Steps to Downgrade iOS 4.0 to 3.1.3 OS Firmware:

Step 1: Opening Notepad file.

First step is to make some change in host file. I read many of guide to do it, but none of them clear because you can’t edit that file unless until you are editing file as administrate.

Go to Start >> Accessories >> Right click on Command Prompt and choose run as administrator (Refer to image)

Type:  Notepad c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

It will open notepad file.

Step 2: Adding redirect request URL.

In notepad file just type 74.208.10.249 gs.apple.com at the end of page and press CTRl + S to save edit.

If you have run Command promp without administrator, you might get error that you don’t have permission to edit this file.

Step 3: Set up your device in recovery mode.

• Turn off and unplug your device from your computer
• Now press and hold the Home button while reconnecting the USB cable to your iPhone or iPod. After iPod or iPhone is connected it should power on the device.
• Continue holding the Home button, you will see the iTunes logo appear and then finally a “Connect to iTunes” will be displayed, now is the time to release the Home button.
• Once the logo appeared in iTunes, you can release the Home button and make a normal recover

Step 4: Downgrading ipod

Now open iTune and click on your iPod windows. Hold Shift key and Click on restore. It will open window. Select 3.1.3 OS firmware file. You can download this files from felixbruns.

Step 5: Wait and watch

Wait for while until it finish it process. Volla…! You are done. Now enjoy your 3.1.3 firmware.

If you want to jailbreak your iPod touch or iPhone, Check out our guide on “Jailbreak your iPod touch and iPhone using spirit”

Afraid to jailbreak because of law, don’t worry. Now it is legal to jailbreak any smart phone. But still it void your warranty or guaranty.

I tried this on my own ipod and it is working perfectly. But still, we are not responsible for any type of damage to your iPod, iPhone and iPad. You will also lose your warranty, if you jailbreak it. If it cause any problem, we are not responsible. Do it at your own risk.

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Step by step guide to make your own scrolling badge for blog.

1. Log in to your account and Go to Design page.

2. Click on “Add gadget” and then Click on “HTML/JavaScript”. (Refer to image)

3. Copy Below Code and Paste it in Content Area.

<a target="_blank" style="display:scroll;position:fixed;bottom:5px;left:5px;" href="http://www.twitter.com/YOUR-TWITTER-ID" rel="nofollow" title="Follow Me On Twitter"><img src="http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/6285/twitter23.png" /></a>

4. You can change position of badge from bottom left to any. See below instruction.

You see small number in image. It refer to position of twitter badge on your blog.

For position 1:

top:5px;left:5px;

For position 2:

top:5px;right:5px;

For position 3:

bottom:5px;left:5px; (Same as Demo)

For position 4:

bottom:5px;right:5px;

5. Change YOUR-TWITTER-ID to your name.

6. Default Image URL is

http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/6285/twitter23.png

Change Image as your choice.

For reference, you can check out our Twitter Gallery post:

1) Free Twitter Bird Icons – really cool..!

2) Twitter Follow Me Button Gallery

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1. Blogussion

2. Abroadening

3. Serradinho

4. Penn State

5. AeiDish

6. Smoking Apples

7. The Confident Mom

8. Brandentity

9. HomeFixated

10. Agynamix

Does your thesis theme is more customized? If yes, then shoot in comment.

1) Limitation on Theme Options

Free wordpress.com have some themes. You can use only from their list. You can’t add other than that. But in self hosted wordress, you can use any theme. You can edit theme in self hosted if you have knowledge about code and php. You can do same with free wordpress blog, but you need to pay extra for it.

2) No Private Advertising.

Yes, free wordpress.com isn’t allowing private advertise on your blog. Making money is reason to run blog, but if free wordpress is not allowing private advertising then you won’t prefer it as blog platform. If you are making blog only for friend and family then, free wordpress is best but not for professional blogger who is blogging for passion.

On other side, you can use code to put private advertise on self hosted wordpress blog. You can use ad any where on blog if you have knowledge of CSS.

3) WordPress Plugins

WordPress plugins play important role to make blog attractive. With plugins, you don’t need to code more. Free wordpress don’t allow you to upload wordpress plugins, but on self hosted blog, you can. WordPress.com have some but not all useful. As blogger we need twitter tools, tweetmeme, and social bookmarking….

4) Expensive Upgrades

Free wordpress give you access to use some features as self hosed blog such as custom domain, more storage and using other wordpress theme, but it will charge you more than self hosed blog.

5) Subdomains

Subdomain means another domain under your domain. For instance you have domain name http://www.yourdomain.com and you want to make forum using subdomain http://forums.yourdomain.com. You can’t in free wordpress blog, but in self hosted you have freedom to do it. You might not need it when you start new blog, but need after some time to use for forums or other purpose.

So, What do you prefer? A free wordpress blog or Self hosted wordpress blog?

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Making quality post took long time and as blogger we need to post a lot. So, if we know keyboard shortcut, it will be easy and less time consuming than before. I usually prefer shortcut rather than clicking buttons in wordpress blog. I thought it will be great to share useful shortcut with my visitors. Here is list of wordpress shortcut which will save your time while blogging.

Bold: Alt+SHIFT+b

Italics: Alt+SHIFT+i

Link: Alt+SHIFT+a

Code: Alt+SHIFT+c

Blockquote: Alt+SHIFT+q

Read More: Alt+SHIFT+t

Ordered List (ol): Alt+SHIFT+o

Unordered List (ul): Alt+SHIFT+u

List Item (li): Alt+SHIFT+l

Advanced Editor: Alt+SHIFT+v

Publish the Post: Alt+SHIFT+p

Del: Alt+SHIFT+d

Unquote/Outdent: Alt+SHIFT+w

Undo: Alt+SHIFT+u

Redo: Alt+SHIFT+y

Edit HTML: Alt+SHIFT+e

Align Left: Alt+SHIFT+f

Align Right: Alt+SHIFT+r

Align Center: Alt+SHIFT+c

Headers (H1, H2, H3..): Ctrl + Corresponding number

Do you know other keyboard short key than this? Please shoot it in comment…

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Custom admin Branding give you option to choose different color, image and many more option to select. Take look at setting page:

Customizing image:

• Login Form Background
• Login Form Login Button Background
• Admin Header Logo
• Favorite Actions Button Background
• Footer Logo

This plugin don’t only allow you to change login page, but at same time it also shows you preview so you can make it more attractive. Custom admin branding is mostly useful with brand companies.

WP plugin: Custom Admin Branding

Here is Demo for Highlighted author comment:

For thesis theme user only:

Open custom.css file and add below code in it.

/*-- Highlight admin comment --*/
.custom dl#comment_list dt.bypostauthor,children dd.comment, .custom dl#comment_list dd.bypostauthor>div {background: #c9d7e5; padding-top:20px;}

Change background color according to your theme color.
You are done!

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Yes, Thick Box announcement plug in allows you to make announcement using small windows.Take…

In my previous post, I showed you how to make sticky post in wordpress to show user some important announcement or news about anything. But why use sticky post if you could do same thing with wordpress plugin.

Yes, Thick Box announcement plug in allows you to make announcement using small windows.Take look at setting page.

Feature of Thickbox Announcement WordPress Plugin:

- Select time period to show announcement.

- Choose once, periodically or every time to display announcement.

- Give title to announcement.

- Select width and height of announcement windows.

- Select content to show as announcement either link or note.

WP plugin: Thickbox Announcement

Want to make announcement? Go ahead and start using Thickbox WordPress plugin.

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