I've been hacking/rooting/modding my Android phones since the days of the HTC Dream (G1), but this is by far the most insane hack I've ever done...

 xda-Developers thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1611977

Instructions: http://unlimited.io/juopunutbear-public-beta-0-1/instructions/

This video may help: 

 

I know some of you that read this are also fellow System Administrators whether personally or professionally so I thought I might share one of my favorite tips...

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I found this video on YouTube that describes how to install iCloud onto Windows XP.

Steve Jobs - former CEO of Apple - died today after a battle with Pancreatic Cancer.

He is easily one of the most important people of the last 100 years. A true visionary.

He will be missed.

My prayers go out to his family.

RIP Steve.

I stumbled across P.O.D. in a small Christian book store in Marietta, GA while visiting my cousin the summer of 1997. An employee and friend of my cousin (would eventually become her husband) pointed me towards the "alternative music" section. That's where I stumbled across P.O.D.'s Live at TomFest '97 album. The album art intrigued me so I popped the demo CD into the CD player and was floored. I had never heard anything like it. From that day forward I lived and breathed every word - every note of that album. I began to search out their previous and following records - it's easy to say I was obsessed... Just ask anyone I went to high school with - I adored this band.

As the years went by I lived for the Tuesday's that a new album of theirs would hit the streets. I had September 11, 2011 marked on my calendar and couldn't wait to use my free period to go pick up the album at my favorite music shop in the mall. I remember vividly walking from my 1st period class to my 2nd period class and someone in the stairwell saying that a bomb had gone off in New York City. Not really understanding the magnitude - I walked into my 2nd period English class to find the class of seniors from the previous period still there all eyes glued to the news on the TV - that's when we all saw the second plane hit. Then the news to the Pentagon. The air was instantly sucked out of the room and the assumption that everyone had about the situation was thrown out the window... This was no accident. This was intentional. This was an attack.

School wasn't the same that day - our regular lessons were put on hold as we glued ourselves to the TV news. I took my free period as previously planned and went to an eerily vacant mall to pick up my CD. I popped into my CD player and didn't take it out for a solid month.

Without knowing it Traa, Wuv, Sonny, & Marcos had created a masterpiece of recovery for me. I drowned myself in this album musically and lyrically. Memorizing every word - attempting to learn every song on guitar and bass. This record was my path to understanding and recovery of the situation. The messages of hope, empowerment, and love hit home for me in this tumultuous time in our nation - and I truly believe this helped it's success. Going on to sell 133,000 copies in it's first week and eventually triple platinum in the US alone - I'm pretty sure I'm not alone in this.

To this day putting this record on brings back floods of emotion of that day while at the same time reminding me the be thankful to be alive, thankful to be loved by God, and thankful to be born in this great and free country. 10 years later our lives have pretty much returned to normal, but we will never forget what happened 10 years ago today. We will never forget those who were murdered by cowardly madmen. We will never forget those that have given their lives and those that put their lives on the line to ensure our safety every day.

Thank you to Traa, Wuv, Sonny, & Marcos for the path to healing in the form of music.

God Bless America.

When this album was released in the Spring of 2002 I immediately gravitated towards it. Many of the songs registered with my teenage self including the album's single "August Winterman". This song resonated deeply within me because of my own battles with depression during my teens and, as cheesy as it sounds, helped me to see I wasn't alone in my struggles. I, like the song writer, found something to help me through it, dry my eyes, and enjoy life.

I recently stumbled across the song again and it inspired a retrospective look at how far I've come since those days as well as an appreciation for a special friend who helped me overcome my depression. She has been there by my side at my lowest points for 8 years now, never wavering - truly an angel from God. Her love and encouragement forever changed me.

I hope by sharing this song I can help someone else who might be suffering from the same destructive self-loathing and depression see that they aren't alone.

Check after the break for the music video and lyrics.

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"Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears, or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce. Is this what you consider evil?..." - Francisco d'Anconia

"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law', because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." and "No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him." - Thomas Jefferson

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