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Ballpoint Adventures for January 6, 2006: This is the secret to dealing with all tech snooping!

Posted on 2012/01/06 11:59 pm by thepete

But it also illustrates the absurdity of the snooping–the only way to avoid it is to not use the device.  It would be easier if companies (and the government) would simply not snoop.

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I TOTALLY want to do this: How to Install Android on an iPhone in Six Easy Steps

Posted on 2010/11/19 01:20 pm by thepete

Link: I TOTALLY want to do this: How to Install Android on an iPhone in Six Easy Steps

And I just might!

Seeing how smoothly it works on an iPhone 2G makes me reeeeally want to see how well it works on a 3G—MY 3G.  Especially since I’ve been so SICK of iOS and iTunes giving me endless shit about what I can and can’t do.

What’s really great is that, apparently, you can dual boot—so it leaves your iOS install untouched.  Pretty cool.

If I do it, I’ll be sure to take pics and/or video…

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Life with an iPhone without a data plan (GPS thinks I’m on the holodeck).Why does A

Posted on 2010/08/26 11:16 am by thepete

Life with an iPhone without a data plan (GPS thinks I’m on the holodeck).

Why does Apple have to be so lame? I would gladly sacrifice a couple gigs of space on my iPhone for all the maps of NYC stored locally.  Lame, Apple. Lame.

Luckily, I’ve Jailbroken, so I can download the Maps Enhancer which allows me to cache maps.  This is cool, but it still means I need to plan ahead and find the places I plan on visiting in gMaps before I visit them IRL. I always forget to do this. :\

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When the Empire wants their iPhone back…

Posted on 2010/04/20 05:58 pm by thepete

stellarola:

Jesus…Phone.

This makes me giggle a little.

How I’d respond:

“Dear sir,

I am no longer in possession of said item and have given it to a Chinese gentlemen who said he was the one who had lost it.  He offered me a substantial reward, so I didn’t hesitate to return it to him.  As he wandered off, I could hear him muttering something about a backwards train driver? Or maybe it was a reverse engineer?

Anyway, sorry for the inconvenience. You can contact the gentleman through his website “hkknockoff.com”.

Thanks for your interest in my tech blog, Mr. Sewell! I am a big fan of your client’s products.

Have a nice day!

-ThePete

;P

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