not been a good tech week for me…

This past 10 days actually as not been particularly good for me.

1. 70% of my Vista PC files/folders disappeared.
2. 2nd iMac super-drive gets replaced only to be be followed immediatley with a constant full fan.
3. daily intermitten DSL connection lost.
4. needed to swap out Comcast HD DVR.

Solutons:

1. Figured out they became hidden some how, so just had to make them visible again.
2. Hopefully Apple will replace the iMac. Had it just 5months and it’s been serviced twice so far (power supply and 2 superdrives).
3. Received replacement DSL modem though old one seems better over past few days.
4. Got different HD DVR box.

It’s got to get better right?

Oh, one thing did work though not perfectly smoothly. I got the iMac to talk to the Vista PC for network printing since they’re in separate rooms. The glitch was getting the PC IP address for the iMac. One digit off = 20mins of trouble-shooting.

Vegas again

Just got back from a short trip in Vegas to celebrate my sister-in-law’s birthday. Once again, our cab ride from the airport to the hotel was $26 via the “fastest way” requested by my brother-in-law. Ha-ha! And this time, my wife and I paid the return trip to the airport instead of the other way around and the fare was $15. Ha-ha again!

Once at the Bellagio, my wife and my brother-in-law pooled our separate rooms into a 2 bedroom suite. Not only was it a 2 bedroom suite but it had 2 full baths in each of the master bedrooms.

Being the foodies we are, we ate the following:

• Koi, Planet Hollywood
• Bouchon, the Venetian
• Bartotolla, the Wynn
• B&B, the Venetian
• Payard’s, Ceasar’s Palace.

I also went to downtown Vegas. Took the bus from the Ventian and got off at Stratosphere and then walked the 2.5 miles (in 100 heat no less) to the Fremont Experience. Not particularily interesting during the daytime.

one of my iPhone prayers have been answered!

While looking for updates on my JBd iPhone’s Cydia, I came across “Searcher“. I read that it can basically do a global search or spotlight search for you Mac users on your iPhone.

After install, I found that it can search in the following databases or modules as they call them:

• Contacts
• SMS
• Notes
• Events
• Safari History
• Safari Bookmarks

You can choose how many results, reorder and disable modules too! Searches also do not have to be the entire word and searches go as far as into the body of text. And right now, it’s even Free !

Next up, copy/past!

Jailbreaked once again

After upgrading to 2.0.2, I began jailed again. Previous upgrades didn’t do this and thus I was in a quandary of leaving it or not. Of course, typically JBing the phone means that I have to reload notes and such back in to it. After a week of the chore of seven clicks four times a day to turn off WiFI and turn on BT when leaving the house to work. Reversing upon arrival. Repeating when leaving work and again when arriving home. For such a generally well designed UI, this part sucks.

First I tried the JBing on the Mac. Last time was pretty painless. Current version doesn’t work yet with 2.0.2.

Came across QuickPWn for Vista. Hmm, just got a Vista box, let’s try that. First few attempts didn’t work. Couldn’t build a new “ISPW” file. Tried my custom file, nope. Tried the original one from the Mac and that worked. 20mins or so later, it was free again but the best part was that everything was still THERE! Cool!

So these are the Apps I put back into it

• BTToggle (single tap to turn BT on/off)
• WiFIToggle (single tap to turn WiFi on/off)
• Intelliscreen (Homescreen summary)

Still wailing for others Apps to get updated to 2.o like

• wDialer (predictive dialer, like normal cellphones)
• weTools (delete individual calls/SMSs from call log)

Once again, all modifications are done so at your own risk.