Here is the link to download the iPod touch 1.1. firmware!
Now just go over to Jailbreakme.com and you can install any application (Mail, Google Maps, Guitar, etc.) for free!
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January 19th was my birthday and this year I got a nice Canon digital SLR, the Canon XTi with the EF-S 18-55 lens. Now, I’m no professional photographist, that’s the word they use, but from what I’ve read and seen with my photos is that this camera takes really good photos. Here’s a photo of my dog Jackson.
What I don’t know is what is the difference between a zoom-able lens and a non-zoom-able lens. Post your answers in the comments, I’m going to go take about a hundred more photos of my dog.
With all the bull crap going on in 2007, I have a list of Best Ofs!
Best TV Show: Imus in the Morning
Best Podcast: The Totally Rad Show
Best Game: Bioshock
Best Portable Game: Puzzle Quest
Best Online Game: Team Fortress 2
Best Book: Atlas Shrugged (This isn’t new.)
Best Album: The White Stripes: Icky Thump and Streetlight Manifesto: Somewhere in the Between
Best Gadget: iPhone
Best Movie: Hot Fuzz
In 2007 we had a lot of release dates being, well, released. Just cause someone says something will be released doesn’t mean it will be and that angers me. Here’s the most disappointments for me!
1. Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness
When the story of Penny Arcade having a game for not only Windows but Mac and Linux hit Digg in 2006 I was excited. Penny Arcade having a game: awesome. Penny Arcade having a game for Mac and Linux? Double-awesome. Then at this years PAX they said the game would be released after for Xbox Live Arcade. The thought then occurred to me that it could be on Wii Ware in 2008 too but that would be later.
The game was said to be released by Christmas 2007, it’s almost 2008 and I have no game on my Mac. Penny Arcade has no comment on their site about a delay either.
2. Wii Fit
How awesome did that Wii Balance Board look when you first saw it at the E3-thingy? I know Nintendo never gave a date for America but Wikipedia said around Christmas, well it’s after and we’ve heard nothing. It’s been out in Japan for a while now and there is no reason why it should take that long to translate a video game, I’m sorry.
3. The Aquabats new cd “Charge!!!”
The Aquabats have been recording a new CD for a while now. It is the sequel to “Charge!!” that will be called “Charge!!!”. Their forums all say “It should be out by the end of the year” we’ll it again is the end of the year and not even a blog post! Where are my heros?! Come in Bat Commander can you hear me?!
I am now launching Awesome Inc! A podcast network with “Awesome” written all over it! We will launch with a technology podcast and we will be doing a gaming podcast as well as others!
Happy 6th Birthday to ZicklePop Productions! As you know ZicklePop Productions was started on December 25th 2001 and it will end on… Nah it won’t end.
I bought my iMac at the Apple Store in Nashville and they said if I ever had any issues AppleCare would cover it and help me out. So I got suckered into buying this “extended warranty.” My screen decided to break so I called Apple and they told me to bring it to the Apple Store and they’d tell me if they could fix it. They also told me that if they could fix it, it could possibly take a week to repair. The problem? The nearest Apple Store is 4 hours away. So I decided to see if they would do it by mail. They said no.
Then I did what would be a big deal to Apple. I decided to ask for a supervisor. Try 1: 50 minute wait, no one ever answered. Try 2: 45 minute wait, no one ever answered. I believe they were not transferring me and they just had put me on hold. Try 3: I got through after a 30 minute wait.
So I got through! The first question from the supervisor was in a coky-ass attitude “Do you really live 4 hours away?” I told her yes. “No you don’t” Yes I do! Then she said “You damaged the screen yourself didn’t you? This stuff doesn’t develop on it’s own.” I assured her I did not, then she went on to say “Well Apple will not replace your iMac [with AppleCare] even if you take it to the store for something your friends did to your monitor” HA! That’s where I had her. In order for my friends to damage it I would have to have friends! I was also told that she could cancel my Apple Care to use the $160 to pay the $1000 dollars Apple wants to replace the screen. This computer’s price is 80% monitor? I don’t think so!
So end of story: Apple Care is a damn lie. Use the first 10 days if you have to buy your product from Apple to tell if anything is wrong. Oh and Apple says your a liar.
So you just brought home that giant LCD or Plasma TV right? Think everything will look gorgeous? Think again. Unless all your doing is watching upscaled DVDs, high-definition DVDs, or high definition games you will most certainly be wrong.
Not all TV stations broadcast in HD and that means those stations will look worse then before.
That being said, I love my new TV… now if only there was something on this damned thing to watch besides an unscaled DVD of Lord of the Rings…
Steve Jobs wrote on the Apple Hot News feed today that the iPhone and iPod touch will get a developer kit in February 2008. This doesn’t say there will be 3rd party apps then, but you can start writing them. Hold it! Wait a second…
“You don’t want your phone to be an open platform,” meaning that anyone can write applications for it and potentially gum up the provider’s network, says Jobs. “You need it to work when you need it to work. Cingular doesn’t want to see their West Coast network go down because some application messed up.“
– Steve Jobs (January 2007)
So we had to wait 13 months for AT&T to improve their West Coast network to reach the status of the East Coast! (We will not even get into the fact Palm, Nokia, Blackberry, and Windows Mobile has all allowed third party apps from day one!)
Now why would we have to wait from iPhone launch to February? Almost a year to make third party applications! Well Apple said back in April in an official statement…
However, iPhone contains the most sophisticated software ever shipped on a mobile device, and finishing it on time has not come without a price — we had to borrow some key software engineering and QA resources from our Mac OS(R) X team, and as a result we will not be able to release Leopard at our Worldwide Developers Conference in early June as planned.
Ah, okay so the 20 or so people who work at Apple had to put Leopard on hold to work on the iPhone! Okay so iPhone delayed Leopard and once the iPhone came out they went back to work on Leopard. Great so now the iPhone won’t receive any updates until Leopard is up and then they will work on the iPhone developer-kit until February and then they will start releasing patches for all the bugs and security issues Leopard may have.
Wow, Apple may need to grab some more employees!
I have two companies screwing me right now: Verizon and Dish Network. The Verizon issue is still in progress so until thats done I have made a page of all the companies that have screwed me over, most within this year alone!
So check out the Evil Companies page I have opened up!
