Last night my email client was on and my MacBook Pro’s volume was set to full volume (I was rocking out during a coding session earlier in the day) and every time my email client Sparrow got a new email it would chime an alert. Typically I welcome this alert but no at midnight, 1:15, 2:22, 3:45, 4:55. So the …continue reading the story called Schedule your Mac to mute sound at night

When I got my first iPod Touch Jailbreaking was just started up. The device was new and shiny yet we wanted more… jailbreaking allowed the adventureious geek to disable the built in security of the device and “root” it allowing them to login via an ssh connection and access the shell. See, I live by the idea that there is …continue reading the story called Return of the iPhone Jailbreak

Since I got my iPhone 4 my single most frustrating issue with it has been with iPhoto stalling and not syncing photos and videos from the iPhone 4. When I connect the iPhone 4 OS X kicks off iPhoto and tell it to scan the iPhone and prepare to download photos from it. When I tell it to proceed it pretends to …continue reading the story called iPhone 4 not syncing photos and videos with iPhoto

Today I received my Square device from SquareUp.com which allows me to accept credit cards as payment for services that I do for my customers.  The device plugs into the iPhone and when used with the Square app for iPhone lets me specify a charge amount, type a not and then swipe the customers credit/debit card. Once swiped (correctly, more …continue reading the story called Square payment device for iPhone (with iPhone 4 fix)

I was on Geek Week #4 for the podcast A Geek and his Wife. Kevin and Heather do a couple cast where every other week Kevin invites a geek to be on the show and geek it up. This week its was ME! We talked about my background, my podcasts, MAME, Xbox hacking, Asterisk, WRT45G hacking (with DD-WRT) and other …continue reading the story called Geekery at its finest