your problem momentarily.

IMPORTANT : DO NOT LET YOUR SERVER INSTALL THE UPDATE AGAIN TILL MICROSOFT GET THIS FIXED UP.

Otherwise everyone will ring your phone again. If your have WSUS you can decline/delay the update for install. I’m sure just like me it saved my day and now I can enjoy my cup of coffee again. I hope this saves your day too.

Samsung Omnia Backlight Fix

Erik — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 07:05:01 +0000

I had a Samsung Epix and Samsung Omnia before which had a backlight issue (very unlucky). I tried to have it checked in samsung service center and the only option was to replace the mainboard which cost a lot since I don’t have the receipt anymore. The problem with the backlight was it does not turn off automatically by itself. It will only turn off if the device is set to turn off. The problem here is that If you’re surfing the internet with your phone and set the backlight to turn off after 1 min, device turn off after 3 mins. The backlight won’t turn off until the 3 min mark which will drain your battery. Another problem is that the phone backlight will not turn off if it’s sync to activesync/charge. You will need to turn it off by pressing the power button, but that ends up disconnecting to activesync also.

Further research provided me information that the backlight auto dims before it turns off . To fix the backlight issue, what I did is to force the backlight to turn off instead of going auto dim by editing the registry information below. You can use total commander/ phm registry editor or resco registry editor if you are having the same problem as mine.

I hope this method saves everyone the cost of replacing their mainboard.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\State\BacklightOff]
“bkl1:”=dword:00000003
“Flags”=dword:10010000
@=dword:00000000

iPhone All-in-One Jailbreak Soon

Erik — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 06:51:04 +0000

George Hotz, the first person who successfully jailbreak and unlocked the iPhone will release a new tool named BlackRa1n. The tool will jailbreak all iPhone and iPod touch firmwares (even OS 3.1).

http://iphonejtag.blogspot.com/

Windows 7 RC1 Build 7100

George — Wed, 06 May 2009 09:48:28 +0000

The long wait is over for you guys who have waited long for the RC1 version on the new Windows 7 from Microsoft. The RC1 has now been made public for download. You can get it at this link.

http://windows7center.com/news/download-windows-7-rc-from-microsoft-now

Just be patient it takes sometime to download depending on your connection speed. I got it, I installed it and I love it. Happy downloading.

Show LastLogOnTime on Exchange 2007

George — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 03:57:54 +0000

While most organization works on Exchange 2003 for their email the move to the newer Exchange 2007 provides more functionality and benefits. Exchange 2007 not only provide a good looking EMC. But is packed with new cool features such as Unified Messaging, Message tracking Center and mailbox recovery and addresses also the limitation on the database size of your the previous Exchange 2003. Well theoretically it can go up to 16TB of Exchange database size surpassing the previous 75GB limit on your Exchange 2003. But I don’t think someone would want his database size to be 16TB that is way too much to handle. Ok All is going well until one day the CIO asked me to send him a list of people who are not reading their email. So I opened up my Exchange Admin console and went to the users mailbox node..and guess what. it is not there anymore.

What used to show up in Exchange 2003 under Mailbox Store>Mailboxes is not there anymore in Exchange 2007. In Exchange 2003 thru the EMC you will find and can even export these information see figure below.

Fig 1. Exch2003
By navigating to the Mailboxes Node

You will be presented with the LasLogOnTime
But it is not the case with Exchange 2007. You will need to hustle your skill a little bit on Power shell . Yes you heard me right Power shell. So I need to brush up my typing again. Well its a little pain but once you get to have the feel of it its a great new tool to manage your Exchange 2007. After all the things you click on your EMC fires up a PS command.

So fire up the Exchange Management shell. And type in the following :

To display the entire exchange organization run
Get-MailboxStatistics -Server servername

To display a particular user LasLogOnTime run
Get-MailboxStatistics username | list LastLogOnTime

To dump to a text file you can dump it into a text file or an HTML filel by
providing the appropriate output extensions.
Get-MailboxStatistics -Server servename | out-file textfilename.txt
Get-MailboxStatistics -Server servename | out-file textfilename.html

These commands on PS ( Power shell ) will not only show you the LastLogOnTime date on a user mailbox but will also show other statistics on a user mailbox. You can display it on screen or dump it to a text/html file and submit it to your boss.

Hope it helps