A while back I had jailbroken my original iPhone and installed the UStream.tv Broadcaster application.  It was great and worked really well.  If you have an iPhone 3G it will work over 3G as well as WiFi (sorry, no Edge).

No matter, since I got the 3G S, my 2G hasn’t had much love.  So I picked it back up again and jailbroke it (OS 3.1) and went to look for the UStream Broadcaster app.  I couldn’t find it, it was removed from Cydia.  After some searching, I found the fix.

Found the Ustream streaming app.
Cydia/Manage/Sources/Edit/Add
Type
1999.ustream.tv
click Add Source

Downloaded it and it does not work on 3GS with OS 3.0

Source.

Today was the first day we had the solar panels turned on since they were installed last week. (We were waiting for the final inspection and the orientation session on how not to get ourselves electrocuted.) Unfortunately, today was a very cloudy day with some rain (unlike the picture here) there was no sun to be had. But I have high hopes for the remainder of the summer season, especially with the cool weather we’re having now.

The system is internet-enabled, sending statistics from the inverter to an online site that will create fancy graphs and such so we’ll be able to track our “investment.” At full capacity, it will generate 3.67 kilowatts of power (18 panels total).

My next project, a DIY handset to cell phone adapter. It’s simply exchanging one plug for another, pretty straight forward.

Conan borrows Super Mario Brothers background

Conan appears to have borrowed the Super Mario Brothers landscape as the source for his background for his new set.  I thought it felt familar somehow.

Link via Towleroad.

VirtualBox is a free x86 emulator that is available for Windows, Mac, Linux and SunOS.  It’s a great alternative to Parallels or VMWare.  It even supports the Windows 7 Beta, so now you have a 100% free way to run Windows on your Mac (until the beta expires that is).

I’m digging a few of the tracks on this Ziggy Stardust bootleg remix disc. Give it a chance, listen to a few and see what you think.

Legal music sharing site Ruckus.com has closed up shop abruptly. No doubt, the few folks who used the service are left with the balance of their 1 month lease on their music before it attempts to contact their licensing server for renewal.
The idea of the service was to allow college students a legal way to download and share music amongst themselves. Revenue was generated by advertising on the Ruckus site, where the music was downloaded, along with a social component that honestly seemed lacking to me.
The biggest flaw was that when you graduated, your music would suddenly become unplayable unless you subscribed to their pay service. So, you’re given four years to amass a large collection of music to only have it suddenly be taken hostage.
Services like Amazon’s MP3 service make much more sense in my opinion.