Hijinks Inc.

Author: Aaron Nelsen

  • Starcraft 3 Announced

    Hot on the heels of releasing Starcraft 2, the 12 year in the making sequel to Starcraft, Blizzard has announced that they will only make Starcraft 3 if you do the following*…

    *Ok, so they might not have said that… Or even announced Starcraft 3 at all.

  • Jailbreak 101: Backgrounder

    Apple may have added multitasking into iOS 4, but it isn’t true multitasking. What if you want something a little more versatile? Or hey, maybe like me, you’re running older hardware which according to Apple “doesn’t support multitasking”, or even an iPad which doesn’t have iOS 4 yet. At any rate, I would highly recommend you check out Backgrounder.

    Here’s how to install and configure Backgrounder.
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  • Parrot AR Drone Available for Pre-Order

    Parrot AR Drone Available for Pre-Order

    After years of wondering if it would ever reach production, let alone be affordable, the Parrot AR Drone is now up for pre-order on Brookstone’s website!

    This wonderfully awesome piece of iPhone controlled gadgetry will set you back a cool $299+ shipping (which was $10 on my order) and won’t arrive until sometime after September 3rd, but that seems pretty tangible after the long period of waiting since the Parrot was first demoed at CES. I just bought one, you should too.

    [ Pre-order at Brookestone ]

    For more information on this bundle of quadricopter goodness, check out http://ardrone.parrot.com/parrot-ar-drone/usa/

  • Decipher for iPad Now Available!

    We here at Hijinks Inc. think that iPad app pricing is a bit wonky, so we’re attempting to bring $0.99 app pricing back to the App Store with our first release for the iPad, which is now available from the app store. Go check it out!

    [ Decipher for iPad ]

    Decipher for iPad

  • 500 Internal Server Error with WordPress 3.0

    500 Internal Server Error with WordPress 3.0

    Recently I finally got around to upgrading this site (and several others) to WordPress 3.0 and everything went smoothly until I tried to login to my admin page, where I was greeted by this lovely message:

    Error 500 – Internal server error
    An internal server error has occurred!
    Please try again later.

    Wonderful.

    Turns out that this error was caused by the way my host, 1&1, parses PHP files and while it’s rather annoying, it’s at least relatively easy to fix. I should note that technically WordPress 3.0 also shares some of the blame, as it requires parts be run through PHP5 (1&1 by default uses PHP 4 to parse scripts).

    Here’s how to fix it…
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