A Day In The Mind of Ryan

Verizon Wireless

2007-09-16T21:14:00.000-05:00

I hate them. Okay, so I was thinking about a week ago that I wanted to hack my phone(Motorola Razr V3M) for a few reasons. One, Verizon cripples all of their phones. Two, if I fuck up, I might be able to get my mother to get me an iPhone. I am blogging this to rip on Verizon and tell people why they are getting mega ripped off . . . .no, actually Terra ripped off. They freaking cripple all of their products. The Motorola v3m comes from the factory with many features. blue tooth file transfer, USB file transfer for ring tone adding, and intuitive menu system. But Verizon Wireless does not seem to like this and decides that they want to take all of this away from you and charge you more to do so. They don't even simplify by taking away. They menu system they replace it with is ugly, no fun to work with, and has no features worth using. Verizon also overcharges for all services. It is $20 for unlimited texting. it is $5 with other carriers. I did fuck up in hacking my phone. But i got it to be pretty damn cool before I did. Its not even like I killed it. It still makes calls, it just cant receive them. Not even sure why. I figure I can go back in and remove all the hacking I put many days into, and have a 50/50 chance of my phone receiving calls again. But it will still suck like it did out of the box. Or, I could take the sim out and put it in my old phone. Ohhhh wait. Another pet peeve of Verizon is that there is no sim card. If I want to activate any of my old Verizon phones, I must call, wait on hold for 2 hours, pretend to be my dad, have his credit card, ssn, and a bunch of other secret stuff. And then they will ask for a long hex code behind the battery, and I need the number of both. So you better not be calling on one of the cells, because then you have to hang up and wait another 2 hours to get back to them after you take your battery out and get the number. I am not sure what I am going to do. I still have 2 1/2 months until my birthday which is when i can get the iPhone. And when that comes around, I don't know if i particularly want to use AT&T, i am considering very heavily unlocking it and going to T-Mobile. AT&T does not have ridiculous policies and does not ALWAYS cripple their phones. But they suck. They are an evil company. Hidden fees here, bad costumer support there. T-Mobile is the only provider that seems to have ethics. But they have the worst coverage I hear. But then I hear so many good things about them, and wonder if it is worth it. But if I do unlock the iPhone, and go to T-Mobile, i need unlimited data, so i need the blackberry plan, but i don't want to buy a blackberry. I want a free phone to take the sim out of and put in my iPhone and then throw in a closet. Going to T-Mobile is complicated in a nut shell, but the service will be cheaper. So as you can see, I have many phone calls to make. Some to AT&T, some to Verizon, some to Apple, and some to T-Mobile. I need a secretary. lol, frustrating. ttyal.

DONT BUY VERIZON!!!!!

iTunes Ringtone Service

2007-09-11T01:57:00.000-05:00

Apple activated the service, and I played with it, it is a pretty nice feature. Now all Apple needs to do is make it so that you do not have to pay to cut 30 seconds out of a song you already own. You would think that there is obviously a way to hack into the iPhone and put your own 30 second clip and make that a ring-tone, and we know we can cut 30 seconds out of a song purchased from iTunes or acquired anywhere else already. So I think I might go with that route when I eventually get the iPhone and want a ring-tone. But the service is fun to lay with.

-Ryan

iPhone

2007-09-11T01:07:00.000-05:00

Price Drop!!! Exciting unles you are one of those who has alre3ady purchased yours. The remaining 4gb iPhones are still for sale and they are selling for only $299. I am not going to get one though. I am goint to get the 8gb probably. But I have a gut feeling that there is going to be a 16gb iPhne in the next dare I say 4 months? And now that Apple has invested in chips froma company that makes 3G chips, I have a gut feeling thatr 3G is going to be in the iPhone in the next 12 months for sure. I do not care if I only have 8gb in my iPhone, but I am willing to wait to get 3G. I would also like wireless syncing. There is a wireless iTunes Store now as all of you most likely already know. But am I able to download my podcasts the second they are released over EDGE or wifi? If I am, I am very exciterd about this service. Wireless syncing with your home computer would be pretty cool too. Not exactly sure how easy it would be to implement this. But it would be pretty awesome. My birthday is in about 3 months, so is all goes as planned, I will have an iPhone then. If I were more patient and a little bit smarted, I would wait till' Christmas. But I am not.

-Ryan

I Caught Steve In a Lie

2007-08-07T21:22:00.000-05:00

Steve Jobs states in today's press conference that he is replacing the 17" iMac which cost $1,199 with a 20" model for the same price, and that you are saving $300 and getting a better computer. Ummm . . .risky move much? For about a year now the 17" model has been $999. You are actually paying $200 more for the base iMac now steve.

-Ryan

The Apple Store Is Back Up

2007-08-07T15:06:00.000-05:00

New iMacs (thats old news)

New iLife 08 with redesigned iMovie. This made me a little excited, I love iMovie.

New iWork as well.

Core 2 Duo Processors in the MacMini

-Ryan

This Is Really Cool, Im A Little Disappointed Though

2007-08-07T14:50:00.000-05:00

This is nice, I like it, But I cant help but feel a little disappointed when I was hoping for this.

Oh Well, we cannot expect too much from apple, they have, or should have their entire design team working on the new touch screen iPods.

-Ryan

TELEPORTATION! As far as we can tell.

2007-08-06T03:48:00.000-05:00

Okay, so i was doing a speed test today, and btw,I had some pretty low upload times, I will be calling comcast, I'm pretty sure I pay for much higher than that, but I don't know what I am paying for exactly. Anyway, I am just amazed at the potential of data transfer rates. There is a company producing functional flexible fiber optic cable, its just amazing what the potential is. So as I was babbling on to my sweet girlfriend who agreed with everything I said even though I was making so sense to her because she is a sweetheart, I came up with a theory. Okay, so assuming we have a connection fast enough to transfer real time full high definition video straight to a full high definition television. Okay, so you have a video chat. Now lets assume that this television is at a level of high definition that the person on the viewing end's eyes are unable to distinguish the image from something literally sitting right in front of him. Okay, now assume that the audio feed, the video feed, the high definition tv was set up properly on both ends of the connection, now . . .who's to say this is not reality, who's to say that they are not in the same room? They can not tell they are not. Just because they know that they are not doesn't mean that they are not in the same room. If a tree falls in a forest and there is nobody there to hear it, did it make a sound? It might have, but it might not have, there is no way to answer that. If our perception thinks the person is in the room with us, who is going to say they are not? This might be as close as we ever get to teleportation while I'm alive or for may years after. Just wanted to get that thought out in an entry.

Thanks for reading!

-Ryan

Damn You Gossip Columnists

2007-08-05T16:46:00.000-05:00

Fake steve jobs was revealed, I am sad. Fucking frigtards revealed his identity.
The depressing article can be found by clicking depressing article. :(

Ryan

OMG!!!!!

2007-08-05T16:42:00.000-05:00

This is so exciting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gizmodo Article

Ryan

Miss S!!!!

2007-08-02T01:52:00.000-05:00

Awesome Button

2007-08-01T15:32:00.000-05:00

This should be an option for all OSX dialog boxes.

XBOX 360 Price Drop?

2007-07-29T22:10:00.000-05:00

Wadoya Wanna Bet This Is Real?

Leaked Toys R' Us Ad Seems to say its coming.

The Engadget Article

-Ryan

Apple's New iMac Keyboard Leaked

2007-07-27T18:52:00.000-05:00

It Looks Realistic, I think I believe this one.

You can check engadget's entire picture gallery of this to see more, again, i think this might be it.
-Ryan

Space Bubble is Dead

2007-07-26T03:20:00.000-05:00

Yea, after a short lived 10 episodes, Chris Stevens is calling it quits. Where have I seen this before? Maybe he got a job at Mahalo. We never even knew you Space Bubble. But you will be missed.

-Ryan

Apple Sold 270,000 iPhones

2007-07-26T00:54:00.000-05:00

Their Stock has not recovered entirely, but my little stocks dashboard widget is green again. So don't listen to AT&T, they only counted activations, just because AT&T are fuck ups and had a bad activation system, does not mean that Apple did not sell a ton of iPhones.

Go Apple!!!!

-Ryan

Toyota to Test Plug-in Hybrid Vehicles on Public Roads?

2007-07-26T00:11:00.000-05:00

Yes.

Oh you wanted more than that? Oh, I see how it is, OK. So these test vehicles will be modified Priuses in Japan. No, there are no plans to test any in the US. Well, none mentioned by Toyota at least. It has longer range than other hybrids too. With this system, the Plug-in Prius can travel 8 miles as an all electric vehicle. Wow . . . .that is good? I guess it beats the 1.9 miles you can go with the current model. But you hear about all electric plug in cars that have a range of about 100 miles, and this is a hybrid yes, but I would hope for at least a battery capable of 25 miles. You can check out the edmunds.com article for yourself, but I am waiting for the next Gen Prius, I want one really bad.

-Ryan

I Added A Digg Button

2007-07-24T23:53:00.001-05:00

I Had originally added a digg button that linked back to my blog but if people went to look at the post they will only see the blog and that particular post may be months back hidden away in the archive. So after testing and playing around with it for a while I realized that that would not work. But thats all fixed now and there is a digg button specific to each post in each post. I Dugg my Joost article for the fun of testing it, it was fun.

-Ryan

My Own Version of Out Of The Box

2007-07-23T18:07:00.000-05:00

My Thoughts On Joost, And Internet Television

2007-07-22T23:52:00.000-05:00

Joost, is from the makers of Skype and Kazaa. Now we all know how popular those are today. Skype was awesome, wow, voice calls over the internet. Everybody thought this was cool, but how come nobody uses it today? People do voice chat however, just not with Skype. I have used voice chat in instant messengers. Kazaa is a file sharing program. I used Kazaa for about 5 minutes two years ago when I got my Creative Zen Plus. I had more ad-ware than I knew what to do with, and the music searching feature did not even work. I use LimeWire Pro (which I got free by downloading it in LimeWire basic) and iTunes which I use to download all of my songs when I have an iTunes gift card with anything on it. Both of these desktop programs have paved the way to better alternatives. Will Joost survive. Hard to say for sure, but I would say probably not. People do not want to watch TV in web quality video for hours on end in front of their computer. I am not against web video by any means however. I personally would love to buy an Apple TV to watch DL.TV, Cranky Geeks, CNET TV, Edmunds Inside Line Automotive Videos, and more. The thing about video on the web is that there is far more variety, and potential for film makers to get noticed, but also to find quality video that interests you. I remember a show on FOX networks that got canceled after about two episodes. I believe it was DRIVE, and I found it interesting, and exciting, and I enjoyed it. But the masses were not watching, so FOX canceled it. Should I have to give up watching a show I enjoy because other people do not find it interesting? I think that the major broadcasting networks should have hundreds of shows, some on network TV, and MANY more on the Internet. The shows that are not broad casted should be on the Internet for people that ARE interested to watch. I think that Apple had this in mind with the Apple TV, and I think Joost is going to start this transition. We cannot watch the videos that interest us sitting at our computers though, that is taking a step backwards. What we have to do is bring the Internet into the family room. I watched an entire series of British television on Joost, the show was called Fifth Gear. I found this far more interesting that anything I can get from Comcast or Dish Network. But I shouldn't have to watch sitting in front of my computer. I believe that Joost is the start of a revolution, I don't think that it is the answer, but it certainly has the right idea.

-Ryan

A Truely Loyal Apple Fan Boy

2007-07-22T21:40:00.000-05:00

I Found These on The Secret Diary Of Steve Jobs

Patent for iPhone Mini

2007-07-22T21:32:00.000-05:00

I think i want one already.

Link to the MacRumors page with more information.

iPhone Not Responsible For Duke University Wireless Outage

2007-07-22T15:41:00.000-05:00

As reported by CNET's news.com, Tracy Futhey, A Duke spokesman says "The reality is that a particular set of conditions made the Duke wireless network experience some minor and temporary disruptions in service. Those conditions involve our deployment of a very large Cisco-based wireless network that supports multiple network protocols.". Cisco says that they worked closely with Duke, and Apple to resolve this issue. Cisco would not saw exactly what fix was applied, but the problem has not occurred since. Apple declined to comment on the issue.

HA! Duke university trying to bring down the iPhone. NOT Possible!!!!

6th Generation iPod Interface

2007-07-22T04:21:00.000-05:00

Again, I am trying to figure out why it stops at all of my transitions, but you will have to move the playhead a little to make the video continue. Sorry. . .Im working on it.

A Cut Together I Did

2007-07-21T22:54:00.000-05:00

OSX Froze

2007-07-21T16:09:00.000-05:00

For The First Time In Like . . .Years. I was begining to wonder if Apple bothered to include a freeze screen, it is that rare. I was asking for it, I had almost every application running. I Also sent this in with my phone testing the Blogger Mobile Blogging service.