BlackRa1n: Fact vs. Fiction

Fact: Blackra1n is qucik and easy to run.
Fiction: Blackra1n is a 30 second ALL device 3.1.2 jailbreak.

That is right people. Although Blackra1n is very easy to use. So simple in fact a child could do it. This simplisity does not come without some drawbacks. Fist you can not do a hard reset. If you let the battery run out on your iPod touch or perform a "hard" reboot, you'll have to boot your iPod while connected to your computer the next time using BlackRa1n to boot it. If you want your iPhone to be unlocked to use with another carrier, don’t upgrade to 3.1.2 and do not use Blackra1n to jailbreak your iPhone as you wont be able to unlock it from your carrier. So this jailbreak should only be used on ipods that are not 8GB or 3rd gen. So far it has worked great.

UPDATE: With RC3 Blackra1n now does do all it claimed in the 1st place. 11/3/09

Fox: Fair and balanced

On Sunday, Chris Wallace tried to spin President Obama's snub of the Fox Propaganda Network into a positive, saying that Fox is "the only place you won't see" the President pitch his health care plan. Wallace went on to promise a big "exclusive" for his talk show. The exclusive? Yet another discussion of ACORN. Big surprise, eh?

Worth noting: not only did Fox broadcast network refuse to air President Obama's health care speech to Congress, last week Fox News also refused to air a daytime speech by the President on health care.

Both speeches were covered by MSNBC and CNN, so when Fox says that they are the only place where "you won't see Barack Obama" talk about health care, they aren't kidding around.

Thanks to & story by: Jed Lewison

Touch Pro 2: I do everything

The Touch Pro 2 is a great phone so far but still lacks what it takes to be an iPhone killer.
Why?
Here are the cons of the phone:
1 : Apps
I know Windows mobile has way more apps than Apple has in the app store but its so spread out with so many different sources its nearly impossible to find what you want.

2: Multi media
The music store by Sprint is well setup but really no syncing companion for your computer what is the point? The camera although very sharp at 3.2 mega pixels does not have a flash. Why would you do that?

3: Extras
There are non. The TouchFlo 3D while way better than Windows; is still not up to par with iPod's OS. I recommend installing SPB Mobile Shell 3 to help with the gap.

Now the Pro:
Video playback is as good as an iPod Touch. HTC has its on video player that natively plays many codecs without conversion software. Battery life is very good for a multi media rich phone. There is a built in 3.5 headphone jack. No need for an adapter. The keyboard is large enough for big fingers. The system is fast and responsive without the normal lag of a Windows Mobile OS.

BOTTOM LINE:
This phone can do almost everything you can ask for but it is still no iPhone. In the end you will get what you want a phone that has great clarity, rich multi media, speed and sex appeal (yes, phones have it).

Jay-Z: Blueprint 3 (review)

The Blueprint 3 11th album

Over 13 years in the public eye, Jay-Z has gone from former crack-dealer to the most respected person(not just rapper)in the music world. The journey from MC to CEO has, perhaps inevitably, taken some of the edges off Shawn Carter.

Many rappers have a faster flow (rhyme), but few have more clarity, or make as much sense. Timbaland and Kanye West are among his producers, Blueprint 3 has a dynamic rang, from the tightly looped electro chant of Off That to the anthemic club pop of Empire State of Mind featuring Alicia Keys.

A thread that runs the length of the album is Jay-Z addressing all of his critics. Shots are fired in all directions. Dame Dash and Jaz-O are addressed on "So Ambitious" Cam'ron and Jim Jones are on the receiving end of a particularly venomous verse on "Thank You" (I was gon' kill a couple rappers, but they did it to themselves/ I was gon' do it with the flow, but they did it with their sales). Not to mention "Hate," "Thank You," and "Reminder," all of which Jay dedicates to his detractors, there are even some throwaway subliminals for The Game and Joe Buddens.


At 40 years old, Jay-Z comes across as a well-rounded, sophisticated and with more wit, charm and verbal assault. Such qualities may be taken as a sign of weakness among young but Hov's Blueprint 3 is a mainstream rap album & suggests Jay-Z still has the skills to shake off the pretenders.
Here is the track list. The only bad song is Venus Vs. Mars. I don't know how that made it to on there but its bad. Just skip it.
1. What We Talkin' About (Jay-Z + Luke Steele of Empire Of The Sun)
2. Thank You
3. D.O.A. (Death Of Auto-Tune)
4. Run This Town (Jay-Z + Rihanna + Kanye West)
5. Empire State Of Mind (Jay-Z + Alicia Keys)
6. Real As It Gets (Jay-Z + Young Jeezy)
7. On To The Next One (Jay-Z + Swizz Beatz)
8. Off That (Jay-Z + Drake) Listen
9. A Star Is Born (Jay-Z + J. Cole)
10. Venus Vs. Mars
11. Already Home (Jay-Z + Kid Cudi)
12. Hate (Jay-Z + Kanye West)
13. Reminder
14. So Ambitious (Jay-Z + Pharrell

Quake Live – A First Person Shooter on a Browser

Quake live, A First Person Shooter on a Browser has a relatively high chance of being a HUGE success.
If you are at work, this is gonna be what gamers play. Screw flash games. However, here at TechXav, we don’t play games while at work
All jokes aside, I got a chance to try this out and it is responsive. Quake is one of the founding fathers in First person shooters that everyone plays now and is made by the famous id software. It shaped first person shooters to what it is now with help from Doom and Halo.

Give it a try
http://www.quakelive.com/

Summer Dresses: Final

That was the day that broke the camels back. We had a long night and got up late in the afternoon to a sunny summer day. I being the wonderfully stupid house wife that I was at that time, fixed him breakfast then went back to bed to wake your father. We ate breakfast in bed and then umm, well, we took a nap. Mike visibly squirmed in his seat. Frances noticed and moved along. I thought it was going to be a good day even special in some way. I mean it was a perfect storybook day. The sky was blue; there were big puffy white clouds in wonderful shapes. The birds were chirping to nature’s song. But alas in my old age I have come to realized that was just wishful thinking on my part. I see that now and I feel that it is better to learn later then to never learn at all.

As soon as we got outside the apartment it was like we were at the dealership, he just kept gawking at all the younger models of me. Like women are cars and the sidewalk was the show room or display lot. After we passed 8th Ave. we headed towards Washington Square.

Since I was feeling romantic because of the way the night had ended and the morning had started, I wanted to spend the whole day alone as a couple. Basking in the glow of love, I wanted to take all the steps needed to make sure I would have a day to remember. I should have known then that I was on the long one-way street of love by myself and because of that I would not have a day to remember, instead I had a day to forget but could not.

Michael agreed with me that spending the day together would be fun and romantic. He also was motivated by the thought of blowing off the snobby newly weds the Stevenson’s. We had planed to drive in the country with them but that was out of social guilt not choice. I was so happy, I kissed him but did he kiss me back? No, two timing asshole just politely informed me as if I was a school child that “this is 5th Avenue.” Like he has lived a dignified life or something. How dignified is it to gawk at young women while your wife of many years is holding your arm, standing or sitting next to you?


Anyway, we sat down and started to go over what we should do with the rest of our lovely Sunday. At the time I believed that I could somehow, someway repair this day or at least salvage what remains of it. While I was shooting out ideas for what we should do, he was having ideas of his own. Not one woman that walked by lost his lustfully glances. When I told him he is always looking at other women. The prick looked me in the eyes and with out any shame what so ever delivered that male patented line. “God gave me eyes so I use them. I look but do not touch.” The same old tired cliché. It’s like you guys are thought that at birth or something. It makes me sick. As we were walking to get what had become some much needed drinks. Your father told me that he had never touched another woman. I had been told otherwise by friends of mine but never paid them much attention. I had never before had a reason not to believe my husband, your father. But when he repeated that he had never touched another women for the sixth time in a span of three minutes, it became clear that he was trying to convince himself just as much as me.


I told him how I feel when he looks at other women. I said that it felt terrible but in retrospect it is worse then that. It is like being able to watch from afar as your best friend stabs you in the back over and over again. No, it really feels like you are losing the one you love each time. You build up your significant other as the only one for you, as your soul mate and when that mate looks at others the same way he looks at you, you feel lost and start to doubt there commitment to you.

He… France continued despite fighting back tears which are proof even though she acts like she has moved on the pain in her heart has not yet nor will it ever really be healed. Your father told me that he wants them all. He wants every single woman he looks at but yet he insist that he has never done anything about the feeling. You hear me Mike? Without any regard for my feelings, your father the bastard said blatantly that he wants other women. I asked him point blank would he cheat on me someday and he said yes. Why did I stay with him after that conversation is beyond me. I did and just six months later he did cheat on me.


Mike began to ask the question he always wanted to ask his mother but was cut of in mid sentence. Yes, Mike. It was with your mother that he cheated on me with. Your mother is a good woman. I do not blame her in any way for what your father did. Mr. Stevenson although not at all happy about what transpired, did what I could not; he remained with your mother as if nothing had happened. I on the other had had found the courage to divorce your father but you know what? There is not a day that I do not think about him because I did then as I do now and always will love him. But he still looks at other women. I guess that is why he is on his fourth wife now. He only sees women as girls, girls in pretty summer dresses.