Tech Wednesday – Jailbreak your iPhone with Pwnage Tool
Tech Wednesdy is back! Well for now. It has been a long time since I got my iPhone. So long that the warranty has actually gone out on it. So with that in mind I decided to jailbreak it. Jailbreakng an iPhone simply allows you to do whatever you want with it.
You can put whatever third-pary programs you want on it. You can access the OS. You easily add new ring tones. It is a beautiful thing. But the most beautiful thing about it was using Pwnage Tool. Pwnage Tool made what could be a headache of a process really simple.
I love my iPhone, but I love it even more now. My favorite thing is the ability to do video with my phone now. One of the first programs I installed was Qik. It’s a program that allows you to do live video from your phone. I’m loving it!!!!!!
If you have an iPhone and you aren’t worried about voiding your warranty, I highly recomend jailbreaking it. If you decide to, use this guide. It was really helpful and walked me through the process step-by-step (and it didn’t even have Suzanne Somers).
I know God convicted you….but please put the sniper rifle down.
This is just a short rant I had to get out of my system. I don’t know if this happens to you, but it seems to happen pretty frequently to me. The people change, but the conversation seems to stay about the same.
Them: Hey can I talk to you.
Me: Sure.
Them: God has really been convicting me lately of _________ sin in my life.
Me: Ok.
Them: I’m telling you this because I’ve seen you do the same thing to me.
Me: um…..
I’m just a little confused, when did the fact that God is convicting you of your deep sinful character flaw, give you the right to nit pick my flaws. I kind of remember Jesus talking about taking the log out of your own eye….not leave the log in your eye, pick up a sniper rifle, and start shooting everyone with specks in their eyes. It just doesn’t make sense.
So here’s my recomendation. The next time God convicts you of something, stop! Don’t start looking around to see if anyone else has the same sin. Don’t start thinking about how you’ve been hurt by others in the same way. Don’t start calling every Tom, Dick and Sally. Instead, put the gun down and go to Jesus. Let him take the log out of your eye and give it some time to heal (logs in your eyes tend to cause a lot of damage). Otherwise you might end up shooting some close friends….
I’m it…
So I’m following Brook’s footsteps and taking over a month to do this. I was tagged…the idea is this:
- Post these rules on your blog
- Write 6 random things about yourself.
- Tag 6 people at the end of you post
- If you tagged, DO IT and pass on the tag.
So here I go….
- I can wiggle my ears…independently. I can wiggle just my right ear, or I can wiggle just my left ear. This is what happens when you have no life.
- I had a dog named Vern when I was growing up. It was so dumb that it would run into the fence when you would call it from the other side….needless to say this would happen often.
- In Jr. High I was the stinky kid. I hit puberty and no one really told me that I needed to take a bath more than once a week. I’ve gotten better though.
- I was a die hard anti-Apple until about 2 years ago. I saw the errors of my ways and converted to the one true computer…and I’ll never go back.
- I have a tattoo on my back of a cross with tribal print behind it. I would get two sleeves too if UPS and my wife would let me.
- I’m my own uncle….yep…try to figure that one out. Just so you know…there was no incest involved and everything was legal.
So there you go….now here are my six.
Who should you vote for? Let GlassBooth.com tell you.
Ok so I honestly have no clue how I’m going to vote for. This election year has really left me disappointed. I think both canidates have great dreams and goals, but their plans are horrible. It’s like they said what are some of the greatest things we could do to change this country….ok now what’s the worst way to get there. I had honestly thought about not even voting at all this year. That was until I came across glassbooth.com.
Now I still don’t know who I’m going to vote for exactly, but now I know that I have some options. It was interesting to learn about the third party canidates and how much I agree with them. Now some of you might say that I’m trowing away my vote if I vote for a third party canidate, but I would say you’re throwing away your vote if you don’t vote for someone you agree with.
So take the quiz at glassbooth.com and see if you even line up with you choice for president, or are you just going with the flow.
Wordpress on the iPhone
Now I know most of you don’t care, but I’m totally geeking today. I have totally loved my iPhone since I got it about a year ago. But I’ve never really been able to figure out how to easily write posts with it.
Today changed all that. With the release of the iPhone 2.0 software, Wordpress was able to create an app to write posts with my iPhone. In fact this is actually from my iPhone.
Whether you have an iPhone or not (of a blog), you have to admit that is pretty cool.
Tech Wednesday – Blog Fathers
If you’ve been keeping track, Shannon only has 10 more days until Asa is due to enter this world (June 1st…make sure to put your guess in for the pool). With this on my mind I’ve been noticing a lot of fathers-to-be on twitter. These are guys that have either just had a kid or are in the pregnancy stage. It’s like there is baby boom in the twitterverse.
So on this Tech Wednesday, I thought I would compile a quick list of all the twitter dads that I know of to date. These are either links to their dedicated blogs or their twitter accounts…whichever one they have.
Erik Anderson – Any man that has more grills than children is ok in my books. Erik has a 2-year-old and another kid due in September.
Joe Day – Joe is a pastor at Mars Hill in Seattle and is about to have twin girls. I’m freaking out about having one…may God give you the strength Joe.
Dustin DeKoekkoek – Dustin’s kid isn’t due until August, but he already has his own twitter account.
Jack Moffitt – Jack’s son was born in January and has already started blogging.
CJ Mills – CJ’s wife just had their son Asher on the 16th….oh yeah…Asher was two month early and they were on vacation. You need to go to his site and read the story. Also pray for Asher and his parents as you can imagine all the things that go along with having a kid that premature.
That’s all the fathers-to-be and recent-fathers in the tech world that I know of right now. If I missed you on the list, make sure to let me know in the comments below. It’s cool to know that I’m not in this crazy process alone.
Tech Wednesday – wethechurch.org
I’m sorry for the lack of posts here lately. I’ve been pretty swamped with work and other activities. So please forgive me. I’ll try to get back in the grove of things in the next few days.
I did however want to take a quick break and share with you a new site that twitter friend of mine came out with called WetheChuch.org. This is a really cool idea that you should go check out. It is basically a prayer wall where you can share your prayer requests/praises and pray for others that need prayer. I really love the idea and it can become addictive watching prayers go up and praying for them.
So take a few minutes out of your day and go check out WetheChurch.org.
Tech Wednesday – The Secret Side of Google
I’m going to come right out and say it…I love Google. Yes. I’m totally sold out for Google. I use Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Search, Google Image Search, and Youtube (owned by Google). Now most of these are well known to people, but on this Tech Wednesday I want to share a few Google features that aren’t as well known.
These are like the red-headed-step-children of the Google world. They’re just as good as the other Google features. They’re just not as widely known. So let me introduce you to the step-kids of Google.
Google Alerts
Google Alerts automatically updates you with an email when something is added to the internet based on the search terms you give it. I mainly use this for two things. One, to see if anything is put up on the net about me (yeah it’s egotistical…but kinda helpful too). Two, to see when someone talks about beer and Christianity (I use this search term for theBeerean.com).
Goog411
I haven’t used this one that much since I got my iPhone (Google Maps on the iPhone replaced it), but before the iPhone it was a staple. It’s basically a free 411 service. I would explain it some more, but the video below explains it a lot better than I could.
Google Reader
I’ve talked about this a little bit in the past, but I felt the need to bring it up again. Google Reader is a feed reading program offered by Google. It allows you to keep up with all of your blogs in one place. Once again I’ll let Google tell you more about it (if you start using Google Reader make sure to add me as your friend glqualls [at] gmail [dot] com and to subscribe to my feed at http://feeds.feedburner.com/gregquallsfeed).
Best (local) commerical ever!
I came across this and had to share it. I’ve never seen a local commercial done so well. It nearly brought tears to my eyes (who am I kidding…I cried).
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