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Democracy in America
Aug 8th
Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried.
~Winston Churchill
I recently was directed to an article decrying the bailouts given to oil companies. My first reaction was complete agreement. It’s insulting to read about the billions of dollars Washington D.C. is shoveling out the door to help industries who don’t appear to need help. It seems to be a trend in this country to help big business and let the poor get poorer. But then I realized something very important: that’s the democratic way.
iPad Password Lock
May 6th
As a lot of you may recall, iPhone OS 3.x included the ability to alter settings through mobile safari. This gave rise to several popular patches called mobileconfigs, most notable of which was the tethering hack that was quickly closed by Apple. There was another that got some early attention but faded away because it simply wasn’t iPhone appropriate: the password lock function.
Enter iPad. Here we have a mobile device running the same(ish) iPhone OS but is being used to carry around so much more information. All you documents, email, contacts, and photos are being protected natively by the same 4-number passcode lock. With support for BT keyboards as well as the nearly functional soft keyboard on the iPad, it seems like an appropriate time for a strong passcode.
No, I Won’t Buy You a Drink
Jan 19th
This article has been circulating for a while. I thought it was worth reposting for it’s historical value.
So a couple of weeks ago a blog put up a post regarding the etiquette of intersexual drink-buying at bars. Lo and behold, this past weekend a friend of mine got burned at the tav by falling for the exact trap that my post warned against. Accordingly, I felt compelled to repost for the benefit of all the beautiful women in Salt Lake who don’t want to scroll all the way down to find the original post. This may be redundant, but I cannot in good conscience let this phenomenon go overlooked. So here it is again: Why I didn’t Buy You a Drink.
3.x Memory Leak?
Oct 26th
I seems that there is a rather severe memory leak somewhere in iPhone OS 3.1.2. Since I have started using CalDAV I can watch my available memory drop off throughout the day. Has anyone else experienced problems with memory using CalDAV? Workarounds or fixes?
5 Reasons to Downgrade Back to 3.0.1
Oct 16th
I, like so many others have upgraded my jailbroken phone to 3.1. And also like the others, I regret it. But is it worth the time and effort required to downgrade back to an older version after spending so much time on the upgrade? Yes, and here’s why:
- PDANet was great back in the day of the 2G, but now we’re grown and we’ve tasted the sweetness of actual tethering through the mobileconfig hack. Using PDANet just seems like a step backward at this point.
Digital Privacy Update
Jul 16th
This article is the latest in the struggle to protect our privacy in the digital world. The EFF is central to an ongoing struggle for our rights to privacy. They are slugging it out against their second (and surprisingly equally secretive) administration and seem to be coming up against a red-tape wall.
In case you’ve been in a hole for ten years or just recently purchased your first telephone, here’s some background:
5 Jailbroken Features I Will Not Do Without
Jul 16th
I have been a loyal iPhone user and AT&T customer since the dark ages of the iPhone. It took me almost two years before I jailbroke that original iPhone. The reason behind my decision to jailbreak wasn’t that I wanted to stick it to AT&T by moving my device over to the competition or that I wanted to run cracked or pirated software. It was OS 3.0 that finally made my decision. I simply got tired of being ignored by AT&T and Apple. It became painfully clear to me that these two corporations were never going to give me the features that I wanted but were available from other sources. (For the purposes of this article I have intentionally omitted jailbreaking methods, and software package names) So here’s my short list of features that I get on my jailbroken iPhone that I won’t do without: