Loving my iPhone!

Photo editing is a mild passion I have. My camera? My iPhone, I would say my iPad but that a little big to carry around to snap a photo.

I use several apps to edit. Everything from photoshop, photo forge, to 100cameras.

If there is only a few reasons I would recommend an iPhone.

1. The camera
2. Music
3. Video camera
4. Apps for anything.
   

You could buy a 200 dollar quality camera that records video, a mp3 player, a gps, a on hand notepad, a computer and voice recording for dictation, email and the list goes on.

I honestly have to say, the design and ease of use and the integration caliblities with almost any other device is quite handy. Between remote access to a pc to writing a blog. From buying a flight online to checking and posting on Creigslist... It's simply easy.

 

 

New iOS 5.0.1 jailbreak released!

Fantastic.

It was released two days ago for macs then windows soon after, pretty exciting stuff.

Clint has a 4S and has been dying to get his hand on a jailbroken iOS device. So I shot by his house almost as soon as I got the news the jailbreak was released.

Took me about 15 minutes to jailbreak it, then about an hour putting all the sources and packages in... Appearently everyone and their mother with a 4S is now jailbroken and installing like a mad house on cydia. I am sure the servers will die down and traffic will resume as normally.

If you are looking to jailbreak your 4S it's a little different then the standard one click like previous versions. Cmd prompt is used, so if you aren't entirely comfortable with the idea of holding down the windows key and tapping "R" and inputting cmd followed by a black screen and several thousand lines of nonsense you should probably wait for the one click.

But I digress.

Some of the user interface is a little different then my jailbreak, and there is some errors that float around that kinda got me irritated after the jailbreak. Most of what I noticed was in the cydia app itself.

I debated on writing a instruction but there is tons better on the web by just googling.

Just google cli cinject jailbreak, there is another one called absinthe but I didn't bother with that one.

Star Marine: Infinite ammo!

Star Marine: Infinite ammo

Star Marine: Infinite Ammo

Price: $1.99

GameCenter: Yes

So here we have one of the new iOS games out for the iPhone/iPad. First glance and first thought: Contra for the iPhone. As anyone I was readily stoked for the release. It looks clean but does not flow or have the speed and pace I was hoping for. I found it difficult to shoot exactly where I wanted. You can only shoot forward, up, down, and 45 degree angles. I was hoping it would have been a little smoother on the aiming but it suits well.

Theres 7 Different weapons, Lots and lots of bosses, not to many different enemies, and in app purchases for gems to get quicker upgrade.

Over all, its a slick little clone, Worth 2 bucks, if it was smoother and added multiplayer would make for a superb iOS game

It definitely brings back the days playing Contra, with the 8-Bits and the rope climbing and the monsters. Sigh* good times. Over all. 4/5 Stars.

Starwars Blu-ray Diskset

First post. So, I was compelled to write on this.


I remember when Revenge of the Sith hit theaters, and the particular scene that was constantly mocked. the Frankensteinish  Anakin turned to Vader screaming "Noooooooooooooooo!" in the most cartoonish way imaginable.


Now I would not say I am a DieHard fan, but I definitely watched the original saga several time as a child repeating the dialog by memory... Ok, I am half of what some would call a DieHard fan.... a Hard fan.


That being said, it made a lot of fans quite upset. Thinking it was rediculous. Stupid. It honestly, in my opinion ruined a otherwise great prequel to the older generation of fans. I maybe a little late on the scene though, I herd the rumor and it turned out to be true... after about 12-13 hours into the full saga (Im still just... a hard fan... Whatever.) I had to die laughing... what once was a serious, crucial scene of Vader coming to amend his old way... and the first thing he says.... "No". Not once, but twice. If I were Luke, I would have liked that wrinkled battery pack to zap me to dust after hearing such a pain-laced, guttural cry.


How old is George? He must be losing is mind in his old age.


After another 12... to 19 hours... I made a list. Between checking ... wait wait... Before I continue, for the record I had the flu, and had nothing else to do (Lie). So its not like I turned down a day at the beach (I did) or my date at a fine food establishment (Yep). So between Vader and R2D2 behind rocks and from what sounds like Ben stubbing his toe "Dragon call" - Ive lost faith.


I am sure this is not all of them. A lot I have noticed did not have anything to do with making the plot stronger... but I'm not a director... or producer...

Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope

• There are computer-generated rocks in front of R2-D2 while he’s hiding in the canyon; however, they’re “magically not there” after he comes out of hiding
• Obi-Wan’s fake “Krayt Dragon” roar is once again altered and it sounds “hideous”; keep the mute button at the ready
• Greedo shoots first – again – but this time with slightly fewer frames than the previous release
• Luke’s lightsaber while training on the Millennium Falcon is back to being “white” and “blue” as it was originally – it is no longer pale green, per the 2004 DVD release

Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back

• Flames have been added to the probe droid crater
• Most of the blue tint on Hoth is gone
• The Wampa arm is “fixed”  but it’s still imperfect
• R2-D2’s once black panels are now blue in space. Even though I thought that made sense.
• A la the DVD release, Emperor Palpatine – via hologram – is still played by Ian McDiarmid in his Revenge of the Sith makeup

Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi

• The static shot of C3PO and R2-D2 approaching Jabba’s palace has been replaced by a “wide pan with a huge door”; the door is now peppered with laser blast impacts
• Han Solo’s “carbonite thaw” is now CGI
• A computer-generated “Dug” from the prequels (Sebulba, the evil racer who podraced Anakin in The Phantom Menace, was a dug) is seen walking across the screen after Luke infiltrates Jabba’s palace; the dug looks “really fake, like it was [added at the] last minute”
• Wicket the Ewok now has computer-generated, blinking eyes
• Darth Vadar says “No” several times as he picks up Emperor Palpatine and tosses him into the Death Star reactor core; the “Nos” seem to be sampled from The Empire Strikes Back and Revenge of the Sith, respectively

I am not sure that was all worth it.