Category: mobile

05/02/10 11:22 - 70ºF - ID#51493

Nexus One magic

The nexus one is magic in a lot of ways. One of those it the support for google voice. The way it works, you get voicemail, the voicemail is translated into text and then sent to you as email or text message.

Sounds awesome, right? Sadly, though I found it is not very accurate. This particular voicemail is pretty is from Rite Aid telling me that my medicine was ready for pickup. It is supposed to say "This is your rite aid store" What is especially weird is that it is also a robot talking. Apparently, google's speech-to-text translator cannot understand robot voice very well.

Here is the mp3

::DOWNLOAD SOUND::

Here is the translation:

Hello, this is your wife the door. We are calling to remind Paul Visco. There's your order is ready you can pick up your order until May 16th 20 parents this message will be repeated this is your wife needs door. We are calling to remind Paul Visco. Did your order is ready you can pick up your order until May 16th 20 padding this message will be repeated this is your wife needs door. We are calling to remind Paul Visco. Did your order is ready you can pick up your order until May 16th 20. Hey in.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: mobile

04/30/10 09:02 - 69ºF - ID#51482

Iphone OS user photo path

I needed to get to the old photos on my iphone before giving it to (e:Terry). Unfortunately, they they will not transfer to iphoto anymore. It seems like once I got over 900 in one folder it didn't want to sync on any mac. Anyhow, thankfully I had jailbroken it, so I just SCPed the photos from the iphone to the computer. The problem was trying to find the photos. I used updatedb and then locate. Find could have worked but it would have taken a while because my iphone was packed with so much crap.

Anyhow the point of the journal is to tell other people looking for the same data that it is in /private/var/mobile/Media/DCIM

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: mobile

04/28/10 10:12 - 47ºF - ID#51470

nighttime photo 2

this was a particularly tricky nightshot of a dim lamp in the dark

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: mobile

04/28/10 03:35 - 37ºF - ID#51465

So ready for bed - nexus one tether ya

I spent the last hour rooting my nexus one so i could tether and write this sentence. Interesting sidenote: once you have tethering enabled both fedora and windows can tether with USB. On fedora it is even easier than windows. I plugged in the phone and it shows up in the network manager as a internet source.

There is no way to get it to work on the mac. For that you have to use a wifi tethering option which sucks because its way less secure, slow and requires extra power to run.

It also has a flash and this picture was taken in darkness to give you an idea how good that works in dark.

The best part is being able to listen to streaming radio n the background. I am sure the new iphone will do that out of the box too.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

04/26/10 08:26 - 54ºF - ID#51456

Cleaning up

Because I was so sick all weekend and then ended up at cat houses in
the tour, I was ready to suffocate by today. Therefore, I spent all
day wearing a gas mask which actually helps in these situations.

My favorite is ricola and a gas mask.

We had to clean up for our block club home tour afterparty which is at
our house. I dusted each spindle on the stairs which takes forever.
Getting rid of some dust should help my allergies.

We also added a full size couch to the side parlour and it actually
fits. Once the fireplace works I may never leave the room.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

04/25/10 08:47 - 49ºF - ID#51451

The dark scary subway tunnel

This picture is dark and crappy. It's not because my iPhone takes
shifty pics but because there was only one light on in the tunnel by
Canisius. On the last set of steps I actually had trouble seeing the
stairs going down in front of me.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

04/25/10 08:45 - 49ºF - ID#51450

Basra is so big now

There is going to be a point where I cannot carry him up the stairs at
night.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

04/24/10 09:49 - 63ºF - ID#51447

Cute overload

This almost makes me wish I had a dog.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: mobile

04/23/10 08:28 - 51ºF - ID#51445

What color is peachblow?

I was looking at an anti-radiation bad for my cell phone and saw they come in black or peachblow? What the freak is peachblow?

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: body

04/23/10 07:13 - 57ºF - ID#51444

Sharing Sickness

There is this guy at work who always comes in when he is sick and gets me sick. He sits right behind me and I have to work with a lot. Everytime he got sick this year, I got sick like a day later.

He always ends up staying home after he gets me sick. My question is why can't he just stay home when he is sick in the first place like everyone else. Thats why we have like 6000 sick days. It really sucks to be sick on the weekend in that case. He always says things like stay away I am sick. But when you sit in the cube right next to them, its hard to "stay away."

Now I am sick and got no painting done, argh. I pretty much missed the whole day. Next time he sneezes or coughs or I am just going to take a sick day until he takes one, which is kind of ridiculous but its better than being sick.