Telus HTC Hero Root Tutorial.

In this guide I will show you how to Root your Telus HTC Hero step by step.

Don’t be fazed by the length of this tutorial. This tutorial is 105 steps compared to all the other tutorials out there but it is the same process as you will see everywhere else but described in EXTREME detail. Every click and button press is outlined.

Earlier today a bug within twitter was found. I wont explain how to do it because the bug has currently fucked every one over!

So if you took advantage of this bug, as I did! you were able to force any one on twitter to follow you! How awesome would it be to have Oprah following you?! Apparently so awesome that you now have 0 followers…

This bug took advantage of Twitters tagging system and allowed unsolicited follows. Unfortunately for those who took advantage of the bug they now have 0 followers. Including Conan O’Brien, and myself!

Lets hope that they fix it and give every one gets there followers back *finger-Crossed*.

UPDATE: It is happening to more and more people as time rolls on. Internet celebrities alike such as Jeff Cannata of The Totally Rad show is also now affected.

Just bought that Brand new HD TV, and feel screwed by the recent release of all the new 3D HD TV’s. So do a lot of people, but should you really?

Lets put the 3D HDTV into perspective.

Has your hard drive ever died? Have you ever accidently, permanently deleted a whole buncha important files? if so you will relate with this article.

Stage One: Denial

“No. No, there’s no way. This is probably just a software issue, maybe if I try rebooting again it’ll work. I’ve only had this hard drive for two years, there’s no way it just died. I’ll get all that stuff back. This silly computer always freaks out but is fine after a reboot. Even though I’ve tried rebooting five times and it sounds like a fork is suck in a garbage disposal in there, it’s probably just the CD drive.”

Stage Two: Anger

“Are you fucking kidding me, Western Digital? I’ve lost everything! I trusted you, and for what? How does a company that sells such crappy products stay in business? I will murder the first WD employee I see. And what the hell is wrong with me that I didn’t back this stuff up? I am the biggest idiot in the world and I want to punch myself in the goddamned face. I hate myself and don’t deserve to be happy.”

Stage Three: Bargaining

“OK, so maybe I can download some software and boot this drive as a secondary drive and try to recover some stuff. I mean, I’ll have to go buy a new hard drive and install it and then figure out how to hook this one up as a secondary drive, and I’m not sure where my OS discs are, but hey, I’m a smart guy, I can figure this stuff out, right? Or maybe professional data recovery services have gotten much, much cheaper lately. Yeah, I’ll bet they’re affordable now, they’ve gotta be.”

Stage Four: Depression

“All those photos. I’ll never, ever get them back. I’ll never see those faces again. And my essays from college, I was going to share those with my kids someday. And man, all that music, it’s taken me years to collect all that. Why did I even bother? It’s like the last ten years of my life have just been erased.”

Stage Five: Acceptance

“Ah, none of that stuff was that important. Most of it was uploaded to various sites like Flickr, anyways. At least the really important stuff. Regathering all that music will be fun, too! And hey, you know what? Maybe it’s good to start fresh every once in a while. And man, hard drives have gotten a lot cheaper since I last bought one. This is really just a good way to put things in perspective; none of this stuff was all that important. Except for those photos. Why the hell didn’t I back them up?”

thanks to: lifehacker

Okay okay I know I’m just a little late to the punch but I figure never late then never. Put your seatbelts on boys and girls this may be a long one.

The iPad, my thoughts:

Lets start off by saying that I am a huge fan of apple product. I think the iPhone has great potential, the iPod changed the world despite horrible hardware, and shitty software (iTunes, really who’s going to deny that it sucks. It may be the worst piece of software apple has ever made. Its slow and it…. AH! Never mind OFF TRACK!). I’ve made my point, I like apple products, and I give credit where credit is due.

On to my thoughts. I could sum up my thoughts on the iPad in a few words, VERY BIG IPHONE! But I won’t. I will go into some more detail.

One thing that I think is very important for a tablet, is the approach. How a company approaches designing a tablet is the most important factor in its success. It is important to remember when designing these devices, that they are neither, small laptops or big phones, but some where in between. Unfortunately, for us, the consumer, most companies don’t seem to get this, Apple included. Most tablets are just small laptops that are underpowered and very expensive. But on the other side, we have a product like the iPad, which is just a really big cell phone.

In todays market we need something in between. We need a product with a full browser, a full media player, that can act as an e-book reader and can support all of todays most common protocols. Unfortunately for the iPad it is so close to being all it could be.

I was going to go step by step naming all the good and bad about the iPad but instead im just going to simply give suggestions at what the iPad should be from the target market of a iPad consumer, to make the device everything it should be, that the iPad is missing or completely ignoring.

First thing is first I guess. Flash support. You cant give me a device and tell me that it’s sole purpose is to make my life easier and better without giving this device the proper support for web protocols such as flash. For those of you who don’t know what flash is, it is a type of coding that is used on the internet in which the iPhone and iPad (ipod touch) completely ignores. Have you ever gone to a website that would normally have fancy animations on it. Yet on your device the page simple wont load or give you that F*&^’n question mark. THAT’S FLASH! And the mobile browser used by the iPad is lacking support for flash. My phone support flash why cant they. Simple! They are either a) lazy. Or b) want you to buy application in the appstore and take a commission from it, when they could just put flash support in the mobile browser. My guess is B.

Second thing, and this is my biggest problem with the iP** device line. No background apps. Why after all this time (3 years with the iPhone) has apple not perfected the art of background processes. Why is it that the iPhone, one of the most powerful mobile devices on the market (now the iPad too) can’t run more than 1 app at a time. My HTC hero is currently running around 20 processes and granted it does get a little sluggish (and when I say a little I mean a little barely noticeable) the iPad is much more powered then my Hero.

Last but certainly not least. Widgets. Such a huge thing for the MAC OS(X) yet they are no where to be found on the iPad. This is a big no no. widgets are extremely important on a tablet. They are a quick way to send and receive info without having to launch a full app.

Overall, I would have to say that in its current form the iPad is a definite DO NOT BUY! I think most of the tech industry would agree and so are most consumers going to agree when this comes out. I smell another Apple TV (if you don’t know what that is, its one of Apple’s failed devices that doesn’t get talked about! OR ELSE THEY KILL YOU! APPLE CANT FAIL!). If you are interested in a tablet I would suggest you take a look at a device like the Dell Mini 5 which is a step in the right direction, where the iPad is only a step backwards.

***UPDATE***

On Launch weekend Apple those over 300,00 of these rigs in the US. Huge numbers congrats. Was I wrong? I don’t think so. Apple sold tons of MacBook Airs didn’t they? Where is the Air now?

Apple has also just announced a iPhone OS 4 confrence. I think this may fix many of my complaints I had stated. Rumors include, Multiple processes, widgets, and very very fringe rumors of flash (although I’m highly doubting this one).

At a price point of 499 i may pick one of these things up. I am very intrigued by the possibilities and would like to give this thing a real shot. If you buy the 3G version, I think this unit can be very useful.

I have 20 Google Wave invites available to who ever wants them! I am having a contest open to any one! All you have to do is leave a comment on this story, and then follow me on twitter (click here) (SEE RULE CHANGE BELOW FOR NON TWITTER USERS)  In your comment be sure to give my your twitter ID so that I know how to message you! I will send you a PM on twitter if you are a winner.

Keep in mind that Google wave is in very early closed beta. This invite will be sent out immediately but I’ve been told that it may take some time to get to you. how long I don’t know, days, weeks, I don’t really know.

GOOD LUCK!

RULE CHANGE:

I have decided to leave aside 3 invites for those of you who DO NOT have a twitter account and DO NOT want to sign up. I will randomly choose 3 people from the comments below who put “no twitter” in there comment. I will make my selection once we have a few of these entries. keep in mind the easiest way to guarantee your invite is to just follow me on twitter and leave a comment below with your twitter ID (these are on a first come first server basis so don’t wait!)!