How to Backup Your iPhone Cydia Applications Before Upgrading, and Restore Them Thereafter

By | July 16, 2010 |

iPhone-backitupWhat every iPhone user should know is that, whenever you upgrade your jailbroken gadget to a new iOS, you will need to run the whole jailbreak process again. That being said, you will understand that all of your Cydia applications, as well as those which are built into iPhone applications, will be deleted permanently. Thus, you can never retrieve them after your upgrade. A good thing is, you can back your applications so that when the process is done, you can restore them from easily.

iPhone applications can easily be backed up using iTunes, but what about the Cydia Applications? No, these ones will NOT be taken care by iTunes.
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2 Useful SSH Tricks to Improve Your System Security

By | July 2, 2009 |

OpenSSH LogoA few days ago, Tavis wrote a great article on How to use SSH X-forwarding to Run Remote Apps. X forwarding is indeed a very handy feature of SSH, so I thought it would be a good time to expand on some of the other great uses for this excellent piece of software (and some related tools). Today, we’ll cover SCP and SSHFS.

To follow this guide, you’ll need the following:

- Client computer with openssh-client installed (for Windows, use Putty)
- Server computer with openssh-server installed (Available on any UNIX-style system)
- A working set of login credentials on the server
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