First, make sure your phone is rooted. I’m not going to go into how to do this as it will depend on what version you are running. There are loads of guides out there on how to do it.

Step 1. Install Rom Manager from the market. This will allow you to flash clockwork recovery. It is the first item on the list.

Step 2. Download the latest version of Onecosmic’s ICS Port Android 4. This can be found here. If you don’t have the standard international version of the Galaxy S, download a version for your phone. This guide is for the i9000 (normal international version). Note that release notes for the ROM can be found here.

Step 3. Copy the file (zip) onto your phone. I recommend that you put it in the root directory.

Step 4. Back up anything important on your phone. It will be wiped.

Step 5. Restart your phone in recovery mode. Do this by first turning it off, then holding volume up, the home button and the power button until it turns on and goes into a menu (clockwork recovery that you flashed earlier in step 1.

Step 6. When in recovery mode, navigate the menus using the volume buttons and select the options using the power or home button. Select wipe data/factory reset.

Step 7. When you have returned to the menu after the reset, select flash ZIP and then select from the location you saved the ZIP. This will take a little while and the phone will reset. After 4-5 mins it will reboot with ICS installed and probably run a lot faster than it did before.

HAPPY DAYS!

I can’t understand why Samsung claimed it wouldn’t work on a Galaxy S…. I think they realised TouchWiz wouldn’t but who needs TouchWiz. This version is just perfect!

To flash your phone back to stock, if you have problems, please follow the following link here.

The following steps should help you easily move hosting companies. Note that I’ve changed the address as well. If you want to keep the same address, you need to ship the site address steps and also remember to update the DNS settings for your domain, which will depend on who you’ve registered your domain with.

Step 1 – Backup

Backup!!! You should be backing up regularly anyway. Remember, for WordPress sites, there are two types of backup that you need to do. Database and content files! You can easily backup your database by using a plugin called WordPress Database Backup. This will allow you to download the file, and set up weekly email backups. The database stores all your posts and settings but not images and files. The images and files need to be downloaded separately. Use an FTP client (like filezilla) to connect to your website server (or similar web based software provided by your host. Download everything in the “wp-content\” directory. While you are there, you should also download “wp-config.php” from the root directory of your website as this will store all your settings.

Step 2 – Set up WordPress on your new host

Once you have purchased your new hosting package, together with any domain you might want, you need to install WordPress on that system. This can be done in a number of ways, but the easiest it to just purchase a WordPress hosting package that has it set up automatically. Otherwise, you will need to follow the guide on WordPress.com but as you already have a WordPress site, I’m going to assume you already have done this before. Once the new hosting package is up and running, you’ll need to create a mySQL database as well to host the database. Your host company should be able to help you with this.

Step 3 – Customise your config file

Open the wp-config.php that you downloaded, set DB_NAME to the name of your new database. Set the username and password to the new username and password for this new database. Save the file and upload it over the top of the existing file on your new server. Note that you may want to save a copy of the existing file in case it has any predefined settings (like the database name) that you want to keep.

Step 4 – Change references in your database

The backed up database that you downloaded will be saved as an SQL text file (and maybe compressed needing you to decompress it first). Open it in a text editor (not notepad which can’t handle the new lines – use wordpad instead) and if you have changed your domain, use search and replace to replace all references to your old domain with your new one. Save the file. Now open PHPmyAdmin on your new server, open your newly created database and import the newly updated database SQL file. This should set up your database.

Step 5 – Restoring your images and plugins

Images, plugins and themes etc. will need to be restored too. You downloaded them from your old server in the wp-content directory. Now you need up upload them to your new server.

Step 6 – Log back into your new site

Your site should now be up and running on your new domain. If you updated config file properly and it can find the database which you correctly uploaded your SQL file to, all should be running smoothly. Your username and password for the site should be the same as before because they are stored in the database. You can now check the plugins are working properly and sit back with a cold beer.

In this example I will use Google UK (www.google.co.uk), but the same applies for any other regional Google variant.

1. Right click on the search bar and select “Edit search engines…”
2. Add a new search engine by entering “Google.co.uk” (or you local Google) in the “Add new search engine” box under other search engines.
3. Enter any keyword you want. In this case I will use “Google.co.uk”.
4. For URL, enter the following “http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%s”. Remember to change the “uk” to your local country code.
5. After hitting enter and hovering over this new entry, click on the ‘Make default’ button.

Done. Next time you enter a search in the address bar, it will use this hard-wired locale instead of whatever local Google you might happen to be suggested.

How do you tell the difference between a British Police Officer, an Australian Police Officer and an American Police Officer?

Answer:
First – Let’s pose the following question:

You’re on duty by yourself walking on a deserted street late at night. Suddenly, an armed man with a huge knife comes around the corner, locks eyes with you, screams obscenities, raises the knife and lunges at you. You are carrying a ‘Glock 40′ and you are an expert shot. However, you have only a split second to react before he reaches you. What do you do?

BRITISH POLICE OFFICER:
Firstly the officer must consider the man’s Human Rights. Does the man look poor or oppressed? Is he newly arrived in this country and does not yet understand the law? Have I ever done anything to him that would inspire him to attack? Am I dressed provocatively? Could I run away? Could I possibly swing my gun like a club and knock the knife out of his hand? Should I try and negotiate with him to discuss his wrong doings? Does the Glock have appropriate safety built into it? Why am I carrying a loaded gun anyway, and what kind of message does this send to society? Does he definitely want to kill me, or would he be content just to wound me? If I were to grab his knees and hold on, would he still want to stab and kill me? If I raise my gun and he turns and runs away, will I be blamed if he falls over, knocks his head and kills himself? If I shoot and wound him, and I lose the subsequent court case, does he have the opportunity to sue me, cost me my job, my credibility and the loss of my family home?

AUSTRALIAN POLICE OFFICER:
BANG!

AMERICAN POLICE OFFICER:
BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! ‘click’…. Sergeant arrives at scene later and remarks, “Nice grouping!”

It keeps happening to me and I’m getting annoyed. I buy a lot of things on eBay and have very rarely had any problems, but more than half of the flash memory I’ve bought has been fake and I think I’d never buy flash from eBay again because of this. Basically the memory stick or card will appear normal. Sometimes the case will look very convincing (like Kingston or Sandisk etc.) You can copy a couple of files onto the memory fine….. BUT it is not the size it pretends to be. Recently bought a 16GB micoSD card that turned out to be a cheap 2GB card. If your files are randomly getting corrupted, here’s how to check:

1. Download H2testw here.
2. Format the memory stick / card so that it has maximum free space and the whole memory can be scanned.
3. Run H2testw which will tell you how much memory really exists.

The following is an example of a 16GB card that only has 1.9GB and is fake:

• The media is likely to be defective.
• 1.9 GByte OK (4028416 sectors)
• 13.6 GByte DATA LOST (28696576 sectors)Details:0 KByte overwritten (0 sectors)
• 0 KByte slightly changed (< 8 bit/sector, 0 sectors)
• 13.6 GByte corrupted (28696576 sectors)
• 0 KByte aliased memory (0 sectors)
• First error at offset: 0x000000007a0fe000
• Expected: 0x000000007a0fe000
• Found: 0×0000000000000000
• H2testw version 1.3
• Writing speed: 4.41 MByte/s
• Reading speed: 7.56 MByte/s
• H2testw v1.4

You can see above that only 13.6GB has DATA LOST. Basically they’ve used a cheap, rejected chip and modified the controller to make it look bigger and sell it for more. Rip off. You may also find the following links helpful:

SOSFakeFlash, Fight flash fraud on eBay

• Start with the Regular/Normal Preset
• Container: MP4 File
• On the Video tab, choose:
  • Video Codec: H.264
  • Constant Quality: RF 24 (Lower number is better quality but higher file size, I wouldn’t suggest going lower than 20 in this case)
• On the audio tab change the Mixdown to “Stereo”, bitrate 160
• On the Advanced Tab:
  • Maximum B-Frames: 0
  • Uncheck “CABAC Entropy Coding”
  • Uncheck “8×8 Transform”
  • Uncheck “Weighted P-Frames”

After those changes, you can save these by clicking on Presets -> Save Preset and name it something like “Transformer”. These settings work for the Xoom as well.

Just FYI:

• A 6-min 720p video with RF 24 was about 92Mb for me and wasn’t bad visually at all, definitely watchable
• a 6-min 720p video with RF 22 was about 150Mb for me and was very nice to look at