The iPrint
I’m so excited. Apple has just released a preview of it’s new iPrint. Finally a printer that looks good, is completely compatible with all my hardware and will just work instead of 5 hours of screaming and troubleshooting. Apple claims that the design is almost perfectly silent, prints 11 pages per minute and the ink cartridges are loaded into the back so you don’t chance mucking up the print heads. It connects via bluetooth and wifi so no need for oddly shaped cords; Plug it into the power and it’s ready. Apple says the device will be available for purchase in early March but you can preorder through their website in a couple weeks.
Kindle hacking!
I love my kindle but I really don’t like the screensavers that come with it. Something about promoting people who’ve been dead for over a hundred years… Anyway, Amazon released the source code for the kindle and the hacking community got right to it. We now have custom screensavers as well as custom fonts and a few other hacks that are less interesting. You can find the latest code for the hacks as well as very easy instructions at: http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=88004. The only note that I have about this is that if you have firmware 3.3 like I do, you need to use a different jailbreak and hack than normal. Don’t use the k3g version; use k3g-3.2.1. Technically that’s the hack for the special offer version of the kindle but it works for firmware 3.3 as well. Check it out!
QR Code Hacking…
I was reading a lot lately about playing with QR codes such that you could display a custom image in them instead of just the random assortment of dots. I didn’t know this but apparently there’s a serious amount of error correction that goes into processing these images. You don’t even need to rearrange the data for the code because you can just write on top of it and the error correction will deal with it. So, I give you the new QR code for my business. How awesome is this?
some stuff i’ve seen lately…
i haven’t posted in a while so i’ve got a bucket of new pics but i’ll try to limit myself haha.
My roommate's cat after he took a shower.
This guy was wearing the coolest shoes I've ever seen. I want a pair in every color.
This cute old lady was feeding all the wildlife in Union Square. She even offered me some!
be a nerd…
I’m a big nerd. If you didn’t know that then I’m a much better actor than I thought. One of my nerdy delights is reading the posts on I love Charts. The things people submit there are really truly funny(about 80% of the time) and probably take up more of my free time than they should. If you found the picture to the right funny then you’ll love this blog. I’ll leave a link to it in the right sidebar here in case you forget where it’s at.