Over the past decade or so I’ve become a strong believer in paying for media that I consume — not surprisingly this coincides with my ability to afford to buy stuff. In the spirit of promoting the concept of paying back those who provide us with great software, I give you my Top 4 iPod [...]
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Top 4 iPod Touch Applications that I’ve Paid For
July 9th, 2009 No Comments
Tags: 1password · Apple · apps · crayon physics · Downloads · games · iPhone · iPod Touch · ishoot · review · software · space trader · Utilities
WordPress Plugin Search Finally Works!
March 11th, 2009 No Comments
I did not get a chance to blog this when it first came out, but I’ve just used it again and I cannot possibly let it pass without note. WordPress has drastically improved the plugin search. They announced the upgrade a few weeks ago on the WordPress development blog.
I’ve been hard on the poor [...]
Tags: improved · search · Utilities · wordpress · wordpress 2.7
How To Slipstream Windows XP SP3
August 8th, 2008 1 Comment
I’ve decided to go with Windows XP for my dual-boot environment on the MacBook. Partly due to familiarity, but mostly due to the lower resource requirement.
In setting up this new environment, I needed to decide how to cope with my Windows XP disc being an original, pre SP1 disc. The solution: Slipstream.
Slipstreaming allows you to [...]
Tags: Admin Tools · Downloads · Geeky · Microsoft · Utilities · Windows
iPhone 3G Jailbroken — Ha!
July 21st, 2008 1 Comment
Well that didn’t take long.
In a short post titled “Thanks for waiting ” released yesterday, the iPhone Dev Team released Pwnage 2.0 for jailbreaking iPhones running the iPhone firmware version 2.0.
It should be noted that this doesn’t unlock your iPhone, it only opens up all the things that the old Jailbreak used to do. [...]
Virus Hunting — Avast + Unlocker
March 28th, 2008 2 Comments
After a somewhat brief Aikido class tonight I was enlisted by Crow to help rid a Vista machine of the Vundo trojan which found it’s way onto the machine (prior to Avast being installed).
Avast did a great job of finding most things and cleaning them up. What it had trouble with was a few DLLs [...]
Tags: Admin Tools · Security · Utilities · Windows