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Side projects: Doggie Daycare Cams

mike — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 13:57:49 +0000

It’s no joke: we love (love!) our pup Thatcher. So much that one or two days a week we’ll drop her off at doggie day care to enjoy the pack for the day. To that end, we’re big supporters of a local business here in Erie called Bowhaus, which also provides live indoor and outdoor webcams for when we’re really missing Thatch. Yeah, we’re those people who log in while on vacation to catch a glimpse of her big black spots when she’s boarding there.

In a little bit of tech support serendipity, the front desk at Bowhaus had recently posted a plea for help – $100 credit for whomever can help get their web cams back online. Seems that, with an ISP change and resulting IP address changes, the good folk at Bowhaus have been beset with anxious owners unable to pull up the web cams. So guess how I spent a bit of my Saturday, and guess who gets a free ride at Bowhaus next week?

Most useful post for the day/week: downgrading your iPhone

mike — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 02:57:02 +0000

Yeah, so the new iOS 4 brought my iPhone 3G to a crawl. Turns out, more than a few other people out there have been having the same problems. The unified Inbox and folders for my apps are really not worth the extreme slowness that I’ve been seeing, so it was on to try and find a way to restore my iPhone to 3.1.3, or the latest version of iPhone OS before iOS showed up.

Turns out, just as I was sitting down to really dig into how to do this Lifehacker posts up the exact process.

A word of warning: I attempted this on a Windows 7 machine and couldn’t get RecBoot to work. Luckily, I was able to download the Intel Mac version of it and kick my iPhone out of recovery mode using the Mac version of RecBoot. My phone was then seen as a new phone, I chose to restore from a backup I’d made back in April, and finally sync’d it up with iTunes (making sure to opt out of the iOS4 upgrade again!).

Way to go, guys! :thumbsup:

Oh hell. There sure is something stuck in my eye at the moment…

mike — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:54:03 +0000

via Jalopnik:

Tyler Shipman loves Pontiac Fieros so much he posed for his senior picture with one he bought for $150. Weeks later he was diagnosed with terminal cancer. He’d need a miracle to finish his project car.

And boy, did that miracle show up in a big way. Watch the video above for the story.