How To Watch Hong Kong TVB Series With PPS 港台剧场- PPS.tv is a very good Chinese software that allow you to watch TV shows, movies and more for free and on demand. It’s based on P2P technology, initially it has many shows in their server, but then sooner because of copyright issue, more and more shows are restricted outside of China, only can view in China region.

If you are outside China, or Hong Kong, you can’t really watch Hong Kong TVB series with PPS. Just like you are unable to stream US TV shows outside US. However, this is not really a problem because with a little tweaks to your system, you are going to watch Hong Kong TVB series in no time with PPS.

Here, I want to guide you on how to enable Hong Kong TVB series playlist in PPS, which will unlock many other shows too.

1. Start >Run.

2. Type %APPDATA% in Run.

3. A windows will pop-up. Open PPstream folder.

4. Look for the file ppsarea (or psnetwork if ppsarea does not shows relevant content).

5. Replace the below code with the one in ppsarea.

[areainfo]
servertime=1318520564
localtime=1318520576
country=4S4K3ZM3XU
area=4WGY5ZFYTQ
province=42YZ72ELR4
city=4WGZPZF2VQ
net=42KZT2ECWLT33EI
ip=352611

6. Save the file. Then right click on the saved file (ppsarea) and click Properties.

7. Tick Read-only.

8. Launch your PPS.tv. Voila, Hong Kong TVB series playlist will now available in your PPS.

It’s very easy only, the tweak actually tricks PPS to see your PC is in China, it works like a proxy. Good luck, if you are lazy to tweak, there’s actually an easier method. Good luck.

Free 50GB of Cloud Storage From Box Android – Anybody use Dropbox here? Box is a Dropbox alternative which is better for Android user as Box is currently giving out 50GB of free cloud storage, specially for Android user only! Cool right?

If you don’t know what is Dropbox or Box, they are actually cloud storage which you can store your document in the cloud (at their server), then access it anywhere, on PC, on Mac, on Android, or on the iOS. It’s like your thumb drive in the cloud where you can access it whenever you have an Internet connection.

Download Box for Android for free on Android Market.

Make Android Faster With Fast Reboot -  Many Android phone now has very high RAM memory, but then when you run many apps at the same time, your phone will become laggy and slow. Some people will restart the phone to make it faster, and some people will exit or uninstall the app. Now, there’s an easier way to make your Android phone faster with just only a click via – Fast Reboot.

Fast Reboot exit all your unused running app in the background, clear the RAM memory and make your phone faster. Best part is there’s a free version, and also a paid version. The paid version – Fast Reboot Pro includes One-Click Feature and schedule reboot. But then, I think free version is enough already. This app is so much better than task killer in my opinion.

Download Fast Reboot on Android Market.

How To Download American TV Series Via BitTorrent – Living in Malaysia, US TV series is very slow, slow as in it only shows here after a few months of premiere in the States. So I have to go online to get updated with the latest TV series. Last time, I used Chinese streaming app PPS.tv to watch US TV series but later then they have removed it from their playlist, due to copyright issue.

That doesn’t prevent me from watching my favourite American TV series, I am now downloading them via BitTorrent and my US TV series torrent all come from this site – EZTV.it. In this post, I want to teach you how to use BitTorrent (BT) to download the TV series.

The BitTorrent client I am using is uTorrent. It’s available on Mac and Windows.

1. So firstly, download uTorrent and install it.

2. After you have installed uTorrent, head over to EZTV.it to look for your favourite American or UK TV series.

3. Click on the download icon that shows a download arrow on the right next to a magnet icon.

4. When prompt where to save your download, click Open with, and choose uTorrent as your client.

5. uTorrent will now run on your computer and ask you where to save your download. Pick your location and click OK.

6. Your TV series is downloading, wait for it to complete and enjoy!

Simple right? This is how you download US American TV series via BitTorrent. Good luck.

How To Reformat & Reinstall Mac – People who are using Windows PC are always familiar with the term – reformat. Everytime the computer run slows or crash oftenly, they will reformat their PC to reinstall a fresh copy of Windows OS. We seldom hear about this on the Mac.

I have a old MacBook White that is 4 years old, it’s running very slow right now, the whole HDD is a mess, all the documents are so messy that it’s so hard to organize and my Windows partition is corrupted. The only thing I can do to clear thing up is to reformat and reinstall a fresh copy of Mac.

So here’s how to reformat and reinstall Mac OS on your MacBook, iMac, Mac Mini or Mac Pro. It’s very easy, you do not need to go into the boot menu.

1. Insert Mac OS X disc that comes with your Mac.
2. Backup important documents.
3. Turn off your Mac. (Restart)
4. Hold the ‘C’ key while turning on your Mac.
5. Wait for the installation screen of Mac OS X.
6. Follow the on-screen instruction.
7. Grab a coffee, drinks, or do something and wait. It will takes about half an hour or more.
8. Done.

Good luck and enjoy reformating your Mac.

How To Set Keyboard Shortcut For Language Input On Mac OSX – When using Windows, switching language input is just pressing ALT + SHIFT. It’s so easy. After moving to Mac OSX, I couldn’t find the default method to change language input via keyboard shortcut. Last time I had to click on the flag symbol (language input) on the menu bar to change language.

Here’s a guide that you can set up a keyboard shortcut to change language easily.

1. Go to System Preferences.
2. Keyboard.
3. Keyboard Shortcuts.
4. Keyboard & Text Input.
5. Scroll down and find “Select the previous input source, Select next source in Input menu”
6. Double click and setup this new shortcut – Control + Command + (Arrow Up/Down)

I am using this keyboard shortcut to change language from English to Chinese.

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iPhone Green Screen Of Death – I am using an Apple iPhone 3GS, running on 5.0.1, jailbroken with Redsnow and yesterday I occurred the green screen of death! I was sorry cause I did not encounter any of this before except black screen and my iPhone just sent for service not long ago. I thought it was faulty due to jailbreak process or a broken LCD.

After Googling around, the green screen actually represent the battery icon when you are charging at 0% battery. This means that the iPhone’s battery is dead. It’s some bug in the iPhone firmware.

It’s easy to fix this problem, just plug into an electrical outlet, computer recommended with the iPhone USB cable, and let it charge. It will turn back on when it reaches 6% battery.

How To Exit DFU Restore Mode On iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch – So now you have done something wrong to you iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch and stuck in DFU Restore mode during your jailbreak process or whatever it is, and you want to exit DFU Restore mode to go back to normal mode. In DFU Restore mode, you can turn on your device, iTunes keep wanting you to restore your device and so you have to exit it to get back to normal mode.

It’s very simple, plug in your iDevice to your computer, press on the Home & Sleep button at the same time until the Apple logo appear on screen. You can now remove your device from your computer.

Good luck.

Blackmart Alpha – Installous For Android - Previously, I introduced about Aptoide, an app that allow you to download free paid Android apps via a web-based directory call Aptoide Bazaar. Now, there’s another app that does the same trick but with less hassle and that’s Blackmart Alpha, currently inb Alpha version.

To be simple, Blackmart Alpha is just like Installous for Android. As you know, Installous is the app that allows you to download free paid apps on the iPhone iOS platform. Blackmark Alpha is a standalone app that does not require you to add repository. You can find many apps, most of the famous one in it. Paid apps are seen with a strike in the price, meaning it’s free.

Blackmart Alpha also makes updating app easily with just a click. If you ask me to choose between Aptoide and Blackmart, I’ll say both because the apps are not complete, some times I would have to search on both app to see the availability.

Blackmart Alpha is not available in the Market but you can download the APK file here, transfer it to your phone and install it there.

Aptoide – Dowload Free Android Paid Apps – You can actually download paid Android apps for free on your Android device, just like the iPhone, there’s the Installous app. There’s a few method, one is you find the APK file on the net and transfer it to your phone, another is, use Aptoide app!

Long ago, I introduced about APKtor, which is an app that works similarly where you can add repositories which host the APK app file, however with the new Aptoide, you can search on their own market, they called it the Aptoide Bazaar.

In Aptoide Bazaar, you can just search any Android apps you want, it’s just like Installous for Android, but web-based. After you have made your search, you click install and it will run through the Aptoide app that you installed on your device. It will then request your permission to add repository into Aptoide so that you can search within your Aptoide app later.

Now, I have collected many repository, I seldom need to go Aptoide Bazaar. If I do not find the app I want on Aptoide, I will just head over to Aptoide Bazaar and do a search. Easy as that.

You can download Aptoide on Android Market or you can check out more about it here.