April 2008

[How To] Fixing the cookie issue on firmware version 1.1.4 on the iPhone / iPod touch

April 26, 2008

Ever since the past one week, I have been beta testing the upcoming “Legendary” version of Hahlo, the twitter web-client from Dean J Robinson. The new version, Hahlo 3 is even better than the native twitter clients that are currently available for the iPhone.

However, once I signed up for the beta, I realized there was an issue I was facing. Hahlo was unable to remember my settings or even my username / password for twitter. Soon enough, I realized that the issue was due to a bug in some iPhones / iPod touches with firmware version 1.1.4. The phones do not save cookies correctly. Here’s how to fix the issue:

Make sure you iPhone is in the same WiFi network as your computer.

Now, there are two ways to resolve the issue.

A: Using an FTP client. ( CyberDuck / Transmit / Flow )

1) Using the (S)FTP client, connect to your iPhone using the username as root and password as alpine. Make sure you connect using port 22 ( Secure FTP ) and NOT port 21.

2) Navigate to /var/mobile/Library/ and set the permissions of the “Cookies” folder in it too 777. Also do the same for all files inside the Cookies folder.

B: Using Terminal.

1) SSH into your iPhone via your Terminal ( Putty for Windows ). Password, ofcourse is “alpine”.

2) Issue the following command. [code]chown -R mobile /var/mobile/

Thanks to Google for the help.

Do leave your comments :)

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Major changes to the blog

April 24, 2008

As you, my dear readers, may have already noticed, your favorite blog (!!!) has undergone a major overhaul over the past four days. The fantastic theme that you see has been designed and coded by [xubz], with help from yours truly. We began working on the theme almost 5 months back, but as it has been with every other project, it got delayed for various (obvious) reasons.

Well, the theme is finally out of the pipeline and as you can see, it has turned out great. I know, I know, I went around asking for feedback and some of you absolutely hate it. However, you gotta praise [xubz] for his fantastic work.

I now have a logo, a sort of a unique identity which I’m gonna use across the forums / communities I am a member of.

There have been several changes made to the structure of the blog. The theme is uniform across the main blog, my tumblog and my twitter profile page‘s background is somewhat similar to the theme too. Although the prime focus will be the blog itself, I will post random short stuff that is too large for twitter and too small for a blog entry. You get the idea.

Also, as you may have seen, the sidebar carries the Skribit widget now. I’d really appreciate it, if you left some suggestions for me :)

I’ve also added and enabled the Wphone plugin, which gives me the possibility to access and manage my blog’s Dashboard from my iPhone through a fantastic iPhone interface. Some screenshots below.

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Laziness will not make you rich

April 18, 2008

chequesanddds

That’s how many Cheques and DDs I’ve been holding with me for the past 3 months. I was just being too lazy to goto the nearest ICICI ATM centre and fill up the pay-in slips and deposits the money papers.

Finally, today, I decided to get done with it, once and for all. Well, atleast the pay-in slips have been filled up. But I’m too lazy to go out in the city’s scorching heat and boil my skin, and return home empty handed.

OMG ! No. I’m turning into [xubz]

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Where the hell is preshit ?

April 8, 2008

As I finally begin writing this post after an hour of continuously staring at the monitor screen and the ceiling, there’s only one single thought that is gliding in my head.

“What do I write about ?”

I have been away from the blog for a really long time now. I know, I know, guilty as charged. But, I primarily blame myself not for being lazy, but because I had a few goals on my mind that I wanted to accomplish before I began writing again. One of them being a new theme for the blog. However, with [xubz] going offline till June 2008, I have given up my hopes for the theme now. [xubz] and me began working on the theme more than a month back, but, like every other project that has been initialized, this one never saw the doors.

As for the blog, I finally decided to use http://preshit.net instead of http://www.acchablog.com as the URL. I’ve been giving it a lot of thought lately. http://www.acchablog.com will simply redirect here.

My Nokia E50, something that I’ve always cherished, started feeling a little boring and useless, and so, I went ahead and bought myself the Apple iPhone 8GB. Nothing much to say except, “IT’s THE BEST FSCKING GADGET I HAVE EVER BOUGHT.” Unfortunately, I have no money left to purchase the MacBook now.

I started being even more active on twitter, and made quite a lot of new friends. Needless to say, the number of my online friends is thrice the number of my actual real-life friends. Come, follow me on twitter.

A few tweople ( twitter people ) decided to do a photodrive and check out the under construction Bandra-Worli sealink. So me, Brajeshwar, Kapil, Anupam, Asfaq and Aalaap set out to capture the project.

Bandra-Worli sealink pics on Flickr

Brajeshwar’s set on Flickr

I attended the city’s third and my first ever Barcamp, the BCM3 at SOM, IIT-M at Powai. I was very excited to be attending the meet, but unfortunately, I had some stupid vivas on the same day in college and hence, I reached the venue at 3PM, when almost every session was done with. Nonetheless, I got to meet most of the twitter folks like @unitechy, @aalaap, @ceetee, @brajeshwar, @shadez, @aDeSe.

Barcamp Mumbai Pics on Flickr.

Additionally, the two legendary Macboys Milind and Aayush also attended the barcamp traveling all the way from Goa and Siliguri ( near Darjeeling ) respectively. It was indeed an honor to meet the two. We chatted quite a bit at the venue and Milind finally got to play with the iPhone, something that he’d wanted to do for a long time. We went on to spend the evening with one of Digit Mods Mehul at Inorbit Mall. Airhockey at TimeZone is even more fun than it looks. ( From left: Mehul, Milind, Aayush, Preshit, Shrenique and Vikash )

Milind, the genius was so awestruck by the iPhone, that he went on to buy one for himself. The Macboy that he is, his actions went on to make Aayush too buy the iPhone. Mr. Genius bought the 16GB version.

So, there we were, 3 Macboys, 3 iPhones. It was Apple Mania overloaded. Awesome fun.

Since Aayush, was already on a tour, we all decided to head over to Goa, to Milind’s place. And of-course, as expected, the trip was Legen….. wait for it …… dary.

I’m finally settling back home now. My results will be out this week, so wish me luck for the same :)

Oh, another thing. Please replace the links on blogs from http://www.acchablog.com to http://preshit.net . Thanks

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