Xbox 360 and HD TV
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Christmas is coming a little early for me this year. I just purchased an Insignia 26-inch LCD HDTV. It was only $379 at Best Buy. It’s a pretty good TV. It was really cheap so I didn’t expect it to be fantastic, but so far, it’s pretty nice. I only bought it because it was cheap. Since I have this nice new HDTV, what am I going to do with it? I guess I’ll have to buy an Xbox 360. So I did.
It’s pretty nice too. I really like the 360. I was going to buy a Wii, but I changed my mind. I figured that, at the end of the day, I’d rather sit on my couch and play Halo 3 or something instead of run around and play tennis or something physical. Doesn’t that defeat the purpose of video games. I thought the whole point was to be lazy. The Wii is awesome if you have a group of people. If it’s just me in my apartment, I’d rather play the 360.
Goodbye CodeIgniter. Hello ExpressionEngine
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So today, after moving my musings (or blog if that’s what you want to call it) from my own engine that I wrote in CodeIgniter, to WordPress (which is also fantastic), to nothing, and back to WordPress, I have finally landed in ExpressionEngine. Since I am using ExpressionEngine is multiple places now for work related things, I figured it would probably be good to use it on my own to get more familiar with it.
ExpressionEngine is awesome. It is really flexible, powerful, and still easy to use. I am using it currently at Southeast for the Student Ministry web sites. It works really well for us there. I know that LifeChurch.tv is redoing their website in ExpressionEngine as well. They all love it too.
The cool thing about ExpressionEngine is that it is built by the same people that built CodeIgniter. ExpressionEngine uses a lot of the same core classes that CodeIgniter uses. From what I’ve heard, writing modules, extensions, and plug-ins is really easy. I haven’t written any yet, but I will be soon for work related things. I’ll probably get a podcast maker of some sort going here in a bit.
Logic Pro Studio is Awesome
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So I bought Logic Studio. It's awesome! I haven't even scratched the surface yet. It's awesome to know that you have all of the tools right in front of you to make any sound you could possibly think of.
I have had the Behringer FCB1010 for awhile. It's a MIDI controller with 10 stomp boxes and 2 expression pedals. I have only spent a few hours playing with MainStage with it. It's going to be awesome! I am really excited about having an awesome guitar rig.
I think I am going to sell all of my analoge pedals, pedal board, power supplies, and Mbox. I'll probably just buy a better audio interface and save the rest. I've been having latency issues. I need to test my setup with some different interfaces.
Installer.app on iPhone 1.1.1, Finally
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After many hours of work with the new jailbreak, I have successfully installed Installer.app on my iPhone. It is awesome to have my apps back.
DO NOT INSTALL SUMMERBOARD!!!! This totally screwed my iPhone up. It put the dock at the top and freaked it out. I tried deleting the plist file that contains the list order and stuff. It completely broke my SpringBoard (the application that shows all of the icons and such on the home screen).
An interesting thing happened after I deleted it though. My background changed to look like the iPod Touch. It had the same dock too. Even the AT&T icon in the bar at the top said iPod. It appears that that is the default configuration for the SpringBoard. Unfortunately, I didn't back that plist up before SummerBoard screwed it up. I had to start the entire process over. Darn.
iPhone Update 1.1.1 and Installer.app
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I, like many others I waited in line on June 29, 2007 for the Apple iPhone. As you all know, I'm a coder. I like like to tinker with stuff and see how it works. I had apps on my phone long before Null River released their installer.app. I was using jailbreak, iphoneinterface, and other random tools from the iphone-dev-team.
After hearing Kevin Rose speak so highly of installer.app, I decided to give it a try. I love installer.app. It makes doing stuff so easy. For someone that isn't that code savvy, it is perfect.
When I saw the iPhone 1.1.1 update today, I got scared. After reading this AppleInsider story, I was even more scared. This is at the top of the EULA of the update: