Adapt Your Apple

Venturing into the land of computer programming is a risky move.  Yet so many people are doing it, what with the new Ipods and all sorts of mod-able devices.  My good friend recently acquired a brand new Ipod Touch.  After toying with it and marveling over its beautiful touch screen for about a week, he decided he needed more.  So, enter our resident hacker, we will call him ‘Gregor’.  He discovers software that, once downloaded to your Touch, allows anything to be put on it.  All sorts of applications, games, anything.  He has even been known to make the Ipod walk his dog.  With all these hacks getting crazier and crazier, more people are wanting in.  Gregor has had more business lately than ever, showing people how this works.  If you aren’t careful, I wouldn’t be surprised if you you end up with  a bigger problem on (in) your hands.  As the application creaters get better and better, they also come up with great games, such as Chuzzle.  Chuzzle is a game with fuzz balls of different colors which must be put in rows.  Tetrominoes, a Tetris knock-off, is also a rather good game.  There all sound great, right?  Makes you want to go run out and buy a $400 Ipod Touch?  Ok, but consider that with all the new hacks and software comes a few issues.  1. If it screws up your Ipod, you are screwed.  2. Something tells me that overriding Apple’s software with the other guy’s software somehow voids the warranty (it does).  When things void their warranties, generally the company won’t take them back and fix them once you’ve dropped them out your window, or some other equally bad thing.  So, remember that before you call Gregor.  

BOAT! RUDDER! STRANGE! MOUNTAIN!

Heavy metal.  We all know it as that one type of music that is impossible to understand.  That is because of the vocalist.  If you want to be the next singer for Slipknot, then all you need is a face mask and the ability to yell really loud.  I strongly dislike this kind of crap, so imagine how happy I was when i learned that there were a number of parodies of these metal bands on Youtube.  Take this one of the band Trivium, done by Paranoiddave.

Hopefully you know understand what a saviour people like Dave are.  Without them, you would be sitting on your bed listening to Slipknot and Trivium without know what the were saying.  Now, the whole reason for all of this unintelligibleness: two things; all heavy metal singers have long hair, and they were yelled at too much when they were babies.  Professional wrestlers have the same problem, minus the hair.  What can you do to stop hearing metal?  Well, first of all, you could turn off the radio…  But seriously, there will never be an escape from death metal, so you will have to learn to live with long haired people screaming about boat parts and mountains.

You Don’t Know Me!

As most of you iTunes users out there know, when you buy a song, movie, etc, on iTunes, it sends you a confirmation email to tell you of your purchase.  Well, I recently received one of these emails notifying me that the latest episode of a T.V. show, (I bought the season pass) was available,  a very business like email.  It was, however, addressed to ‘ Our Friend Luke’ and at the bottom it was signed ‘warm regards, iTunes Store’.  Now, no one except my friends call me Luke, let alone iTunes, who I hardly know.  This brings me to my main point; You Don’t Know Me iTunes!  Apple is always trying to be your friend.  Their new iPhone commercial is very mellow, a lot more ‘friendly’ than their older iPod commercials.  And now with their more ‘viewer friendly’ commercials, Apple is trying harder than ever to become your best friend.  This does not make me feel any more comfortable.  They are almost as bad as Alltel’s Fluffy commercial.  No matter how much Apple tries to be your friend, they have one major flaw; they are very self-centered.  Their iPods only work with iTunes and they have to have their own speaker products.  If they really aspire to be your best friend, then their equipment should work with all music services.  But that is quite another story…

That Guy is Wylde!

Zakk Wylde.  Great player, not so great look.  Before and After.  Take a look for yourself.  He was actually normal!  Now, he is, dare i say it, wylde looking.  But he still plays a mean guitar, as does Slash.  They are both world famous, and real good.  Just watch this. Oh yes…