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Ode to Flight

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I decided to do a quick exper­i­ment using my Canon Pow­er­shot SD880 cam­era. I doc­u­mented my flight from Bur­bank to Oak­land this past Sun­day night. I know its an every­day thing now since its been part of soci­ety since the early 20th cen­tury but its just crazy cov­er­ing 350 miles in just an hour. The con­ve­nience of that ver­sus dri­ving a car for 5.5–6 hours between the Bay and LA.

Flight—its sim­ply an amaz­ing thing.

Here is the set that I com­piled.

Quicksilver Shelf Plugin — My First Screencast

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As I was try­ing to kill time, I was research­ing Quick­sil­ver extend­abil­ity other than just quick-launching apps. Yes, I know Spot­light does it from the get-go.

My search led to a Lifehacker.com arti­cle (as usual, with this kind of things) writ­ten a while back about Gina Tra­pani’s Top 10 Quick­sil­ver Plu­g­ins (at the time: Novem­ber 2007). One of the plu­g­ins that intrigued me to check out was the Shelf module/plugin.

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News from Apple WWDC 2009

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For those that don’t know, Apple’s WWDC (World­wide Devel­op­ers Con­fer­ence) 2009 was this past Mon­day morn­ing at Moscone West, San Fran­cisco. It’s pri­mar­ily for those devel­op­ing for Apple’s prod­ucts (OS X, iPhone apps, etc.) but it’s also for the Apple fans out there as the Keynote usu­ally addresses new prod­uct releases, etc.

I was tuned in, lis­ten­ing to Ustream’s live stream of the Keynote.1 Pretty cool as you can mul­ti­task ver­sus hav­ing to read every new updates on a blog. Though you have to give it up though as the pho­tos on the blog updates are more eye candy.

Con­tinue read­ing →

  1. The recorded stream can be seen here. Apple’s offi­cial recorded video here. [↩]

URL Longer-er

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I was just talk­ing to James about the idea of hav­ing a URL “longer-er” service/site just for laughs. The idea of it is pretty much a reverse of most of the URL short­en­ing ser­vices out there today like tr.im, is.gd, tinyurl.com, etc. Lo and behold, I guess they have one:

titanurl.com

Check out URL for this blog using the service:

http://titanurl.com/fd8b1f7f8284d85418b2fd45bdd4fd7bdacbb8418bd15b8f4bda5b58a2b2ba528b8ddd77fd8a81b8bfcd5d8d45b4abd8f81885addc88a81bbc52d8d8fb225bcad5882b444d87ab82148db8dd2bb8fbd22f7b811288c8b88bbd5a752c818bb222c88725dbbca258db5855b2582aba/252d5db8dd48bbddba51ca185d2b88dba5bb771b5ba28515a5bd58bd5c2db28b8dd2b5a24f55d1ad15818ba417528c818822dbdaf75588b25dd121485d8811842fa4b8d8bdbd7d2bb8b5d88bb1bb4bb75ccbab124dd8d5b45517b4ba7bfc5ac2bd18b88a8ab2c2dff8bc4d8c8f4b/da188db88288b2af1dbb5cf88588fa28d72722bddf5b1fb4785f55d55df1da2a2dbb15bd48dbcb88b8778d2a84d8b2a88bb88daab48bd18b4528b82454a22828ba5485b41a7dffbbbcfad1dd81cbad482b5dbbbb8f81bbcd5bfddc5ab48daa14488bbd882b7dbfb81dacb4b27285/5db17f2f44ddbb1844dd272a28d41add88a8afa78888d8b2f2b512885b728888415aa8a11dd51422848d4dbb4bcbac7d48fb885b587b48888db4bb2bd8bfb42d58d52475bdddfb882f5b4b14bfb8b8bab4871f542bd88d8b587b2b2ab8dd25bc8afd52dd8b785bd8c25fbd488b8d/5b845fc228b45b4fb528ddbd1b242d42175a78ba221b8a8bf8b4d75b84d2b8dbbbbfbf8a5a754b5b58bab5cb25228b15558b8d8a85ddf417abd28bb28a1bb5fabbb5f18f525f21bbc5dad18fb52ddcdd7d4f8bdb11d8ab42cf518158bbb448d8c55db88d18b225d8f844f572a8b8/a5b281daabbd58b8bbaa4bb2882828f1bb7f2b8812cbfbd2a55b82d5d58bab4b425cdd588d888d81fd854455db842b78f5b88b82ab5bdddad8b5ab58527b872bdf5b1f25d5d2bda1288cbaf12dfb5f4481442ad42a1a8bfad22d4d5d88f1f2218cddd8d25752582a8742fdb2dd7b/da8f55d7b8b8d8db28b48a88fbaf257b855bb88adb2b458a5cddd2db8b5f8f1b84b78b1858b8ba4bb5dbf22b8515ad28ac58d5bb5d8bdbbad1b742c5a1f84852bfbd11ad15bfafdd87b8ca518f4b44dba18b181dbbdccd1b58d8ff8bbc2b5f5ddb884dfd52282b5abbbd84dd87b4/d58bdb541f8d8cb1bfba152b2b248cd8d1b28881fba8852d55ffbb4ff5c5abbb85dafa55bab45b85b1d8a57bbbd81b8b88d48488575dbdab5bb52dc248bb1b14a1888844c5d18ffc1bd75448d1bb14d2d8821bbaab2cdfbfb52ada5ca1b5dd2fbdf2dba22b117a4f8a4db8d8522c/8822515cd58884b78b1458a44b2bb52dfd584b4a8dd782451b8cd4fdd2bbf4882fbda8d5f2d8ba4f15f2cf58bb2b8a4185ddd4dbd58588754f128dcf855df42854fb1bd888dadbbc281b588225f7c2da881f42db278d25884b882d2271b8b482d8acf75d5b858874dcbcbf5bd228

Nuts! That’s 2008 char­ac­ters from 20. An increase of about 100 times. =p

Unlock Phones from AT&T

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So in prepa­ra­tion to going to Europe, I wanted to be able to have a cell­phone (mobile) handy in case of an emer­gency. I wanted to just use the iPhone 3G but I have updated to iPhone OS 2.2.1 with a base­band of 2.30.03, which there is no (soft­ware) unlock for. Luck­ily, I still have kept my Sam­sung Black­jack (1).

Here’s what I found out when get­ting my Black­jack unlocked:

  • Call 611 (Cus­tomer Ser­vice), and not the local AT&T store.
  • Unlock­ing is “free” (accord­ing to the CSR who helped me).
  • Give your IMEI num­ber to the CSR to receive your phone’s unlock code.
  • To get your phone’s IMEI num­ber, press *#06#
  • To pro­ceed with the unlock process:
    • Take out the SIM card if there are any first.
    • You have to do the fol­low­ing key­strokes: #7465625*638*unlock_code# (unlock_code is your own of course).
    • Your phone’s dis­play will then have some type of mes­sage that it has dis­abled a lock of some sort.

I hope that helps.

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