Back in my day, we got an iPhone and we hacked it by hand! We fiddled with shell scripts and USB connections and compilers until everything eventually worked! You kids, these days, with your fancy GUI installers take all the fun out of things! So, yes, a few weeks ago, I hacked my iPhone. The … Continue reading iPhone turnkey hackery
Category: Software
From the WTF department
For those that missed it on Digg, we have a trailer for 3D Mailbox. Apparently, all of my email messages are either hot chicks in bikinis or grotesquely overweight men (which, I believe, is the representation for spam–you can feed the men to the sharks.) Who knew? What happens when I need to find that … Continue reading From the WTF department
YouPhone
Kim, begrudgingly, has her very first cellphone. Not only that, it’s a fancy red Blackberry Pearl. It would appear that the price of all other fancy smartphones tanked as soon as the iPhone was released. Questions for you Blackberry’ers out there… 1) Is Missing Sync the best way to synchronize it to a Mac? 2) … Continue reading YouPhone
iTunes 7.2 breaks FrontRow video streaming
This post is partly for the benefit of any friends experiencing the problem and partly to get the specific error message text out there on Google. Every since a recent update, the Mac Mini hooked to the TV stopped playing shared video files from other machines (movies, video podcasts, music videos, etc.) Audio files still … Continue reading iTunes 7.2 breaks FrontRow video streaming
XML-RPC, WordPress, and Dreamhost
I just started using MarsEdit for writing posts. I tried it when I first set up the blog at the new address, but did not stick with it. I vaguely remember something slightly broken, but that may have been my inexperience with WordPress at the time. Anyway, there is a new version, which is what … Continue reading XML-RPC, WordPress, and Dreamhost
Delicious Library XSL
Some recent discussions of Delicious Library and LibraryThing on Rich’s blog, got me thinking about a project I started just over a year ago. It did not progress very far, and I do not think I worked on it much (if at all) since, but I figured I should at least share what I have … Continue reading Delicious Library XSL
Synergy
Eight years ago, I worked at a company where I had both a Linux desktop machine and a Linux laptop. The laptop was the primary machine — for coding, documentation, and carrying around to meetings (back when WiFi was cutting-edge technology that few people knew about.) The desktop was the workhorse for large builds and … Continue reading Synergy
i made u a cookie but i eated it
Please note that all blog posts before 8 April 2007 were automatically imported from LiveJournal. To see the comments and any LiveJournal-specific extras such as polls and user icons, please find the source posting at http://brianenigma.livejournal.com/2007/03/In The Prestige, Nicola Tesla was played by David Bowie. How the eff did I not notice that?! In other news, … Continue reading i made u a cookie but i eated it
My bbedit gripes
Please note that all blog posts before 8 April 2007 were automatically imported from LiveJournal. To see the comments and any LiveJournal-specific extras such as polls and user icons, please find the source posting at http://brianenigma.livejournal.com/2007/03/Dear lazyweb, Is there a way to make bbedit accept tab and shift-tab to indent and unindent a block of text? … Continue reading My bbedit gripes
Offline XP Upgrades?
Please note that all blog posts before 8 April 2007 were automatically imported from LiveJournal. To see the comments and any LiveJournal-specific extras such as polls and user icons, please find the source posting at http://brianenigma.livejournal.com/2007/02/Dear LazyWeb, Problem: To test some compatibility issues between a particular web server and the latest, greatest Windows XP, I need … Continue reading Offline XP Upgrades?