DIY iPhone 4S Wrist Strap for $3.49 or Less

Reading Time: < 1 minute I’ve become a big fan of the Nike+ GPS app for tracking my runs, but I’d hate to have a sweaty iPhone slip through my fingers and strike a limestone rock or cement, so a simple wrist strap seemed like a good idea. Some iPhone wrist straps work by replacing one of the screws in the bottom […]

“Block” Unwanted Calls on the iPhone 4S with a Silent Ring

Reading Time: < 1 minute Using a silent custom ring can provide effective whitelist/blacklist functionality without having to jailbreak your iPhone. One of the best reasons to jailbreak the iPhone, I thought, was to use a blacklisting app, since blacklisting apps are — blacklisted — from the Apple App Store.  Even better would be a whitelisting app that only allows […]

OCZ Agility 3 SSD in a Macbook

Reading Time: 3 minutes It just works — with a few tweaks, non-standard tools and an external keyboard.  When you go outside of Apple’s walled garden, a Macbook hardware install can be just as quirky and convoluted as any Windows machine. After installing my new OCZ 240GB SSD in my Macbook, the performance was quicker, but not what I […]