Vollee Second Life client streaming on AT&T Tilt Mobile Phone

Now you can access second life anywhere with your AT&T tilt. Vollee has created a Second Life client that will allow you to go in world anywhere you have a 3G or WiFi connection. You can fly or teleport yourself anywhere in the world. Talk with your friends and chat or IM completely free. Vollee is going to launch new games soon according to their website.

Know of any good games for the AT&T tilt? If yes  post them in the comments.

Install Games to the Xbox 360 Hard Drive

Quite recently, Microsoft issued a mandatory update for the Xbox 360 Dashboard via Xbox LIVE. This update is called the NXE or ‘New Xbox Experience’. There are lots of great features in this update, besides the new 3D interface.

One of my personal favorites is the ability to install your games to the Xbox 360’s Hard Drive. This is extremely useful for a few reasons, the first being that it will in most cases make load times faster. Very often it does nothing, and in the case of Halo 3, it increases the load time. The second, and probably more important reason is that it makes your Xbox 360 almost silent. This is because the DVD drive in the Xbox no longer needs to spin, the drive generates most of the noise that the Xbox is constantly put down for.

Installing the games is quite simple. All you need is your Xbox and the game you want to install.

Once you have the Disc in the tray and the Xbox is sitting on the Dashboard screen, scroll to ‘My Xbox’ and select the game you want to install. Do not press the ‘A’ Button. Instead press the ‘Y’ button. This will bring you to a game details screen, from which you can choose the ‘Install to hard drive’ option.

The process usually takes about 15-30 minutes depending on various factors. When this is finished, you’re free to play away!

I do have one problem with the technology though. When I first heard about it, I thought I could stop changing the Discs in my Xbox 360 and just press a button to switch games. Unfortunately, not so. You still need to have the game in the DVD drive for proof of ownership. (Please Microsoft, make this happen in the next Dashboard update)

Happy gaming!

-Zane

Uninstall AT&T Software from your AT&T Tilt HTC 8925 Windows Mobile 6.1

In this post will be showing you how to uninstall the AT&T bloatware from your AT&T Tilt Windows Mobile 6 cell phone. AT&T bloatware is the software that comes on all AT&T cell phones, this includes Xpress Mail, Get AT&T Navigator, AT&T Mail, AT&T Music, AT&T GPS, XM software, and other software that you don’t really need or want. All of this extra software uses more memory and slows the mobile phone down. After you uninstall the AT&T software you’re Windows Mobile 6.1 AT&T Tilt 8925 will be much faster.

The AT&T tilt comes from the factory with an AT&T software autorun File on it. When you buy the tilt from AT&T this software will automatically run and install all the AT&T bloatware onto your phone when you run it for the first time, or after a hard reset. What we are trying to do here is, “do a hard reset and then take out the battery”. What does taking out the battery do? If you take out the battery after a hard reset, it will not allow the AT&T software to run, not installing any of the AT&T bloatware, crapware ECT. This works on Windows mobile 6.0 and Windows mobile 6.1. Below you will find step-by-step instructions and a video on how to install the AT&T software from your Windows Mobile phone.

Step 1: click the Windows tab
Step 2: click settings
Step 3: click the system tab
Step 4: click the clear storage icon
Step 5: type 1234 click yes

Now wait for the setup to go through the process, this may take 2 to 5 minutes.

When you get to the “complete” screen, “Setup is complete. Tap the screen to begin using your device”. Now you must do this very fast. It’s better to have the battery door off before you do this. Tap the screen then quickly removed the battery. Wait for about 30 seconds then put the battery back inside the Tilt. If your phone boots up like normal and you don’t see any AT&T software then “you did it correctly”.

If your phone goes back into reset mode “doing a hard reset or clearing the memory” you must start all over. What I mean by start over is let it go through the whole hard reset process and right after the complete screen, take out the battery again. Warning this may take a few tries to do correctly. The last time I did this I had to take out the battery 7 times before it worked correctly, so don’t think after the first try if it didn’t work, it won’t work, or doesn’t work. It will work.

Assuming you did the battery trick correctly your tilt will run faster than when you took it out of the box. It’s like having just the mobile phone OS on your cell phone and nothing else just a fresh install of the OS. Kind of like when you buy a computer from Dell or HP and get all kinds of garbage software that runs on startup, uses hard drive space and slows your computer down, the same can be said about the AT&T software.

AT&T by default turns off Internet sharing. Well not really turns off more like hides Internet sharing, but it’s still there if you search in the Windows folder. Removing the AT&T software allows the Internet sharing icon to be present in the programs folder.

I also noticed the cell phone camera running much faster after doing this.

Here is the video showing you the step-by-step instructions.

Cheapest Fastest Ugliest Wireless Router Antenna Mod with Primestar Dish

I have been assembling a home server rack for about 3 weeks and needed to test out my router with the server outside in my garage. After testing I did not want to move the router but could not get Wi-Fi inside my house with my laptop and TiVo. After searching the internet i tried the pop can reflector antenna mod, but that did not help. After looking around I took out my old Primestar dish. I thought i might be able to use it in the same way as the pop can mod. Now I know this ugly but it Really Works. What I did was just tie strap the router to the Primestar Dish and That’s It!

The signal went from  10% to 90% after testing and pointing the dish.