Smooth Blog http://www.smoothblog.co.uk Updated Technology News Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:25:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= File Hosting Sites News / Updates http://www.smoothblog.co.uk/2012/02/03/file-hosting-sites-news-updates/ http://www.smoothblog.co.uk/2012/02/03/file-hosting-sites-news-updates/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:25:06 +0000 admin http://www.smoothblog.co.uk/?p=10290

Megaupload – Closed.
FileServe – Stopped filesharing. You can only download your own files. Deleting multiple files. Banning Premium accounts. Closed Affiliate Program.
FileJungle – Deleting files. Owned by Fileserve (same as above). Testing USA IP addresses blocking.
FileSonic – Stopped filesharing. You can only download your own files. Closed Affiliate Program. Changed server location Jan 22, 2012. Taken down it’s Facebook page Now using Digital fingerprinting. Files are being deleted as soon as uploaded (as Hotfile did).
UploadStation – Owned by Fileserve (same as above). Testing USA IP addresses blocking.
VideoBB – Closed Affiliate Program.
Uploaded – Banned U.S. and the FBI went after the owners who are gone.
FilePost – Started suspending accounts with infringing material (as Hotfile did)
Videoz – Closed Affiliate Program.
4shared – Deleting files with copyright and waits in line at the FBI.
MediaFire – Called to testify in the next 90 days and it will open doors pro FBI
Org torrent – could vanish with everything within 30 days “he is under criminal investigation”
Network Share mIRC – awaiting the decision of the case to continue or terminate Torrent everything.
EnterUpload – Down (Redirect)
Uploading – Closed for 90 days the affiliate program
Koshiki – Operating 100% Japan will not join the SOPA / PIPA
Shienko Box – 100% working China / Korea will not join the SOPA / PIPA
ShareX BR – group UOL / BOL / iG say they will join the SOPA / PIPA

File hosting server hosted in these places are not safe.
Hong Kong, New Zealand, USA, Netherlands, Canada, Germany, UK, Phillipines… and maybe more…

4shared, badongo, bitshare, fileserve.com, filepost, hotfile, mediafire, megaupload, sendspace, speedyshare, ugotfile, videozer, Wupload, xup.in, zshare.net – Server location is USA

Extabit.com, bigupload, crocko, filefactory, filesonic.com, freakshare, hulkshare, oron, share-online.biz, sharebase.to, speedshare.org, uploaded.to, uploadbox, yourfiles.biz – Server location is Netherlands

Filebase.to, kewlshare, kickload, netload.in, rapidshare.com, Hitfile.net – Server location is Germany

Load.to, share-now.net, tinyupload.com, zippyshare – Server location is France

Ge.tt – Server location is Ireland

Turbobit – Server location is Russia

According to Server location these sites are safe for now

Ge.tt
Location – Ireland / Denmark

Turbobit.net
Location – Russia

Cramit.in
Location – France

Depositfiles.com
Location – Cyprus

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The news comes from folks over at SamMobile.com, they discussed the ROM from inside:

 The ROM is in beta stage of development, but SamMobile says it is stable enough for daily use. Build number is I9100XXLPB (dated: January 29th). Here are the changes discovered so far:

Interface: Kind of 3D effect when scrolling.
Battery: Lots better than early ones.
Faster: Feels the same as LP6
Touch: Same as LP6.
Overall: Better score in our eyes than LP6 .
Facelock: Same as LP6 working fine.
Task: Same as version LP6.

Android 4.0.3 ICS ROM On Samsung Galaxy S II:

How To Download, Install Android 4.0.3 ICS ROM On Samsung Galaxy S II

Step 1: Download the following files:

  • ODIN 1.83 [HotFile]
  • Android 4.0.3 ICS I9100XXLPB [SamMobile]

Extract the contents of the ICS ROM and place them on the desktop for easy access later on.

Step 2: Shut down Samsung KIES in case you have it open. If you don’t shut it down, it will interfere with ODIN.

Step 3: Launch ODIN.

Step 4: Shut down your Galaxy S II. Press and hold Volume Up + Home + Power buttons to enter Download Mode.

Step 5: Connect your GS II with your PC using a USB cable. ODIN will detect it.

Step 6: From ODIN, click on PDA and select I9100_CODE_I9100XXLPB_CL99600_REV02_user_low_ship.tar

Step 7: Similar, click on CSC and choose GT-I9100-MULTI-CSC-OXXLP5_RST.tar. Click on MODEM and choose MODEM_I9100XXLPB_REV_02_CL1101286.tar

Step 8: Click START to begin the flashing process. ODIN will now flash the ROM to your device.

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The ScummVM Team is pleased to announce ScummVM 1.4.1, a maintenance only release that fixes several bugs in 1.4.0.
The most notable changes in this release are:

  • Support for the Beneath a Steel Sky Enhanced Soundtrack by James Woodcock
  • Slight graphical improvement for the PlayStation version of Broken Sword 2
  • Several bugfixes for Lands of Lore
  • More logical sound settings for SCI games
  • A fixed crash in the VGA version of Quest for Glory 1

Source: http://www.scummvm.org/
Download link at their site: http://www.scummvm.org/downloads/?p=downloads

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If you have an iPhone 4 Unlocked with Gevey Sim running iOS 4.x.x and you want to update to iOS 5.0.1 firmware with Gevey Unlock. In order to update you must first preserve your unlockabe iPhone 4 baseband that can be unlocked with Gevey SIM.

Unlock iPhone 4 on iOS 5 with Gevey SIM

Note: In order to do this you will need to restore your iPhone 4 with custom iOS 5.0.1 ipsw with Redsn0w 0.9.10b5 to preserve the unlockable baseband.

What is Gevey Sim:

Gevey Sim is hardware that unlocks iPhone 4 running on baseband 01.59.00, 02.10.04, 03.10.01, and 04.10.01 on the iOS 4.x.x, and iOS 5.x.x.

Required Downloads:

  • Download Redsn0w 0.9.10b5 for Windows. (be sure to run in Administrator mode)
    Download Redsn0w 0.9.10b5 for Mac.
  • Download iOS 5.0.1 ipsw for iPhone 4
  • Download iTunes 10.5.3 for Windows and Mac

How To Unlock iPhone 4 on iOS 5 with Gevey SIM

Step 1: Connect your device with your PC via USB and open Redsn0w.

Unlock iPhone 4 on iOS 5 with Gevey SIM Step 2: Now select Extras and then select “Custom IPSW” option so that you can create your pre-jailbroken custom firmware.

Unlock iPhone 4 on iOS 5 with Gevey SIM It will start cooking your custom iOS 5 ispw firmware

Unlock iPhone 4 on iOS 5 with Gevey SIM Step 3: Next click on “Pwned DFU” on the screen.

Unlock iPhone 4 on iOS 5 with Gevey SIM Step 4: In this step make sure your device is Turned Off and Plugged In to your PC

Unlock iPhone 4 on iOS 5 with Gevey SIM

Next you will have to enter the DFU Mode. To do that, follow the onscreen instructions to get your device in the DFU Mode.

Step 5: Once you’re in the DFU Mode Open iTunes and restore your iPhone 4 to the Custom iOS 5 ipsw (the file name begins with NO_BB.)

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Hello!

We have released Wasabi 360 Ultra firmware v1.2 BETA 3 which includes the following changes:

- Supports iXtreme LT v3 AP25 topology data from disc image
- Fixed a bug which resulted in the auto-extracted drive key not being permanently saved in rare cases

Faithfully,
Team Wasabi.

Download

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Italian site WindowsBlogItalia has posted the installation screenshots of Windows 8 consumer preview.  The screenshots is believed to be from Windows 8 build 8192

These screenshots have also cleared our doubts regarding the naming of the next public release and we can now safely call them as Windows 8 consumer preview.

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PlayStation 3 developer PS3Hen has released some updates regarding his Hybrid Firmware 4.0. This firmware mod requires a hardware flasher as well as a PlayStation 3 that is on custom firmware 3.55. With this release you will need to patch the firmware yourself with instructions below. Changes include the XMBFM ported by PS3Hen, released by DeViL303, PS2 game disk recognition and icon changes.

To Quote:

I’m not going to make you re-download another 180MB PUP file, Instead I’ve decided to release a patch which has all the tools required to patch my Version 2 pup to be Version 2.5 (although when the link for the version 2 pup gets taken down I’ll release a version 2.5 pup). The patch files can be downloaded here:

Just like before only retail signed .PKG can be installed with this. Have fun. THIS HFW WILL NOT ALLOW HOMEBREW!

Change Log: Version 2.5

  • Fix’s Custom Icons/labels not showing in-game
  • Using Version 0.07 of the XMB File Manager (ported to FW 4.00 by me)
  • PSN content waiting to be installed/copied now only shows in the (Playstation Network Content) sub menu of the XMB File Manager (I noticed the XMB File Manager used the wrong internal link to show PSN content so I fixed this)
  • PS2 game discs show as “Playstation 2 Format Disc” instead of “Unrecognised Data” on Non-BC PS3s
  • The XMB File Manager uses a custom icon(see picture)
  • The “Playstation Network Content” now uses a (IMO) better icon

How to install the 3.2 Update Patch:

  1. Install PS3MFW Builder v0.2.1
  2. Copy the ‘change_xml_files.tcl’ file to the ‘task’ folder of PS3MFW Builder
  3. Put my “modded FW 4.00(releasev2).PUP” as the “Original fw” and whatever you want as the “Modified fw”
  4. Uncheck every thing except “PS3HEN’s 4.00HFW Patch 1″
  5. In “PS3HEN’s 4.00HFW Patch 1″ link each file on the task page to the ones in the “Dev_flash files to be patched” folder in this package
  6. Select “Build MFW”


Download: PS3 4.00 HFW v2.5

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redsn0w version b5 incorporates yet another fix for iBooks, this time involving DRM.  @planetbeing wrote a utility called “crazeles” that overcomes jailbreak detection by iBooks that would cause about 10% of images to show incorrectly.  This fix is similar to the “hunnypot” fix that @comex wrote for the 4.x jailbreak.  As usual, you can choose to install the fix either by re-running redsn0w over your existing jailbreak (de-select Cydia if you do that), or by installing the corona package from Cydia (it’s the same set of files no matter which way you choose).

Notes: If you decided to update your Redsnow to the new version RedSn0w 0.9.10b5 you can do this by re-jailbreaking your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad with RedSn0w 0.9.10b5 over the old-redsnow but without without select install Cydia option.

  • Download RedSn0w 0.9.10b5 For Windows
  • Download RedSn0w 0.9.10b5 For Mac OS X
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These are links to download the NZB file, for downloading the 3.70 SDK, or if you want to search for yourself, search for ‘PS3 3.70 SDK By TrueBlueGaryOPA’ or ‘TrueBlueGaryOPA’:

http://www.filedropper.com/ps3370sdkbytruebluegaryopanzbdownloadfile

http://www.wupload.com/file/2655734947/PS3_3.70_SDK_By_TrueBlueGaryOPA(.nzb_Download_File).rar

http://www.sendspace.com/file/6eivf6

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