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This video says it all. As I watched the list of applications come by with the theme music from one of Apple’s most well-known commercials I can’t help but wish that they would look back to their roots and open up the platform for those of us who always want to do more, just because we can.

I’ve installed Linux on my Xbox, PS3, tons of computers, and other pointless devices. I’ve installed Hackintosh (Mac OSX86) on my PCs just because I could. So of course, I am one of those who hacked my iPhone. What is my favorite application? Money. Yes, a simple program to track my receipts on the go so I don’t have to carry them in my wallet any more. Is that such a crime Apple? Is it really?

So again to all those who led the way in the iPhone hacking frontier I offer my thanks. Here’s to you, iPhone Hackers.

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So how do you go from a rather large and obtuse server to a very small and simple server? Easily I say. You simply install Ubuntu 7.04 Server Edition onto your Mac mini then follow the “perfect server” tutorial over at how-to forge. Then you create a tarball of your /var/www folder on your old server and secure copy it over to your new server. You export your ISPConfig databases and then re-import them. You recreate any user accounts along the way and wa-la, you have a new web server with the exact same pre-existing data.

Mac mini: $599 (originally)
HP a1600n: $750 (originally)
DynDNS Account: $25
Ubuntu CD Media: $0.35
Tutorials: $0.01 (fraction of a cable internet bill)
Minimizing server overhead and saving space like you’re Ikea: Priceless
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How convenient would it be to never need to worry about where you live, where your work, or who you use as your cellular provider again? How nice would it be to be able to organize an address book of all your friends, family, work associates, and just throw the rest into a generic group of others, and then take these groups and determine rules as to who can call you at home, on your cell, or at work? How simple would it be if you change jobs, switch cell phone numbers / providers, or move across town (or across the country) but your contacts could still reach you at the exact same number? Pretty dang convenient, in fact I’d say it is of the utmost convenience. How about if I told you you could do all this for free?

Enter www.GrandCentral.com. They provide all of the above plus a ton of other features:
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So while I was updating financial information last night I came across the need to print several pages, scan a few checks in, etc. We have this supposedly amazing Hewlett-Packard c6180 all-in-one printer. When I first got it back in December I had it set up via a physical Ethernet connection in my custom-built office. However, when we moved into our current apartment we needed to set it up to be wireless as our current arrangement is not conducive to a wired network in any way. The perk is, this wireless printer is supposed to support WPA2 wireless networks… well for six months it seemed it has not. No matter how many times I manually entered our WPA2 key and network name with static IP address into the computer via it’s LCD interface it would _never_ connect.

HP c6180 All-in-One Printer

So here’s how I finally got it working:

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MacBook and MacBook Pro are the new powerful laptops from Apple that use Intel processors instead of PowerPC ones. When you buy a MacBook you get OS X Tiger pre-installed on it. But, you can still install GNU/Linux on this beautiful box. If you want to know how, read on the article. However, if you want to understand even more in-depth why I made the change from Ubuntu Linux to OS X, read the rest of this entry.

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