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Hi Everyone,

Major updates for VBAMPB (GBA emulator on the PB).

Justin (http://forums.crackberry.com/playbook-apps-games-f243/vbam-port-playbook-gba-gb-gbc-emu-687687/index15.html) aka jtokarchuk made the great changes.  Don’t miss a chance to update this EMU as part of the refresh project.

Awesome work to Justin and team.

GBA Emulator VBAMpb, Download 1.0.1.3 Forum Link UPDATED

Note:  Store your ROMs in misc/roms/gba (file extension and folder need to be lower case)

PCSX-ReARMed – PS1 Games on the PB

Finally, a real reason to upgrade to a 64GB PlayBook!

This awesome emulator lets you play many many many PS1 games (yes, FF7, Resident Evil, and many more work).  It has tons of features.  But why waste your time?

1)  Start some ISO’s (assuming you legally own the PS1 games, and it is legal in your country) through isohunt or another torrent engine.

2)  Sideload the PCSX emulator to your PB

3)  Run the PCSX emulator to create the folders.  Close the application.

4)  Download this BIOS to PB\media\misc\pcsx-rearmed-pb\

5)  Save your games to PB\media\misc\pcsx-rearmed-pb\iso

And done!

Thanks to Geoff for all the hard work!  I should mention, I have had no glitches on this.  There is lots of troubleshooting instructions in the forum thread – mostly just making sure your BIOS is correct.

Feature list and info available at the forum link:  http://forums.crackberry.com/playbook-apps-games-f243/playstation-emulator-playbook-pcsx-rearmed-pb-719186/

See the other emus and refresh projects here:  http://www.filearchivehaven.com/2012/02/01/must-have-applications-for-side-loading/

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Emulator Refresh Project – NES – FCEUXpb

http://forums.crackberry.com/playbook-apps-games-f243/emulator-refresh-project-719500/index2.html

Work performed by jtokarchuk

Supports NES files

Whats new:  Many things, but the primary is a rom selector and troubleshooting settings.

Download: http://filearchivehaven.com/downloads/pb/cb/FCEUXpb-1_0_1_2.bar

Emulator Repository:  http://www.filearchivehaven.com/2012/02/01/must-have-applications-for-side-loading/

How to install:  http://www.filearchivehaven.com/2011/10/20/blackberry-android-and-thank-you-ddpb-installer/

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Playbook Piracy and its Impact

Chances are:  If you know this guy, he’s stolen something from you overtime.  He’s currently selling stolen merchandise online in Vietnam and on eBay, as well as creating large piracy rings.

You see, Piracy on the PlayBook has become a hot topic lately, as piracy has been targeting the small developers more and more (and large developers, less and less).  The flip-side, is it makes pirate ring leaders such as vanphuongvn, a lot more money than it does for the little developers.

For example, the person above, hosts a website that contains over 500 stolen PlayBook applications and Games — almost all of which are being sold by small independent developers for around 99 cents to 1.99 with some over 18.

Now, generally I’m not an advocate for cracking down on Piracy.  And I understand, when your 14 and going to school, you don’t always have a PayPal account, Credit card or ability to put money onto your devices.  But guys like this are actively profiting off of stolen applications by hosting them online with invasive advertisements and on a website containing large amounts of malware.

RIM

Word on the street is that RIM is actively changing the PB’s OS to begin to target these types of people.  But I think that isn’t enough.

What Can We Do?

Not much!  He lives in Vientam and is well out of the reach of ordinary folks for legal action.  What we can do is email/call/mail/bbm/fb/youtube him as much as possible to cause him to stop his actions.  The beautiful part about people like Le Van Phuong, is he relies entirely on his username (vanphuongvn) to bring in his income through his real job.  Which means we may not be able to legally do much.  But we can affect his income, which is a swift justice.

What do we know about him?

Important Notes:
This email account’s login and password were stolen when BKAV (Vientnamese security firm) had details stolen and released on the internet. However it is still being actively used on the BKAV website, as well as many other places. Suggesting the account was recovered by the owner and is still in control of the owner. Be aware though – there is a slim possibility someone could be copying and using all of this persons information. Details here: Bkav cleartext passwords.

Piracy Site Status:
Website Risk: Dangerous (malware/ddos)
Active
Many Apps Primarily from Small Developers

Believed the site is collecting user details via javascript exploits and malware throuhg advertisements. Accessing the piracy site from BB devices will use web exploits to cause DDOS and other problems with the PB. Unsure if data collection exploit over web to contact details is still being used. Avoid visiting at all costs on BB devices. Unknown if they are “Adding” things to the pirated apps.

 

DO NOT TRUST PURCHASES FROM THIS INDIVIDUAL, he has admitted to running online “sales” scams to sell mobile devices to victims.  Watch out when doing business with this individual as his intent is to scam you at all costs

 

Names used:
Liên Hệ, Lê Văn Phượng, Văn Phượng, LÊ PHƯỢNG

Usernames:
vanphuong_vn
congtuthanhdo10
vanphuongvn
vuhai6

Emails he sells “scammed” items from
congtuthanhdo10@gmail.com,
dailybkavhcm@gmail.com,
support@<piracy_site>.<site_suffix>,
<piracy_site><site_suffix>@gmail.com

Websites used:
L
ĐáºI LÝ BKAV

http://<piracy_site>.<site_suffix>/author/vanphuongvn/

* Warning DO not visit this site on your PB or BB. It does steal information from your systems for hackers.

Uses adf.ly for advertisements (must have an account with them?)
Uses a non-standard fileshare site (no report buttons)

Has 10 more, more nefarious websites covering his darker exploits.  However they contain extremely reactive malware – proceed with caution.

Phone Numbers he uses as a sales associate for calling him back:
BB (RIM) Cell: 0908 986 837
Điện Thoại: 0908 986 837

Units he claims to have scammed users with:
8300 BlackBerry, iPhone, many more

SONO S2 UT Tech for Phone Company
PB and Touchpad

PB Details

Case Details:
44.99 RIM FOLIO
Purchased from BestBuy
Purchased Jan 17/ 2012
SN 36881BBR, SKU 2496236
LC 200001123681316

Country:
Vietnam

Address he claims to ship from: 

39 Trần Chánh Chiếu – P.14 – Q.5 – HCM

Yahoo IM:
congtuthanhdo10

Final Details:
Has used blackberry support forums.

CrackBerry ID:
vanphuongvn (looks deleted)

YouTube:
congtuthanhdo10 – YouTube

Photobucket:
Pictures by vanphuongvn – Photobucket

Facebook
congtuthanhdo10@gmail.com

What Does He Look Like?
IMG-20111123-00008.jpg picture by vanphuongvn – Photobucket

PIN

See QR code below

Avoid doing business with him at all costs.

See:  http://www.filearchivehaven.com/secure/help.html

Customise Your Minecraft Experience

Minecraft is known for being not so much a game as an experience. To be able to mine, to farm, to build a house, a village, a town, a city… all within a world that can be expanded to eight times the Earth’s surface, given every block is a metre-wide cube. There is, clones not included, nothing quite like it.

But the standard, vanilla experience isn’t for everyone, and for that reason there are all sorts of ways to tweak your Minecraft experience so you’re getting what you want out of it. So what are the three ways you can mix it up?

1) Texture packs.

Being able to re-skin the entire game is incredibly easy – download the texture pack, drop it into the texture packs folder (not while the game is running – this is important), boot the game up, and boom! New look. It might take a while to adjust (spotting ore, etc), but to give the game a new look can really change things for you – especially if you feel the game doesn’t look quite right for what you want to build, whether you’re constructing a castle or a skyscraper-size version of the PartyPoker logo.

2) Mods.

Mods will change the way the game plays, what’s in it, and what abilities you have, but they’re not supported by Mojang themselves, so you’re on your own if things go wrong. But their capabilities are astonishing – automated quarries, more animals, floating islands, new items, airplanes, guns, windmills, lifts – the possibilities are many, and one of them in particular (Millenaire) makes Mojang’s attempt at NPC-filled villages look absolutely terrible.

3) Custom maps.

Custom maps are world saves that have had anything from recreations of Star Wars locations and ships to adventure maps full of puzzles and monsters to defeat, which can be a ton of fun if you’re not really enjoying the sandbox feel of normal Minecraft exploration, combat, building and resource collection.

Of course, Minecraft is what you make it, so the most important thing is to have fun playing it, however you choose to play it. See you in Minecraftia!

Below are some instructions for users first getting started with Orb.

Disclaimer:  Connect to TVersity requires a PC and utilizes networking.  This may take some people out of their comfort level for the first time while configuring your systems to use this application.  But the rewards are great.

User level:  Medium to Hard (when things go wrong)

Limitations:  Requires paid server application, not the best method for this application.

Benefits:  Works on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X

 

Installing TWonky

Step 1: Download Twonky and install it on your main PC that hosts the videos and audio files you want to share on your device.  You can download here (~15 Mb).  Specifically you want to install Twonky Server 6 or higher.

Please note:  I have neither a MacBook nor a Linux server at home.  So I can’t help much with the install on those platforms.

Windows Install Information

Step 2: Enter your Product Key (if you have one) or press Next to go into Trial mode.

Step 3:  Name your server, make it a safe set of words because you will see it on other devices in your home.

Step 4:  Use express install.

Step 5:  When asked, I picked no to TwonkyCopy and TwonkyBeam – but you might want to have these enabled.  Its really up to you.

 

Configuring TWonky

Step 1:  Right click on the TWonky icon in your Windows Notification Area and select Media server settings.

Step 2:  Select the Sharing  tab and specify your media folders.

For those about to ask, you can find your iTunes folder by looking here.

 

Configuring your PlayBook

Step 1:  Download Connect to TVersity onto your PlayBook

Alternatively you can use the stock browser to connect using URL http://your_IP:9000/resources/remote/remoteaccess.html.

Step 2:  Launch the Connect to TVersity app, it should detect that you have not configured the software.  Swipe down from the top of your bezel to launch the configuration screen.

Step 3:  In the drop down for an unused server entry, select TWonky, enter the IP of your PC and the Port if needed.  By default TWonky uses port 9000.

Tip:  Find the local IP Address of your system (not your external IP address) if you want to work within your local network (not using internet). You can do this by using Start > Cmd > ipconfig /all, more information on this process here.  Write this number down, this is your local IP connection and is needed for the next step(s).

For more complex installations (accessing TWonky outside of the home) you need to specify your external IP address or FQDN.  And you need to make an exception to your router for port forwarding.  You can see examples of this in the Advanced Connection section for TVersity.

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Below are some instructions for users first getting started with Orb.

Disclaimer:  Connect to TVersity requires a PC and utilizes networking.  This may take some people out of their comfort level for the first time while configuring your systems to use this application.  But the rewards are great.

User level:  Easy

Limitations:  Requires internet access.

Benefits:  Free server software with a simple interface, requires purchase for Hulu etc.  Works on Mac OS X.

 

Installing Orb

Step 1: Download Orb and install it on your main PC that hosts the videos and audio files you want to share on your device.  You can download Orb Caster here (~80Mbs).

Step 2: Install Orb Caster on your PC once the download completes

Step 3:  When prompted during installation to close all running programs, select no.  You might want to watch videos while someone is using the PC.

Step 4:  During installation it will ask you where your media files are.  In most cases select both options.  On the next screen you can select any custom folders you use like an external drive for your movies.

For those about to ask, you can find your iTunes folder by looking here to make sure it is added in the folder list.

Step 5:  When asked, select No I am not installing any Orb devices (these are hardware items)

Step 6:  On the next screen, you are setting up Orb for mobile use.

Step 7:  New users will want to setup a new account, existing users can use their existing one.  When setting up an account, make sure to write down your username (email) and password.

Step 8: When asked, select Other smart phone or computer.  It will explain how you can access Orb from any device, and press OK to finish the first part of the setup.

 

Configuring your PlayBook

Step 1:  Download Connect to TVersity onto your PlayBook

Alternatively you can use the stock browser to connect using URL http://mycast.orb.com.

Step 2:  Launch the Connect to TVersity app, it should detect that you have not configured the software.  Swipe down from the top of your bezel to launch the configuration screen.

Step 3:  In the drop down for an unused server entry, select Orb – and press Connect.

 

Setting up Orb

Step 1:  Log into Orb

Step 2:  In the bottom middle select Settings

Step 3:  Change the Streaming Format to Flash, press Save and Exit and make sure the app is working for you!

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