Palm Treo Pro 850 Uncovered.

A number of images of a new Palm Treo Pro have been dug up and posted online. Forum member scottymomo at WMExperts poked around Palm's Learning site and found a unposed flash tutorial of the unannounced new Treo.

The Treo Pro appears to be the official name of the previously leaked Treo 850. The earlier blurrycam pics match up with this new set and also fits the description of the code-named Palm Drucker, which was leaked back in January. The last set of rumors on this device pegged it as a Windows Mobile 6.1 powered Quad-band 3G GSM phone with Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth, a 400 MHz processor and an approximate thickness of around ~.55 inches (14mm), a noticeable reduction from Treo's past.

Aside from the black and sleek refreshed, Centro inspired design, new details revealed from this set of pics include a 3.5mm headphone jack, a dedicated Wi-Fi button, an unspecified but presumably a microSD expansion slot and a microUSB connector. Also present is a "flush" touchscreen, the usual ringer switch and a new button arrangement.

Unlock T229 T-mobile free

Insert non T-mobile sim card

You see valid card
User this code
*7465625*638*00000000*00000000#
Restart phone
#7465625*638*00000000#
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Restart, phone UNLOCK OK.

Winpwn 2.0 Guide

Here is a working winpwn 2.0 guide updated to include 2.0.1 firmware. Here is what you need:

1) Winpwn 2.0.0.4 or newer.
2) iTunes 7.7 or newer.
3) Boot images for 3.9 and 4.6.
4) The proper restore file. Get your 2g restore image or 3g restore image.

Let’s get started.

Step 1: Install winpwn, iTunes, and extract your restore images and bootloaders to your desktop. Note: if you have a previous copy of winpwn installed, uninstall it before installing the new one.

Step 2: Connect your iPhone to your PC and load up winpwn. You will see this screen:

Step 3: Winpwn will not allow you to do anything without selecting a firmware image. So, click “Browse .ipsw” button and select your firmware image from your desktop. Note: winpwn will determine if you have an iPod, an iPhone 3g, or an iPhone 2g based off the firmware image you select and downloaded. So make sure you got the correct image. 2g and 3g iPhones have different firmwares!
Step 4: Next, we need to build the iPhone software image. Click “IPSW Builder” and you will be presented with some screens. Start on the Applications tab. On this screen you must select “Install Cydia”. If you need youtube patched then select also “YouTube activation fix”. You do not need to select this if you have a contract carrier such as AT&T. As far as installer goes, feel fee to select it if you want. But do not select installer instead of Cydia. Cydia has all the apps. Installer does not and installer is still very beta as of August 9, 2008 and contains virtually no packages to install. If you select installer, also select Cydia.

Step 5: Click the custom images tab. Here you can select custom boot images if you care to. This is optional.

Step 6: Click the custom payload tab. Here you can select some payloads in .tar format. At this time there are a couple built in payloads so there is nothing to do here. If you make your own payloads for packages you can select them here. So we are skipping this screen.
Step 7: Click Advanced tab. This is a critical tab. If you have a contract carrier such as AT&T you do not need to unlock. So you must make sure everything is unchecked here. Again, if you have a contract carrier, select nothing here! If you do not have a contract carrier, you will need to use this to configure activation and unlocking. Check activate phone, Enable Baseband Update, Unlock Baseband, Autodelete Bootneuter.app. Click the two bootloader file buttons and browse for your 3.9 and 4.6 firmware we downloaded at the start of this guide. Your finished screen needs to look something like this:

Note: If you are activating here by checking the “activate iphone” you should also patch youtube on the first applications screen.

Step 8: Partition resizer. Here is the partition resizer screen. With the current version fo Winpwn, move this to 550 mb. The extra packages will fill the root partition before Cydia gets to run and move things about. Do not make it any larger though because Cydia moves your apps around properly to the larger partition so if you resize this larger here you are just losing space.

Step 9: Build the custom IPSW. Click “Build .ipsw” at the bottom of the window. Note: save your file to some place sensible so you can find it. The default location is going to be hard to find. Try your documents or your desktop. Winpwn will crank away and finally you will see the success box:

Step 10: Note: if you are currently pwned, (phone boots with custom logo still) you can skip to step 12 and restore with the image you just made. Doing this step will not hurt but is not required for you.

Back to the main screen, select iPwner. This will ask you to select your custom firmware we just built in step 8. So select that file.

You will get a success message and you are done with winpwn!

Step 11: Get your phone into DFU mode. You cannot use any tools to do this. It must be hardware DFU mode only done by pressing the buttons on your device.

DFU Mode

DFU (Device Firmware Upgrade) mode is not the same as restore mode. DFU mode bypasses the current OS installed and allows you to upgrade or downgrade your OS. If you are getting errors trying to restore in iTunes, DFU mode is very likely for you.

This is how to achieve DFU mode. You can do it on every phone:

• Attach the phone to the pc
• Turn the phone off
• Hold power and home together for *exactly* 10 seconds
• Release power but keep holding home until the pc beeps as a USB device is recognized.
• At no point will the display come on. Now your restore should work.

Having problems? Try adjusting the 10 seconds to be slightly less like 9 seconds, then 8, then 7. It’s a tricky timing but you will eventually get it.

Here is an alternate method:

• Hook up the phone powered on to the PC
• Now hold home / power until the phone turns off and keep holding for 10 seconds. If the phone ever turns on during this phase,start over and hold for less time.
• Now release power and continue holding home until the PC recognizes the phone.
• I don’t like this method as much because there are “rumors” that it may cause some 1604 errors in the restore. I am not convinced of that though.

This works on every device so keep trying if you are having problems.

Step 12: While in DFU mode, load iTunes 7.7, and restore using shift-restore. Load the custom firmware image we made. And after about 10-15 minutes you are done.

Note: if your device was already pwned and you are just upgrading, you do not need DFU mode. Normal recovery mode may work fine. You should try either one and if you have problems try the other.

Troubleshooting:

If you are getting errors in iTunes less than 20 you are not in DFU mode. Refer to my DFU guide.

If you are getting 160x errors (1600, 1601, 1602, 1604) you may have used the wrong firmware image for your device. Make sure you got the correct image for your 2g or 3g phone. They are not the same. For help on iTunes errors refer to my restore guide.

If you are using winpwn version earlier than 2.0.0.3 you may see 160x errors.

If the last tab only lets you select activate, (step 7) you probably loaded the 3g firmware image. iPhone 3g cannot be unlocked at this time. If you have 2g, you loaded the wrong firmware image to start.

If you have no signal on a contract carrier (AT&T for example), you probably activated but did not unlock (checked the activate box on step 7). If you do not have a contract carrier, you need to unlock. Redo the steps again making sure not to make this mistake.

If your mail crashes after you sync your backup, use BossPrefs, more, fix user dir permissions.

If iTunes will not stop asking you if you want to restore your backup, see this.

Guide from: http://sleepers.net/news/2008/07/25/winpwn-20-guide/

How to unlock iPhone 3G with FuriouSim

iPhone 3G unlocking with FuriouSim

Optimizing your Blog for Google Search

In addition to participating in the AdSense network, you may also be
interested in having your site ranked in organic Google search. In this post,
I'll highlight some important points for search optimization. While there's no a
magic formula to make your site show up first on a search results page, there
are some good practices when it comes to links, design, content, and the
structure of your site.

First of all, as a reminder, Google organic search and AdSense are independent
of each other. Displaying AdSense ads on a site won't change the ranking of the
site in Google search in any way. So it follows that sites containing AdSense
ads don't receive special treatment in Google search.

Ranking in Google search is based on many different algorithms, and optimization
for search is a long, continuous process. For these reasons, and because the
techniques might

violate our guidelines, we recommend avoiding any techniques that claim to
optimize your ranking very quickly or radically. If you have concerns or
questions, you can consult other webmasters on a number of forums, including
Google's official
forum for webmaster-related issues.

We encourage you to monitor the quality of your site's backlinks -- links from
any site directing to your site. To increase your site's popularity, check if
other sites that discuss similar topics or have a similar reader base are aware
your site exists.

Outgoing links are also important and should comply with our

guidelines. When you create a link to another site, we recommend first
asking yourself: "Is this link going to be useful for my visitors?" or
"Is this link likely to be clicked by my visitors?". Don't participate in
link schemes or buy/sell links that pass PageRank, as it is against our
guidelines and may hurt your site's performance in our search results.

Here are some tips for structuring your site:

• Your pages should have a clear hierarchy and relevant internal links. We
  also recommend
  
  creating a Sitemap and using
  Google's
  Webmaster Tools. These tools are useful, user-friendly and will provide
  information such as where your backlinks come from or which queries visitors
  used to reach your site.


• tags that are explicit and useful for the user. For example, avoid a
  title like "Homepage" or "Welcome to my site".Use


• For images, use ALT attributes to describe appropriately what the image
  is about. We've recently created a quick and useful
  YouTube video on
  this topic.
  

Also, adding original and compelling content on a regular basis may help Google
crawl your pages regularly. It can have the added benefit of attracting links to
your pages too. Finally, design your site with your users in mind, and be
patient and consistent in your efforts. To attract quality backlinks and develop
your optimization strategy, it's important to keep a clear structure for your
pages and regularly add organic content. The above
content has been written by "Ambroise Fensterbank - Search Quality Evaluator" at
Google Adsense Official Blog
If you liked the above content and would like to
keep yourself updated about all the latest happenings in the blogosphere then i
would suggest you subscribe to my RSS Feeds or Email Subscriptions.

Google Analytics - Your Blog Analyzed

While your current website host probably already provides some basic information, here are just a few of the reports that Google Analytics has to offer:

• New Visitors vs Returning Visitors


• Absolute Unique Visitors


• Average Pageviews per Visitor


• Average Time spent on Site


• Traffic Sources (Referring Sites)


• Visitors Geographic Location


• Keywords used to find Your Site


• Most Popular Pages


• Top Exit Pages


• Track Your AdWords Campaigns

First you will need a Gmail account if you don't already have one. Then you will
need create a Google Analytics Account. Installing Google Analytics does not
require knowledge of HTML, but there is a piece of HTML that must be copied onto
every page you wish to track.

• In the lower left hand side of the screen, Click on: Add Website Profile


• In the box, enter your URL. (For example: www.yourwebsite.com or
  yourblog.blogspt.com.)


• Set your Country and Time zone, and hit Continue.


• Your Tracking code will then be displayed in a large box:


• Highlight the code and Copy.

If you have a web designer maintaining your site, you can copy the tracking code
into an email and have them copy the code into a header or footer include file.
This will make sure the code is automatically loaded onto each page.

For Blogs:

If you are using Blogger, copy and paste the HTML 'snippet' of Code just before
the body tag at the end of your template. The code only has to be copied once to
track all of your posts.

• Sign into Blogger


• Click on the Layout Tab


• Click on Edit HTML

It's always a good idea to back up your template before you make any changes.

• Click on Download Full Template to back up onto your computer.


• Scroll down to the bottom and paste the tracking code just before the
  body tag.


• Click on Save Template at the bottom of the screen.

Back in Google Analytics you will see: Tracking code not detected under the
status column.

Click on Check status or Verify Tracking Code under the Status column. (Don't
worry about Conversion Goals (0) right now.) Once your tracking code has been
verified, the status will change to: Receiving Data.

It will take about 24 hours before you start seeing any data.

Check back the next day and familiarize yourself will all the reports. The
longer you have have Google Analytics installed, the more interesting and
valuable the data will be.


The above information was taken in from

Ezine Articles.


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happenings of the blogosphere and this blog then i would suggest that you
subscribe to the RSS Feeds or subscribe via email.

SEO Tips

Millions of blogs, and only the top 10 results. It seems like a recipe for headaches and back pain. If you don’t mind, I’ll see if I can give you some pain medication in the form of tried and true methods for getting your blog to show up in those top 10 results.

Headlines: Should be no more than 60 characters, How to’s and top 5 or 10 lists usually work the best to bring in readers. It is also easy to digg a “How To List” or “Top 10 list”. If your keywords are “Internet Business” or “Movie Critiques”, an example could be “The top 5 movie critiques for online shoppers.”

. Text: Make your paragraphs no more than 6-7 sentences. Lists and bullet points are easier on the eyes and help people read your whole post. Obviously your keywords are an important consideration, have your keyword research handy when writing any post. First and foremost is your reader though, so don’t sacrifice semantics/readability for your keywords.

Links: Link to influential blogs or sources as much as possible (no more than 8 links in one post though, you don’t want the reader to get all confused by the abundance of outbound links). There are at least two reasons for this: 1) If you link to an influential blogger, they will see your link, and possibly reciprocate one back to you if your article is good enough. 2) Trusted sources are worth their weight in gold if you want to be seen as an industry expert and to keep your readers coming back for more.

Ultimately you will want people to read what you write on your blog. That’s why we have to prepare your blog in such a way that the search engines will find it easier. There are ways to get immediate traffic to your site using Stumbleupon or Digg or some other social bookmarking service, which we use extensively. But the real value in having your post or article go “viral” is for the links that almost automatically come from people who like what you have written. Relevant, keyword targeted text links from a high profile blog or site counts alot towards how well you rank for a particular keyword phrase. Use Stumbling and Digging as much as needed, but first write good content, and make your site search engine friendly.

Last but not least, make your RSS feed readily available at the top of your page somewhere. That is usually the first place people look for an RSS feed if they like your post, and if someone wants to link to you or a post of yours, you should give them as many options as possible to do so. An RSS feed is great for publishing content that will then get read and possibly linked to more often.