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		<title>JailBreak/Unlock/Tether iPhone/iTouch 3.1.2 &#8211; Blackra1n/Blacksn0w</title>
		<link>http://tutorialninjas.net/2009/11/05/jailbreak-unlock-tether-iphone-itouch-312-blackra1n-blacksn0w/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:47:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ipp</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iPhone]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[First things first, iPhone Unlock Users do not upgrade via iTunes to 3.1.2; this will kill the baseband and you will not be able to unlock.  You can use the dev teams pwnagetool.
Jailbreak: Download/Execute BlackRa1n, click the logo of your OS to download. May want to install Cydia via BlackRa1n app.
Unlock: Install Sn0w via blackra1n [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>First things first, iPhone Unlock Users do not upgrade via iTunes to 3.1.2; this will kill the baseband and you will not be able to unlock.  You can use the dev teams <a href="http://blog.iphone-dev.org/post/211802082/pwnage-pie" target="_blank">pwnagetool</a>.</p>
<p>Jailbreak: Download/Execute <a href="http://blackra1n.com/">BlackRa1n</a>, click the logo of your OS to download. May want to install Cydia via BlackRa1n app.</p>
<p>Unlock: Install Sn0w via blackra1n app.</p>
<p>Tether: Unlock device, go to <a href="http://m.peacefulinsanity.com/Tether.mobileconfig">http://m.peacefulinsanity.com/Tether.mobileconfig</a> on iphone and tap install.</p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">If Issues with WiFi, GPS, or YouTube come up after unlocking with Blacksn0w. Go to Settings &gt; General &gt; Reset&gt; and hit “Reset Network Settings”. Once that’s complete, do a hard power cycle by holding the sleep/home button for a few seconds and then sliding the on-screen power toggle.</span></p>
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		<title>Sorry For The Downtime.</title>
		<link>http://tutorialninjas.net/2009/10/30/sorry-for-the-downtime/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:22:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ipp</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Other]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My apologies for the incredibly long downtime, about 36 hours.  It was out of my hands, it seemed to be a problem with the Datacenter that this server is hosted in.  The server is located in another country(UK), so it does make it a bit hard to communicate with them.  Hope you didn&#8217;t miss us [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My apologies for the incredibly long downtime, about 36 hours.  It was out of my hands, it seemed to be a problem with the Datacenter that this server is hosted in.  The server is located in another country(UK), so it does make it a bit hard to communicate with them.  Hope you didn&#8217;t miss us too much and again sorry for any inconvenience.</p>
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		<title>Crazy YouTube Related Video Effect &#8211; Warp</title>
		<link>http://tutorialninjas.net/2009/10/27/crazy-youtube-related-video-effect-warp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:28:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ipp</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Other]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Time Waste]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Youtube]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[*Be Warned: This may increase your time spent on youtube*
Developers often hide little Easter eggs or keep &#8220;under development&#8221; features hidden within the site.  Here is a particularly cool one which is pretty hard to explain.  It puts your video in a bubble and if you move your mouse over the bubble you [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-2420" title="images" src="http://tutorialninjas.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/images.jpg" alt="images" width="130" height="86" />*Be Warned: This may increase your time spent on youtube*</strong></p>
<p>Developers often hide little Easter eggs or keep &#8220;under development&#8221; features hidden within the site.  Here is a particularly cool one which is pretty hard to explain.  It puts your video in a bubble and if you move your mouse over the bubble you can play the video or it will expand the related videos.  I&#8217;m not sure how else to explain it so why not try it yourself?</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Normal&#8221; URL<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu_moia-oVI ">http://www.youtube.com/<strong>watch</strong>?v=Yu_moia-oVI </a><br />
&#8220;Warped&#8221; URL<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/warp.swf?v=Yu_moia-oVI">http://www.youtube.com/<strong>warp.swf</strong>?v=Yu_moia-oVI</a></p></blockquote>
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		<title>MAC: Anti AFK WoW Bot</title>
		<link>http://tutorialninjas.net/2009/10/01/mac-anti-afk-wow-bot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:59:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ipp</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Other]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Programming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wow!]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ever want to create your own bots?  Well the &#8220;hello world&#8221; to the bot world is generally anti-afk bots, they don&#8217;t do anymore than make it appear the user is at the computer.  This won&#8217;t be too advanced as we are just going to be using &#8216;apple script&#8217;, a &#8220;real bot&#8221; would generally hook into [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ever want to create your own bots?  Well the &#8220;hello world&#8221; to the bot world is generally anti-afk bots, they don&#8217;t do anymore than make it appear the user is at the computer.  This won&#8217;t be too advanced as we are just going to be using &#8216;apple script&#8217;, a &#8220;real bot&#8221; would generally hook into the actual program and interface with it directly and not the keyboard.  However this is a very good place to start.</p>
<p>First you must open &#8220;Script Editor&#8221; on your mac and then you can paste this code in the top window.</p>
<blockquote><p>repeat 100 times<br />
tell application &#8220;System Events&#8221;<br />
tell application &#8220;World of Warcraft&#8221; to activate<br />
key code 49<br />
end tell<br />
delay (random number from 30 to 90)<br />
end repeat</p></blockquote>
<p>There you have it,all you need to do is open up WoW, log in and click run in script editor, I don&#8217;t recommend overusing this macro as players may report you if you are doing it all day in battlegrounds.  And you can get banned, however if you just use it every once and a while while you take a shower or go eat; i doubt you will be banned.  However use at your own risk, there is always the chance.</p>
<p>Curious how it works?  Here&#8217;s an explanation.</p>
<ul>
<li>First we are setting up a loop, in this case it will perform everything until &#8220;end repeat&#8221; 100 times.</li>
<li>Next we let the command know we are going to be sending &#8220;System Events&#8221; to the application &#8220;World of Warcraft&#8221;.  This basically ensures your WoW window has focus, so it will send the goods to the correct program.</li>
<li>After the program is open, we are going to press the space bar.  If you want to send text, you can use the &#8220;Keystroke&#8221; syntax; however special keys such as space and enter can be a bit tricky.  Use this program to get a listing of key codes: <a href="http://softwares.bajram.com/utilities/#Full_Key_Codes">Full Key Codes</a></li>
<li>Ok now to look atleast a little human, lets wait a random number of seconds between 30 and 90 before we do anything else.</li>
</ul>
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		<title>Introductory to Programming &#8211; Syntax Terminology.</title>
		<link>http://tutorialninjas.net/2009/09/30/introductory-to-programming-syntax-terminology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:15:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ipp</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Other]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coding]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Before you can begin programming, you must first understand the logic and terminology.  Pseudocode, is a great place to start; the code is not functional however it is very easy to read and can be converted to other languages.   Once you understand Pseudocode it will be possible to teach yourself real languages from source code.   [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Before you can begin programming, you must first understand the logic and terminology.  Pseudocode, is a great place to start; the code is not functional however it is very easy to read and can be converted to other languages.   Once you understand Pseudocode it will be possible to teach yourself real languages from source code.   Hopefully the wiki page on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudocode">Pseudocode</a> will make sense to you, after reading the terminology.   As always google is a great place to learn and hopefully with the correct terminology you will be able to find what you need. However if you have any questions, don&#8217;t be shy to ask us <a href="http://forums.tutorialninjas.net/newthread.php?do=newthread&amp;f=33" target="_blank">here</a></p>
<p><strong>Terminology</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Syntax</strong>: The actual code behind a variable.</li>
<li><strong>Variable</strong>: A keyword that links to a value stored in the computers memory.  You will assign the &#8220;keyword&#8221; ex Site=&#8221;TutorialNinjas.net&#8221;.</li>
<li><strong>String</strong>:  A &#8220;Text&#8221; variable, assign the variable to this if you wish it to act as text.</li>
<li><strong>Int</strong>: A &#8220;Integer&#8221; variable, assign the variable to this if you wish to perform arithmetic&#8217;s.</li>
<li><strong>Sub</strong>/<strong>Function</strong>: This is a set of instructions that will not be executed until called upon directly in the code.</li>
<li><strong>If..Then</strong>: A conditional statement, If value = true then do this.  You may expand with an else statement for if it does not equal true.  Other statements are else if, or, and</li>
<li><strong>Loops</strong>: Run a set of commands X times, the most common loop is a &#8220;For Loop&#8221; another popular one is the &#8220;Do While&#8221;</li>
</ul>
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		<title>Create Free iPhone Ringtones with Audacity</title>
		<link>http://tutorialninjas.net/2009/09/22/create-free-iphone-ringtones-with-audacity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 04:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ipp</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Other]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Audacity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iPhone]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Want to have a large variety of ringtones? But can&#8217;t see paying more for a 30 second snippet of a song than the full song?  Did you know you can create your own ring tones in just minutes with Audacity?

Open Up iTunes &#38; Audacity.
Find the song you wish to use in iTunes and right click [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-2377" title="iphone-ringtones" src="http://tutorialninjas.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/iphone-ringtones-300x244.jpg" alt="iphone-ringtones" width="180" height="146" />Want to have a large variety of ringtones? But can&#8217;t see paying more for a 30 second snippet of a song than the full song?  Did you know you can create your own ring tones in just minutes with <a title="Audacity" href="http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/">Audacity</a>?</p>
<ol>
<li>Open Up iTunes &amp; Audacity.</li>
<li>Find the song you wish to use in iTunes and right click and select &#8220;Show in&#8230;&#8221;</li>
<li>This will show you where the actual file is, drag that into Audacity.</li>
<li>Highlight about 30 seconds of the song you wish to use as a ring tone.</li>
<li>Copy the selection by going to Edit &gt; Copy</li>
<li>Create a New File: File &gt; New</li>
<li>Paste your selection: Edit &gt; Paste</li>
<li>Optional: You may want to fade the ringtone in and/or out.  To do this highlight the first or last 5 seconds of the song and go to Tools &gt; Fade in(or fade out).</li>
<li>Export this song as a M4A.</li>
<li>Go to where you saved this song and rename the files extension(.m4a) to a .m4r.</li>
<li>Double click the file and it should play it in iTunes and store it in your ringtones section.</li>
</ol>
<p>If you are presented with a &#8220;cannot find library&#8221; type error message when exporting:</p>
<blockquote><ol>
<li>Either go to Audacity&gt; Preferences(mac) or File &gt; Preferences(win).</li>
<li>Click on Libraries</li>
<li>Download the FFmpeg library (click button)</li>
<li>Follow the instructions on their website to install.</li>
</ol>
</blockquote>
<a href="http://tutorialninjas.net/2009/09/22/create-free-iphone-ringtones-with-audacity/"><em>Click here to view the embedded video.</em></a>
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		<title>Create Digital Copies of Receipts On The Fly.</title>
		<link>http://tutorialninjas.net/2009/09/21/create-digital-copies-of-receipts-on-the-fly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:52:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ipp</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Other]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gmail]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The importance of saving receipts is one of the things majority of the population learns the hard way.  Ever have a product break and didn&#8217;t bother returning it as you lost the receipt?  Or even worse, it&#8217;s tax time and you are one of those people who are getting randomly audited.  Even if you do [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-2375" title="010906receipt" src="http://tutorialninjas.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/010906receipt-136x300.jpg" alt="010906receipt" width="136" height="300" />The importance of saving receipts is one of the things majority of the population learns the hard way.  Ever have a product break and didn&#8217;t bother returning it as you lost the receipt?  Or even worse, it&#8217;s tax time and you are one of those people who are getting randomly audited.  Even if you do save your receipts, finding the correct one can be like finding a needle in a Hay Stack.</p>
<p>Well thanks to your Cell Phone and Email, you can create digital copies anywhere you are and have file them electronically in chronological order!</p>
<p><strong>What You Need:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Picture Phone and ability to send Emails (you may send email via MMS however if you aren&#8217;t unlimited it may cost you)</li>
<li>Gmail Account.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Still confused? Here&#8217;s how.</strong></p>
<p>Doing this is simple; just create a <a href="http://tutorialninjas.net/2009/09/18/creating-gmail-labels-and-filters/" target="_blank">label and filter</a> for Receipts in gmail, the filter should have the following settings:</p>
<blockquote><p>From: (address you are sending from)<br />
Has the Word: Receipt<br />
Has Attachment: Checked</p></blockquote>
<p>Now that your gmail account is set up, take a picture of any receipt and email it to yourself with the word Receipt anywhere in the email(subject or message).  Gmail will automatically place this in the category for receipts.</p>
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		<title>Creating Gmail Labels and Filters</title>
		<link>http://tutorialninjas.net/2009/09/18/creating-gmail-labels-and-filters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:20:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ipp</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Other]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gmail]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Gmail Labels, are a great way to keep your email inbox organized.  A label will act like a folder and the filter will automatically put emails into that folder.
Create Label

Login to Gmail account
There are buttons in the upper middle, click &#8220;Labels&#8221;; it is on the same level as the &#8220;Inbox&#8221; link just to the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-2360" title="images-11" src="http://tutorialninjas.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/images-11.jpg" alt="images-11" width="117" height="117" />Gmail Labels, are a great way to keep your email inbox organized.  A label will act like a folder and the filter will automatically put emails into that folder.</p>
<p><strong>Create Label</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>Login to Gmail account</li>
<li>There are buttons in the upper middle, click &#8220;Labels&#8221;; it is on the same level as the &#8220;Inbox&#8221; link just to the right.</li>
<li>Click &#8220;Manage Labels&#8221;</li>
<li>In the box where it says &#8220;Create New Label&#8221; type your label name and click create</li>
<li>The &#8220;Show, Hide, Remove&#8221; links will show/hide your labels on the left side of the gmail screen and remove will delete the label.</li>
</ol>
<p><strong>Create Filter</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>Click &#8220;Create a filter&#8221; located near the top middle of your screen.</li>
<li>Enter information that you want to automatically do actions with (such as move to label, mark as read, or delete).</li>
<li>You may click Test Search to scan your current mail and ensure only things you want to match actually do match (You have the option to actually perform these actions on old mail on the next screen)</li>
<li>Once you are sure you like this filter click next step.</li>
<li>Using the check boxes click the actions you wish to do.</li>
<li>Click &#8220;create filter&#8221;</li>
<li>If you ever want to edit/delete the filter click on &#8220;Show current filters&#8221; on the lower left of the &#8220;filter screen&#8221;</li>
</ol>
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		<title>The Many Non-Comedic uses for the Banana Peel</title>
		<link>http://tutorialninjas.net/2009/09/17/the-many-non-comedic-uses-for-the-banana-peel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:04:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Defibaugh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Other]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alternative Use]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When most people think of an empty banana peel, the first thing they think of is a clown slipping and falling on one. However, Re-Nest.com lists several more ways that the empty peels can be used. The list below shows 7 Alternative uses for those slippery little devils.
1.	Help Your Garden Grow: Bananas are naturally high [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright" src="http://hurryup1.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/banana-peel1.jpg" alt="http://hurryup1.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/banana-peel1.jpg" width="124" height="122" />When most people think of an empty banana peel, the first thing they think of is a clown slipping and falling on one. However, Re-Nest.com lists several more ways that the empty peels can be used. The list below shows 7 Alternative uses for those slippery little devils.</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>1.	Help Your Garden Grow:</strong> Bananas are naturally high in potassium and encourages plant growth. Use banana peel or puree entire banana and bury with soil.</p>
<p><strong>2.	Shoe Polish:</strong> Use the peel to make your kicks nice and shiney.</p>
<p><strong>3.	Stop the Itch:</strong> Rub the inside of a banana peel on a bug bite helps itch relief.</p>
<p><strong>4.	Pain Reliever:</strong> The oil in a banana peel will help relieve the pain from burns and scratches.</p>
<p><strong>5.	Wart Removal:</strong> Tape a piece of banana peel on a wart, continue until it’s gone.</p>
<p><strong>6.	Make Houseplants Gleam:</strong> Just like peels can shine shoes, they can also be used to make the leaves of plants shine.</p>
<p><strong>7.	Removing Splinters:</strong> Similar to wart removal, tape a piece of the peel over the splinter. The enzymes will help dislodge the splinter and heal the wound.</p></blockquote>
<p>7 Ways to Reuse a Banana Peel via [<a href="http://www.re-nest.com/re-nest/creative-reuse/7-ways-to-reuse-a-banana-peel-094898">Re-Nest</a>]</p>
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		<title>The Perils of Eating Out</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:50:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sure you all have heard how expensive smoking is right?  Well a trip out to dinner is the equivalent to a pack of cigarettes so these numbers are equally equatable.   The average American will grab fast food 2.3 times a week (Science Daily), which totals 120 trips a year.  Lets say you each trip [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-2333" title="frugal" src="http://tutorialninjas.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/frugal.gif" alt="frugal" width="246" height="169" />I&#8217;m sure you all have heard how expensive smoking is right?  Well a trip out to dinner is the equivalent to a pack of cigarettes so these numbers are equally equatable.   The average American will grab fast food 2.3 times a week (<a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/01/050104105659.htm " target="_blank">Science Daily</a>), which totals 120 trips a year.  Lets say you each trip is $6; that totals about 720/y just on fast food, do you go more than 2 times a week?  Well than your total will be above $1000/y.</p>
<p>I know you still need to eat; well cooking is a very cost saving skill, the average &#8220;cooker&#8221; will spend $4-$7 per day on food (<a href="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/05/a-high-price-for-healthy-food/" target="_blank">NYTimes</a>).  It will also take extra time out of your day, which means there is less time for you to be bored!  The benefits don&#8217;t stop there; you will lose weight and it can be a very attractive trade skill.</p>
<p>Some &#8220;Frugal Foods&#8221;</p>
<ul>
<li>Ramen Soup (May not be the healthiest, but man is it cheap and delicious)</li>
<li>Rice (You&#8217;d be amazed with how cheap rice is!)</li>
<li>Water(Not bottled, spending $2+ a day on soda is not only expensive but very unhealthy.)</li>
<li>Beans (Chili can be an appetizing and cheap meal to make, throw in cut up hot dogs for &#8220;meat&#8221;.)</li>
<li>Oatmeal (Definitely not my favorite but besides from growing your own food this is one of the cheapest options)</li>
</ul>
<p>Saving $700-$1000 over  a year time may not seem like much; but a 5 day cruise is under $500, so saving money isn&#8217;t your game; think about it as getting an all-expense paid vacation.</p>
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