The Return

Yes its been long... Yes its been a while...
Well these goes to my blog, having a job and mostly my camera!! Why??!! Coz with this new place I am in right now, I'm the only and only IT dude around!! YES no backup, no colleagues. Which makes running around is a norm for me.




So what has been long overdue comes to here - the iPhone 4. Everything that surrounds me these days has "i" in it. Even the new car we're driving has i-VTEC in its engine bay!! Bwahahahahahahaha...
Though at first I didn't want the phone but due to circumstances that... I could not do a video call with my wife coz she was going for surgery.
Eh, that shouldn't be a problem right?! Well after I've learned (then) from friends that video calls were impossible with non iPhone users, I had to make the plunge.
YES IT WAS ALL DUE TO VIDEO CALL!!




I'm no tech gadget chap but unfortunate for any gadgets to have landed on my hands. I've never left anything as-is when it comes to gadgets. So the day we bought the phone (and I've yet to land my hands on it) I got it jailbroken with Cydia and Installous on board. Even though I was on the new 4.3.1 OS (at that point of time) I knew that greenp0ison was yet to give a stable jailbreak, I took my chances with the shop. It took them nearly 2 hours to make it happen!! - I just couldn't find the time to do it as while they were busy jailbreaking, we did our house reno shopping (well that's another tale) Bwahahahahahahaha... Though it wasn't 100% broken (as the skull icon did not appear on the startup) it still did its job. Less than just a week, there were tonnes of apps & tools installed for ehem "free"!!
And my wife who had hers a month before me, also took the jump in jailbreaking even though her freinds kept telling her NO. Well, having an addicted-to-download husband, that ain't a suprise.




Upon getting my phone unlike others, I didn't want to make a call. Instead, I tried this Face Time thingy. But down to my dissappointment it only works if you're on a wifi connection - what crap & bull & cock story. Then I tried MMS to no avail but that was due to telco that needed to update my phone - owh ok. So what's next?? Owh what about the phone running as a modem as my 5800 would?? Again??!!... Arghhh... That's it!! I had to now do something!! This was all bullsh*t!!! What kind of high tech phone wouldn't give such things?? No wonder there was the wonders jailbreak!!




Time to get bee-zay!! So first up... Video call on 3G. Yeah found it, called Tango. Installed on both wife's and mine... Failed. But I knew one thing wouldn't though... Fring. Got it up and running and in no time we're talking - a known SUCCESS but was still skeptical about video calls over 3G!! So just relax the mind and installed all my network/computing needs like WiFoFum, RDP, LogMeIn. What's all those?? - well they're just tools that aid me in my work. With this I knew I would be installing games and made full use with the gyro thingy that my 5800 somehow had it but lacking it. Then it came...
- Themes,
- Sound amplification - which I'm rather not sure it 100% working,
- SSH client & iPhone exploration
- Personal ringtones
- Personal sms ringtones
- Additional photo library
And the list just keeps on going till... then I came back to this Facetime. I knew it would work, I just needed to know how. And where else in this digital world would you find for answers other than asking Mr. Google?? He will give you all sorts of answers, you only need to know which one to pick as the best. And I found it!! And with it Tango worked even charmly. And sometimes when other internet related app couldn't reach, it will do it the other way. What is it?? Its called My3G. It ain't free but it still requires you to jailbreak!! So you tell me, sit on standard and miss the phun or get the benefits of what your phone was made for?? Bwahahahahahhaha... And by the time she was in the hospital for surgery, her boys would be talking to her on video before they go to bed. But the video call on Tango was having issues due to the 3G strength and the stormy weather so we had to switch to Fring. Still everything worked its charm that out of 16Gb of space, I'm now down to 3Gb... Bwahahahahahahahaaha so its time to release that throttle from accelerating and just have fun with was is in it.

After all these years, I couldn't believe myself would be running on a Linux based phone and having fun with it. Its just a matter of time before I go in further, but for now I'll just let myself rest at 3rd gear at peace as I pulled it all to the red line each every gear!

Signing off
Daddy Rain
08/05/2011 @ 2031