Update: If you have a 3GS with the new bootrom (meaning a 3GS running 3.1.3 jailbroken with Spirit) You can download Spirit2Pwn from the “http://repo.woowiz.net” repo and then use a standard jailbreak guide to update the 3GS to iOS 4 using PwnageTool.

Below is the original post:

There is no iPhone 4 or 3GS on the new bootrom (meaning a 3GS running 3.1.3 jailbroken with Spirit) JUST YET. Progress has been made, but there is no public jailbreak. The Dev-team has only gotten root access using a userland jailbreak method.

There is NO RELEASE DATE. We might not see a public release jailbreak any time soon. Could be days, could be weeks. Also can depend on if Apple patches iOS 4 to work on any issues like the antenna/signal issues (possibly Monday, but no one knows for sure.) Releasing a jailbreak now means Apple will probably fix the exploit on the next patch, and since the antenna issue may be serious and quickly fixed, the Dev-team will not waste a jailbreak method and end up having a must-have/quick release patch break it in a few days.

I should note, as long as Cydia has your 3.1.2 or earlier SHSHs on file… If you “accidentally” updated your older 3GS to 3.1.3 and used Spirit to jailbreak, you CAN downgrade back to 3.1.2 and jailbreak with blackra1n and then use PwnageTool 4.01 to make a jailbroken iOS 4 update/restore file.

To do this downgrade, you will need to find a guide on a website like ModMyi.com, but its pretty easy if you ask me. A whole forum section dedicated to properly downgrading, and many guides included is available here.
http://modmyi.com/forums/3g-s-downgrading/

This is a great tool for minimizing Folding@Home console clients to be out of sight and completely out of the way. Do remember this is an early version, and while it works, it doesnt have all the features yet, just the basics.

Download TrayInjector here (363kb, v0.1).

The easiest way to build a file like this is creating a self-extracting .zip file. With this installation type, we can set it to load all the games files into the local users’ temporary folder and launch the game from there. This helps both slow flash drives and slow computers, and also making distribution and launching that much easier.

The utility itself

DOWNLOAD: ZIP 2 Secure EXE (900 KB)

This wonderful utility by chilkatsoft holds the key to creating self-extracting archives. Of course, the main part of that utility is the fact you can secure the executable, but it has many things that we can use to create a portable game launcher. (Heck, maybe you DO want to password protect the game.) Some things we can do is allow/disallow choosing where to extract the archive, set to default location or automatically extract to the users’ temporary directory, add/remove buttons and text (immediately start extract on starting the .exe or wait for Unzip to be clicked? Totally up to you.)

Once you package your portable game or application, archive it in a .zip file. Open it with this utility and set your settings accordingly. Some important things that you will want to set will be where to unzip the archive to, and ‘Run this “setup” file after extracting.’ The “setup file” is actually what you will want to point for whatever executable or shortcut link launches your game from inside the extracted directory.  Make sure this will extract to a common directory that everyone has if you disable the users’ ability to choose where it will be extracted to.

If you’re building something for being run on computer that will not have administrative rights for the local user, you’ll probably want to pick the temporary directory and launch it from there.

Hopefully, this helps some people get started on creating self-extracting, portable games. Feel free to try out any I have posted here or leave a comment.

• [3.8.1] Dark_vb by CompleteGFX.com.zip – Downloads
• [3.8.1] Dark_vb_2 by CompleteGFX.com.zip – Downloads
• [3.8.1] Green One by CompleteGFX.com.zip – Downloads
  
• [3.8.1] Sleek Passion by CompleteGFX.com.zip – Downloads
• [3.8.1] Vivid Stripes by CompleteGFX.com.zip – Downloads
• [3.8.1] Zero by CompleteGFX.com.zip – Downloads

Assuming you already own the domain name, you will need to go to the domains’ DNS settings and add an “A Record” with a Name value of the sub domain (game.zsnnet.org), and a Value of the IP address of the game server you want to point to.

Each webhost or domain provider will be different, some of you will need to contact them to add the DNS record, others (like Dreamhost) allow you to configure your own Custom DNS. Search their support or help areas to see how to configure it correctly for your providers system.

Download here :  http://zzj.itf-inc.com/downloads/SProxy1003dPS1008e.zip

Don’t forget to donate to the developer himself if you like his work! Here is his Paypal link.

Directions:

1. Download PandoraSaver from above URL.
2. Extract the contents, run the SProxy executable.
3. Configure your browser to use SProxy. (Default settings are http://127.0.0.1:8888/ )

You can also use a firefox extention like FoxyProxy to create a whitelist filter of “*.pandora.com*” to use the SProxy IP/Port. If you want, you can also use the developers proxy script (http://zzj.itf-inc.com/BrowserPAC.js) in the “automatic proxy configuration url” setting in your prowser.

Put your iPhone in DFU mode:

1.) Sync your phone/back it up with iTunes one last time.
2.) Turn off the phone.
3.) Turn the phone on holding both the Power and Home button. Once it powers on, continue holding the Home button until you see the graphic that says you need to plug the phone into iTunes.
4.) Shift-Click Restore in iTunes for the iPhone, select the custom firmware that you downloaded.
5.) iTunes will guide you from there. Good Luck!

In this guide, I will explain how to use Yahoo! Pipes to read, parse, and create a RSS feed that is friendly twards the Recent Loot module that we created earlier from the feeds at Wowprogress.com.

First off, head over to Yahoo! Pipes and create a new account, or log in if you already have one. Then head over to Wowprogress.com and find your guild’s page.

You should find something similar to a RSS Feed Reader on their page by scrolling down, make sure you sort by Phat Loot and click the RSS icon. Save this feed URL. It should look something similar to this:

You’ll notice how this feed has the information we need, but had to much extra info and needs formated to what will work with our project.

Let’s make a pipe that formats this data:

1. On the Pipes page, hit Create a pipe.
2. Use this image, and create it exactly. Make sure you make the URL of the feed your guilds’ from the wowprogress.com site.
3. Save the feed. Copy down the URL of the RSS feed (you can find this on your Pipes page.)

Now, you’ll notice how “Apr 12, 2009 Orkko Oath acquired item Serene Echoes link” turns into “CHARACTER NAME – [item]ITEMNAME[/item]”

See how that works? Make any changes you want, I know some people might want to change the “-” back to “aquires” or something of that nature. Have fun and make it something unique if you want.

Now, we’ll add our RSS feed to the vBulletin RSS Feed Robot.

1. In the vBulletin Admin Console go to the RSS Feeds category and click RSS Feed Manager.
2. Hit Add New RSS Feed.
3. Title the feed and enter the URL.
4. Put in the username of who you want the posts to be by, could be you, or a dummy account, but it has to0 actually exist.
5. Set the forum that it posts in to the one we created earlier.
6. In both Title Template and Body Template replace everything with “{feed:title}“.
7. Change any other settings you would like, but that is all that is necessary.
8. Press Save and then Run Scheduled Tasks Now.

Go to the page where you added the vBadvanced module. You should now see something like this:

You’re done! Make any changes you want, and post your guild site link in the comments for other to see. You can also post here any questions, comments, or suggestions. I’d love to make this better or more efficent if anyone has any ideas.

Since our current guild site is based on vBulletin 3.8.x, I was able to use the vBadvanced add on to get a nice front page look to the site. Using some hacks for a module, I would later than be able to make a hidden forum that each item would be post in as a new thread. These thread titles/descriptions would when be used as the “Character name – Item name” text on the pages.

This first guide will explain how to set up vBulletin (3.8.x, but will probably work on most) with vBadvanced to have a module on the front page that shows recent items, with working Wowhead item links.

Things you will need:

• vBulletin
• vBadvanced
• Wowhead item tooltips for vBulletin

1. In vBulletin, create a new forum (wherever you want) that has a title similar to Recent Items, but you can name it whatever you want. Users, and even you if you want, cannot see this forum. Unless of course, you know the exact URL.
2. To make it invisible to everything but the scripts,  under “Forum is Active,” set the radio button to “No“.
3. I’d recommend also making the posts not count to user post counts unless you want to set up a user account specifically for RSS Feed Bot posting. I usually make a user called Feed on all my vBulletin sites for this purpose.
4. Go to Forum Permissions, and Deny All to the new forum you created. If you want access to this on your account, go to your user settings, and give yourself an access mask to see the forum. This might be useful for maintenance and testing.

Next we’re going to set up a Module for vBadvanced that reads information from this forum and posts the thread titles (body messages would/could be the same, but I don’t do both obviously.)

1. We are going to need to make a module similar to the News Module that comes with vBadavanced. In fact, we’re just going to copy it and make some modifications so that you only see the Title line of the RSS Feed.
2. Go to Styles & Templates in your vBulletin Admin Console and go to Style Manager.
3. Then go to:  Default Style -> Add New Template -> Press Go.
4. For the title, call it adv_portal_itembits.
5. We’re going to use this code below, it is based off the same code of the vBadvanced News module, just chopped down to what we need.

Download the Source Code here.

Now save the template. Since we put this in the Default Style, the template should be inherited by all the child styles you added to the Default Style. If you added your styles as parents, you may need to add this template to each parent style. Next we are going to set up the vBadvanced module itself.

1. In the vBulletin Admin Console, vBa CMPS -> Add Modules -> [Template Module].
2. Name the module.
3. In Template to Include add itembits. (This would make it look like adv_portal_itembits)
4. Highlight (by holding control) all or some of the styles you want this to be added to (should be all of them.)
5. Scroll down, set any permission options you want.
6. Click Save, then add this module to the vBadvanced pages you want, and select its’ column order, just like any other module.

Go back and install the Wowhead item tooltips for vBulletin if you already haven’t. Check it’s configuration to change any settings you want.

Now we’re done setting up the hard part of vBulletin and vBadvanced. The only time we will need to go back to vBulletin is to set the RSS Feed Posting Robot to post the content of the feeds of your choice.

That brings us to the next part, getting a RSS feed of your guilds’ recent loots. My next article on this subject will cover how to use Yahoo! Pipes and Wowprogress.com’s RSS feeds to generate the RSS feed we need (and automatically inserting [item] and [/item] around the items so the Wowhead addon parses the item data to generate the links/tooltips!)