KDBDallas

iDeskCal was recently reviewed in the French Mac magazine, VVMac and received 4.5 out of 5 stars!

The issue is on news stands for the next two months.

As my last post mentioned I went to WWDC a couple of weeks ago, well while I headed to San Fran to get my Geek on, Nancy and Tyler took a trip to Utah to visit family.

The first part of the week they visited Nancy’s family and then the last part of the week they visited mine.

Right before Nancy and Tyler were going to fly home, Nancy tells me that Tyler is throwing up.
Great…. throwing up is not good in our house for more then the normal reasons, as Tyler throwing up only once has not been a sign of a Shunt malfunction.

Well now it is twice… it was not a shunt malfunction.

Good news right? Yes, and no.
Yes because he doesn’t deserve to go through another brain surgery.

Why bad?
Well as I was getting ready to leave to go pick them up at the airport my mom informs me that my little sister (who they just spent half a week with, mind you) has been diagnosed with the Swine Flu!

Yes… that’s right… the Swine Flu!

We immediately head from the airport to a night time pediatrics office and they put Tyler on some medication called Tamiflu which is supposed to help you get over the Swine Flu faster.
Tyler was pretty sick for about 2 days and then was back to good old normal happy Tyler.

Well around day 2 Nancy and I started feeling gross.
Another trip to the doctors and Nancy and I are also put on Tamiflu.

Unfortunately for us we didn’t get Tyler’s 2 day version and instead we are BOTH STILL sick!
At least at this point we don’t feel like we are going to die.
All the same symptoms still but just lessened to the normal “being sick” level.

According to the CDC we are supposed to stay away from people for at minimum 7 days, more if you still have symptoms. They say at least 24 hours after ALL your symptoms are gone.

So we are all still locked up in the house, feeling like crap.

I guess it serves me right for joking about the Swine Flu when it first came out….

Anyways, if you live nearby and want to bring us some food we will pay you and you don’t have to come in if you don’t want (food options are getting really boring).

I have been back from WWDC for a little over a week now, but haven’t had a chance to say anything about it or post any pictures. (I will post an explanation shortly)

WWDC (Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference, in case you don’t know) was amazing!
This was the first time that I have been able to justify going (it’s not cheap) but man was it great.

I had the chance to meet so many amazing people that I talk to all the time on Twitter, but now I got the chance to meet them in real life.

Besides all the great developers and parties, it was a chance to learn about new and upcoming enhancements to the Mac operating system and the iPhone, as well as learn the best way to do certain things in code, coming from the people that write the language!

Apple also offers what the call labs during WWDC.
Labs allow you to take your code and sit down with an Apple Engineer that works on whatever particular topic you want, and they are there to serve. They will look over code and tell if you how you could have done it better, or they will help you debug an issue you are having, or anything else.

There is so much information flying at you all day that it can be overwhelming at times.

And when the sessions and labs end each day, WWDC does not end….
I have never seen more back to back, double/triple booked parties in my life.
Parties that go until all hours of the morning.

So with sessions and labs all day and parties all night, by midweek you are the walking dead but it doesn’t stop the fun. (and I didn’t even go out every night!)

Around the end of the week Apple throws a big party and this year had the band ‘Cake’ come and perform.

Overall it was a GREAT time and I can’t wait until next year, yet it is always nice to come back home to family as well.

We are talking about Nancy coming along next year and being able to tour San Francisco while I am in the sessions.

My WWDC 09 Photos – http://www.flickr.com/photos/kdbdallas/sets/72157620059169940/

I will be honest and upfront and say I don’t know if KillExchangeLocks will be revamped for 3.0.

I have pretty much totally moved away from the entire Jailbrake scene.
In fact out of all 6 devices I own only 1 is Jailbroken and I only keep that one on hand because I have 2 paid apps that I released back during firmware 1.x and before the AppStore.

I am very sorry if this news comes as a disappointment.

Since 2.0 and the AppStore came out Jailbraking has lost its appeal to me as I use AT&T so that’s not a concern for me and since the only reason I ever got into the Jailbrake scene in the first place was to be able to write my own apps and run other peoples apps on a great device that had so much more potential.

Now with the AppStore it seems like Jailbraking is done for one or more of the following: Carrier Unlock, Apps that Apple won’t approve, and Warez.
I don’t care about carrier unlocks, and I don’t approve of Warez (even if you say you use them as demo’s and buy the ones you like, because 99.9% are not doing that), and that just leaves apps that Apple won’t approve. This would be the only thing to keep me around but Apple lets most things in (it might take a couple rejections first though) that I am interested in.

Also, Apple has been getting really good at closing all the holes that made this app possible (as technically they are security holes).
So much so that the last version “oddly” wouldn’t work for everyone, including me.
I spent a ton of time searching for new ways back then and never found anything that I was happy with, and then I finally gave up and just stopped syncing my work email.

(It was a plus for my day job to have me accessible by email all the time and I decided it wasn’t worth the time and work I was putting into not having my personal device locked down)

Of course I understand that this isn’t the same for everyone.
All I can really say is I feel your pain (as if that helps anything), and that in a comment on the post way back about version 3.0 of KillExchangeLocks, Eirik mentioned that a new app has just shown up in Cydia called: “Exchange Unlock”.

With that in mind, let me get the “legalize” (if you will) out of the way.
“Exchange Unlock” is not my work, nor do I have anything to do with it in any way.
I have NO idea if it works, and I can not be held responsible if it blows up your device, literally or figuratively.

I do wish you the best of luck, and encourage you to check out my other work at: HashBang Industries (http://www.HashBangInd.com)