Interesting question, right? We are all fueled by something. What gets you out of bed in the morning? Is your passion technology? Playing ball with the kids? Stamp collecting? Reading the dictionary?
It’s too often we just let time pass without refecting on why we do the things we do?
I’m interested to see how many readers actually chime in.
Every office worker who brings their lunch has had it stolen a time or two by some jackass in the office because your food looked better then the stuff they brought.
Here is a sure fire way to make sure your food is NEVER stolen again!
Stealing your co-worker’s lunch is a downright contemptible act, that is, if it’s perpetrated by someone other than you. But, if you’ve ever had your lunch stolen, you know the the frustration and anger it causes. You know the revenge and ill-will it inspires. And you know that no matter how well you try to hide your lunch bag at the back of the refrigerator, something’s gonna be missing when you open it. Well, lament no more. The Anti-Theft Lunch Bag to the rescue . . .
Anti-Theft Lunch Bags are regular sandwich bags that have green splotches printed on both sides. After your sandwich is placed inside, no one will want to touch it.
Just pop on over to skforlee’s site and drop and email about how to get yourself some of these ingenious bags!
Thanks to the SDK Apple has let iPhone users be able to install and uninstall any application their heart desires, well so long as it’s not one of Apple’s bundled applications. Try removing Notepad, Contacts or Stocks. No such luck… Well until now.
This is more of a trick rather then an uninstall. What you are really doing is moving Apples bundled applications to a “hidden” 10th page on the iPhone.
Now we need to make some place holding icons. I found it easiest to go into Safari and make a webclip of the webpage “about:blank” or you can use any other webpage you see fit. You will need to put one of those “about:blank” webclips on iPhone pages 1 – 9. (Yea I know it will take about 10 minutes of your time). Then move any of Apple’s default applications to the end of the ninth page (Such as Notepad or Stocks). Now create more “about:blank” webclips that go in front of those Apple applications you want to hide until they are bumped completely off the screen (on the 10th page).
Once those icons are bumped off you can safely delete all those “about:blank” webclips and you will notice Apples applications will not reappear. Sure, its not uninstalling but its damn close. Hard to explain? Yes! I leave the comments open to anyone who can think of a simpler method.
Spore, which has been much maligned for its DRM stranglehold on users, has decided it will relax some of its crazy restrictions.
In light of thousands upon thousands of irate DRM-hating gamers, Electronic Arts has announced that it’ll be issuing a patch to the game that’ll allow people to de-authorize certain computers.
Currently, the game is only able to be activated on up to three machines. If you replace one of those machines, you’ll have to call up EA, proof of purchase at hand, and plead your case to be able to activate it again. Under the new system, you’ll be able to deactivate certain machines, similar to how iTunes works, and activate new ones.
The patch will apparently be coming in the “near future,” although no specific date has been given.[via]
Kinda funny how DRM was designed to prevent copying but Spore has turned out to be the most pirated game ever.
I keep a prepaid T-Mobile SIM laying around for those “just because” moments. For anyone who has tried using T-Zones on a prepaid cellphone (especially on an iPhone) you are always sadly disappointed with the results. No connectivity.
However, due to a recent change on T-Mobile’s network you no longer are stranded without internet in prepaid land. First you will need an unlocked iPhone 2G. Just use the Pwnage tool to unlock it. You don’t need to install Cydia, Installer or any other hacks – just unlock the baseband.
Once the phone is unlocked navigate to the Settings icon, select General then select Network and finally Cellular Data Network.
In the APN settings enter epc.tmobile.com and restart your phone. Once you restart your phone just open up the Safari web browser (or any other internet enabled application) and viola – instant connectivity!
Now mind you on the prepaid plans T-Zones is free so get while the getting is good!
Spam has reached an uncontrollable level. It floods my inbox, it fills my mailbox and litters my blog. Sure, I use spam fighting plugins to filter out most of the garbage but the onslaught makes comment moderations next to impossible.
What do do? A Captcha. I recently implemented “ReCaptcha” to help keep the spam away.
So why ReCaptcha? Well, I feel if a user must be inconvenienced might as well let it be for a good cause.
To archive human knowledge and to make information more accessible to the world, multiple projects are currently digitizing physical books that were written before the computer age. The book pages are being photographically scanned, and then transformed into text using “Optical Character Recognition” (OCR). The transformation into text is useful because scanning a book produces images, which are difficult to store on small devices, expensive to download, and cannot be searched. The problem is that OCR is not perfect.
reCAPTCHA improves the process of digitizing books by sending words that cannot be read by computers to the Web in the form of CAPTCHAs for humans to decipher. More specifically, each word that cannot be read correctly by OCR is placed on an image and used as a CAPTCHA. This is possible because most OCR programs alert you when a word cannot be read correctly.
Sure a captcha keeps the bots at bay, but it also takes a toll on reader usability. I’m curious what you readers feel about captcha’s? Should I keep it? Should it be banished? Sound off!
Al just dropped word that the much anticipated native podcasting application has been denied from Apple’s App Store.
Apple Rep says: Since Podcaster assists in the distribution of podcasts, it duplicates the functionality of the Podcast section of iTunes.
That’s right folks, it duplicates the functionality of the desktop version of iTunes.
Therefore, it was denied from sale in the app store. Although my app does allow you to listen to podcasts (like iTunes), it also allows you to download them directly to device and that is something Apple does not offer.I find this a bit strange considering there are numerous apps that duplicate the functionality of other apps. For example, any calculator app is duplicating the functionality of Apples calculator app. Any app that tells you the weather is duplicating the Yahoo weather app. Any app that let’s you listen to music is duplicating the iPod portion of the iPhone.
There are also several apps that simply allow you to listen to a podcast (Diggnation and Mobility Today just to name a few) that are not denied from the app store.
Apple had nothing in the terms prohibiting developers from duplicating features currently available on desktop application. I followed all the guidelines and made sure everything is in the correct place. Yet Apple denies me because I allow users to download podcasts just like iTunes.
This is a HUGE disappointment. Al made some VERY valid points in his post about application duplication and he has begun to distribute the application outside of the App Store using Appl’s AdHoc distribution system. he is asking for a $9.99 donation and if you are looking to get your hands on this piece if software you can find it here.
End the speculation. If you open up iTunes and plug in your iPhone be sure to hit that update button. Firmware 2.1 has been put out on the tubes and waiting to be loaded on your phone.
Now this is not one of those “Bug Fix” updates. According to Apple’s site 2.1 promises:
* Decrease in call set-up failures and dropped calls
* Significantly better battery life for most users
* Dramatically reduced time to backup to iTunes
* Improved email reliability, notably fetching email from POP and Exchange accounts
* Faster installation of 3rd party applications
* Fixed bugs causing hangs and crashes for users with lots of third party applications
* Improved performance in text messaging
* Faster loading and searching of contacts
* Improved accuracy of the 3G signal strength display
* Repeat alert up to two additional times for incoming text messages
* Option to wipe data after ten failed passcode attempts
* Genius playlist creation
Hmmm, Interestingly the list of updates doesn’t include Steve Jobs bold proclamation that “Apps won’t” crash.
For those who want a direct link you can find the 3G software here and the 2G software here.
Update: Hey, they changed the 3G icon…
