February 6th, 2011 — Gadgets, Informational, iphone
The ipad 2 was unveiled this week for a select few and I was lucky enough to take one home. Meeting CEO of Apple Steve Jobs was amazing and I thank him tremendously for allowing me to demo this beta unit of the iPad 2 with new higher screen resolutions.
January 10th, 2011 — Informational
Well its been a long time since we had a really good snow storm so I guess for all of use southerners we were due. Yep we had a pretty good one, getting about five inches around my house. Everyone was freaking out as they usually do. Going to Wal-Mart and buying up all the bread. I am amazed and the crazies that always over react to events. I mean its not like the snow is never going to melt, and this is not the first time its ever snowed in the great state of Mississippi!
Check out the bread isle at Wal-Mart
This is the first time however that The Weather Channel took lodging in our great town of Grenada, MS to cover the winter storm surge. It was pretty cool too.
While this was going on, I was super excited about going hunting in the snow. My brother in law and I went trekking in the snow about 1.3 miles from base camp in a blizzard no doubt and we loved it! I took my other brother in laws dog with me (Jake) and we had ourselves a good ole time.
Before I left out on my hunting trip I set up an older iPhone 3G in my backyard to catch pictures of the falling snow and later I would put to together a time lapse video of it. I think I set it up at 1 pm on Sunday 1-09-11 and told it to stop taking pictures every five seconds at 6 pm on 1-10-11. I used an app called iTimeLapse that I got from the app store, it was only 99 cents.
See it here on YouTube.
Here is how the phone looked while taking the videos.
Oh and about the dog house heaters I wrote about not too long ago… they are doing great as you can see here there is no snow on top of the dog house. They are nice and warm in side. The water on the side of the house has a warmer wrapped around it to keep the water from freezing.
January 6th, 2011 — My Thoughts
Yes it’s been a long time since I’ve written on this blog. I’ve busy with Christmas, work, hunting, and many many other things that go on around this time of year.
On hunting: this season so far I’ve managed to only put 3 doe in the freezer, but the season isn’t over yet.
On Christmas: had a great time with family, got some great gifts.
On Work: Been busy as usual.
On The Gym: I get 3 weeks off of work for Christmas every year and I had plans to do really really good and go to the gym and work it HARD each week. Well week 1 I went every day as planned. Then I got sick for a week, got better right before Christmas day, and it’s been 3 weeks now since I’ve worked out. I’ll get back in there soon.
As for new developments I plan on devoting a lot more time into the development of applications for iOS and possibly Mac computers.
I hope to have at least one good money making app in the AppStore before 2012. That means I have given myself all of 2011 to complete this goal. Wish me luck with that.
With this new goal set, I have retired from repairing computers on the side. It was just cutting into my time too much and for now I’m having to let it go.
Well here’s to a great year!
Check back often as I will be posting more often from my cell as I am doing right now. Lots of random stuff and updates on my app development.
Oh by the way if you think you have a great idea for an app, leave a comment below or use the contact form. Maybe we can work something out.
December 11th, 2010 — My Thoughts, Pets
Today I spoiled my outside dogs a little bit more. I say outside dogs because I have Jack the Dachshund who is my inside dog and then there is Louie and DL who stay outside. They have a really nice duplex style doghouse that I built for them years ago. I even put electric heating pads in the floors of each room. Yes, Louie and DL each have their own room. The electric heating pads help to keep them warm in the winter, but I wanted better for them.
Sometimes around here it gets really cold, sometimes in the teens, and I want to be sure they are warm. I know they are animals and can deal with it, but while I am in my warm bed, I like to know they are well taken care of too, so I consulted with some friends and looked online and found a nice solution that is rather easy to make.
It seems that in August/September of 1990 in a magazine called Gun Dog, there was an article about how to create a simple dog house heater for hunting dogs. It involved using a metal gallon paint can, a porcelain light bulb fixture, a 60 watt bulb and some wire, to make a convective heating device.
Here is what to do:
Go to a paint store and buy an unused 1 gallon paint can with the lid. Punch 1/4″ dia holes on the lid and sides of the can. Keep the holes small enough to prevent much light from getting through yet still allow convective heat to escape. Punch a hole in the bottom about 2″ in diameter. Enough room for your wire to be manageable.
Mount the can keeping 4″ of clearance on all sides to allow heat to circulate. You will need to run the wiring to the correct location first of course. Connect a porcelain light bulb socket inside the can, wire it up and put a bulb in the base, put the lid on.
Accessories that can be included (after all it is built by guys) are a dimmer switch to control heat and an indoor-outdoor thermometer to keep tabs on the temperature.
I quickly snapped a video using my cell phone this evening to show you what it looks like inside the dog house, so you can get an idea. The can is very hot, I cant even touch it. It has the dog house nice and toasty. I am looking forward to see how it does in the colder days ahead.
November 8th, 2010 — Fun, Gadgets, Informational, Tech
Not too long ago I purchased some mini spy dvr sunglasses off of E-Bay to use when I was hiking or bike riding or something. They were so cheap and really couldn’t pass them up.
I think I spent $22 dollars total on them and waited about 3 weeks for them to arrive from Hong Kong, then I went to Wal-Mart and purchased a $20 micro sd card, I think the size was around 8 gigabytes.
From the parking lot after I inserted the memory card to record the video too, I set up to the gym. Here is the video of this trip
I think the video quality is exceptionally good.
Here is a walk around the back yard.
I think these glasses are great and could be used for all sorts of things like sports, hunting, fishing, cycling, etc.
Get you a pair cheap here on E-Bay.
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