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View all →April 16, 2008
BART Ticket Kiosks Running Windows 2000 Professional?
Today I tried to add some money to a BART ticket and came across an interesting screen. I guess they had just been servicing the ticket machines and they were "rebooting." What I saw really surprised me. First, they are running on a Windows platform. Second, they are running not on Vista, nor Windows 2003 Server...not even Windows XP, but…
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March 18, 2008
Fix-It: iPhone Bookmark Sync errors
Been a while since I did a post so here is a quick one...an iPhone Fix-it. I'm on firmware 1.1.4 on a Jailbroken iPhone and recently started getting some errors when trying to sync my device. As iTunes was synching and hit the bookmarks section, I continually received the following error message: "iTunes could not sync bookmarks to the iPhone…
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February 29, 2008
Finally Jailbroke my 1.1.4 Firmware iPhone
I know, I know. I said that I was going to wait and see what happens with the iPhone and the SDK (due out very soon). And, I really really like how well the iPhone just works as an un-modded phone. I actually think that I could have waited to see what happens. But the intrigue got to me, especially…
Read more →February 26, 2008
DD-WRT + OpenVPN + LaCie Ethernet Disk Mini Home Edition = Listen to my Home Music at Work!
To write this all up would probably take way too much time. But for a while I have been trying to find the ultimate solution for listening to my iTunes library where ever I am. There are obviously other combinations of this that would work, but this is the latest iteration that I have come up with that I'm happy…
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January 28, 2008
iPhone: Jailbreaking of Firmware 1.1.3 – not for me, yet!
I'm usually an early adopter of these types of changes. This time I'm taking a different approach of "wait and see." I have read through the instructions (ranging from the early release of NateTrue's fix to the more "official" version from the iPhone Dev team) and have visualized the process. There are lots of sites that discuss the changes. From…
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January 18, 2008
MacWorld Expo 2008 – DAY TWO – Comments and Observations
Well, I went back for more today, Friday, the last day of the Expo. Traffic was definitely lower (which was nice) but you could see that some of the exhibitors were getting glazed looks on their faces and there was a general lack of energy out there. It didn't seem that people had packed up and left but many key…
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January 16, 2008
iPhone: Upgrade to Firmware 1.1.3 Observations
Last night I took the plunge and decided that I wanted to have the latest and greatest firmware from Apple. The Google Maps location feature, the Web Clips on the springboard and the ability to re-arrange icons really grabbed me. But this post is not about that. Since I was coming from a Jailbroken 1.1.2 iPhone with 3rd Party Apps…
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January 2, 2008
iPhone: Firmware 1.1.3, 2008 predictions and my 3rd party apps
Just a quick post for all of you iPhone fans. It's the start of 2008 and there is, I predict, a lot in store for the iPhone. We will see the release of the iPhone SDK which is a definite. Also, there have been reports (from Gear Live) of a new firmware coming out (more about that in a bit).…
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December 27, 2007
Fix It: HemingwayEX without UltimateTagWarrior in WordPress 2.3
As mentioned in my previous post, in order to speed things up on my blog, I have removed the UTW (UltimateTagWarrior) plugins. Unfortunately, the theme that I use (and subsequently modified) relies on UTW for a lot of things. One of these was causing issues for users coming from a Google search related to Tags. For example, if you Google…
Read more →December 27, 2007
Blog Optimization…it’s WAY too SLOW!
I use a couple of 3rd party monitoring sites including site24x7.com and mon.itor.us to check to ensure my blog is up and running. Over the past few days, I have only had a 94% uptime on my blog (according to site24x7.com) and this concerns me. I had personally experienced issues (e.g., not being able to connect to the mySQL db,…
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December 11, 2007
New Job: Technology Evangelist for ServePath
It has been a few weeks since my last post and quite a lot has happened with my professional career. First through, apologies to my regular readers for not having posted anything as of late. Hopefully I can return to this soon. However, for those interested, the company that I have joined, ServePath, has chosen me to help them navigate…
Read more →November 16, 2007
iPhone: New, easier release of 1.1.2 jailbreak application released
Conceited Software has released an updated version of their 1.1.2 Jailbreak application. I have not personally tested this nor do I have an iPhone or iPhone Touch that I can test it on since my iPhone is already jailbroken using my instructions here, but I'm assuming from some commentary that I have read that it supposedly fixes a lot of…
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