Petting a Big Pussycat

There is no limit to the hobbyists' likes, petting and the extent of 'danger' involved in realizing their likes. 

Keeping pets at home is one of the most favourites hobbies. Generally keeping pets is confined to dogs, cats, birds, fish  and non-violent animals like deer and like. But there are people who like to adopt 'dare' petting and keeping dangerous animals and reptiles in their homes, moving about freely. One when I was vising a friend, I suddenly found a big black cobra moving about in his corridor. Appalled and horrified  as anyone would have been, I yelled out loud at my friend about the 'intruder attack.' But my friend just laughed out my scare by telling that the cobra was his pet. Wow!! what a scary pet, I remember to have said.

Jackie Smit with Enzo [Photo: mathews Tabaccos /Bercroft Medi/Mail Online]

Now today, I came across a couple keeping a big 'cat' as their favourite pet animal. The big cat is in fact a 27 Stone Royal Bengal Tiger, nicknamed 'Enzo, that  Michael Jamison and his girlfriend Jackie Smit live with in Brakpan, South Africa.

They bought Enzo as a cute nine-week-old cub but a year later he has grown into a hulk after wolfing down 11lb of meat a day. The couple bottle feed their pussycat with milk and when it is time for a nap, Enzo shares either the couple's bed or on the handy chaise lounge.

Well it is pretty dangerous to live with such a big pussycat, which has now grown into a full size tiger  - but the couple find their Enzo a very homely and loving pet, just like some 14 dogs they have as other 'conventional pets.'

So when are you, if a pet enthusiast, going to get a bigger pussycat for your home?

Read more / see more photos / video: Mail Online

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AR.Drone 2.0: A High-Flying Father’s Day Gift [REVIEW]

This post is for RC gadget lovers, provided their fathers too have a liking for the RC gadgets. And what better gift could it be to present it to your father.

AR Drone 2.0: A high flying father's Day gift

Yes, I am talking of AR Drone 2.0 - an awesome high-flying drone as beautiful father's day gift. I came across this review at Mashable by Lance Ulanoff and I thought you should know about it, lest you go wandering selecting a suitable gift on Father's Day.

Lance Ulanoff writes:

The Parrot AR.Drone 2.0 is expensive ($299) and can only fly for 15 minutes on a charge, but it’s still a leading contender for the best Father’s Day gift you might ever buy.

When I tried out the new AR.Drone earlier this year, I sensed its entertainment value, but it wasn’t until I brought it home and took it for a bunch of real test flights that I discovered the compelling nature of this remote-control flying and HD video-recording entertainment device. It’s best described as your own personal spy drone.

The AR.Drone 2.0 is the follow-up to the widely discussed AR.Drone 1, which made a splash a couple of years ago as a unique iPhone-controlled quadropcopter. The best part of it? You could see what the AR.Drone’s standard definition camera saw. The copter responded to the on-screen flight controls.

Today’s AR.Drone sports two cameras: a standard-definition camera in its belly that points at the ground and a 720p HD camera. That camera not only shows you what the copter sees, but also lets you capture HD video files on your smart phone or tablet (iOS and Android devices).

There is lot more to it at Mashable - do read details before selecting this expensive yet exciting gadget for your father.

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Download RedSnow 0.9.12b2 [0.9.12 Beta 2] For Untethered iOS 5.1.1 Jailbreak [Direct Link]

On 4th of June, we at Hobby Shobbys shared a major update of RedSn0w jailbreak utility released by the Dev Team, which included a new option for unlocking jailbroken iPhone device via restoration of Sam Unlock Activation tickets.

On 9th June, the Dev Team has rolled out yet another update which as compared to previous release contains a minor feature which is the addition of Rocky-Racoon injection option and an iBooks bug fix.

The dev Team is of the view that:

Update #1: Starting with version 0.9.12b2,  Redsn0w  will now explicitly ask users with limera1n-able devices whether they want to inject rocky-racoon using the DFU ramdisk method, or the backup/restore method (the ramdisk method is better for those with lots of media on their device that would create very large backups, and it’s required for those with inactivated iPhones).

If you’ll always want to use limera1n, you can select that in the Preferences Pane. It also fixes an iBooks issue an old-bootrom 3GS iPhones, and provides more useful error messages when things go wrong.”

For users who have already jailbroken their iOS devices don’t necessarily need to use this tool again for jailbreak, but if you’re one of those iPhone 3GS users who are facing problems in iBooks can go ahead an re-jailbreak with this newer version of RedSnow. 

Grab the file from the links below:

Download Redsn0w 0.9.12b2 For iOS 5.1.1 Untethered Jailbreak On Windows [Link]
Download Redsn0w 0.9.12b2 For iOS 5.1.1 Untethered Jailbreak On Mac [Link]

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Download SnowBreeze Version 2.9.6 To Untethered Jailbreak ATV 5.0.2 (iOS 5.1.1) [Direct Link]

Good news once again!!

iH8snow while updating their jailbrak tool Seasonpass, have also updated jailbreak utility SnowBreeze. The new version is called 2.9.6, that would add untethered jailbreak support for the new ATV firmware 5.0.2.

It may be added that unlike SeasonPass which only adds the support for the new ATV version, this new SnowBreeze version includes a new feature through which Apple TV 2 users can now resize their root partition.

Download Sn0wBreeze 2.9.6 [Direct Link]

PS: Just in case you haven’t updated your Apple TV to the newer firmware version, you can do so by navigating through General > Software Update under the Settings Menu. You can also download the version by direct links (ATV2, ATV3).

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Beware of unwanted guests while fishing

On 6th June, I shared a video warning the fishing enthusiasts for what other than fish they may get hooked on to their fishing line.

Today, while reading the world news, another similar news attracted my attention. Now this is a bit weird as while fishing and almost catching a mythical 13 feet giant squib, the fishermen find a hungry shark coming over and attacking their cache.

Photos courtesy: Al McGlashan/YouTube

Mail Online reports that The Australian Daily Telegraph fishing columnist - and big-game fisherman - Al McGlashan was sailing off the coast of New South Wales, Australia, at the weekend when he came across the carcass of a 13-foot squid.

And when McGlashan got into the water to explore the carcass, he found he was not the only interested party - a large blue shark came and made himself known, before devouring parts of the carcass.


Watch the video of the shark attack:

Read more: Mail Online
Video Courtesy: Dailytelegraphau/YouTube

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How To Unlock Jailbroken iPhone By Restoring Sam Unlock Activation Tickets Using RedSnow 0.9.12b1

by Wahaab JB

Remember when we told you to save your SAM activation tickets much before?, well for those of you who did save the SAM activation tickets would be glad to know that the new version of RedSnow contains the option to restore those SAM activation tickets the easy way, which would software unlock your jailbroken iOS device.

Before proceeding with the following tutorial, you must ensure that your A4-A5 device is jailbroken. Also you will need the Sam activation tickets that you made a backup of before so that you can use them to unlock your device.

How To Unlock Jailbroken iPhone By Restoring Sam Unlock Activation Tickets Using RedSnow 0.9.12b1:

Step 1: Download RedSnow 0.9.12b1 [LINK].

Step 2: Connect your iOS device to your computer.

Step 3: Run RedSnow and navigate to Extras > Even more > Tickets and select your Lockdown.zip file that you created when you backed up your SAM unlock ticket.

Step 4: After seeing a message from RedSn0w saying that the Tickets are uploaded, reboot your device and try the Sim card associated with the tickets you used.

That’s it!, now aside from your iOS device being jailbroken, it’s software unlocked as well. Enjoy!

[via Chip Hazard]

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Beware while you go fishing

Fishing is one of the most enjoyable and 'in' hobby of a lot of hobbyists around the world. The fishing enthusiasts spend countless hours sitting and waiting for a little jerk in their fishing rods to catch the booty. But sometime you may get something other than a fish - may be a an old boot, under water bush or  even an Octopus.

Yes Octopus - though catching octopus while fishing is very rare, but sometimes it does get caught on to your fishing hook - so beware of such an eventuality and do not panic. Rest assured nothing gigantic as seen in movies would come out but remember it is bigger than the biggest fish you ever hooked.

I came across the following video on YouTube and I thought of sharing it with my fishing hobbyists with a little commentary as shared with the video:

Megapickles, who shared the video adds: Bryce hooked into a octopus which he originally thought was a snag. I was able to get some pretty sweet underwater shots while it was next to his kayak. The octopus was kept and enjoyed. It swallowed a pretty large hook so its survival was unlikely. I used a Kodak Playsport (Zx3) to film this.

It is further added: For the record, I didn't kill it, or eat it. I just filmed it. Also, it was not wasted. Its sacrifice was well respected among those that did eat it. I'm not a biologist of any kind, but a simple search on the internet shows that octopuses are not a rare animal. In fact, there is evidence that suggests they are overpopulated in their range. They have a life-span of 3 to 5 years so I'm guessing because of its size that this one was nearing the end of that span. So, I would rather it be killed quickly and not wasted than it be set free to suffer and starve for the last year or so of its life with a six inch hook in its mouth. 


Video/commentary courtesy: YouTube / Megapickles

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