Depending on who you talk to they say it’s entirely reasonable to replace a laptop with an iPad. But is that really the case?
Last week I went out of town for seven days and made the decision not to bring my MacBook Pro, perfect opportunity to put my iPad to the test.
First, I loaded up some additional software for my trip, since most of what I’d need access to would be work related things. The extra few apps I installed were:
Bored out of your mind on an airplane with no internet and a company laptop with no games installed? How about playing a crappy low resolution version of Tetris!
Here’s how…
Step 1: Open Terminal.app (/Applications/Utilities)
Step 2: Type emacs, hit Enter. After it loads, press the Esc key, then X on your keyboard.
Step 3: Enter tetris (lower-case) and hit Enter.
Bingo! Your very own copy of Tetris running in Terminal, use the arrows keys to control/rotate the blocks.
We’ve just added a User Polls widget to the sidebar, in order to vote you’ll need a forum account, which you can register for here.
We’ll occasionally be posting new polls ourselves, as well as picking from user submitted polls. For a chance to get your poll featured just create a new poll in the Polls section of the forum.
Despite Steve’s best efforts to murder Flash it still lives on, and maybe you’re one of those people who really wants Flash on your iDevice. Well, you’re in luck! Hacker extraordinaire, comex, has some up with a little something called Frash, which promises to bring Flash playback to your iDevice.
Previously you had to install Frash by compiling the .deb file yourself, but someone made a.deb and has added it to a Cydia Repo.
Note: This version of Frash will not work on the iPhone 3G. It should work fine for iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS and iPad.
Warning: This is an alpha piece of software which is being updated with bug fixes regularly, installing from this repo does not guarentee you’ll recieve updated versions of Frash. To follow the development of Frash and compile the latest and greatest version yourself, check out comex’s GitHub page for it.
Here’s how to install Frash on your device:
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Those of you who pay close attention to the site probably noticed a little forum link showing up in the menu bar last week, but today we are officially launching the Hijinks Inc. Forum!
We here at Hijinks have been looking for more ways to promote user interaction and to give people reasons to visit the site more often, adding a forum seemed to be a logical step and we really hope you guys stick around and take advantage of it.
If you’ve previously registered for an account on Hijinks Inc. we’ve reserved your username for you, however you’ll need to reset your password in order to access the forum. Resetting your password does not change your WordPress password, that will remain untouched.
New user, or not sure if you have an existing WordPress account? Just register for a new forum account.
We played around with bridging the user databases, but it slowed things way down and was awfully buggy. So for the time being you’ll need to login / logout of the forum and the blog individually, using separate accounts.
If you have any problems, or have feedback, please let us know.