October 2007

iPhone: Application Software Developers Kit for iPhone in February 2008!

October 17, 2007

I guess the repeated efforts of the various iPhone 3rd Party App Developers related to Jailbreaking and creating applications that run natively on the iPhone have paid off. Steve Jobs has officially announced that Apple will provide an SDK in February 2008. Here is the complete post from Apple’s Hot New site: Third Party Applications [...]

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Today is Blog Action Day – October 15th

October 15, 2007

October 15th is supposedly Blog Action Day. What is that exactly? Well, from my understanding it is a day that is to highlight the power that is “blogging.” For me, I’m coming up on 2 years of blogging about Technology, Gadgetry, Software and Hardware and how it relates to my life as a father. However [...]

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Fix It: Hitting “Enter” types a backslash on Windows XP

October 15, 2007

Update #1 – Making me look like a fool! This is a very obscure error that I came across today with a client. He was having issues where every time he would hit ENTER, his machine would type a backslash “\” and it was proving to be very unnerving. Rebooting did not help nor unplugging [...]

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iPhone: Experiences and Recommendations for Jailbreaking the 1.1.1 Firmware…not for the weak!

October 11, 2007

Update #2 on 10.15.07 @ 11:25 AM PST – iNdependence download link updated to 1.2.2. Note warning from developer.  Update #1 on 10.13.07 @ 11:12 AM PST – new links for instructions; further clarification on items Yesterday there were a flurry of announcements around the successful creation of various ways to Jailbreak iPhones that have [...]

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General: How to get the Right Amount of Sleep

October 9, 2007

I read a very interesting article on sleep patterns and thought that I would do a quick summary of what I learned, applied to my own situation. The Center for Applied Cognitive Studies (CentACS) has reported that people basically sleep in 90 minute cycles, and that if you were in an environment with no interruptions [...]

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iPhone: A couple of bugs or changes with Firmware 1.1.1

October 3, 2007

Since I don’t have any 3rd party apps now with Firmware 1.1.1, I have been digging around with the functionality that I currently have and I came across a couple of changes (or bugs?) in the new version that I felt should have something written about them. Closing multiple Safari windows saves wrong window I [...]

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New iPhone Model Released

October 2, 2007

Probably old news by now but an important celebrity has “broken the news” about a new iPhone model, just in time for the holidays. I probably won’t get one of these but my kids might!

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iPhone: Firmware 1.1.1 – Delete Messages from Exchange Server, Calendar Invites and incompatible Vircom ModusMail

October 2, 2007

I’m looking for as many positives as I can with the new 1.1.1 iPhone firmware (and I haven’t found too many and I still miss my 3rd party apps) but this is one “fix” that I’m thankful for. With previous versions of the iPhone firmware, deleting messages from Exchange-based email accounts used to have no [...]

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