http://mastrippolito.net sounds good, but still esoteric enough to scare the riff-raff away Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:50:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en When the iPhone was first jailbroken, back in the iPhone OS 1.x days, there was a utility you could obtain from Installer.app called Taskbar Notifier that would populate the iPhone's status bar with little icons for missed calls or voicemails, unread emails, or unread SMS messages. Before I installed it, ... http://mastrippolito.net/2008/10/02/effing-finally/ All of these things offended my sensibilities today between the hours of 8:30am and 3pm. In no particular order: It's "Sansom" street, not "Samson." You should see a doctor about your dyslexia. This is even more a grievous offense if you actually live on or near Sansom street. There is no letter ... http://mastrippolito.net/2008/07/17/youre-wrong-so-shut-the-hell-up/ As you may have heard, Apple announced the much-rumored iPhone 3G on Monday. After the introduction of the original iPhone, I made a post detailing my predictions for what features we might expect in the next model of the device. The new model does indeed have longer battery life, larger storage capacity ... http://mastrippolito.net/2008/06/11/iphone-3g/ This past Saturday, I went out to the burbs to check out my brothers band, The Sermon!, play at Vincents. Dad was there, and my friends George and Virginia were able to attend. A good time was had by all. I used to go to Vincents with my brother Rob ... http://mastrippolito.net/2008/02/12/it-goes-round-and-round/ First, some background: the TV we've had in our apartment for the last 5 years or so, has been the very same TV that my parents purchased for the Mastrippolito living room back in 1984. When I was 5 years old. When they were still married. Twenty-three years ago. It's ... http://mastrippolito.net/2007/10/31/that-is-a-large-tv/ After using this thing for over two weeks, I've found a couple handy tricks, and have read a bunch online in the usual places: Safari Tapping at the top of the screen (on or directly below the clock, basically) when you've scrolled to the bottom of the page will instantly return you ... http://mastrippolito.net/2007/07/16/helpful-iphone-tricks/ So I'm laying on a beach towel, soaking up the Rittenhouse Square sounds. There are a ton of people out here; it's a beautiful day. Two days ago, in the evening, I was standing in line at the 16th street AT&T store, behind about a hundred other people. It was ... http://mastrippolito.net/2007/07/01/finally-iphone/ This week has been pretty crazy.Our upstairs neighbor had his new-ish Toyota FJ cruiser stolen, right in front of the building.  I found out a good friend of mine is pregnant. Well, he's not, but his girlfriend is. They're stoked.Three people got fired from work today. Oddly enough, I started ... http://mastrippolito.net/2007/06/19/mercury-in-retrograde/ So, it was kind of underwhelming. Of course, I would guess the biggest news is the announcement of Safari for Windows.It seemed everything shown about Leopard was sort of a re-hash. We had already seen Time Machine, already seen Spaces. I am a little grossed out by the menu bar ... http://mastrippolito.net/2007/06/12/the-wwdc-2007-keynote/ Yeah, I'll admit it: I totally want one, and will be in line on the 29th.  My personal fanboy-ism aside, the hype around this single device is getting a little out of hand.This is what's going on in the iPhonosphere, as of today:People are crying foul about it's lack of ... http://mastrippolito.net/2007/06/08/iphone-hysteria/ Dan and Josie came to the city for a visit last night. We cabbed it over to Vietnam Resturant and had awesome food and silly named drinks. We walked back to the apartment in the perfect weather.Then we went to Flannery's: In the usual Flannery's tradition, Butch provided a free round. ... http://mastrippolito.net/2007/05/05/we-had-a-great-time/ When Apple announced they were moving to Intel hardware, a lot of folks (myself included) realized that there must be a way to crack it such that OS X can be installed on non-Apple Intel hardware.Enter the OSx86 Project. These guys are amazing. In particular, a fellow by the moniker ... http://mastrippolito.net/2007/05/04/osx86/