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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
This is pretty nifty… I just discovered it today.
I have been affected by several incidents in the past when some organization has lost info about me. I just read about the latest one today over on the Arkansas Blog. I went to the supplied URL (notify.arkansas.gov) and punched my stuff in, and boom there I am. I expected to be there though. The [...]
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 [...]
There’s a new article on FiveThirtyEight called “Did Talk Radio Kill Conservatism?” It was interesting overall but here’s the bit that jumped out at me:
FOX News is unusual television, really, in that almost all the stimulation is verbal, and almost all of it occurs at the same staccato pacing as radio. You could take [...]
I’m messing around with Twitter now, on a trial basis. I’ve tried a number of social software things on an experimental basis; I started a blog in 2003 (which I killed and resurrected here – more on that later), plus there’s Myspace (killed), Facebook (still trucking along) and now this. We’ll see if [...]
