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iPhone Jailbreak

Ryan — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:10:09 +0000

I finally caved. I went 18 months without jailbreaking my iPhone. Mainly because it does most things very well, and for the things it doesn’t do well or doesn’t do at all there’s the App Store. Lately Steve Jobs and I haven’t really been seeing eye to eye (Stupid iPad. Stupid Apple’s stance on Flash on mobile devices and their stance on putting Blu-ray in Macs), so I decided to take a look to see if the grass truly is greener on the other side.

While there’s not a lot of extra things that I can do with a jailbroken phone that I care about, there are a few items which are must haves now that I’ve crossed over to the dark side. I can basically sum it up in these two screenshots:

Custom themes, customizable live weather icon, battery life percentage, 5 apps in my dock and SBSettings which allows to me to toggle features on/off and kill processes. I could also add the ability to send processes to the background, but I’m not interested in that feature at the moment because with my lowly 3G it just doesn’t have the memory to handle much more.

Not Impressed With the iPad

Ryan — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:51:06 +0000

Apple announces the iPad

“If there’s gonna be a third category, it has to be better at these tasks — otherwise it has no reason for being.” –Steve Jobs

No flash built into the browser and is essentially a single user device. Both of these things are points I could get past with the iPhone (which I own and love) and the iPods, but not with the iPad.

Terror Alert Level in Canada Raised from Key Lime to Lemon Meringue

Ryan — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:22:13 +0000

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/prince-edward-island/story/2010/01/26/nl-byrne-terrorism-012610.html

You’ve got to be joking.

Wordpress for the iPhone

Ryan — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:17:02 +0000

Being the gadget whore that I am, I picked up the iPhone when it became available in Canada. Turns out Wordpress made an application to make blog posts easy on the iPhone, so I figured I would give it a try. My new goalie pads should be showing up in the next 10 ten days or so. I’ve been waiting over two months for them to arrive so I’m pretty pumped.

It’s Closing Time

Ryan — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 02:56:43 +0000

Little update on the Roll Up the Rim to Win situation. I am still 0 for something, and don’t expect it to change anytime soon. I figure one of these days I’m not even going to get the obligatory ‘Please Play Again’, and it will just be blank, or say, ‘Why don’t you just give up already’. Anyway, I’m not bitter at all.

Adrienne and I were into the lawyer’s office today to sign all the necessary documents. All we have to do now is have our pre-close inspection and as long as everything goes as planned we will be receiving the keys sometime on Monday. I can’t wait to go through the place without someone else’s crap filling up the place.

My Feet Are Wet

Ryan — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:31:22 +0000

I woke up this morning, and I use that phrase loosely, and decided to work from home today due to the lack of sleep. So my day was already off to a wonderful start, and then I find an abnormally large puddle of water on the kitchen floor. I say abnormally because there’s usually a small one from whenever I fill up the ice cube trays. Anyway, when I open the freezer everything is melting and/or defrosted. The apartment must be pissed at us for moving out or something.

0 for Whatever

Ryan — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:07:12 +0000

So apparently I’m going to try blogging again, for the tenth or so time. Just signed up for hosting with DreamHost, since I let my hosting at Media Temple expire a few weeks ago. I vaguely remember something about my firstborn being part of the renewal terms. Somehow their base hosting account doubled in price since I first signed up. Oh well, DreamHost seems to be a better host overall anyway.

As I do every year around Roll Up the Rim time, I’ve picked up a daily tea habit. I’ve probably gone through roughly 25 cups and so far have come up with nada. No coffee, no cookie, not even a Timbit! I keep telling myself that it’s all building up to me winning a Matrix or Bayliner or something, but I have feeling that may be a tad delusional. I’ve had cups that are different sizes, from different stores, even in 3 different provinces, but nothing’s working.

While it doesn’t quite make up for the lack free coffees, etc. I do have some good news. Adrienne and I are buying a house. We only spent about a week actually going out to see places but we found a place in Stratford that we really like and are closing in about 10 days. For the first time in my life I will have a garage, which excites me to no end.