Jailbroken!

So! I took the plunge and jailbroke my iPhone 3GS last night. I have to admit that I was nervous about jailbreaking, even though I had jailbroken both my old iPhones (2G & 3G). Regardless, the process was extremely easy and went quickly and smoothly.

I was most concerned about the speed of the device after it was jailbroken. All around, I have to say, I’m very pleasantly surprised! Its still fast. Winterboard (the iPhone theming app for jailbroken iPhones) now has a setting to only load on the springboard, so it won’t slow down any apps. This makes a huge difference and the phone feels just as snappy as ever.

So far this is my most positive experience with a jailbroken phone. I just love it.

More Screenshots!

This is starting to be a pretty frequent occurrence… more screenshots!

Clean | Messy

Yay Screenshots!

I <3 Psych.

Clean | Messy

The Incredibly Dumb Solution To Photoshop CS4 & Spaces

So, I’ve been using Adobe CS4 Photoshop with Leopard’s Spaces for quite a while now. Originally I had Photoshop not assigned to any space, and then I tried with Photoshop assigned to a specific space. Neither setting worked, and anytime I’d switch from a different application back to Photoshop, I’d end up with what you see above.. a completely unusable Photohsop CS4… menus missing and nothing working.

Then Matty gave me the idea to try using Photoshop CS4 in every space… and magically, it worked!

Its extremely sad that I didn’t think to switch it myself… but its seriously nice to not have a UI mess every three minutes. Adobe should make their products work properly with a major Leopard feature, or at least warn Leopard users about it. Seriously.

iPhone Screenshots!

For no reason at all… ;)

Lockscreen… Springboard…

The Season Premiere of Lost in a Nutshell

Quick Screenshot!

Clean | Messy

Fall Screenshot

For no particular reason, a screenshot!

Feel free to ask any questions. :)

Holiday Screenshot!

Holiday screenshot time…

Clean | Dirty

Desktop — Pixel Girl Presents

Icons — Blend 512 pixel edition and custom 512 pixel text icons

Any questions, please ask… and happy holidays! :D

Rawr.

Happy Halloween!! Leopard arrived Friday right on time around 10:30 am. Its everything you’ve heard/read, very impressive but nothing incredible. But regardless, I love it. Yay for lists!

Issues

• Lack of Time Machine’s Airdisk support. This has been universally complained about, and you can add me to the list. I’m pretty sure official support for Airdisks is on the way. I have found my Airdisk to be pretty buggy in general.

  However I seemed to have unintenionally gotten a partition on my Airdisk to be supported by Time Machine. Basically I connected my external via USB to my Mbp (temporarily took it off the extreme) and made a new partition. When Leopard saw the new partiton it asked if I wanted to use it with Leopard, and I said yes. Then I ejected the disk and re-added to my extreme. Now Time Machine seems to recognize my disk even though its an Airdisk.

• I haven’t changed any icons other than my drives because I simply don’t have the patience without a working Candybar or Pixadex. I eagerly await new Leopard-compatible versions that are supposed to be coming soon.

Awesome

• Sleep display hot corner option. This is crazy useful if you have a laptop. Its a great way to save a little power when you’re on the batter and don’t have to look at the screen for a few.

• Sexy. Leopard, for the most part, is the best looking OS I’ve ever seen. I really enjoy the unified look. I still don’t like the dock, though and I’m use that ‘no-glass’ hidden preference for a dock on the bottom. I also really wish you could change the color of the Finder’s sidebar, that blue kind of bothers me. Otherwise, I pretty much totally love it. Good riddance brushed metal!

• Spaces. I’m really liking Spaces. Its nice not having every program on the desktop at the same time. I do, however, wish you could assign specific windows to follow you around. I know you can assign programs to follow you around, but what about just a window? I’d love for my todo list window in TextMate to follow me around, but I want the rest of TextMate in its own space.

• AutoFS. The other night I was at Matt’s and was connected to one of his computer’s drives. When I left I put my mbp to sleep, and when I came home and woke it up… it didn’t freeze! It just asked if I wanted to disconnect from the disk and moved on. Fantastic.

• Snappiness. It just is. I hardly ever see the rainbow ball of death anymore. Everything just feels so smooth. Even Spotlight is pretty usable. In fact if there was a way to add web search strings to spotlight (like you can in Quicksilver/Launchbar) I think I might not even use Quicksilver anymore…

• Mail also seems much faster and smoother. I just miss Letterbox and Mail Act-On hopefully they will both be upgraded soon.

So overall I am very pleased with Leopard. Totally worth upgrading, in my opinion.