I decided to ditch the Amazon software that shipped with my original Kindle Fire & upgrade to Cyanogenmod 10.1. And lemme tell ya, I’m glad I did, because it’s a huge improvement, from both a usability and a speed standpoint. I’d stuck with the Amazon software for so long because I didn’t want to get [...]
I’ve been listening to a lot of audio books lately. I like to listen to them while walking, or while at the gym. The problem with audio books is that they often come in multiple files, and I don’t like having to set up a playlist for each book. The Android app that I use [...]
The On Everything household has been going through a lot of soda lately. And by “a lot” I mean on the 1-2 two liter bottles per day level. The poison of choice used to be Canada Dry Diet Ginger Ale, but I’ve recently moved on to a new caffeine-free poison – Fresca. 0 calories, tastes [...]
Who doesn’t love Power Bars & Clif Bars? No one! OK, so that probably isn’t exactly true. But if you do happen to love protein meal replacement bars, you may be tired of paying so much for them at the store. Luckily, it’s pretty easy to make protein bars at home, at a fraction of [...]
I picked up a shiny new 8GB SDHC memory card for my Virgin Mobile Optimus V phone. I connected my phone to my PC, and transferred all of the files from my old card onto my computer. I then disconnected, inserted the new card, and fired things back up only to find that my computer [...]
The icons on my Windows XP machine have been flashing on & off intermittently for quite a while. The problem would come & go, and it wasn’t my primary computer, so I never bothered looking into it, though I did have a few suspicions as to the culprit. I had a little extra time today, [...]
I want to share a great recipe I recently came across. This recipe is from Kalyn’s Kitchen, a website I’m unfamiliar with, but bills itself as a “home-cooking blog where I share recipes that show how I’m combining my love for delicious food with a commitment to healthy, lower-glycemic eating.” This recipe is for “Crispy [...]
I’ll get right to the point – Trig razor blades are by far the worst blade I’ve ever used. The blade doesn’t seem all that sharp. It pulls out more hair than it cuts. Because of its dullness, it’s always getting caught & bouncing on my face, rather than gliding smoothly. This would normally cause [...]
I don’t eat a whole lot of meat, but I do like to have a chicken breast every now and again. For that reason, I like to buy frozen chicken breasts and keep them in the freezer for whenever I get that urge. Problem is, defrosting chicken in the microwave never seems to go well, [...]
Psst. Hey, Amazon. You know all those eBooks I’ve bought at your site over the years? You know which ones I’m talking about? Yeah, you do. And so does everyone else who picks up my Kindle Fire, because every book I’ve ever purchased from you is listed in the carousel! Never mind the fact that [...]
When I started working through my double edged blade sampler pack, I thought I would write a review of each blade, or at least each blade that I liked. But there was a problem with that plan – namely, I don’t have all that much to say about these blades. Only “I like these,” or [...]
First off, I’d like to say that I love the Kindle Fire. And I don’t really see a good reason to root it, at least not for most users. Amazon really did do a great job with the OS. Kudos, guys & gals. And If you have a Kindle Fire, you’re probably more interested in [...]
Of course I had to get a Kindle Fire as soon as it came out. And of course I had to root the device just a day later, as soon as an exploit was discovered. Everything went well, or so I thought. I popped into bed and thought I’d watch a little Arrested Development before [...]
I’ve written about the American Red Cross stalking me for my blood in the past. In short, I used to regularly donate blood to the American Red Cross, but when they started calling me multiple times per day & asking that I schedule a donation, it irked me. I asked them to stop calling, many, [...]
I checked in to one of my Linux accounts today and saw that I had about 2 GB of unread emails. Dating back to 2008, these emails were almost entirely the output of different cron jobs that I have set up & running on that account. They were error notifications & various STDOUT messages. Nothing [...]
I cancelled my AT&T phone service last month because I switched to a much better plan from Virgin Mobile. I didn’t call & cancel, but instead ported my number to Google Voice, at which time the cancellation happens automatically. Before doing the number port, I logged in to my AT&T account and cancelled the automatic [...]
LastPass is all kinds of awesome. If you’re not familiar with LastPass, it’s not quite enough to say that it’s a password manager. It is, but it’s so much better than that – it’s a password manager done the right way. I don’t want to get into explaining the many features that make LastPass bulletproof, [...]
We have many, many computers in the On Everything household, and I recently set them all up to run Seti@Home and Einstein@Home using Berkeley’s Boinc software. Most of them are just sitting idle most of the time, so why not do something useful with them, right? The software installed & ran splendidly on most of [...]
Now that I’ve moved into the Android world, I’ve been using Google/Gmail’s “Tasks” feature to keep track of my To Do Lists. I prefer this method to a separate stand-alone ToDo app because it’s clean & simple, and it’s one less app to manage. I created a Chrome Application Shortcut to my Task List for [...]
My AT&T iPhone costs me about $80/month for service. And I don’t even have the 3G iPhone, or the fancy iPhone 4 – I have the classic 2G model. 4GB, aluminum backing. Cingular “EDGE” network only. I bought it for $300 when Apple first dropped the price. And I’ve never upgraded, because I don’t really [...]
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