Security-Protocols

Ambrosia Software has released iToner, which is a Mac OS X application that allows you to put custom ringtones on your iPhone.

iToner features a drag and drop interface which makes it simple to drage and drop your ringtones into the “virtual” iPhone and press the home button. iToner will automatically put the ringtones on your iPhone. According to Ambrosia, the ringtones will continue to work with future iPhone OS updates, as it does not modify the iPhone operating system.

iPhoneRingtoneMaker offers a similar application for PC users, that includes a feature to create custom ringtones from your iTunes music collection. It has been speculated that Apple will use their scheduled September 5th event to introduce ringtone functionality within iTunes.

iToner retails for $15 and is available as a free trial.

The worlds greatest music search engine SkreemR can help you find a nice selection of MP3 files from all over the web whether you’re looking for NiN or The Beatles. Type in one your favorite artists, or album which you will back links to MP3’s. Only MP3’s can be searched for, as no other audio format can be found. Below are a few good search operators you should know:


Use double quotes to pinpoint a set of words, ex. "nine inch nails"
Use + operator to pinpoint particular words, ex. nine inch nails +extended +remix
Use - operator to eliminate unwanted results, ex. nine inch nails -live


Make sure you grab the Firefox SkreemR search plugin so you can see some of the top searches. Disclaimer: download copyrighted material at your own risk.

So Google has decided to remove the Supplemental Result tag from search results. Why doesn’t Google want us to know if our sites are in supplemental hell or not? My only guess is that people have figured out how to get out of the supplemental result hell fairly quickly now.

The distinction between the main and the supplemental index is therefore continuing to narrow. Given all the progress that we’ve been able to make so far, and thinking ahead to future improvements, we’ve decided to stop labeling these URLs as “Supplemental Results.” Of course, you will continue to benefit from Google’s supplemental index being deeper and fresher.

Supplemental result pages are often pages that are very old and or have duplicate content. When a site was placed in the supplemental index it was refered to as “Google Hell” as these pages would only show up in the SERPs if there was very little competition. Now this is good for the long tail keyword sites, but not so great for mainstream popular searches.

Google keeps saying that the supplemental results are not a bad thing. But most SEOs are very skeptical of that claim. Supplemental results are in no way equal to normal Google results. From what I have heard, Google will be moving the supplemental status check up into the Google Webmaster Tools.

The method to check for supplemental results is like the following:

site:security-protocols.com.com **** -asssdsd

Obviously this doesnt do much since the “Supplemental Result” Tag has been removed.

George Holtz who runs the blog “Finding JTAG on the iPhone” is claiming to have unlocked the iPhone using a hardware hack. The hack involves a piece of hardware that is installed temporarily into the iPhone only during the unlocking process. After the iPhone has been unlocked, the hardware can be removed and the iPhone can run completely normally using any carrier’s SIM card.

They have also stated that a software hack might be available soon, but for now its a hardware hack only which is supposed to be released one week from today.

Below is a video which they posted on youtube demonstrating an unlocked iPhone using a T-Mobile SIM card and placing a call to their home land line.

So after installing the latest version of Parallels my Cisco VPN client broke and would give the following error on launch:

Error 51: Unable to communicate with the VPN subsystem.
Please make sure that you have at least one network interface that is currently active and has an IP address and start this application again.

I tried uninstalling Parallels and reinstalling the VPN client, still no go. After doing some digging around, I found out how to fix the problem so I figured I would post it since im probably not the only one having this issue.

First launch terminal.app and execute the following:


$ ifconfig -a

fw0: flags=8863 mtu 2030
inet 169.254.30.140 netmask 0xffff0000 broadcast 169.254.255.255
lladdr 00:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
media: autoselect status: inactive
supported media: autoselect


I have removed the rest of the details, but what we are interested in is fw0. What is fw0? Well its the firewire ethernet interface. Also, if you dont see fw0 yours might be fw1.

So then execute:

$ sudo ifconfig fw0 down

Now try launching your Cisco VPN client, it should work. If you would like to have fw0 disabled on boot, do the following below:

$ sudo pico /System/Library/StartupItems/CiscoVPN/CiscoVPN


Then change the StartService() function to the following:


StartService ()
{
#disable fw0
/sbin/ifconfig fw0 down

if [ -d $CISCO_VPN_DIR ]; then
ConsoleMessage "Starting Cisco Systems VPN Driver"
kextload $CISCO_VPN_DIR
fi
}