Less than useful

A step-by-step guide to unlocking an iPhone 3G on either 3.1.3 or 4.0 iPhone firmware.

I haven’t been neglecting this blog, honest. I just can’t finish any of the articles I want to write for one reason or another. Just a quick thought. One of the most frequently heard questions I keep seeing over and over regarding the iPad is, “Why do you need it?”  Now I have no interest [...]

I think most of my techy friends have moved onto Google Chrome at this point, but I’m still a bit of a Firefox die-hard. These are my favourite add-ons which I believe aren’t as popular as things like AdBlock, and might be of use to you. 1. The best theme I’ve come across so far [...]

Procrastinating a bit from some contract work I need to get done tonight. I’d seen Amazon Kindles in person a few times, and was absolutely blown away by the quality and legibility of the text on the screen.  I didn’t get to spend that much time with them though to really get a feel for [...]

I’d been meaning to write about Avatar for some time since I’d seen it, as none of the reviews/articles/criticisms I’d seen on it quite captured my thoughts.  Now this Macleans article, by Brian D. Johnson, captures them far more succinctly than I could manage: Why Haven’t You Seen Avatar Yet? The only thing I’d really [...]

I picked up a BlackBerry a couple weeks ago.  The impetus was that I started a new job with heavily-monitored internet, and an extremely restrictive firewall.  I wanted to avoid trouble with my new employer and couldn’t deal with being completely cut off for over half the waking day.  Suddenly having no access to personal [...]

I can’t believe I didn’t think to write about this before.  At the time, it didn’t occur to me to take a photo until I was half done the glass… Over a month ago I had the pleasure of attending the official launch party for Dieu du Ciel!‘s, a Montréal-based brewpub,  products in Ontario at [...]

Part 1 How do you prepare a lather? In classic shaving, you have a choice of cheap plain boar brushes ($15-25), or badger brushes.  Badger brushes are generally broken down into, ‘pure badger’ ($23-40), ‘best badger’ ($40-60) and ‘silvertip’ ($60-300+).  There are also synthetic brushes ($20-60) available for vegans ($1). Boar brushes are stiff; pure [...]

It’s awesome. The general online sentiment however is that this device is a pile-of-crap, that you’re “a motherfucking idiot if you buy that piece of shit,” etc. I really don’t get it.  One caveat: I upgraded from a PSP-1001.  Things like physical dimensions, and the extra memory cache present in the 2000 & 3000 series [...]