Cydia crashing on startup
I was just updating some applications through cydia the other day and my wifi connection went down while update was in progress (damn power outs… yeah, we still have a lot of them in India).
Now, after the incident, whenever I tried to open Cydia, it crashed while loading database. I tried rebooting the device a couple of times with no luck. Still Cydia kept crashing. I googled a bit about cydia startup crashes. Most of them were from much older OS (v1.1 really seems much older compared to v3.0 installed on my iPhone) and remaining solutions didn’t work for me.
Now, having your jailbroken iPhone with Cydia not working is pretty bad. So, I kept searching and I found out that Cydia writes a log file at /tmp/cydia.log. I opened that file using mobile terminal (also can be done via SSH) and there it was. One package was corrupted (Error message being “Unable to parse package file /var/lib/apt/lists/
Hope it helps…
Google officially announced Chrome OS for Netbooks
Google announced Chrome OS on official Google Blog today. There were many rumors of a Google OS in development. After a long waiting period, Google has made this official. The OS is meant to be light and it is targeted at Netbooks. According to the blog post, it will support both x86 and ARM architectures. Google is planning to make Chrome OS available to consumers in “Second half of 2010″.
According to trends, my assumption is Chrome OS will be faster loading OS with offline version of Google Apps Suite and of course, Google Chrome browser. Too bad, we have to wait at least a year for it.
iPhone ID3 tag editor
Just got myself an iPhone 3G yesterday. I have already jailbroken it to try out some interesting applications. I got to say, it’s pretty amazing. I just xould not believe that I can get a full-fledged terminal on a smartphone device. (I owned a Windows Mobile PPC prviously). And now I got all sort of development and networking tools installed on my iPhone. 
Now, thing is, I copied over some music to my iPhone. Some of the songs didn’t have proper ID3 tags so, I thought I should edit them. After all these amazing application found on the platform, I was hoping to get an ID3 tag editor. But, unfortunately I didn’t. So, I thought why not develop it myself?
I am already learning objective-c programming. So, this will be kind of an excercise for me.
I will be coming with the ID3 editor soon.
Update: This application is delayed because modifying iTunes synced mp3 files on phone causes problem while syncing to iTunes.
A new beginning
Starting a new technical blog. I will be posting all my technical experiments/write-ups/articles here from now on. My general blog will continue functioning with an occassional post Here.
Also coming up with a new website here with all my personal development work and a little profile of myself for a start.