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UPDATE #2: Here is an easy peasy walkthough and video on the iPhone 4s/iPad 2 jailbreak. They walk through the entire simple process. I could not imaging owning an iDevice that wasn’t jailbroken. But that is just me. If after doing some research and reading you are fine just doing only what you are told [...]
February 12th, 2012 | Posted in Apple, iPad, iPhone, jailbreak, tech tips | No Comments
I written previously about a great tool I regularly use for Windows PCs now being available to OSX called CCleaner here. The application is now out of beta and adds a full set of features! Yay! With the full version CCleaner adds cleaning capabilities for Safari, Google Chrome, Opera and Firefox. This final release for [...]
February 2nd, 2012 | Posted in Mac, OSX, tech tips, utilities | No Comments
Modern Smartphone’s are amazing! And I really love my latest – Epic 4g Touch (Sprint’s implementation of the Samsung Galaxy S2). This thing rivals, and in some cases exceeds, the capability found in full blown laptops of just a few years ago. What makes Smartphone’s like these so amazing is the massive amounts of ‘sensors’ [...]
January 28th, 2012 | Posted in Android, Cell Phone, Galaxy S2, phone, tech tips | No Comments
If you have an iPhone or other iDevice, you’ve probably wondered at some point how to backup iPhone data. There’s actually a pretty easy way to backup your entire iPhone using the iTunes software. The procedure requires a few steps, but everyone should be able to do it. Hopefully you did this when you 1st [...]
January 15th, 2012 | Posted in back up, iPad, iPhone, iTunes, tech tips | No Comments
A friend recently got a new phone – Samsung Galaxy S2 from AT&T, and she noticed that she is using loads of plan data somehow. Now I know that the aspect of having a new much more capable device might at first cause a spike in usage – downloading applications, watching videos, checking web services [...]
January 15th, 2012 | Posted in Android, Cell Phone, Data Plan Usage, tech tips | No Comments
I’ve said this before many times before and I’ll keep on saying it, – back your sh$t up! If you do not have a backup solution for your digital information and devices, it is just a matter of time before you lose it/them and are screwed (or at least severely compromised). I have written numerous [...]
January 15th, 2012 | Posted in Android, back up, Cell Phone, phone, tech tips | No Comments
After helping a friend for a very short time with her new phone; initial setup and one-click root downloading a few applications and such. I realized that many of the simple things I did to my phone to make it so kick ass and incredibly usable, I had already forgot how to do quickly and [...]
January 7th, 2012 | Posted in Android, Galaxy S2, phone, tech tips | No Comments
This is a follow up on my previous post(s) about rooting your android phone. I posted some specifics for my personal phone – Epic 4G Touch (Sprints version of the Samsung Galaxy S2) here Now comes an incredibly simple one click ‘root’ that looks like it will work to ‘root’ a WHOLE BUNCH of Android [...]
January 3rd, 2012 | Posted in Android, Epic 4G Touch, Hack, phone, Root, Sprint, tech tips | No Comments
Sprint has been trying to ‘push’ a system update to my phone for a couple of weeks – one that is supposed to fix many ‘bugs’ such as LOS (loss of signal) some where having and improve overall performance by updating the phone to Android version 2.6.3. I have already ‘rooted’ my phone as I [...]
December 30th, 2011 | Posted in Android, Cell Phone, Epic 4G Touch, Hack, phone, Root, Sprint, tech tips | No Comments
Just thought I’d put up some feature and tip how-to’s for those that care – mostly me so I can get to them if I need them Also if you happen to screw up your phone – ‘brick it’ here is how to restore it; bring it back from the brink. Just go here and [...]
December 23rd, 2011 | Posted in Android, Galaxy S2, iPhone, tech tips | No Comments