iPhone 2.1 update and a cool new feature I noticed

Saturday, September 13th, 2008 Posted in blog, iPhone, info | Comments

With my iPhone woes (mainly that I have/had shitty signal at my house), I updated my iPhone to firmware 2.1 and boy has there been some significant changes: The UI is much faster, the keyboard rarely--if ever--lagging and I've noticed that ...

The Alkaline Trio, Wizard World Chicago, and Wall-E

Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in blog, comics, info, random | Comments

This weekend was pretty much 100% bad ass: I attended an Alkaline Trio concert, had the privilege of going to Wizard World Chicago and meeting Brian Michael Bendis (the whole reason for going to the ordeal) along with doing some ...

An AppleScript to turn the brightness of your laptop display on/off

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 Posted in blog, info, mac os x | Comments

Yesterday at work, Eric was asking me if I knew of a way to immediately make the screen of his MacBook go straight to off (0 brightness). The only way I could think of doing such a thing was just ...

Some random stuff (dreamhost promo codes?! OMG!)

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 Posted in info, random | Comments

Well, StatusTweet is coming along. I'm calling it alpha .15. No help pages, e-mail updates forgot passwords yet, but we're progressing. Oh, and we have no design, but HTML colors + positioning = my friend! We may start some private ...

StatusTweet, slowly progressing

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 Posted in info, random | Comments

Just in case anyone was wondering, the site is progressing.. like molasses. I've been working on the site a bit every day and getting... well, somewhere. I just implemented some new Ajax (Nick wrote some Ajax of his own, but I ...

Another twitter site

Friday, February 15th, 2008 Posted in info, random | Comments

Yes guys and gals, I'm working on a new site that works with twitter. I got the idea last weekend from Rob Brogan via twitter and Nick Nelson and I decided to make it happen. What is it you ask? Well, ...

Mike Rapin’s Guide to Web Searching via Quicksilver

Thursday, February 7th, 2008 Posted in info, mac os x | Comments

So, there I was in my chemistry lecture, too lazy to reach into my backpack on the floor and pull out my calculator to solve a simple problem written on the board by my professor (who is a bad ass, ...

MC Chris owns

Monday, November 12th, 2007 Posted in info, random | Comments

... I wanna go to an MC Chris show! Anyone get that? Well, given that my last post was all hippie-liberal and such, I'll move onto some random and fun stuff: I love my hacked iPod. Seriously. It. Is. Awesome. If you have ...

A bit on my experience with a hacked iPod touch

Monday, November 5th, 2007 Posted in info, random | Comments

So, let's see here... I got my iPod the day before it was officially released (9/27/07) and I hacked my iPod... I don't recall. Somewhere around early to mid-October, a few days before iJailbreak was released. But since then here's ...

A new beginning

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007 Posted in info, random | Comments

Howdy kids! I've decided to move over to Wordpress from Blogger. Why? Well, because I can customize the crap out of everything! I mean, I love Google and all, but I need to make my site for me. Other than that, plan ...