Apple recently announced the iPad, what they claim to be “There most advanced technology in a magical and revolutionary device at an unbelievable price”

Now lets dissect the above statement, it is basically a large version of the Tablet PC, running a very large version of the iPhone OS. I do not see what makes it magical or revolutionary. If anything I believe the fact that it is running the same OS as the iPhone very annoying, and I do not believe I would want myiPhone any bigger than it already is. I am not saying it will not be an interesting product to use, I am simply saying that the iPhone OS is designed for smaller screens, instead of trying to make it work on a bigger screen, why not just make a whole new OS specifically for the iPad?

Now as for pricing, I guess if I found a practical use, the pricing would be okay. $499 doesn’t seem too steep for a large iPod touch with 16GB of memory I guess, however the only iPad I really see a practical use for is the one that supports WIFI + 3G and unfortunetly that adds another $129 to the price.

I guess until an actual release, and a chance to sit down and spend some time messing with the iPad I will not know for sure if it has a purpose or not, I guess we shall see.

Oh and I almost forgot, more information at: http://www.apple.com/ipad

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It seems that the creator of the Windows Vista Transformation pack has put out a new version, Windows 7 Transformation Pack. It is made to make your Windows Vista or Windows XP/2003 computer to look like windows 7. Unfortunately however it does not support 64 bit Operating Systems, so I have no way of testing it. If it works as well as the Windows Vista one did however I would at least give it a try.

Download link: http://www.softroof.com/7tp/

Recently I got an iPod Touch, and began playing with some of its many features. I soon found that if I jailbroke it I could get even more apps totally free and even add more functionality to it. So thus began my jailbreaking research, below is what I have found.

Currently, if you have an iPod Touch that is a 3G or 3GS, you can only have a tethered jailbreak. This means that if you want to turn your iPod back on after you restart it, you will have to plug it back into the computer and rerun the jailbreak program. This does not erase any of your information or anything like that, it just takes time and is very inconvenient if you need to restart on the go. If you have an 2G or 1G iPod Touch or any version of the iPhone however, you can jailbreak and will have an untethered jailbreak.

Now, enough talk, here is how you can jailbreak your iPod. There is a program called blackra1n that came out last month which allows you to jailbreak any iPhone or iPod (and tethered jailbreak the ones mentioned above), and it even jailbreaks it in under 30 seconds. The link to the site is http://blackra1n.com. Here are a few steps you should take when running the program. First, you should kill all iTunes processes using the task manager, and second if you are running vista or above, you will need to run it as an administrator for it to work properly. Once it is jailbroken, you will then be able to open an app called blackra1n on your iPod or iPhone which will allow you to install one of three app managers. I suggest using Cydia.

Unfortunately the iPod I got was one of the newest ones, and an untethered jailbreak is not available for it yet. Fortunately however there is currently a very new program being worked on that will fix that and me and other 3G and 3GS users to ability to have an untethered jailbreak! It is called greenposi0n, and should be released by the end of the year! The link to their website is http://chronic-dev.org/blog. I will be watching it closely for any updates on release dates and shall check back when I find more information.

Please comment!

Wow, you never really realise how much you miss something until you don’t have that much time to do it anymore. That’s how I’ve become with blogging, this is something that I feel is very important to blog about however.

Ubuntu 9.10 has been released, and I must say it is the most incredible version of Ubuntu I have ever seen. Right from restart, my computer seemed faster and more sleek looking then it ever has before. As soon as I logged in, it prompted me to fix a few things that might cause problems later, one of them being my language not fully installed and the other to encrypt my home directory. I fixed both of those, and moved on to my new desktop. The icons have been redone to look much better, and the important things on the top bar are now bold.

When I went to check my mail (I use Evolution) I found that I no longer need the launcher I have placed on my menu, I can not launch it straight from the mail icon located on the top of my desktop, also, I can launch Pidgin, my IM client from the same location. The wireless network connections seems to also have been redone.

For a simple upgrade from 9.04 to 9.10 I do believe I have seen the most improvements I have ever seen in an upgrade of a program. This is why I truly love open source software, and seeing what I have simply seen in this upgrade, it has convinced me that when I get a new laptop in a few weeks, it will definitely be running Ubuntu. I would definitely suggest that everyone else out there also at least try’s it out and gives it a chance, you won’t be sorry!

Ok so the title almost explains it. Soon I will be starting a new thing, most people create install walkthroughs using pictures, etc, however I am going to try something a bit different. I’m going to attempt do do the walkthrough in audio form. I am going to try out the first one in about 10 minutes or so. I’m going to start off making ones for cPanel today, and then tomorow I will be doing ones for the 000webhost control panel. So in the mean time, back to work, and I hope this works out.

Questions or comments, please reply.

Its been so long since I made a blog post, I can’t believe it, I remember when I first started this blog I had almost nothing to do except this. Now I have all my classes plus two forums to administrate and other random jobs here and there to do. Putting all of this together, it has really spread me thin. Since this was the first project I started however, I have a strong urge to keep it going, I’m just not sure how much I can do, but in the mean time, I’ll be digging for interesting topics to write about and post, so happy reading

Well it was becoming too much to try to run my new site, http://myfirehost.com and WiredTron without some thing being left unhandled. That is why I haven’t made any new posts here lately. Well now I have made some changes to try to fix that, from now on, MyFireHost forums and WiredTron Forums are the same forum. Also, with one less forum to monitor, it will leave me more time to work on both sites. That, and I will try to finish all the rest of WiredTron that people don’t really know aren’t finished, but really aren’t

It seems that the wait is coming to a close, Windows 7 has been confirmed by Microsoft as set to release on Oct 22nd. Windows 7 has so far been a much awaited version of Windows, and claims to be a faster and better version of Windows Vista, which seems to have been a failure overall.

If you do not want to wait for the official release, or just want to try it out first, the release canadite is availible right now for free from Microsofts official site, http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/download.aspx

Now its time to just sit back and see how it goes

Not long after the release of Ubuntu 9.04 (which LinuxMint is based on), LinuxMint 7 has been released. It looks like the developers put a lot of work into making this disto an improvement over the last one, with a nice new green spin on things.

LinuxMint 7 Gloria Screenshot

Other than a new look, the rest of the work has been done by Ubuntu, stability fixes, etc. So far I have run into almost no problems with this new distribution, except one problem with the sound drivers, which I easily fixed.

If you are already a LinuxMint user, the instructions to upgrade can be found here: http://www.linuxmint.com/blog/?p=861 although it is suggested that you completly refomat your computer when upgrading.

If you are a new user, you can find the download information here: http://www.linuxmint.com/download.php