Well, it’s been a while… I’ve been busy with work and working on some other development things…plus my personal life has gotten rather busy too!  Anywho, I found this firefox plugin (Ubiquity) which is basically the Firefox equivalent of Quicksilver for the mac.  It’s highly programmable and I am currently working on a few commands.  You’ll find a lot of them here.  I’m going to try to incorporate it somehow into our office intranet once the development gets a little more finalized (they have a long way to go but it’s coming out great!).

So far I’ve written some custom commands to search my brother-in-law’s photogallery site, some wordpress blogs, and I’m currently working on a quicknotes plugin.  When these are done, you’ll probably be able to find them under Projects.  Speaking of, I really need to update that page… I haven’t worked on either this site or the Rome in a Day site in the longest time.

Anywho, enjoy Ubiquity.  Hopefully it will really take off.

Ok, so I recently found Free Music Zilla (www.freemusiczilla.com), which allows me to download any song playing online in mp3 format…and I was using it for random Myspace stuff but as of today I’ve discovered that with Songerize (www.songerize.com), you can search the web for whatever song you want to play and then immediately download it using Zilla. Really simple, and effective. So what does this mean? Well, if you don’t know…then you wont be able to figure out how to use this software anyway. In fact, just stop using a computer altogether.

Links:

Free Music Zilla

Songerize

Well, it’s true. You can jailbreak (hack) your iPhone by navigating Safari on the phone to http://jailbreakme.com/. I successfully did this but let me throw out a few warnings and some tips.

First, a warning: After hacking my phone, I get periodic application crashes. In example, the iPod app crashes every so often. Not while playing music, but just after initial startup when it displays all my playlists. It takes about a second or two and if I click on a play list, the crash doesn’t happen. This also isn’t a “hard crash” per say. The app just closes. Safari was doing the same thing when browsing certain community websites. As annoying as this was, I was more concerned about the permanence of the situation. It seems that a soft reset solved the problem. If it happens again, I’ll post something and let you know if the reset continues to be a work around.

[Edit: The cause of the crashes is summerboard.  Uninstalling summerboard solved this problem]

Ok, now for a couple of tips/instructions. Read the rest of this entry »

Google gave me IMAP! I’m not too sure if I want to set my phone up for IMAP Gmail goodness yet tho…I’m going to investigate more as to the pro’s and con’s to this as I’m already popping my email down on my iPhone and leaving a copy on the server. This effectively gives me email support on the phone.

And this is by far the dumbest fucking thing I have ever seen for it….

http://iphonemod.com/

…I mean…really?? REALLY????  Also, check out how many emails the guy has on his phone.  Someone seriously needs to get some spam filtering going on.  Good luck deleting all that crap on your iPhone,  buddy…even with your magical phone fingers.

Well, I haven’t seen a better way of describing how my time is spent in regards to web design. Mostly because I’m a developer…

I found this here: http://www.i-marco.nl

The author states in his blog that he doesn’t agree with the CSS section, as anything can be done in CSS. I agree…I also think that the yellow should be much larger and so should the purple. I’ll bring down the fucking swearing section to compensate.

Here’s something: CNN, again, posted an article that miss-informs the public as to the reality of what they are writing about, and it isn’t very hard to see that the editor made an error in judgment when deciding how to describe the new service (is that what it is?- I don’t want to make the same mistake that I’m poking fun at) called Veoh.

“(Business 2.0 Magazine) — Never mind YouTube. An application just launched by Dmitry Shapiro, a serial peer-to-peer software entrepreneur, allows you to watch not only everything on YouTube but every piece of free video on the Web.”

First thing that came to mind was, “more free porn?” Sorry, it’s been a while… Anywho, later in the article it shows a diagram of 5 major video sources on the web as the source of free media for Veoh. This clearly means that, no, it’s not free porn. Sorry guys. CNN, quit teasing us like that!