Blog of Josh Hall

  So this device was announced back in September of 2010 when Apple announced their Airplay technology. I was stoked for this technology. Kallie wanted a way to play her music in the kitchen, and throughout the house for that matter, and her laptop speakers…well, they’re laptop speakers. I didn’t want to go buy a [...]

Steve Jobs is an interesting fellow who has had quite the interesting life.  We’re probably reaching a point where some generations don’t know that he was actually fired from Apple back in the 80′s.  He went on to form Pixar, then sold it to Disney to become the largest single shareholder of Disney stock shares.  [...]

You may have noticed the new page – Words With Josh I play words with friends (a scrabble rip-off basically) with a few people on my iphone, and I wanted to wrap some intelligence around finding the optimal word based off what letters were already played.  Now, I do not condone the act of cheating [...]

Don’t waste your time in lines for new places or new experiences or new products. Novelty wears off and your time is valuable. A Nathan’s hotdog for 5 cents, for example, is a great deal, but waiting hours for it is stupid.

after a botched update to some apps, Cydia would not longer launch completely. Cydia would crash when I tried to open it, even after rebooting. First, I got DiskAid from : http://www.digidna.net/products/diskaid Second, connect the iphone to your computer and using DiskAid, remove the numbered and tmp files from /var/lib/dpkg/updates/  – (This may be enough [...]

Although technology can help you simplify your life, it can make it a whole lot more complicated and open the gates to wasting a lot more time.  The key is to get technology working for you, not you working with technology.