Been working on the house

Posted by dotjinks on Jan 31, 2010 in Restoration | 0 comments

Wow, it is slow going but we keep loading stuff up and getting it gone. Still lots of clean up on the property before we can really start restoring the house, but with all the storming lately there are no active leaks in the house roof.

Different story in the shop/garage. That building will need a new roof before Monsoon season hits! More to come. If you want to see more pictures check them out on the Flickr photo stream

IPad Wow!

Posted by dotjinks on Jan 29, 2010 in Blog | 0 comments

Wow, Stacy wants one and I cannot wait to write some apps for the new Apple iPad! Warning, here comes my over excited ramble.

People who don’t get it or think that techies won’t use it can yawn all they want but this little putter that could is going to be everywhere. Those who want their free apps will jailbreak it and use it. Adobe wants to piss in the apps pond by getting Flash games on there but Apple has no incentive to allow it. Content publishers, after a short period of wait and see, will absolutely make whatever leap they need to in order to get their content on this system. Adobe may fall on its own sword this time, right alongside the naysayers who are making jokes about Apple fan boys drinking the Koolaid.

This is the first gen of the computer I dreamed of using when I was learning Pascal and Fortran on Orca compiler running on the Apple II+ and IIe. I had a Timex Sinclare color and a portable Atari with 8 lines of text (LOL, as seen in Terminator II hacking an ATM). I was never much of a Comodore or Tandy fan.

In our house the computers are used for work and managing our large media collections. Almost all of our social networking, email and news reading is done on our iTouch puters. When we go food shopping today those itouch devices will be in our pockets with all our favorite recipes and grocery list on them.

BTW, I did just touch type this post to my website using the free Wordpress2 App running on my itouch while helping my 2 year old build a Hot Wheels track and dig his cars out of the toy box.

Once I can use Photshop on a larger portable touch device like the iPad my desktop will miss being touched.

End ramble . . . .
- Cheers!

PS. “All I need is this xBox 1440 and my iPad 8.0.”

Checking out Glue for my iTouch.

Posted by dotjinks on Jan 24, 2010 in Blog | 0 comments

Checking out glue to facilitate posting to my blog and update all my social network accounts at the same time http://www.gluenow.com