Blog of Josh Hall

Here’s a picture of what Deirdre’s white iphone 3G used to look like: I won’t get into the discussions, but long story short, she gave me her phone, knowing full well that I was just going to fix it and sell it. So, her screen was cracked, but the LCD was still completely operational.  I […]

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.

So, I’m trying to transition over to itunes (version 9) after being a hardcore winamp user since the late 90s.  Winamp’s keyboard shortcuts are the cat’s pajamas though, and I’m missing them tremendously.  Specifically, the shortcut to jump to a song.  Hit "J" and just start typing in a title or band and it dynamically […]