Archive for the ‘Geeky Stuff’ Category

facebook-is-watching

Why Mindcryme, Melen & rayne will NEVER be on FaceBook

Wikipedia lists over 100 different social networking sites, and each of them does exactly the same thing as at least a dozen others. Some people (especially bloggers) have a profile on each and every one. And they re-post what they said on each over, and over, and over again. “Johnny had peanut butter and jelly for lunch!” shows up a hundred times in your inbox if you follow the same people on each site.

Jailbreak

Jailbreak and enable multitasking on iPod Touch 2g MC

I made the mistake of upgrading my iPod Touch 2g (MC Model) to iOS4 without having had any of the 3.1.2 or 3.1.3 SHSH blobs saved to Cydia. If you don’t have those blobs saved, you can’t downgrade from IO4. Until yesterday there wasn’t a jailbreak for the MC iPods. @comex on Twitter released an [...]

Ebook reading on the iPod Touch

I know it’s sort of odd, but one of the main things I do with handheld devices is read ebooks. The games, wifi access, and all the other toys are great, but if I can’t lie in bed with it and read a good book, it’s useless to me. I recently got an iPod Touch. [...]

Linux Webcam Frustrations

I’ve always been very pro-Linux. I started out using one of the first versions of Slackware Linux many, many years ago. I remember having a stack of 20+ floppies that made up the install media. Pretty much everything had to be compiled from scratch, and I don’t recall there being any package manager. Just download [...]

Powered by WordPress | Free T-Mobile Phones for Sale | Thanks to Palm Pre Blog, Video Game Music and Get Six Pack Abs