Not only is this one of the best how-to videos to root an android phone, it’s one of the best how-to videos I’ve ever seen!
-Clear
-gives you confidence that you haven’t ruined anything
-learn as you go
Thanks, DJ Eddie One!
Root Samsung Vibrant, install Ice Cream Sandwich
Bitcasa boasts (currently) unlimited free file storage space.
I’ve uploaded 61GB worth of files to it and have had no problems. Installation was painless on my MacBook and it seems pretty quick and responsive.
Compared to other services I’ve used:
JungleDisk- This cloud-based service utilizes Amazon S3 storage, which I use. It’s very inexpensive and rather easy to set up. However, I found it slow and sometimes unresponsive.
Another drawback (for me anyway) is that it encodes everything onto Amazon S3, so you are ‘locked in’ to the service and can’t access your files directly through the Amazon Web Service Control Panel. I just have movies and music- encryption isn’t necessary.
Dropbox- I can’t say anything bad about Dropbox except that whatever you store on it is also stored on your local hard drive. I prefer to have less stuff on my hard drive and more in the cloud. So Bitnami has Dropbox in this area- in your preferences you can specify how much is stored on your local hard drive (to speed up file access).
Check out Bitcasa while it’s still free!
My daughter wanted an iPhone, however, I’m very loyal to T-Mobile- I’ve been a customer for 10 years! I like their customer service, and when I’m loyal to a company, I’m loyal for a long time.
Anyway, currently the only way to use an iPhone on T-Mobile is to jailbreak, then unlock the phone. Jailbreaking allows you to put software on the iPhone outside of the Apple App Store and unlocking allows you to use a phone service carrier other than what the phone was set up to use.
So I bought a broken iPhone 3GS on eBay for $100, fixed it up and updated the software to iOS 5.0.1.
I then jailbroke the phone by installing Cydia using redsn0w, then within Cydia I unlocked the phone by installing ultrasn0w.
I rebooted a couple times and then T-Mobile magically appeared at the top of the iPhone screen.
Honestly it wasn’t as easy as it sounds above, and I had to downgrade my iOS version and reboot many times and do a lot of google searches. It’s not for the faint at heart, but I don’t want to discourage you to do this if you’re interested. It probably took me a little over 2 hours total. It was fun!
A drawback to this jailbreaking business is that the current jailbreak with current iOS software needs to be ‘tethered’, which means if you have to reboot the phone, you have to do it connected to your computer via USB. Otherwise the phone won’t work. The people that work on this stuff are working on an ‘untethered’ version of this so in the future a reboot won’t require a computer.
If you’re on T-Mobile and want to get an iPhone going, my best advice is to back up your version of iOS before you get started, in case you have to restore the software and start over.
I just completed a new site for my own church, Grace Redeemer Church, in Teaneck, NJ.
It was a project that was handed off to me. Developed by Liontamer Productions, I made a few changes and put it out there.
I’m hosting it on AWS, my pals at Bitnami.org provided the stack (LAMP- Linux,Apache,MySQL,PHP, and WordPress). I really dig Bitnami a lot. It makes administering AWS stuff quite easy, almost fun!
It’s a WordPress site. It uses the Jenzoo Theme.
If you look at the “Our Leaders” page, you’ll see pictures of all our leaders, including me! Those pages make use of the “Featured Image” functionality built into WordPress. Cool!
Let see, what else? The images on the front page are there and revolving thanks to the “vSlider” plug-in, which I’d recommend.
