Jul 2, 2009

iPhone Carrier Bundles Update

I’ve jailbroken my iPhone 3G, extracted and modified the bundle included, to enable tethering, set up MMS properly (full resolution photos anyone?) and properly configuring Group SMS.

Previously if you attempted to send a SMS message to a group of people, it would instead be sent as a MMS, at MMS rates. Not good. [This carrier update allows you to send multiple messages to groups as SMSs, not as MMSs - Benny]

This new bundle also conforms to the official bundles avaliable for iPhone OS 3 (unneeded/redundant settings have been removed, like EnableMMSCEditing).

All data (iPhone data and tethering) goes through the telstra.iph APN, and MMS goes through telstra.mms.

You can find the carrier bundle here: Telstra_au.ipcc.

via iPhone Carrier Bundles Update | Selling Expectations.

Beau then goes on to handle that pesky no-manual-carrier update issue:

Enabling custom carrier file uploading in iTunes 8.2:

For OS X users, paste or type the following into Terminal, and then restart iTunes:
defaults write com.apple.iTunes carrier-testing -bool TRUE

For Windows users, please paste these into ‘Run’ (Press WinKey + R while on the desktop:
32bit –
"C:\Program Files\iTunes\iTunes.exe" /setPrefInt carrier-testing 1

64bit –
"C:\Program Files (x86)\iTunes\iTunes.exe" /setPrefInt carrier-testing 1

Jul 2, 2009

Now THAT’S creative! (Resume Infographics)

infographics resume

Many people ask me advice about their portfolio and CV and I always tell them to be creative to stand out of the crowd. This doesn’t apply to all kind of jobs, but when you’re talking about creative jobs, there are simply no rules on how to present yourself.

Don’t mention the name of your kindergarden school, don’t mention you’ve been working at McDonalds during summer break. Believe me, nobody cares. And if your future employer does care, then he’ll select you on the wrong criteria. You don’t want to work for such a company.

So get creative and make something awesome from your portfolio. Take the above portfolio as an example. Michael doesn’t show any of its works and still he succeeds in showing off his talent. Not only he can create great graphics, he also proves to be able to turn ‘boring’ facts and figures into something exciting. Well done Michael!

via Resume infographic on Flickr – Photo Sharing!.

Now THAT’S creative.

Click on the image for the full sized version.

Jul 1, 2009

The Airplane Toilet Paper Experiment

What happens when you roll toilet paper down the aisle of an airliner and then flush? Mark Malkoff conducts an experiment to find out while he lives aboard an AirTran airplane for 30 days.

via YouTube – The Airplane Toilet Paper Experiment.

Jul 1, 2009

How Ferrofluid Works

Ferrofluid is an assemblage of magnetic particles engineered at the nanoscale, 100 times smaller than the wavelength visible light. Although too small to be imaged with microscopes, nano-products harness surprising properties from nanoscale physics for use in the macroscale world.

via YouTube – Ferrofluid: How it works.

Jul 1, 2009

How To Hack Your Brain, Part 1: Sleep

the waste

One of the ways to force your brain into REM sleep and skip the other phases is to make it feel exhausted. If you’ve gone 24 hours without sleep, you might notice that you drift away into dreams straight from being awake. This because your body goes instantly into REM sleep as a protection mechanism. The way to hack yourself into entering REM sleep without being exhausted is to trick your body into thinking you’re going to get a tiny amount of sleep. You can train it to enter REM for short periods of time throughout the day in 20-minute naps rather than in one lump at night. This is how polyphasic sleep works.

There are actually six good methods to choose from; the first one, monophasic sleep, is the way you’ve probably slept your whole life. The five others are quite a bit more interesting.

the uberman

via How To Hack Your Brain, Part 1: Sleep | Dustin Curtis.

With regards to actually getting some sleep, I’ve always wanted to try a polyphasic sleep technique, where you have lots of little naps during the day to maximise your REM sleep, and minimise your “wasted” sleep.

You apparently feel more refreshed, and can stay “normal” for a longer period of time with less and less sleep – how’s 2 hours of sleep (broken up into 6x 20-minute naps) a day sound?

Only problems I see is that my current lifestyle doesn’t permit me to have such a sleep schedule – when you’re doing 6x 20 min naps a day and you miss even one by 30 mins, your whole schedule gets out of whack and you feel like crap for the next couple of weeks, even if you stick to your schedule over that time…

That being said, it does require a lot of time to get into (several weeks) – but I think it’d be awesome to survive on 2 hours sleep a day! Imagine how much more work you could get done!

Personally, I’d love to try it one day. If I’m ever in the position where I can do what I like for an extended period of time (6 months or more), I’d give it a crack

Jul 1, 2009

Two Years Ago [but not today], This Was Still My Phone

nokia 3210

Two Years Ago Today, This Was Still My Phone

via Two Years Ago Today, This Was Still My Phone on Flickr – Photo Sharing!.

Okay, so I had the same phone as Mr Gruber himself? Heh.

Jul 1, 2009

The Daughter Song (Tom Wilson Stand-up)

Yes, if you mess with my daughter, may God bless you and help you with your hospital bills and physical therapy. :)

via YouTube – The Daughter Song (Tom Wilson Stand-up Comedy).

Jul 1, 2009

Blogger ethics: proper attribution > accountability

Overall, these results suggest that bloggers do expect a degree of ethical behavior from the community at large, and they practice (or at least they believe they practice) ethical behavior at an even higher rate. There are a number of ways to reconcile this with the poor reception that the proposed formal code of behavior received. It’s possible that the loudest voices on the issue came from a minority within the blogging community, or their were objections to the specific aspects of this code. But the results of the survey suggest that people won’t necessarily demand that the rest of the community adheres to the standards they set for themselves.

via Blogger ethics: proper attribution > accountability – Ars Technica.

Accountability? What’s that? Screw accountability, I say.

Now attribution – THAT’S important. In Uni you learn that plagiarism is bad – to this end, linking back to where you found the original story is seen as proper ethics.

As I’ve always said – credit where credit is due, gentlemen.

Jul 1, 2009

Wrong Number Generator

wrong number generator

Feel like driving someone insane in a malicious way? Come on, everybody knows at least one person they’d like to drive bonkers. This Wrong Number Generator is a brilliantly simple way to do just that.

How’s it work? Well, you plug your victim’s phone into one end and run the other end into the wall jack and leave it to do its business. It’ll then intercept any numbers that they dial and replace them with wrong numbers. This will be annoying. But the real coup? It’ll let the right numbers through 25% of the time, making them think that the problem is with their fat, inaccurate fingers, not with the phone itself. All the while you can sit back knowing that you’re causing lots of stress for your poor victim. Sweet.

via VISGORIA.

You can find the original post here.

Jul 1, 2009

No LAN love for Starcraft 2? Say it ain’t so.

Rob Pardo is the VP of Game Design, and he had strong words for LAN play when he spoke with IncGamers. “We don’t have any plans to support LAN,” he told the site, also saying, “We will not support it.”

via New details, gameplay elements of StarCraft 2 revealed – Ars Technica.

Maybe I should actually get around to playing the original Starcraft before I start bagging out it’s not-yet-released sequel…

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