Jailbreak iOS 6.0 And 6.1 Devices Under Linux Using evasi0n

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>iOS jailbreak tool "evasi0n" allows you to jailbreak any iPhone (including iPhone 5), iPod touch, iPad and iPad mini models running iOS 6.0.x and 6.1, from Windows, Mac and of course, Linux. </b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_8x8F6aQ9j0/URAisD8TLcI/AAAAAAAANQ0/Y_dxrs8Dh64/s1600/evasi0n-jailbreak-ios-6.0-6.1-linux.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="evasi0n ios jailbreak tool Linux" border="0" height="226" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_8x8F6aQ9j0/URAisD8TLcI/AAAAAAAANQ0/Y_dxrs8Dh64/s320/evasi0n-jailbreak-ios-6.0-6.1-linux.png" title="evasi0n ios jailbreak tool Linux" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a name='more'></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Jailbreaking iOS devices may not be as popular as it used to be, but it's still nice to know you can do this from Linux.<br /><br />The evasi0n source code isn't available, but there are binaries available for Linux - according to the readme, all you need is Linux Kernel 2.6.24+ and GTK2 2.24.13+. However, that would mean evasi0n wouldn't work in Ubuntu 12.04 which uses an older GTK2 version (2.24.10), but I've tried the application in Ubuntu 12.04 and I was able to run it so it seems it doesn't strictly require GTK2 2.24.13+. Besides Ubuntu 12.04, the application should work with Ubuntu 12.10, Fedora 17 and 18, etc.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Because I don't own any Apple products (so no device running iOS), unfortunately I couldn't test the actual iOS jailbreaking process so you're on your own here.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">To use it under Linux, extract the downloaded the archive and double click the "evasi0n" script which should run the binary for your architecture, or directly double click the "evasi0n.x86" binary for 32bit or "evasi0n.x86_64" for 64bit, connect your iOS 6.0.x or 6.1 device to the computer with an USB cable, click "Jailbreak" and follow the instructions.<br /><br />According to <a href="http://evasi0n.com/">evasi0n.com</a>, you should disable the iOS lock passcode before starting the jailbreak and avoid using any iOS or iTunes related tasks until evasi0n is complete. Before you start, you should also back up all your data!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://evasi0n.com/">Download evasi0n</a> for Linux, Windows or Mac OS X (make sure to also read the notes on the evasi0n homepage!)</div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>seen on <a href="http://lifehacker.com/5981470/ios-61-jailbreak-is-now-available">LifeHacker</a>, <a href="http://www.lffl.org/2013/02/evasi0n-jailbreak-ios-6x-rilasciato.html">lffl.org</a> and <a href="http://www.chimerarevo.com/disponibile-il-jailbreak-untetherered-per-ios-6-1-evasion-tool-guida/">ChimeraRevo.com</a></i></div>

Jailbreak iOS 6.0 And 6.1 Devices Under Linux Using evasi0n

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XBMC 12.0 `Frodo` Stable Released. Use It On Ubuntu, Raspberry Pi, Android And More

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>XBMC Media Center 12.0 "Frodo" has been <a href="http://xbmc.org/natethomas/2013/01/29/xbmc-12-0-frodo/">released</a> today with HD audio, Live TV and PVR support and many other enhancements. Also, the application is now available for Android and Raspberry Pi </b>(although there are no official Raspberry Pi builds provided by XBMC).</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a rel="image_group" href="http://netupd8.com/w8img2/xbmc-12.0.png" title="XBMC 12.0"><img alt="Xbmc 12.0 Ubuntu" src="http://netupd8.com/w8img2/xbmc-12.0_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><a name='more'></a><br /><b>Here are the new features and improvements in the latest XBMC 12.0 "Frodo":</b><br /><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">Support for Raspberry Pi, but no official builds are provided: you can use OpenELEC, Raspbmc, Xbian or Raspbian. Downloads <a href="http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Raspberry_Pi/FAQ">here</a>;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Android support - official builds are now available for download, but only from xbmc.org (XBMC isn't available in the Google Play Store yet);</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Live TV and <a href="http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=PVR/Backend">PVR</a> support. This allows users with a TV tuner to watch live TV, listen to radio, view an EPG, schedule recordings, etc. Supported backends include: DVBViewer, MythTV, Tvheadend, VDR, Argus TV / ForTheRecord, NextPVR, Njoy Digital, MediaPortal and more;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">HD audio support, including DTS-MA and Dolby True-HD;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">New unified "AudioEngine" audio abstraction framework with an API and platform sinks;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">h.264 10bit (aka Hi10P) video software decoding for anime;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Improved AirPlay support;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Improved controller support;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Video library tags and advanced library filtering;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Advanced UPnP sharing;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Added support for direct playback of ISO image files for Blu-ray Disc media;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Added Bluray HDMV menu support (but not BD-J / BD-Live menus);</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Improved Bluray playback support of unencrypted bdmv and mpls files without menus;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Added option to set a default preference for subtitles and audio tracks based on language;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Added HLS (HTTP Live Streaming) and M3U8 (Extended M3U) playlist support;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Linux: improved VAAPI (Video Acceleration API) and VDPAU (Nvidia) support;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Linux: added dedicated AMLPlayer and OMXPlayer video players for hardware accelerated video decoding on AMLogic devices and OpenMAX IL API;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">more </li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Below you can see a few screenshots featuring the latest XBMC 12.0, running in Ubuntu:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a rel="image_group" href="http://netupd8.com/w8img2/xbmc12-playing-video.png" title="XBMC 12.0 - playing an YouTube video"><img alt="Xbmc 12" src="http://netupd8.com/w8img2/xbmc12-playing-video_thumb.png" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a rel="image_group" href="http://netupd8.com/w8img2/xbmc12-video-addons.png" title="XBMC 12.0 - video addons"><img alt="XBMC 12" src="http://netupd8.com/w8img2/xbmc12-video-addons_thumb.png" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a rel="image_group" href="http://netupd8.com/w8img2/xbmc12-youtube-videos.png" title="XBMC 12.0 - Youtube videos"><img alt="XBMC 12" src="http://netupd8.com/w8img2/xbmc12-youtube-videos_thumb.png" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a rel="image_group" href="http://netupd8.com/w8img2/xbmc12-Hi10P.png" title="XBMC 12.0 - playing a h.264 10bit (aka Hi10P) video"><img alt="XBMC 12" src="http://netupd8.com/w8img2/xbmc12-Hi10P_thumb.png" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a rel="image_group" href="http://netupd8.com/w8img2/xbmc-12-pvr.png" title="XBMC 12.0 - PVR"><img alt="XBMC 12.0 PVR" src="http://netupd8.com/w8img2/xbmc-12-pvr_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The default Android skin isn't optimized for touch devices but you can change to a touch-optimized skin from the XBMC for Android settings (set the skin to "Touched"). Here are some screenshots with the default Android skin:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a rel="image_group" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-coGYkXW9Nr8/UQgWzChGCcI/AAAAAAAANEc/GxlGZjErbMQ/s1600/xbmc-android-default-skin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="XBMC for Android - default skin"><img alt="XBMC for Android - default skin" border="0" height="192" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-coGYkXW9Nr8/UQgWzChGCcI/AAAAAAAANEc/GxlGZjErbMQ/s320/xbmc-android-default-skin.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a rel="image_group" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IWI-zWnRBL4/UQgWzNle__I/AAAAAAAANEg/Ag6ZWohZSKs/s1600/xbmc-android-default-skin2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="XBMC for Android - default skin"><img alt="XBMC for Android - default skin" border="0" height="192" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IWI-zWnRBL4/UQgWzNle__I/AAAAAAAANEg/Ag6ZWohZSKs/s320/xbmc-android-default-skin2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />And with the "Touched" skin (using XBMC under Android):<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a rel="image_group" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5yySKjpdasY/UQgW4eqns6I/AAAAAAAANEs/d9ZGZUF0HUk/s1600/xbmc-android-touched-skin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="XBMC for Android - Touched skin"><img alt="XBMC for Android - Touched skin" border="0" height="192" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5yySKjpdasY/UQgW4eqns6I/AAAAAAAANEs/d9ZGZUF0HUk/s320/xbmc-android-touched-skin.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a rel="image_group" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LMn0tR0LOp4/UQgW4g8xwrI/AAAAAAAANEw/i78HnDHP5U4/s1600/xbmc-android-touched-skin2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="XBMC for Android - Touched skin"><img alt="XBMC for Android - Touched skin" border="0" height="192" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LMn0tR0LOp4/UQgW4g8xwrI/AAAAAAAANEw/i78HnDHP5U4/s320/xbmc-android-touched-skin2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a rel="image_group" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oA_cRFOIVmc/UQgW4uo4iqI/AAAAAAAANE0/_nisLlSTMsk/s1600/xbmc-android-touched-skin3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="XBMC for Android - Touched skin"><img alt="XBMC for Android - Touched skin" border="0" height="192" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oA_cRFOIVmc/UQgW4uo4iqI/AAAAAAAANE0/_nisLlSTMsk/s320/xbmc-android-touched-skin3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">One note about XBMC for Android though: it looks like the official XBMC addons aren't available in the application, even though the XBMC wiki mentions that the addons should work as long as they aren't platform-specific. But maybe this has something to do with today's release and their servers being slow (although the addons are displayed on my computer). <b>Update:</b> it seems it was indeed a server issue because the addons show up just fine now in XBMC for Android now.</div><br /><br /><h2>Install XBMC 12.0 in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>To add the XBMC stable PPA and install XBMC 12.0 in Ubuntu 13.04, 12.10, 12.04 or 11.10, use the following commands:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/ppa<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install xbmc</code></pre><br /><b>For other Linux distributions, Windows, Mac OS X, ATV/2, iOS and the newly added Android and Raspberry Pi, see the <a href="http://xbmc.org/download/">XBMC downloads page</a>.</b>

XBMC 12.0 `Frodo` Stable Released. Use It On Ubuntu, Raspberry Pi, Android And More

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Quickly Open Large PDF Files Even On Slow Machines With MuPDF

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Oveev5-hasQ/UDyrO7rbOOI/AAAAAAAAJyk/Hs1cSqrYwV4/s1600/mupdf.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="mupdf" border="0" height="238" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Oveev5-hasQ/UDyrO7rbOOI/AAAAAAAAJyk/Hs1cSqrYwV4/s320/mupdf.png" title="mupdf" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://www.mupdf.com/">MuPDF</a> is a small and fast PDF viewer that can quickly open large PDF files, even on slow computers.</b></div><br /><a name='more'></a>WebUpd8 reader David Reimer writes:<br /><br /><blockquote>Larger PDFs (such as those 20Mb+ ones available at Archive.org/details/texts) run miserably slowly in Evince, or about any other PDF reader/viewer I've tried in Ubuntu, to the point of being unusable. With MuPDF, they can be read (even on my aging hardware) quite rapidly.</blockquote><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Since the application focuses on speed and small code size, it doesn't come with interactive features like for filling for instance. Also, the user interface only displays the PDF; to navigate through the PDF file (next page, rotate, zoom, search for text, go to a page and so on), you must use keyboard shortcuts as explained <a href="http://www.mupdf.com/manual">HERE</a>.</div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">MuPDF also comes with a few tools (in the "mupdf-tools" package) that allow you to convert a PDF file to a series of images (pdfdraw), repair, decrypt, and decompress PDF files (pdfclean) as well as some debugging tools that lets you extract fonts from PDF files, display information about internal objects, etc. (pdfshow, pdfextract and pdfinfo).</div><br /><br /><h2>Install MuPDF in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">MuPDF is available in the official Ubuntu repositories, but that's an old version - 0.9 for Ubuntu 12.04. Many improvements have been added to MuPDF 1.0 and 1.1: better memory management, multi-threaded operation, better PDF rendering and <a href="http://www.mupdf.com/news">more</a>. If you wish to install the version from the official repositories, simply search for MuPDF in Ubuntu Software Center.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">To install the latest MuPDF 1.1 in Ubuntu 12.10, 12.04 or 11.10, use the following commands:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:guilhem-fr/mupdf<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install mupdf</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>MuPDF isn't available just for Linux, the application is also available for Windows, Android and iOS:</b></div><ul><li><a href="http://code.google.com/p/mupdf/downloads/list">download MuPDF source / Windows / Android</a></li><li><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mupdf/id482941798">download MuPDF for iOS</a></li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>thanks to David Reimer for the tip!</i></div>

Quickly Open Large PDF Files Even On Slow Machines With MuPDF

MuPDF is a small and fast PDF viewer that can quickly open large PDF files, even on slow computers. WebUpd8 reader David Reimer writes: Lar...

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