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Ok, now that the government has said jailbreaking isn’t a violation of the DMCA, here is a current (it changes every 15 seconds!) guide to jailbreaking and unlocking as needed. Here are the key steps: First you want to save your SHSH blobs and a jailbreakable firmware version. Right now everything up to 4.0.1 can…

Where can you go to launch rockets around Seattle? Magnuson isn’t a bad place to go if you have a small rocket (e.g., Class 1) NW Rockets has a bunch of places, but the nearest is 60 Acres which is a set of soccer fields in the Sammamish River valley along the bike trail. There are also…

Been getting excited about using the Canon 5D Mark II as a professional quality video camera. Need some add-ons as there is no electronic viewfinder and the screen is way too washed out and hard to see as well as the fact that it won’t focus while shooting, so you have to focus manually. But…

The two places online you need to go. According to Rennie, Scancafe.com does a high resolution scanning job and then you can pick your photos that you want. Perfect for all my photos that I never have time to scan. And you can use smugmug.com to load your high resolution photos and share it. 

If you don’t want to get locked into AT&T (which I don’t!!!!), then you can buy an unlocked phone from Canada, use it overseas (yeah!) and also go with T-Mobile or whoever. It actually makes some sense given the lockin that these guys have. I lost $1,000 alone this month just on a month of…

Apple announces new desktop Macs: For $70, you get a Magic Trackpad that has all the magic touch gestures for your desktop machine. How cool. Great for your imac. And most interesting is the iMac which has the new Quad Core i5 and the lower end i3 plus they have moved to the ATI graphics cards.  The…

Thanks to Scott, Gilbert and kai, some great wines 1. Brancaia. A Swiss family looks for a villa and starts a winery. The il blu is a super Tuscan. 2007. Rated 96 by WS. Also got a 2003 which is supposed to be a great year. 2. Pietopan Soave Classico. 2009. Varietals vie nervier heard…

If the sync to your ipad doesn’t complete properly then the ipod music app can come up and then disappear. Very distressing. Google search shows two simple fixes. Add or delete a song on iTunes and resync. This resets the music database. See http://www.ipadforums.net/ipad-help/5770-ipads-music-app-crashes.html But simplest is to start the video app. This resets the…

I was just telling someone that raising kids doesn’t make u an expert. After all it is not like people come with an instruction manual. Eve tells me I’m wrong turns out that dailyom.com has one 🙂 See http://www.dailyom.com/book/ltldl.html

Few minutes in Portland airport but using the iPad as a mobile road warrior. The cant live without apps are Gpsdrive HD. A gps with good navigation for $3. A little more a month if u ned voice. Works decently juts gets confused usually at end where it sometimes gets the location of the street…