iPhone 4s adding a PAUSE into a dialstring, making Skype calls easier for your mobile.

10/21/2011 Apple How To Reviews Thoughts & Rants No Comments
If you are like me and you might have some friends who have extension numbers, or simply use something like Skype local calling (a local number, that you can dial to call international using your skype account), you want to make sure that your cell phone supports complex dial strings. I keep all my contacts organized on ‘Google Contacts’ and then I’m able to synchronize my iOS devices with my contact list. Its easy to…

Confused about iOS5 iMessage? Yeah, a lot of people are…

10/19/2011 Apple Thoughts & Rants No Comments
What I want to clear up today, is the confusion (at least for me and a few folks I know) regarding iMessage. iOS5 brings to it a new feature, the ability to give the carriers a 'BIG F-YOU!' when it comes to gauging users on 'per-text-message' options. Personally I don't want to pay more than $5 bucks for texting, and I don't think I should have to pay $20 per month for 160 characters each. My $5 is a 200 message plan, which is more than enough for me.

Repairing a Samsung SyncMaster 226BW (bad capacitors and flickering)

09/23/2011 Hardware How To 52 Comments
About a month ago, my Samsung SyncMaster 226BW began experiencing slight flickering with the screen. It became progressively worse and worse as the weeks went on, and finally it was at the point where it would take 5-10 minutes to ‘warm up’ and shake loose the flickering screen. Not only was it concerning, but it was just plain annoying having the screen ‘seizure flash’ you. So, I started researching for a possible fix without buying…

Tesla Model S – I’d love to see it drive across the US/Canada

08/10/2011 In the News Thoughts & Rants No Comments
All the latest news about Tesla and electric cars, got me thinking. Every manufacturer seems to boast longer and longer ‘milage’ for their vehicles, but I never see any real statistics, its always ‘estimated’ miles, which shows like Top Gear have shown to be incorrect. Case in point, one of the things that nobody seems to ask is ‘at what speed’ will that milage be reached? If I buy that Ford Focus 2011 model, how…

Aristo CSS3 Menu V2

04/22/2011 CSS How To 4 Comments
I found this menu structure after falling in love with the jQueryUI Aristo theme.  A really slick and smooth theme that I personally find, works very well with all my jQueryUI projects.  Whenever styling buttons of widgets (calendar, sliders, etc;) I reach for Aristo UI. Anyway I found that this theme has also been crafted into a Menu using pure CSS3 techniques (sorry IE8 lovers, this stuff won’t fly for your browser or older spawn). …