Monday, March 18, 2013

Pretty Pink Unicorn Princess Jump

"My daughters love this app and it keeps them entertained on long car rides. They even named their unicorns!!"
-Susan from Ohio

The fairy princess and her pet unicorns are on a mission to reach the castle of dreams by sunset. Jump the clouds and ascend into the beautiful fairytale skies.

-Choose from a number of pet Unicorns
-Collect valuable fairy magic
-Jump to new heights and reach the princess
-More excitement to come...

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pretty-pink-unicorn-princess/id622549438

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Fix Google Chrome 25 Crashing on iPhone 5 iOS 6.1.2

The following should be performed as quickly as possible before Google Chrome crashes

Open Google Chrome
Select Menu button (2nd button from the upper right)
Select Settings
From the Advanced, select Privacy option
Select Send Usage Data
Select either Always or Only on Wi-Fi is selected from the list.

Thursday, January 3, 2013

Install Multiple Node Apache Cassandra on Windows

# Download Installer from http://cassandra.apache.org/download/

# Java required

# Create folders
mkdir c:\apache-cassandra
mkdir c:\apache-cassandra\node1
mkdir c:\apache-cassandra\node2
mkdir c:\apache-cassandra\node3
mkdir c:\apache-cassandra\node4
mkdir c:\apache-cassandra\node5
mkdir c:\apache-cassandra\node6

# Create for each node
mkdir :c\apache-cassandra\node1\var
mkdir :c\apache-cassandra\node1\var\commitlog
mkdir :c\apache-cassandra\node1\var\data
mkdir :c\apache-cassandra\node1\var\log
mkdir :c\apache-cassandra\node1\var\saved_caches
#repeat for each node ....

# Extract Cassandra to each Node
cd \apache-cassandra\node1
tar -xzvf apache-cassandra-1.2.x-bin.tar.gz

cd \apache-cassandra\node6
tar -xzvf apache-cassandra-1.2.x.tar.gz

...

# Open hosts file
notepad c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

# Add localhost IPs for each node in hosts file
127.0.0.1   127.0.0.1 #node1
127.0.0.1   127.0.0.2 #node2
127.0.0.1   127.0.0.3 #node3
127.0.0.1   127.0.0.4 #node4
127.0.0.1   127.0.0.5 #node5
127.0.0.1   127.0.0.6 #node6

# Open cassandra.yaml for each node
cd \apache-cassandra\node1\conf
notepad cassandra.yaml

# Edit each yaml, make node1 and 2 as seeders, edit correspondingly
cluster_name: 'SpikesCluster'
num_tokens: 256
rpc_address : 127.0.0.1     #assigned ip of node
listen_address : 127.0.0.1  #assgiend ip of node
seed_provider:
    - class_name: org.apache.cassandra.locator.SimpleSeedProvider
      parameters:
          - seeds: "127.0.0.1, 127.0.0.2" #ip of seeder nodes

saved_caches_directory: /apache-cassandra/node1/var/saved_caches
data_file_directories:
    - /apache-cassandra/node1/var/data
commitlog_directory: /apache-cassandra/node1/var/commitlog

#Open log4j-server.properties
notepad c:\apache-cassandra\node1\conf\log4j-server.properties

# edit config, repeat for each node
log4j.appender.R.File=/apache-cassandra/node1/var/log/system.log


# Open Cassandra.bat
notepad c:\apache-cassandra\node1\bin\cassandra.bat

# Edit Port and repeat for each node must not be the same since running on local
 -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=7199^

# Run each node
c:\apache-cassandra\node1\bin\catalina.bat

# Check Cassandra ring information
c:\apache-cassandra\node1\bin\nodetool -h 127.0.0.1 -p 7199 ring

Thursday, November 22, 2012

Cydia Apps (Recommended Apps)

Activator
OpenNotifier
Five Icon Dock
SMS Timestamps
MobileTerminal
OpenSSH
Protect Photos
RecordMyScreen
SBProfiles
SBSettings
VeencyDataMonitor
Insomnia
KillBackground
AppCake
AppSync for iOS 5 &6
AppVV
AptBackup
evasi0n 6
iFilevShare

Sunday, November 4, 2012

Enable charging of iPad on Windows Laptop

Download and install, works on other brands e.g. Sony

http://event.asus.com/mb/2010/ai_charger/

Saturday, August 4, 2012

Set DisableLaunch access keys

Settings->Activator->Anywhere ... then set which activation to choose

This is useful if accidentally set DisableLaunch to lock Settings and cannot access it