I’ve found myself staring at the same section of code for hours. I’d figure out a possible solutions and forgetting where I was going before I could finish. I’d probably been more productive sleeping rather then coding and possibly messing up my code even more, but whats done is done.

On the bright side, I’m now on the mend and I don’t have anywhere I have to be tomorrow (saturday) so I plan to make up for all my lack of productivity.

So… that info didn’t make me happy to hear, so instead I decided to down grade both my TV and Internet.I changed back to the standard RoadRunner and Basic TV (total of 24 channels woot woot).

This new package has brought my bill down to 50 dollars a month saving me 75 bucks a month! 75 bucks a month!!! So with that 75 extra in my cash each month I am going to be adding Hulu Plus to my month bill it’s only 7.99/mo and that with my already Netflix access I’m almost good to go.

I already have the Apple TV (2nd gen), which gives me a great Netflix experience along with access to my already decent size media library and worst case iTunes Rental access. Now, I just have to find the best method to access Hulu Plus. My first thoughts are a Roku box, but I am also very tempted to get a PS3 so I’d have a blue-ray player too, but after a few months of the $75 dollars savings. I will be able to justify either of these options and until then I have my laptop with a display port to HDMI output for the TV.

So today I say goodbye to my crazily overpriced TWC bill and it feels really really good.

I do my best to keep my home account fairly organized with rules and many many folders, so I was able to turn 500+ emails into 0 in very little time, but at work with the 4,000+ things got a little more complicated. But I figured I would share a few tips on my methods. and new organization since was able to turn 4000+ emails in my inbox into 4.

Recipient’s folders – I believe no matter how small or big the company you work for is you need to create a folder for every employee in the company that emails you on a regular basis. If you have some that only email once or twice a year then that may be able to go in an “others” folder if is it something you need to keep.

Timed Rules – At work I have multiple projects emailed from multiple sources a day usually these projects are due within a period of about 5 days and usually I wont start on them until day 4 or 5. So I have setup some times rules so that after a period of 1 week that my emails will automatically get sorted into the Recipient’s folder

Trash it! – Why are you keeping all those emails? seriously do you really need 1,000+ emails in your inbox. Throw them out. I know I personally had probably 1,000+ emails that were just basically spam(that I signed up for). There is no reason to keep it. Read the email and trash it, don’t save it for more then a week or before you know it you’ll be back where you started.

Thats all. There is no need to make you inbox more complicated then it already is. It a very simple system so keep it that way.

Watch the video or follow the step by step directions and if you have any issue getting it to work just let me know what app and I will see what I can do.

Directions

1. Open iTunes
2. Go into the Application section
3. Right click on the application you want to duplicate
4. Select Show in Finder (Show in Explorer on PCs)
5. Right click on the .ipa file and copy it to you desktop (or where every you’d like)
6. Replace the .ipa with .zip – An IPA files is just another type of a .Zip file
7. Un-compress the zip file
8. Open the new folder and Go into the Payload folder
9. Right click on the App and select show package contents (MAC ONLY STEP, Should just be a folder on the Windows)
10. Find the Info.plist files and open it in you favorite editor. (I prefer Plist Editor Pro)
11. Change the “Bundle display” name to whatever you’d like. This is the name that will be displayed on the iPhone (optional step)
12. Change the “Bundle identifier” (I recommend just putting a 2 at the end.)
13. Save the file
14. Open your favorite FTP software and connect into your iPhone/iPod Touch
15. Navigate to the root directory and then into the Application folder
16. Transfer the application into this folder
17. Reboot or Respiring your iPhone/iPod and the application should now be somewhere on your home-screen
18. Open the App and enjoy

If you have any issue please watch the video above.

Psystar the company that Apple would just love to destroy, has recently come out with a downloadable ISO file (disk image file) called Rebel EFI, this file when burned to a disk allows you to boot from it then use a normal OSX disk to install from, but this ISO also checks out all your hardware and get the correct drivers, so basically it take away all those hard and annoying hours of reinstalling the OS over and over again, until you have all the correct items checked to get it to boot.

So far the reviews I have seen have been pretty good, there is always going to be a few issues you may encounter with any solution, but if you already have a copy of OSX this is a free download so you might as well give it a shot. They have all the instruction on how to install everything on a WIki page you can fine here.

Good luck and let me know how it all works out.

UPDATE: apparently the 0.00 price tag is an error or a scam, The software requires an activation key they they do charge $49.99 for.

However, as I was looking for a cheaper alternative. I noticed that RTM had a mobile version of there site. But even more importantly, I noticed that the push notifications from the RTM app were still coming through everyday. Now if I open the actual app I get a pro account required screen and get booted out, but to me the popup notifications is what I use the app for.

So, for all you iPhone/iPod-Touch users out there, all you need to do is download the RTM app from the app store, setup a trial account. Get the setting just the way you want them, use the app during the trial, then switch to the mobile version once your trial runs out. I also recommend creating a shortcut to the mobile version on your iPhone/iPod-Touch home screen. If you call it the same name as the RTM app it will have the same icon (see images below). After that I just moved the RTM app icon to my last home screen page and all is well and I get to keep my $25 bucks for my trip.

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]]> http://www.brianminor.com/2009/11/10/remember-the-milk-pro-features-without-the-cost/feed/ 0 http://www.brianminor.com/2009/11/09/google-voice-and-your-top-5-list/ http://www.brianminor.com/2009/11/09/google-voice-and-your-top-5-list/#comments Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:47:20 +0000 Brian Minor http://www.brianminor.com/?p=468 It seems like almost every carrier is doing a top 5 (some even 10) list. With these lists they allow you to add 5 to 10 “friends”and no matter what carrier/provider they use, you can call for free and not waste any of your minutes. They all seem to have their own little names. AT&T calls it the “A-List” and Verizon calls it “My Fave Five”. But in the end it’s all the same.

Most of you are thinking, yeah, we know this already, but as I was changing some setting in my beloved Google Voice account I noticed that they allow you to change the number that appears when you received a call from someone. You can have either their number display, which is of course the default and what most people would want. But they also allow you to always have the google voice number show up with every call.

So my workaround is why not just add your google voice number to your top 5 list and give everyone that number. Then change it so that all incoming calls come from your google voice number and never waste your minutes on incoming calls again.

But thats not all, google voice allows you to make outgoing as well, by calling your google voice number, then dialing the number you want to call. So no wasting minutes on outgoing calls either.

Okay, now I know for some of you this just wont work. A lot of us love to always know who is calling before we answer the phone, but google helps with this as well. Google Voice give you control of what numbers you want to ring straight through, but it also give you the ability to have callers announce themselves first and/or just announce their number or name (if in contacts) and then gives you the ability to answer or send to voicemail.

Also, keep in mind you can still give out your real number to the other 4 in your list and anyone else who is worth wasting your minutes on. This workaround is meant to be given out to all those that call you constantly and love to talk for hours or perfect as a business line.

If you think this is something you could really use and want to give it a shot, I have 2 Google Voice invites to give out just leave a comment below and I will pick 2 at random and send out the invites later this week. Just be sure to add the tag “I want an Invite” to the beginning or end of your comment.