http://www.iphone4idiots.com/index.php iPhone help for the less geeky Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:10:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en // Update 2/6/2012 As I said before, BTjunkie was IMO the best torrent site on the web. All is not lost however. There will always be more. For those that use torrents my recommendation is to try kickasstorrents here or Extratorrents here. Both are solid and safe. Of course EZTV is ... http://www.iphone4idiots.com/index.php/2012/02/btjunkie-pulls-the-plug/ One good sign a tech company may have peaked is when it goes public. Yesterday, Facebook filed an initial public offering (IPO) for $5 billion worth of stock that will put a valuation on the company of around $85 billion. Despite its’ massive user base of 845 million users every ... http://www.iphone4idiots.com/index.php/2012/02/facebook-peaked-last-year/ Today, Sweden’s Supreme Court announced that it would not be granting an appeal in the Pirate Bay case. What this means is that the four main people behind founding The Pirate Bay can no longer appeal their guilty verdict for copyright infringment. This was an appeal of a November 2010 ... http://www.iphone4idiots.com/index.php/2012/02/the-pirate-bay-changes-ships/ I've written in the past about how ATT has instituted a policy of data throttling for it's top 5% of bandwidth users. I was curious as to how much speed would be cut back and the folks over at AppAdvice uploaded a video demonstrating the extreme nature of the slowdown. ... http://www.iphone4idiots.com/index.php/2012/01/att-data-throttling-down-to-edge-speeds/ Update 1/27/2012 Oh crap. I'm a idiot guys. As @Leggee @jcis031071 and others pointed out iTransmission won't sync to your iOS device from iTunes if you don't have AppSync. Duh. My only pathetic excuse is it has been so long since I've had a non jailbroken device I let this simple ... http://www.iphone4idiots.com/index.php/2012/01/no-megaupload-no-problem-download-direct-to-ios-device/ So what if MegaUpload never comes back? There are tons of alternatives but of course none are as good, popular or fast as MegaUpload. As I wrote yesterday, many of the other popular alternatives have either blocked United States traffic, disabled sharing of links or deleted user accounts. Thus, they ... http://www.iphone4idiots.com/index.php/2012/01/alternatives-to-megaupload/ Wow, the United States has some juice. Several European countries have been prosecuting the founders of popular torrent website The Pirate Bay for years. Not only have they not spent a day in jail, but there website is still in operation to this day. Yet, the United States convinced New ... http://www.iphone4idiots.com/index.php/2012/01/rip-filesonic-fileserve-megaupload-fallout-continues/ Like sands through the hourglass, so goes the daily drama of MegaUpload. The only good thing about the FBI's arrest and seizure of the MegaUpload has been the interesting reading it has provided. Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom is quite the character. His birthname was Kim Schmitz, but he changed it ... http://www.iphone4idiots.com/index.php/2012/01/megaupload-mega-drama-continues/ Great news the untethered jailbreak for iOS 5.0 and 5.0.1 for the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 has been released. This is the first jailbreak of any kind for iPhone 4S so servers are sure to slammed for the next 48 hours. The jailbreak is easy as I've already updated ... http://www.iphone4idiots.com/index.php/2012/01/iphone-4s-ipad-2-ios-5-0-jailbreak-arrives/ MegaUpload has been shut down by federal prosecutors in Virginia. The site’s founder Kim Dotcom and three others were arrested by the police in New Zealand on request of US authorities. MegaVideo, the streaming site belonging to the same company and 16 other domains connected to the Mega company were ... http://www.iphone4idiots.com/index.php/2012/01/megaupload-shut-down-by-fbi/