• 400 minutes
• Unlimited Texts
• 250Mb Data
• 18 Month Contract

If you can afford to buy the phone outright, then you can save yourself a fair chunk of money.  Buy the phone outright from the Carphone Warehouse for £499.95, then get yourself a GiffGaff Sim Card.

For £10 a month, you can get:

• 250 minutes
• Unlimited Texts
• Unlimited Data
• Freedom to change phones whenever you like

• Automated downloads of your media
• Automated renaming of your media
• Automated sorting of your media into specified folders
• Automated emails to alert you of your media
• Media streamed to any DLNA Client on your network including all the metadata to go with it

What you’ll need:

• A torrent application
• Filebot
• SendMail (Mirror)
• Serviio

Step 1 – Setup The Feeds

OK, to start off you’re going to want to make sure you’re torrent app supports RSS Feeds.   Then you will want to find an RSS feed of torrents for your media.  A quick Google should be able to help you out here

Step 2 – Configure Completion

Once you’ve configured your RSS feed, put that into your torrent program and it should start detecting the feeds.  What you need to do now is to change the settings of your torrent program to download to one folder, and upon completion move it to another folder. For this example, the folder the files are moved to once completed will be:

D:\Media

Step 3 – Install SendMail

Now you’ve got your RSS sorted, download the SendMail executable from above and copy it to:

C:\Windows\System32

Step 4 – Create The GroovyScript

Install Filebot to the default directory and then create a file called email.groovy.  The full file path for this should be:

C:\Program Files\Filebot\email.groovy

Step 5 – Edit The GroovyScript

Open email.groovy in notepad and enter the following content (Edit the bold parts):

def updateFreq = 5 * 60 * 1000

Thread.startDaemon
{
while (sleep(updateFreq) || true) {
def groups = args.getFiles().groupBy{
def tvs = detectSeriesName(it)
def mov = detectMovie(it, false)
println “$it.name [series: $tvs, movie: $mov]”

// DECIDE EPISODE VS MOVIE (IF NOT CLEAR)
if (tvs && mov) {
if (it.name =~ “(?i:$tvs – .+)” || parseEpisodeNumber(it.name) || parseDate(it.name)) {
println “Exclude Movie: $mov”
mov = null
} else if (detectMovie(it, true)) {
println “Exclude Series: $tvs”
tvs = null
}
}
return [tvs:tvs, mov:mov]
}

groups.each{ group, files ->
// EPISODE MODE
if (group.tvs && !group.mov) {
args.eachMediaFolder() {
//CHANGE THE FORMAT AS YOU WISH
def paths = rename(file:files, format:’H:/TV/{n}/Season {s}/{n} Season {s} Episode {e} {t}’, db:’thetvdb’, strict:false)
paths.each {
def msg = “${it.name} has been added to the library”
//EDIT YOUR DETAILS
execute(“sendemail.exe”, “-f”, “[b]FROM EMAIL ADDRESS[/b]“, “-t”, “[b]TO EMAIL ADDRESS[/b]“, “-s”, “[b]SMTP SERVER:PORT[/b]“, “-xu”, “[b]SMTP USERNAME[/b]“, “-xp”, “[b]SMTP PASSWORD[/b]“, “-u”, msg, “-m”, msg)
}

}   }

// MOVIE MODE
if (group.mov && !group.tvs) {
args.eachMediaFolder() {
//CHANGE THE FORMAT AS YOU WISH
def paths = rename(file:files, format:’G:/Videos/Films/{n} ({y})’, db:’TheMovieDB’, strict:false)
paths.each {
def msg = “${it.name} has been added to the library”
//EDIT YOUR DETAILS
execute(“sendemail.exe”, “-f”, “[b]FROM EMAIL ADDRESS[/b]“, “-t”, “[b]TO EMAIL ADDRESS[/b]“, “-s”, “[b]SMTP SERVER:PORT[/b]“, “-xu”, “[b]SMTP USERNAME[/b]“, “-xp”, “[b]SMTP PASSWORD[/b]“, “-u”, msg, “-m”, msg)
}

}   }
}

}
}
println “Press ENTER to abort”
console.readLine()

For example:

From Email Address = noreply@domain.com
To Email Address = me@domain.com
SMTP Server & Port = smtp.gmail.com:587
SMTP Username = bob@gmail.com
SMTP Password = Password123

Step 6 – Turn on Folder Monitoring

Create a file called monitor.bat inside the folder where you’re completed downloads are stored.  In our case its D:\Media.  Put the following content inside the file

filebot -script “C:/Program Files/Filebot/email.groovy” -trust-script D:/Media

Then you want to create a shortcut to this file and add it to your start up programs.  This command tells filebot to run the script you made in Step 5 on the folder D:/Media – You can change this path to match where you’re downloads are.

Step 7 – What Just Happened?

The last 2 steps create a groovy script which will rename the media using information from The TVDB, then it will automatically sort the media into a logical format ie:

D:\TV\Show Name\Season Number\Episode Number & Name

If it detects your media is a Film, it will automatically sort the media:

G:/Videos/Films/Film Name (Year)

Once it has done this, it will send an email to yourself via the SendMail program we installed earlier.

Step 8 – Serviio

Install Serviio using the default settings, make sure you set it up as a service if it gives you the option.  Then you want to open the console, if this doesn’t open, click the icon in the system tray and open it.

In the console you want to go to the Library tab.  In here you can add in the root folder which holds all your media.  In our case, add in D:\TV.  Make sure you tick the check boxes to say its a video, you want metadata and to auto-refresh it.

Have a look around the console and see if theres anything else you want to change, but the default settings should work just fine.

Step 9 – Enjoy

Thats it.  Go to your DLNA Client and you should see the Serviio Media Server.  Now you just need to wait for the media to come in.  Once its complete, you should get an email and by the time you get to your DLNA Client, your new media should be available for viewing.

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This promotion will run from December 6th till December 16th

Day 1

Swiftkey
Great Little War Game
Sketchbook Mobile
SoundHound
Asphalt 6
Fieldrunners HD
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Step 1 – Remove Netatalk

Login to your Ubuntu box and open up Terminal, type:

sudo apt-get remove netatalk –purge

sudo rm /etc/netatalk -r -f

Step 2 – Add repo’s

Login to your Ubuntu box and open up Terminal, type:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jstrunk-math/ppa

Step 2 – Install Netatalk 2.2

Open up Terminal and enter the following:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install netatalk

This should then start downloading the latest version of Netatalk from the repo’s added in the first step.

Once the download has completed, you can check the version installed by typing:

dpkg -s netatalk

Hopefully, it should say that we have version 2.2.x installed.

Step 3 – Configuring Netatalk

Now Netatalk is installed, we need to modify the apfd.conf to get it working. In Terminal type:

sudo gedit /etc/netatalk/afpd.conf

At the end of the file, enter this:

- -tcp -noddp -uamlist uams_dhx.so,uams_dhx2_passwd.so -nosavepassword

Now Netatalk is installed we need to go ahead and tell it what to share.  Open up Terminal again and type the following:

sudo gedit /etc/netatalk/AppleVolumes.default

Go to the bottom of the file and look for the line that says:

~/     “Home Directory”

What you need to do is delete this line and add in the location of your backup drive, a name and some options.  Heres what I put in mine:

/media/backupdisk/     “Time Machine’     cnidscheme:dbd options:usedots,upriv,tm

Step 4 – Restart the Netatalk Service

The next step is to restart the Netatalk service.  Just open up Terminal again and type:

/etc/init.d/netatalk restart

Easy!

Step 5 – Connecting to the share

Go back to  your OSX Lion machine and open up Terminal.  Type the following:

defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1

Then reboot your Mac.

Once rebooted open Finder and click Go -> Connect to server.

What you need to enter here is the ip address of your server using the following layout:

afp://<server ip>

Login with your Linux account details when it asks.  Then open the shared drive through Finder so it gets mounted

Step 6 – Create a sparsebundle

There are several ways of doing this, all which seem pretty complex.  So instead, download this makeImage.sh file to your OSX Lion machine from here:

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?s=c16393f5a35718586df225fb1252dc31&showtopic=184462&view=findpost&p=1253495

Make sure you save it as a .sh file and not a .txt.

Open up Terminal in OSX and navigate to the folder the .sh file was downloaded to.  The run the following command:

sh  ./makeImage.sh 1000 

This will create a sparsebundle of 1000GB in size.  Just alter the number for the amount of GB you want

Step 7 – Setting up Time Machine

The last step is to copy the sparsebundle that has just been made to the share you mounted earlier.  Once copied over, leave the shared drive mounted and open up Time Machine as usual.  Select the mounted shared drive and away you go

This is a tutorial on how to return your Galaxy Nexus to stock if needed. It involves restoring to a Stock Unrooted ROM, flashing the stock boot.img, and flashing the stock recovery.img. This is a bit of a crude way, but it works

I am not to be held responsible if anything goes wrong when attempting this. This includes bricking your phone, flashing a bad image, causing WW3 etc. I am also not responsible for any files in this tutorial. They were all provided by other people.

There may be inaccuracies in this post that may lead to various things such as bricked devices so be warned. Let someone check it over first! If you see anything wrong, let me know and I will edit it!

What you need

• Samsung Galaxy Nexus GSM Version
• All the usual fastboot & ADB drivers etc
• Fastboot
• Stock Backup
• Stock Recovery.img
• Clockwork Mod

Fastboot
I used the fastboot provided by Paul O’Brien in his Superboot: DOWNLOAD

Stock Backup – Provided by matt2053
Mediafire: DOWNLOAD
Filesonic: Coming Soon

Stock Recovery – Provided by Peter Alfonzo
Filesonic: DOWNLOAD

Clockwork Mod
DOWNLOAD
MD5: 445887336a863573997ccbaeedddc984

I am assuming that you already have Clockwork Mod flashed to you phone as I did. If you do not, you should be able to boot into Clockwork Mod, however I have NOT tried this and you do so at your own risk.
a) Put your phone into fastboot mode
b) Copy recovery-clockwork-5.5.0.2-maguro.img to your Superboot location
c) Open CMD in the location of Superboot
d) Type:
fastboot-windows boot recovery-clockwork-5.5.0.2-maguro.img
e) Your phone should boot into CWM. You will lose this if you reboot.

Alternatively, you can always flash CWM instead

 

1) Take a Nandroid Backup!

2) Extract the content of the Stock Backup zip to your phone. It needs to go in the download folder which is inside the Clockwork Mod folder

2) Boot your phone into Recovery mode

4) Select Backup & Restore

5) Select Restore and choose the folder from the Stock Backup zip you just put on your phone

6) Your phone will start to restore to the backup you downloaded

7) Once restored, just boot into your phone and make sure all is in order

Restart your phone to Bootloader mode

9) Copy the Recovery.img into the same location as Superboot on your computer

10) Open CMD in the location of Superboot

11) Type:
fastboot-windows flash recovery recovery.img

12) This should flash the stock recovery.img to you phone

13) Reboot your phone to bootloader, and use the volume buttons to select Recovery. Hit the power button. You should get an Android with a red triangle – this is the stock recovery

14) The last step is to lock the bootloader. Restart the phone into the bootloader

15) Open CMD in the location of Superboot and type:
fastboot-window oem lock

Superboot is a boot.img that when booted, will root your device the first time you boot (installing su and the superuser APK). No need to flash any partitions, no need to mess around with ADB, no messing with the contents of your data partition, no overwriting the shipped ROM on your device, just boot the boot image using the instructions below and you’re done!

APPLY THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK! I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY ISSUES

Download the latest version of Superboot: DOWNLOAD

You might need the drivers, however its worth getting them anyway as you’ll probably need them in the future: DOWNLOAD DRIVERS

Windows

1) Extract the contents of the above file into C:\root

2) Power your device off

3) Connect your phone to your computer

4) Put device into the bootloader by holding down Vol Up + Vol Down + Power

5) Open up cmd and navigate to by typing to following (Hit enter after each line):
cd C:/
cd root

6) Unlock your bootloader by typing - this will wipe your device!:
.\fastboot-windows oem unlock

7) You should get a warning on your phone. Use the volume keys to select an option, and press the power button to confirm it

Your bootloader should now say that it is unlocked at the bottom

9) To root your device, double click:
install-superboot-windows.bat

10) You should now be able to reboot your phone and it will have root

Linux

1) Extract the contents of the above file into a folder

2) Power your device off

3) Connect your phone to your computer

4) Put device into the bootloader by holding down Vol Up + Vol Down + Power

5) Open up terminal and navigate to the folder used in step 1

6) Unlock your bootloader by typing - this will wipe your device!:
./fastboot-linux oem unlock

7) You should get a warning on your phone. Use the volume keys to select an option, and press the power button to confirm it

Your bootloader should now say that it is unlocked at the bottom

9) To root your device, type the following (Hit enter after each line):
chmod +x install-superboot-linux.sh
./install-superboot-linux.sh

10) You should now be able to reboot your phone and it will have root

 

OS X

1) Extract the contents of the above file into a folder

2) Power your device off

3) Connect your phone to your computer

4) Put device into the bootloader by holding down Vol Up + Vol Down + Power

5) Open up terminal and navigate to the folder used in step 1

6) Unlock your bootloader by typing - this will wipe your device!:
./fastboot-mac oem unlock

7) You should get a warning on your phone. Use the volume keys to select an option, and press the power button to confirm it

Your bootloader should now say that it is unlocked at the bottom

9) To root your device, type the following (Hit enter after each line):
chmod +x install-superboot-mac.sh
./install-superboot-mac.sh

10) You should now be able to reboot your phone and it will have root

Since these match very closely to the prices of the Galaxy S II, then I think we will be seeing the Galaxy Nexus at the same price.

After doing some totting up, I think the prices we will be see’ing are as follows:

4 Month – 500mb Data
24M 900: £59 / £37pm
24M 600: £79.99 / £32pm
24M 300: £104 / £32pm
24M 200: £149 / £21.50pm
24M 100: £179 / £21.50pm
24M 50: £199 / £16.50pm

18 Month – 500Mb Data
18M 900: £59 /£47pm
18M 600: £79.99 / £42pm
18M 300: £104 / £37pm
18M 200: £149 / £32pm
18M 100: £179 / £27pm
18M 50: £199 / £21.50

Upgrade Only – 500Mb Data
12M 900: £199.99 / £47pm
12M 600: £224.99 / £42pm
12M 300: £249.99 / £37pm
12M 100: £274.99 / £27pm
12M 50: £299.99 / £21.50

Watch this video on YouTube.

Ice Cream Sandwich is coming next week along with the release of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus.   Despite the delayed release due to the passing of Steve Jobs, Google & Samsung are pressing on and have moved the conference to Hong Kong on the 19th October.  I wonder what Siri thinks of all this?

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