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I will be tweeting some photos, but so far we have driven to San antonio Texas. We ate at chicos tacos in el paso, koa’d in Van Horn and visited the Sonoran Caverns. Swimming pool was nice too. About 1000 miles in two days. Fun!

Alamo and river walk tomorrow. Perhaps the zoo.

My 8 year and I went snorkeling at Lake Pleasant this weekend. It was her first time not in the pool.

She did really well! It is a bit scary to see down into the water like that for the first time.

Best April fools joke and obscure at that. Saurik, the developer of Cydia has rickrolled everyone who is silly enough to click the cydia announcement that he has sold to MS. Now we all know that is a joke, but the rickroll from 2007 is just worth it.

While I really like the iPhone spell check and suggestions, it does have it’s drawbacks. Today I sent a text to my wife: “Can we eat fat Chinese for lunch”? I obviously meant to say THAT Chinese and not fat. How in appropriate.

I still do not turn it off. It saves me more key presses than it costs me.

//This is some test code.

System.Data.SqlClient ;

//whatever.

In the WEB 460 class I am teaching at DeVry we are changing the rules a bit. We are working on a collaborative ecommerce site and in doing so we needed to have some sort of central repository. So we went with Git. Well Git has no central repo, so how does that work? Really we are using github.com and Git and git extensions altogether. I made a couple videos to show how:

I really wanted to be able to place files on my iPhone using AirSharing, but I am not always on Wifi. I do have my iPhone cable and a laptop as well as diskaid installed, so I can browse the iPhone drive.

How can I get files into AirSharin?

Well it turns out you can get to them from root/user/applications/612445A7-C7B6-43F0-A1E1-6F6019369281/documents/air sharing/

I still want to know how to have the same app installed twice. I cannot figure that one out.

I know it isn’t a big deal to install a theme on your iPhone using WinterBoard, but it is cool to actually have one in an official repo. Here is mine (video):

Took some time today to get a slideshow of Kaylin up. This is just what I have taken with my PPC 6700 or iPhone over the year and 9 months she has been alive.

I wanted to be sure to meet the requirements for my EDT 550 class. If you are reading this and didn’t realize it - I am going for my second Masters. Carol was interested in the EDT program after I heard of it from a co-worker and we started together. So far it is a great program. I struggle a bit with some of the content since I teach in the technology field and I use a lot of technology when teaching…

So my post is about other technology blogs. Here is a link to that point:

http://oedb.org/library/features/top-100-education-blogs

FreeMason iPhone Theme

Originally uploaded by jasncab

I added a battery set to my theme. Needs Winterboard and OpenSSH - email me if you want it. In this case you can see my battery is at about 90%. I took off the ubuntu themes from below, so now it is pretty much the wording and the backgrounds and the clear dock (easy)

new iPhone background and theme. I just changed it a bit.

For a video of what it looks like:

http://screencast.com/t/Ve19MwC6Ypl

To download it:

http://www.huberblog.com/jason.theme.zip

So what did I install after restoring and Pwning my iPhone (Jailbreaking)?

Bossprefs wont run, so I went with

SBSettings

Killechangelocks

Five icon dock

OpenSSH

Winterboard

Backgrounder

Still need to isntall Nintendo Emulator

Veency

QuickGold

Erica utilities (lets me make my ATT logo something else)

I think that is about it. Google streets is cool, but I am not sure it was worth it. Honestly it only works when you are on a street that has the picks done (of course) . You cant tell that it is going to work until you drop a pin or if you searched for an address. Once all of that is done it does work. I havent browsed in a while, so I haven’t checked out the browser yet.

You might notice I didn’t install categories… Yeah that one was a kicker - not going to happen again.

So here is what I went through to jailbreak on 2.2
I was already jailbroken on 2.1, so I wanted to keep all of my cydia apps - not a big deal, but I might as well try! iPhone 3G . I am not interested in a soft unlock in the near future.

1. Download the jailbreak tool QuickPwn from anywhere on the web. The dev team is a good place to start. http://blog.iphone-dev.org/
2. Backed up my cydia (jailbroken) apps using apt backup (not necessary if you arent already jailbroken)
3. Updated via iTunes - Just connect your iPhone and hit update

At this point it displayed some Steve Jobs image with some russian coming out of his mouth - seriously… Then it started to update fine… Interesting.

It restarted without an issue. Except that I had installed categories via Cydia (jailbroken installer) and now anything in a category is missing from my homepages…

Time to Pwn it…

4. Downloaded quickpwn and I am going to run it now.

5. Had to hold the buttons funny and all that…

6. It is running… (really a pineapple running on the screen)

7. New flickr Image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/83343220@N00/3053147188/

8. it restarted… now the pwned pineapple on the screen (instead of the usual apple)…..

9. waited a few… started up iTunes. This sometimes helps it get out of the state of continuous reboots…

10. and categories killed it for me… cannot get to my apps to get ssh back up. This wont be a problem on an OOTB installation…

11. Restored to factory settings (using iTunes - restore).. All is well.

12. Re-run quickPwn (see shots above)

Went faster this time. Rebooted in seconds..

13. All is well. restoring all apps now..

Did I mention that it is free? iTalc allows you to manage your classroom from an instructor machine. You may want to lock all of the machines, show your screen to all of the students machine or project a students machine onto the overhead. You can do all this with iTalc. Now there developer has put some serious money into this, so lets support him. I will do my part through promotion at my work(s) and my blog.

Check it out:
http://italc.sourceforge.net