Where is the app?

I have a problem with software purchases online.

There should be a law... if you buy a product (for instance a full version of a facebook app) that it is the responsibility of the product provider to make sure you can always use that product. If they sunset the app, you should still be able to use that product offline in some capacity if able.

I loved playfish, they made a great game called "Who has the biggest brain" I had several friends whom I competed with all the time to top each others' score. They even made an iphone app. I puchased the upgrade on facebook to be able to use all the tests and then I bought the app so I could play on my iphone. Then the game dissappeared... I could no longer use it on facebook and the app would not work if it was not connected to their site. I purchased the game and now it is gone. It would not be a big stretch to set it into offline mode so that people could still play the app locally. Or even let people download the facebook app so they could play it locally in their browser. I BOUGHT THE APP! Where did it go!

This is the same as buying a sweater at Walmart, wearing the sweater, having the sweater become your favorite and then Walmart coming to your house and taking the sweater back without your consent or knowledge. It is just not right...

https://apps.facebook.com/biggestbrain/
gone...

my money...
gone...

https://help.ea.com/article/retirement-of-playfish-games
my trust in playfish and ea...
gone...

How to unbrick your iPhone or iOS device

I am an iOS developer. When the new iOS 5 beta came out, I got excited and wanted to be one of the few that got to play with it before everyone else. It was late in the day and I tried to rush the firmware and before you know it. It was bricked. *sob*

In case you don't know, when someone calls your phone or pretty much any electronic device a "brick" it is because the firmware has been messed up somehow and there is no way to fix it. Therefore it's only useful purpose is as a paperweight or a brick. Bricking your smartphone is not good. There is no turning back. However, there is a issue with this. when you are updating your "firmware" on your iOS, you are not just updating the firmware, but you are updating the operating system as well. These are two very different things. A firmware malfunction is deadly. An OS malfunction is salvageable!

It seems that if you get the itunes icon with a usb connection going towards it. This is just a OS issue and the firmware is most likely fine. Good news for you! You can save it. Here is how.

First thing you will probably see when trying to do a restore and why you think it is bricked is a 1065 error which basically says to reboot your machine, restart or re-install your itunes and try again. This will mostly likely not work unless you are really lucky.

To do a lower level restore, you need to hold both the power and home button down for a few seconds on your device to make sure it is off. (Just because the screen is blank does not mean it is off.)

Then hold down the home button (just the home button is needed) for 10 seconds. While you are still holding it down, connect your device to iTunes. Doesn't matter if it is a PC or Mac, works both ways. It should show you the apple logo on the screen and then the itunes connect image that you've seen before. You can let go of the home button at this point. It should also pop something up on iTunes saying it detected a device that needs a restore.

Now this is where things get a little different from others. If you just screwed up your firmware for most reasons, you can just hit the restore and it should download the latest version of the iOS and install it for you. However, if you tried to update to the beta version of the iOS, this will not work as there is a safety check on the device to make sure you don't try and downgrade your iOS. I think it is error 1015. This happens about halfway through the install bar on the device. Because you tried to beta your device, you need to do something extra.

Hopefully you still have your beta iOS firmware still. I would recommend re-downloading it as it might be the reason you have this problem in the first place. Then, when it is unzipped and waiting for you. Hold down the "option" button on your mac (or the "shift" button on the PC) and click on the restore button on iTunes. This should bring up a fileview for you to find the iOS that you are updating to. select that and you should be off to the races.

20 minutes later, it should have the OS installed and you can now re-sync your stuff onto your device.

UFO Sightings

How come, now that everyone has a camera phone, you don't hardly see any new sightings of UFOs, yetis, monsters, big foots, etc?

You would think that with the advent of modern technology with smaller, better and cheaper cameras out there, you would see many more of these "proofs". That along with the internet, you would think that the world would be already drooling over the latest sightings, yet nothing.

I guess we are too busy drooling over celebrity gossip or something... 

Cowboys and Aliens origins

In case you were wondering where the idea originated...

The Far Side

1995

Random Question:

Why are humans the only species that don't have bones in their "boners"? What sort of mutant evolution process took it away? 

How Not to Choke

http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2010/09/21/psychologist-shows-why-we-choke-under-pressure-and-how-avoid-it

- whistle while you work to stop from over-thinking
- practice, practice, practice
- don't worry about stereotypes, think of the exception
- meditation, learn to relax whenever you need

I'm screwed...

How to tell if you are screwed as an intellectual;
1) You are a night hawk
2) You make sure to never have 'accidents' during relations
3) You over think situations which can result in evasion
4) You are more gullible to lies
5) You are self loathing/ self destructive
If you are most of these, you are really smart, but you are also screwed because you think more than act which keeps you from living and being more successful than you could be.

Source

Makes you smarter

Makes you... ah hell who am I kidding!

One of my favourite movies of all time...