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Social Media

Glenn — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:05:44 +0000

So many people are negative about Facebook, Twitter,… But they should all just read this quote:

“Social media is bringing back humanity to all digital life. We are no longer users, consumers, shoppers. We are all people again.”

ReadWriteWeb, January 2009

Ducklings

Glenn — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 13:57:55 +0000

Still one of my favorite XKCD comics:

A glimpse of the future

Glenn — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 18:37:56 +0000

Check the movie on this link out:

http://blogs.msdn.com/tom/archive/2009/03/03/future-vision-ux-ideas.aspx

It shows Microsoft’s vision of the future, some really nice things are in it. Like transparant computerscreens so when you turn of the screen it just looks like a window… Also interactive newspaper (reminds me a bit of Harry Potter)

iPhone firmware 4.0

Glenn — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 11:43:29 +0000

Some people are disappointed with the new iPhones OS 4.0 and expected a lot more, but I really think that the new features are already awesome enough. Okay some other smartphones already have multitasking quite a while, but if you just check out the movies of it then you can see how incredibly fast this actually is on the iPhone.

The second big improvement is the ability to create folders, I was already able to do this on my jailbroken iPhone with Categories but it just wasn’t smooth enough. It really took a while before the folder opened and adding/removing applications from/to the folder was a real pain in the ***.

Another small change that I like is the option in settings to show the character count while typing an sms. When I’m in my country it’s not really something needed since I text free, but when on vacation it would be kinda stupid to spill 20 cents because of 1 character too much…

Something I missed on the other hand and a reason for me to still jailbreak is statusbar notifications, it’s such a simple thing but I really want to be able to see if I have an unread message and whether my volume is turned off or not! I want to be able to see this on my homescreen instead of having to go to Settings to check it there because in the dark you cannot see the the orange circle!!

Will be back

Glenn — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 10:07:30 +0000

Hold on, the blog will be active again and I have some ideas for changes!

WinPwn RIP? Trying QuickPwn for 2.1

Glenn — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 16:54:57 +0000

Well since there is still no update for WinPwn for jailbreaking and unlocking the iPhone 2.1 firmware, I now switched to QuickPwn! The only thing I miss with QuickPwn is the ability to have your own custom bootlogo’s, you can only choose between standard and the Pwnage pineapple…

I have found a nice guide to help you with the quickpwn tool for the pc!

Make Vista default boot using Grub in Ubuntu

Glenn — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 13:02:56 +0000

Well I just finished installing Ubuntu on my laptop and the only thing that bothered me was that it automatically booted ubuntu as default when you don’t select anything else on startup (like vista), problem is that I mostly need vista and I’m not always at the pc when booting… So I googled and found that it is so easy to change the default OS and I thought I’d share it with you:

First, you’ll have to launch your terminal in Ubuntu. It’s probably at Applications > Accessories > Terminal.
Type this in terminal:

gksudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

You’ll be prompted for you password as this operation requires elevated permissions.
There are some GRUB settings that you can consider changing:

timeout sec

You can change it to 5 seconds like I did so it loads into your OS faster. I’m always away from my computer during the boot up ’cause I hate to watch things boot up.

timeout 5

default num

Changing the default startup OS is extremely helpful.

default 6

Booting up to Ubuntu or Windows Vista using GRUB.

Why set default to 6? Windows Vista is the at position 6, remember that programmers, unlike my kindergarten teacher, loves counting from 0. From the above picture, my ‘default’ should be set to 6. It may be different in your set up.

Source

Searcher for iPhone

Glenn — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:57:38 +0000

Also just added to Cydia is the app, Searcher. This app allows you search really everything everywhere! It searches through your SMS, notes, Calendar, Safari Bookmarks, History and Contacts! If you don’t want a certain module (like sms) included in your searches, you can drag that module in the settingsmenu to Disabled modules!

Categories for 2.0 out now!

Glenn — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:29:46 +0000

Finally the app I waited the most for is out! Categories lets you make folders for your apps so your springboard isn’t that full! Instead of 6 pages I now have only 4! And I only made a folder for games! This is a lot handier and makes browsing for an app a lot quicker! Definitely a must-have on your jailbroken iPhone!

The app is available in Cydia!

Google launching web browser “Google Chrome”

Glenn — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:43:38 +0000

Check this comic out about the new coming Google Chrome webbrowser, never heard of it until I read it on macrumors.com! Looks interesting, I’m definitely going to try it, but I’m sceptic and don’t really think it will “win” from Firefox, but well, you never know

Check the comic out here!