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Picked up my iPod which I had just finished syncing. I touched the top right surface of it in an...

Nov 1st

Jailbreaking My iPhone

It’s something I vowed to never do. Wait. I vowed never to unlock my iPhone. I never vowed not to...

Nov 1st

Flickr Find: Jailbroken iPhone at Apple Store

Oct 31st

Woah. Nevermind. “Advanced…” buttons are your friend. Click them and you shall be...

Oct 31st

Is there any way to get Mail.app to associate its own Junk folder with Gmail’s Spam folder via...

Oct 31st

Logitech mouse control in Leopard

Oct 31st

Mini How-To: Remove the Windows BSOD icon in...

Oct 30th

How things would be different on Earth...

Oct 30th

Somewhat big interview tomorrow. Wish me luck!!!

Oct 30th

Just realized that “flagging” a message in Mail.app tells Gmail to “star” it...

Oct 30th

How did I ever live without AppTap? Hmm. Can’t get MobileChat to connect to Gtalk, though....

Oct 29th

iPhone and iPod touch v1.1.1 get instant...

Oct 29th

Installing BSD subsystem, Open SSH, NES Emulator, etc. My iPhone suddenly became a lot more fun.

Oct 29th

Just jailbroke (jailbreaked?) my iPhone using jailebreakme.com. It was one step - click here and it...

Oct 29th

Instant Jailbreak for iPhone and iPod touch -...

Oct 29th

Instant Jailbreak for iPhone and iPod touch

Oct 29th

Got a new computer desk today and everything is set up real nice.

Oct 28th

Transmission has gotten to the point where I can use it daily for torrent downloads. Goodbye,...

Oct 28th

Installing Leopard on a PC

Oct 28th

Leopard vs. Vista: feature chart showdown -...

Oct 28th

Sleep time now. Work tomorrow then shopping methinks. Spending money is *always* fun. Woohoo!

Oct 27th

★ Leopard

Oct 26th

24 Hours of Leopard: AutoFS

Oct 26th

Three AIR-based Twitter apps: Spaz, Snitter,...

Oct 26th

Macworld reviews Leopard

Oct 26th

Time for bed. Work tomorrow, then weekend with parents. At least it’ll keep me busy!

Oct 26th

Now able to post to Twitter, Facebook, etc. from Moodblast from Quicksilver. So pretty.

Oct 26th

Mail.app: “Caching 23 of 11787” I feel so sorry for this little program. I might just...

Oct 25th

Opera 9.5 beta out today for Mac, Windows, &...

Oct 25th

Got IMAP on my Gmail!!!

Oct 25th

Leo-pard-icious

Oct 25th

Alternate Mac browsers get a bump: OmniWeb...

Oct 25th

When will “Forwarding and POP” change to “Forwarding and POP/IMAP”??? Very...

Oct 25th

Still. No. IMAP. Grrr.

Oct 25th

Time to settle in with the new MacBreak...

Oct 24th

Ok Snitter is an Adobe AIR Twitter client. I have Adobe AIR. Maybe I should try it although what...

Oct 24th

Nevermind. Mail.app grouped the IMAP inbox in with my other inbox. Sent mail does *not* show up...

Oct 24th

Sent mail appears in both “Sent Mail” and “All Mail.” There appears not to...

Oct 24th

It DOES exist. Just checked all 3 of my Gmail accounts and one of them has IMAP access. I loaded it...

Oct 24th

From your 50 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 1,081 items, starred 49 items, shared 49...

Oct 24th

In all the hubbub surrounding Leopard's...

Oct 24th

Angel’s Headband

My poor cat. Sometimes I don’t know how she puts up with me. Flash video embed after the jump....

Oct 24th

Angel's Headband

These little hair ties are Angel’s favorite toys. But does she like them on her head? (via...

Oct 24th

I’m very very excited about IMAP coming to Gmail. Finally my iPhone and Mail.app will be...

Oct 24th

Anyone else planning to be at an Apple store on Friday night? Just got my invitation from Apple, I...

Oct 24th

2 days 20 hours 5 minutes 30 seconds

Oct 23rd

Been getting a lot more spam lately. I have Gmail downloading into Mail.app and Mail knows...

Oct 23rd

Apple tops computer reliability report

Oct 23rd

It’s nice to see Apple doing well. Makes my impending January purchase of a MacBook Pro all...

Oct 23rd

All Star Trek fans should read this. Great...

Oct 23rd

Proof the iPhone/iPod touch SDK is extremely necessary: I just spent 20 minutes playing “Stack...

Oct 22nd

Khan!

Oct 22nd

Time to settle in and watch some fine network television.

Oct 22nd

Apple estimates 250,000 iPhones sold to SIM...

Oct 22nd

Apple shipped 1,119,000 iPhones in Q4 2007

Oct 22nd

Is it “required” to like the Red Sox or something? I was backing the Indians just...

Oct 22nd

TSA's crazy screener-testing: giving "bombs"...

Oct 21st

It’s been a long day. I think I’ll put on the latest Windows Weekly and fall asleep to...

Oct 21st

iPhone unlock? Not for me.

I’m getting oh-so-tired of hearing everyone and their uncle complain about how locked down the...

Oct 20th

Gecko is Gecko, right? I just don't...

Oct 20th

Flock is interesting but there’s just a little bit too much going on there. And where are my...

Oct 20th

lemonlovr: Flock is interesting but there’s just a little bit too much going on there. And...

Oct 20th

lemonlovr: Check out my latest blog post at http://tinyurl.com/2hnhmx entitled “Subliminal...

Oct 19th

Subliminal Advertising on Fox?

I was watching Next Great American Band on Fox (I know, what was I thinking) and I saw something...

Oct 19th

Safari 3 beta is nice. Opera 9.5 alpha is better. Firefox 2.0.0.8 is…frustrating. I just...

Oct 19th

lemonlovr: Safari 3 beta is nice. Opera 9.5 alpha is better. Firefox 2.0.0.8 is…frustrating. I...

Oct 19th

Subliminal Terminator

I was watching “Next Great American Band” on FOX and was startled when 2 glowing red...

Oct 19th

lemonlovr: @ryanbrooks33 Naughty naughty. iLife ‘08 will come with new MacBook so I’m...

Oct 19th

lemonlovr: @ryanbrooks33 In fact I may just wait for Leopard until I get my MacBook Pro post...

Oct 19th

lemonlovr: @ryanbrooks33 I don’t have iLife ‘08 because I don’t think I need it. I...

Oct 19th

lemonlovr: @ryanbrooks33 Good question. My particular example is this: what if you haven’t...

Oct 19th

lemonlovr: @ryanbrooks33 Personally I’m a fan of clean installs and I think the Mac luminaries...

Oct 19th

The Wikipedia article on Google is very...

Oct 19th

lemonlovr: The Wikipedia article on Google is very interesting. In fact, it might be worth it just...

Oct 19th

Lost in Translation: Taiwanese company...

Oct 19th

lemonlovr: Lost in Translation: Taiwanese company introduces oddly named Ecooter...

Oct 19th

lemonlovr: Watching the Leopard Guided Tour on apple.com. (via Twitter / lemonlovr)

Oct 19th

Sometimes it’s nice to be able to leave early…even if I did stay an hour longer than I...

Oct 19th

lemonlovr: Sometimes it’s nice to be able to leave early…even if I did stay an hour...

Oct 19th

Lost in Translation: Taiwanese company...

Oct 19th

Researchers develop artificial nerve

Oct 19th

Most important thing about getting Ubuntu working properly: enabling *all* the repositories,...

Oct 19th

lemonlovr: Most important thing about getting Ubuntu working properly: enabling *all* the...

Oct 19th

lemonlovr: I like Ubuntu more and more every day. Gutsy Gibbon makes it even easier to do so. (via...

Oct 19th

Ok, now this is very cool. Brett Terpstra,...

Oct 19th

lemonlovr: Ok, now this is very cool. Brett Terpstra, the creator of MoodBlast, commented on my blog...

Oct 19th

The 7-step Ubuntu clean install: language, time zone, keyboard layout, partition selection, who are...

Oct 19th

lemonlovr: The 7-step Ubuntu clean install: language, time zone, keyboard layout, partition...

Oct 19th

lemonlovr: Check out my latest blog post at http://tinyurl.com/yw6e4o entitled MoodBlast 2 and...

Oct 19th

The latest Opera 9.5 snapshot is running VERY...

Oct 19th

lemonlovr: The latest Opera 9.5 snapshot is running VERY nicely on OS X 10.4.10. Get it here....

Oct 19th

About to get Gutsy Gibbon installed cleanly on my old PII-450. Waiting for some files to finish...

Oct 19th

lemonlovr: About to get Gutsy Gibbon installed cleanly on my old PII-450. Waiting for some files to...

Oct 19th

MoodBlast 2 and Facebook

Have I mentioned how much I love MoodBlast? It’s a great way to post to multiple microblogging...

Oct 18th

So, I’m a little disappointed with Gutsy Gibbon. I did a lot of tinkering with 7.04 and...

Oct 18th

lemonlovr: So, I’m a little disappointed with Gutsy Gibbon. I did a lot of tinkering with 7.04...

Oct 18th

Hordes of shirtless dudes invade Abercrombie...

Oct 18th

Upgrading my Feisty Fawn to Gutsy Gibbon. Let’s see if it’s as painless as it’s...

Oct 18th

lemonlovr: Upgrading my Feisty Fawn to Gutsy Gibbon. Let’s see if it’s as painless as...

Oct 18th

Getting sleepy. Maybe it’s time for me to get some rest. Yeah, right.

Oct 18th

lemonlovr: Getting sleepy. Maybe it’s time for me to get some rest. Yeah, right. (via Twitter...

Oct 18th

lemonlovr: iPhone 3rd party apps!!! Woohoo!!! (via Twitter / lemonlovr)

Oct 17th

Apple planning iPhone SDK for February!

Oct 17th

Just looked at my Wakoopa profile. Guess you...

Oct 17th

lemonlovr: Just looked at my Wakoopa profile. Guess you could say I live in Opera. Like, all the...

Oct 17th

For future reference: using advanced features in MoodBlast requires very specific syntax. One...

Oct 17th

lemonlovr: For future reference: using advanced features in MoodBlast requires very specific syntax....

Oct 17th

lemonlovr: Twitter, Facebook, and Moodblast are all happy together now. Makes me oh so tingly. (via...

Oct 17th

lemonlovr: =[happy that he got Twitter and Facebook playing nice.|Twitter, Facebook, and Moodblast...

Oct 17th

lemonlovr: Hmm. Trying again. Pay no attention to these. (via Twitter / lemonlovr)

Oct 17th

lemonlovr: Seeing if Twitter is sending this to Facebook. Hope not. (via Twitter / lemonlovr)

Oct 17th

lemonlovr: Check out my latest blog post at http://tinyurl.com/22j5nu entitled Twitter Add-on for...

Oct 17th

Twitter Add-on for Ecto 3

I’m liking Ecto 3 more and more. Now there are 3rd party plugins, including a neat one that posts to...

Oct 17th

Ecto 3 Alpha/Beta

Trying out the latest version of Ecto. I was most excited when my license key for 2.0 worked with...

Oct 17th

lemonlovr: Testing advanced MoodBlast features. (via Twitter / lemonlovr)

Oct 17th

lemonlovr: Cleveland won, btw. Go Indians!!! (via Twitter / lemonlovr)

Oct 17th

lemonlovr: …hoping Cleveland can win again. Go Indians!!! (via Twitter / lemonlovr)

Oct 16th

lemonlovr: @ryanbrooks33 haha, now I understand. Leopard in 10 days!!! Is that cool or what? (via...

Oct 16th

lemonlovr: iTunes Plus songs really are selling for $0.99. http://tinyurl.com/24867m At least the...

Oct 16th

Sex with Massachusetts Robots by 2050 --...

Oct 16th

lemonlovr: @ryanbrooks33 Why exactly are you in a storage room??? (via Twitter / lemonlovr)

Oct 16th

Zune crew wraps battery life tests, only does...

Oct 16th

lemonlovr: …glad to be off tomorrow. I need a rest. (via Twitter / lemonlovr)

Oct 16th

Apple to drop price of iTunes Plus?

Oct 15th

Apple plans new Chicago store

Oct 15th

Picasa 1.1 gets iPhoto '08 support

Oct 15th

New Zunes to fall short on battery versus...

Oct 15th

Opera launching new product at the Rock Opera...

Oct 15th

Spy Shots: 2009 Mazda3

Oct 15th

Chrysler hates phone cams: 2009 Dodge...

Oct 15th

…about to settle into bed with the latest edition of This Week in Tech. It always starts my...

Oct 15th

lemonlovr: …about to settle into bed with the latest edition of This Week in Tech. It always...

Oct 15th

Ten years after Apple was doomed

Oct 15th

Mazda CX-9 is Motor Trend's SUOTY

Oct 14th

lemonlovr: …enjoying a relaxing Sunday. (via Twitter / lemonlovr)

Oct 14th

lemonlovr: Palm Centro review on Engadget. http://tinyurl.com/2ry9fr (via Twitter / lemonlovr)

Oct 14th

Meatloaf Dinner

Photos of my awesome dinner plus some new additions.Date: Oct 13, 2007 Number of Photos in Album: 9...

Oct 14th

lemonlovr: Finally checked out the Amazon MP3 store. Downloaded the downloader. Pretty slick...

Oct 14th

lemonlovr: @ryanbrooks33 haha that was a funny series of tweet… yeah, it’s a webapp....

Oct 14th

Just put all my account into Mint. It’s no Quicken, that’s for sure. But it is...

Oct 13th

lemonlovr: Just put all my account into Mint. It’s no Quicken, that’s for sure. But it...

Oct 13th

Are the Mac Nano and rev. 2 of the Apple TV the same thing? Think Apple TV with a “real”...

Oct 13th

lemonlovr: Are the Mac Nano and rev. 2 of the Apple TV the same thing? Think Apple TV with a...

Oct 13th

Off course I meant Kentucky. Kentucky wins! Go Kentucky!

Oct 13th

Kentuck wins!!! LSU goes down! This is a great day for an Oklahoma fan.

Oct 13th

lemonlovr: Off course I meant Kentucky. Kentucky wins! Go Kentucky! (via Twitter / lemonlovr)

Oct 13th

lemonlovr: Kentuck wins!!! LSU goes down! This is a great day for an Oklahoma fan. (via Twitter /...

Oct 13th

…a little miffed that even though EA has a deal with Apple, the new SimCity game (fave of all...

Oct 13th

lemonlovr: …a little miffed that even though EA has a deal with Apple, the new SimCity game...

Oct 13th

An Essay on Political Things

I’m writing this blog post in response to a Pownce post by Leo Laporte. I want to say first that I...

Oct 13th

…contemplating how I’m going to use the $50 Apple Store gift card I got today. Thinking...

Oct 13th

Oct 13th

lemonlovr: …contemplating how I’m going to use the $50 Apple Store gift card I got...

Oct 13th

lemonlovr: Can’t believe this has a Wikipedia entry. Oh wait, I can. http://urltea.com/1qqu...

Oct 12th

…sometimes I hate that I watch TV. Most of the time I love it. Hmm.

Oct 12th

lemonlovr: …sometimes I hate that I watch TV. Most of the time I love it. Hmm. (via Twitter /...

Oct 12th

lemonlovr: …working. (via Twitter / lemonlovr)

Oct 11th

iPhone and iPod touch v1.1.1 full jailbreak...

Oct 10th

…heading out for birthday dinner soon.

Oct 10th

lemonlovr: …heading out for birthday dinner soon. (via Twitter / lemonlovr)

Oct 10th

lemonlovr: …twittering from Meebo on my iPhone. (via Twitter / lemonlovr)

Oct 10th

lemonlovr: benhinc: Sometimes you just gotta reboot your router. http://tinyurl.com/247lkb (via...

Oct 10th

Vacation Photos

My vacation photos are now available! Here is a link to the album on Picasa: Vacation 2007: Mall of...

Oct 10th

Vacation 2007: Mall of America & Norman,...

My vacaction in October 2007 to Mall of America and Norman, OK.Date: Oct 9, 2007 Number of Photos...

Oct 10th

HandBrake updated to 0.9.1

Oct 9th

George Harrison solo works now on iTunes

Oct 9th

1.1.1 iPhone Multipage SpringBoard Hack

Oct 9th

Apple: Nine ringtones is too much

Oct 9th

…back home now. Yeah. Work tomorrow. Eww.

Oct 9th

lemonlovr: …back home now. Yeah. Work tomorrow. Eww. (via Twitter / lemonlovr)

Oct 9th

Goodbye dollar, hello QUID: intergalactic...

Oct 8th

lemonlovr: …home now and watching time-shifted Bears-Packers game. Thanks for DVRs. (via...

Oct 8th

lemonlovr: …on our way back to Pella, IA. Should be there by 10 pm. (via Twitter /...

Oct 7th

lemonlovr: …back in KC. (via Twitter / lemonlovr)

Oct 7th

lemonlovr: …eating at an airport Sonic in OKC. Doesn’t get much more Oklahoma than that....

Oct 7th

Post From Norman

Trying my first blog post from the iPhone. Not sure how well this will work…it would be nice if...

Oct 7th

lemonlovr: Stanford wins!!! Go Stanford!!! (via Twitter / lemonlovr)

Oct 6th

lemonlovr: BOOMER SOONER!!!! (via Twitter / lemonlovr)

Oct 6th

lemonlovr: …wondering why Slurpies in Oklahoma are called “Icy Drinks”. (via...

Oct 6th

lemonlovr: …back in Norman. It’s very late. Big game tomorrow. (via Twitter / lemonlovr)

Oct 6th

lemonlovr: …just drank way too much red wine. On our way back to Norman. (via Twitter /...

Oct 6th

lemonlovr: …in Blanchard, OK. (via Twitter / lemonlovr)

Oct 5th

lemonlovr: …watching Scrubs in Norman, OK. (via Twitter / lemonlovr)

Oct 5th

Rumor: Mac mini turns Nano in late October

Oct 4th

iPhone coming to Canadian retailer Holt...

Oct 4th

Joost releases beta 1.0 to public

Oct 4th

Vin Diesel and Paul Walker: Faster and more...

Oct 4th

Rumorland: Bungie leaving Microsoft, Apple...

Oct 4th

Back From Minnesota, On To Oklahoma...

The trip to the Mall of America was, for the most part, uneventful in that nothing bad happened. In...

Oct 3rd

Concentration strategies for students

Oct 3rd

Concentration strategies for students

Oct 3rd

lemonlovr: …sitting around today, not doing much of anything. Going to the farm this...

Oct 3rd

TUAW Interview: Ambrosia's Andrew Welch on...

Oct 3rd

lemonlovr: @ryanbrooks33 That’s great news. As I’ve learned, you really can’t buy...

Oct 2nd

lemonlovr: @ryanbrooks33 th (via Twitter / lemonlovr)

Oct 2nd

lemonlovr: …tired after spending 11.5 hours at Mall of America. And we’re going back...

Oct 2nd

lemonlovr: Still at Mall of America…getting a bit tired. Lots of walking around. (via Twitter...

Oct 1st

Knight Rider Rides Again

Oct 1st

Mac 101: Using the Up Arrow in Finder

Oct 1st

A note to both Apple and iPhone customers on...

Oct 1st

lemonlovr: @ryanbrooks33 What kind of Apple fanboy are you? Starting to lose my faith…...

Oct 1st

lemonlovr: @ryanbrooks33 Definitely iPhone FTW. It will change your life - seriously. No need to...

Oct 1st