iPhone stuff – LockInfo, WeatherIcon

I have been using LockInfo and WeatherIcon on my jailbroken iPhone for a while now.  LockInfo just recently was updated to not require Winterboard, which is great.  The only problem is that you don’t get the actual weather icons in LockInfo without Winterboard, and you can’t install the theme packages from Cydia without Winterboard (they [...]

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Fixing Macbook Pro audio issues in Windows 7

I haven’t seen this anywhere so I’m writing this up mostly so search engines will pick this up.
I bought a brand new Macbook Pro, 15″, one of the mid 2009 models.  I’m using the 7200 RPM hard drive I bought for my 13″ Macbook, so I already had Windows 7 installed.
Everything works great except I [...]

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Amazon Kindle 2 review

I’m a big fan of e-books and have read many on several devices, including my old Palm Tungsten T and T|X, Nokia 770 and most recently my iPhone.  There are issues with all of these though, mostly with battery life and the screen, but the Nokia 770 was the best of the bunch.  I don’t [...]

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Automatically adding weather to your Google Calendar

I just found out you could do this.
My favorite weather site, Weather Underground, exports its forecasts in iCal format.  For example, the link for Dayton is here.
Google Calendar lets you import other people’s calendars if they have them in iCal format out on the Net.
If you add the Weather Underground iCal link to your “Other [...]

Syncing Mail, Contacts and Calendars with Google, Thunderbird and the iPhone

I’m pretty spoiled by Exchange and Outlook at work.  Regardless of all the Microsoft hate out there, Exchange/Outlook is great for email, calendars, contacts and tasks in an enterprise environment.  For a while now I have been wanting to set up something similar at home.  Recently I started using Google’s various services (GMail, Calendar and [...]