Posted in Tips on 16. May, 2009
So yo, you wanna’ know how’ta stop the Windows XP / Vista pop-up that says, like a retard, “Dur, Camera Connected, yay!!”. God, how annoying. And there’s no “don’t show this again” message. Well I’m'a show you how.
In Windows XP, connect your iPhone so the pop-up is on screen. Then, open My Computer. Then, right click on “Apple iPhone” or whatever and select properties. Then, select the events tab. Choose “Take no action”. Click Ok.
Boom baby!! You be done! Enjoy the peace… Now… Peace, J
Ya know… I wish backgroundin’ was easier. I’m talkin’ ’bout Backgrounder of course. Today I was out faxin’ somethin’ off. I was on wifi so I had WunderRadio up and playin’ the ProjectVibe station (Neo Soul) and everythin’ was goin’ well, runnin’ it in the background, but it’d crash ‘n’ stuff.
I got’er runnin’ right now in the background… But I wish I could run radio programs in the background more reliable. I can’t wait until that **** OS 3.0 comes out so I can stop runnin’ Clippy in the background to free up system speed to run things in the background more like WunderRadio.
Peace, J
So there’s still a lotta’ searchin’ goin’ on on the site about SBSettings, and a popular one is “SBSettings vs. BossPrefs” and also “SBSettings performance”. So let’s get into that.
SBSettings vs. BossPrefs. Which is better and which should you use? First, know that SBSettings is sorta’ like an upgrade of BossPrefs. Think of SB as Windows Vista and Boss as Windows XP. SB and Vista can both do more than Boss and XP, but runs down your system to a point where it’s really not worth it. Windows XP (Boss Prefs) technically does less, but people don’t use Windows Vista (SBSettings) because of how horrible it runs. That’s kinda’ a good way of comparing the two.
Boss Prefs is just an app you quickly open and turn things on and off. What the developers decided to do was make a “better” version that, instead of you having to open an app, they would make a program run in the background where you could swipe your finger across the screen and bring up your little on-off buttons.
The reason the developers think SBSettings is far better than Boss Prefs is the fact it runs in the background, but that’s actually the reason that makes it bad… it runs in the background.
The iPhone OS can only handle so many things running in the background and when you have things running in the background, it of course slows things down some. I talked about it in detail before, and SBSettings does slow your sytem down.
SBSettings and Boss Prefs both have the same things, they can hide icons and a bunch of other stuff. But there’s one thing SBSettings can do that Boss Prefs can’t; brightness. SB can give you quick access to your brightness. Boss Prefs can’t.
With Boss Prefs, you can double tap your home button and bring it up, but it closes out the app you were working on. SBSettings, you can bring it up over your app, turn something on or off or change brightness and go right back into your app. But, SBSettings eats into your performance in order to do this. You’ll actually use SBSettings less than 1% the time your on your iPhone, yet it runs in the background 100% of the time your using your iPhone. See what I’m sayin’?
When comparing the two, I do love SBSettings, but I don’t recommend it to anybody… any-body… over Boss Prefs. We need to find ways to keep our jailbroken iPhones as quick as regular iPhones, not find ways to slow them down.
Peace, J
So on the Dev-team’s blog, the creators of jailbroken systems for iPhones, are saying what I was sayin’ before, don’t upgrade to any jailbroken OS 3.0 beta until an official version of OS 3.0 is actually jailbroken.
They’re saying they haven’t released any beta version of a jailbroken OS 3.0, and they won’t… ever. They’re only going to release a jailbroken version of OS 3.0 once it’s released. They say there’s ghetto-hacked versions of the Pwnage Tool, but that is not a release from them. Any ghettofied versions are buggy, don’t work right, and most important, our current jailbroken apps aren’t designed to run on OS 3.0 yet so those apps don’t work.
So, wait your *** like the rest of us for jailbroken OS 3.0.
Peace, J
