My Brute on iPhone

Lately I have been consumed by an iPhone game called “My Brute”. My Brute is an RPG fighting game based on the popular MyBrute.com. It works like this, You create a character, pick their body, their clothes, their hair and skin color. You pick an animal to represent your dojo (snake, fox or bear… I’m [...]

Controlling Twitter SMS notifications through code

It’s not secret my current favorite tech toys are my iPhone and Twitter.
I follow several hundred people of interest, and regularly use TwitterFon Pro, TweetDeck and Twitter.com to keep up with them all. For an elite group of people I follow on twitter I choose to have their updates pushed to me via SMS (text [...]

Info on the new iPhone has leaked

I have been keeping my ears open for rumors about the new iPhone. Earlier this week, the above image was leaked onto a mac rumors website from a chinese source.
The image above shows a new iPhone model number “MB717LL” with 32GB of Storage. If the poster’s claims are to be believed, the new iPhone will [...]

How the notPopular.com podcast is made

Some of you blog reading people might know that I have a fairly well known podcast called the “notPop podcast”, that centers around music news and the activities of my site, notPopular.com. for almost 2 years now @xFLORIDAx and I have been churning these podcasts out and having a lot of fun doing it.
From time [...]

no place like home (and end keys) on a mac

I never noticed how often I use the “home” and “end” keys when I type until they were taken away from me. I am a programmer by trade, and as a result, I type code all day long. On a PC the end key will take you to the end of a line, and the [...]

I got a mac

As part of my 2009 new years resolutions, I’m going to write an iPhone application and launch it this year. I realized that the first quarter of the year is almost over and I haven’t made any progress on this. The biggest hurdle was the development platform. I’ve tried to install Mac OS X onto [...]

back in my day…

In this post I am going to sound like an old man, so be prepared…
Over the weekend, I bought some new hard drives for my computer. They weren’t just any drives, they were the golden fleece of computer storage, TERABYTE DRIVES! My grand total at the check out stand was about $200. $100 per drive, [...]

Finally, a standardized cell phone charger

I have always been bothered by the fact that every cell phone I have ever owned has its own unique charger to go with it. When I buy a cell phone, like most people, I eventually buy a car charger for it. Over the years I have amassed a huge tangled mess of obsolete chargers. [...]

straight rollin on dubs

Believe it or not, but up until the other day I have never owned an LCD monitor. I had dual 19in CRT monitors. They were heavy, took up lots of space and put of a ton of heat. The other day one of the CRTs started to get weird and the brightness started to go, [...]

iPhone 2.1 SMS Reminder Annoyances

There was a new feature introduced with the iPhone 2.1 firmware update that is driving me crazy and making me curse apple an my iPhone daily. I am talking about the SMS multi reminder.
The SMS multi reminder is designed to notify you with an alert if you have an unread SMS (text) message. Sounds good [...]

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