Decent settings for mbpfan.conf for a MacBook 8,2

Fan-Control-Daemon has been working great for months on my MacBook Pro 8,2 running Ubuntu 13.04 natively but found it getting hotter and hotter all the time. So, I recompiled FCD from source and moved /etc/mbpfan.conf back to default but that really didn’t help. I had to mess with things a little. Of course, you mess [...]

5 Cydia iOS Apps I Constantly Use

I’ve gone back and forth with many others on the risk/pain vs. reward of jailbreaking your iOS device. I can tell you that I have a few packages or apps that I really love and improved the iOS experience. I really do value and use these daily.
1. IconRotator

I use most apps on my iPhone in [...]

Getting Perl, CPAN, and Texapp going on iOS 6.x

If you are about to try and do this, you are probably as crazy as I am. Welcome. Here you go.
1. Jailbreak your iOS Device with evasi0n.
You aren’t going anywhere until you get that level of access to the device. This is the slickest rooting tool yet for iOS. Kudos to the evad3rs team.

2. After [...]

Feels nice to have access once again to something you own.

Of Cars, Trucks and PCs and Tablets

Steve Jobs at D8 in 2010 with the famous quotes on cars and trucks and Apple’s “post-pc” mode of thinking.
Starts at 43m 25s below.

Apple is going down that road and people love their “cars” but there are some of us that still need and will continue to need “trucks” to get the job done right.