Good thing I’ve been under the impression that encouraging patience in my own personality will eventually prevent me from going completely ape-shit.  I’ve been having a hell of a time with iOS4 and my iPhone 3G.  The folders feature was really the only thing that got me hot and bothered about iOS4 especially since a lot of the more helpful features weren’t even supported on the 3G.  Unfortunately that came at the cost of overall speed.  It took at least 10 seconds, every single time, to open up just the SMS app and I experienced that same blazing fast performance for every app.  Some apps wouldn’t even open at times or they would just hang all together and just trying to answer most phone calls made me want to skip the phone across pavement instead of having a phone at all. Read more

Well I’ve tried yet another platform merging solution just today and it’s got some great advantages but only if you’ve got a decent internet connection between you and a Windows machine running somewhere.

I love using Ubuntu and being able to add whatever software I want to it on a whim without illegally downloading software or worrying about viruses BUT… every once in a while I either need to test or use a Windows only program where one of my other virtualization modes won’t cut it. Read more

I found this while searching around for seamless remote desktop solutions for Ubuntu to Windows XP.  I’ve just lived with the Windows XP one concurrent user limit for years, it never occurred to me to search for a solution to free myself from such a limitation.  It’s not likely that most users or even power users would find a need for this but when you want to run more than one windows application on a native windows environment while using Linux and you only have a Windows XP/Vista/7 box at your disposal then this patch comes in handy!

Terminal Server Patch at sala source.

The iPhone keyboard hasn’t been the most difficult keyboard I’ve tried to use but any mobile keyboard generally isn’t built for speed. In a jam, I could find using a full sized keyboard useful if the battery in the netbook is dead and I need to get an important email out or even if I just want to write out extensive SMS messages. At a mere $5 I had to check out how well this jailbreak bluetooth keyboard app worked and now I’m writing this blog post from my phone on my bluetooth keyboard. It works well and I can use it in all the apps I’ve tested so far. No lag and best of all, I have more screen real-estate because the onscreen keyboard doesn’t need to be up while I’m using a physical one! The author of this app also created the mono headset bluetooth app I briefly wrote about recently.

I’ve never liked those silly bluetooth headsets people leave in their ears all the time.  To be honest, it just looks a little lame, even when you are using it but especially when you aren’t.  Despite that opinion, I actually have one but haven’t used it in over 2 years which is right around when I got my first iPhone.  Well apparently, a few months ago, a jailbreak app was released that lets you route all audio through the bluetooth connection.  Now I can listen to a horrible quality version of all my music should I misplace my headphones!