Hijinks Inc.

Category: Aaron Nelsen

  • Free Internet Anywhere (cell reception required)

    Today, I present to you, in it’s entirety, the quick and easy (mild case of nerdiness required) way to rock the free internet scene with your cell phone.

    And now, after building up your hopes… I shall cruelly dash them against the sharp rocks below! Here’s what you’ll need to get this to work.

    • Phone: Motorola E815, Razr v3, V710*,
    • Computer: Any Mac running OS X 10.4 with Bluetooth
    • Provider: Alltel (although rumor has it that a Verizon account/phone with mobile web service does the trick as well)

    Note: Verizon ships its phones with dial-up networking disabled, due to the fact they are jerks. To enable it, enter ##DIALUP on your phone. That’s ##342587. You’ll need to type it in as quickly as possible for it to work. The phone will show a confirmation once you’ve successfully enabled dial-up networking. As logic would dictate, doing this again will disable your new found dial-up networking. This only works with older versions of the firmware, so if you have a newer phone with current firmware you’re out of luck (unless you want to downgrade your firmware).

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  • About Aaron

    Aaron NelsenMy name is Aaron Nelsen, and I feel I must set the record straight, I am not the Aaron Nelsen who writes for The Brownsville Herald. There, I said it, I’m sure that just ruined your day, heck, maybe even your life. You’ve probably got this sick feeling in your gut right now, thinking you’ve been duped, tricked into believing I was some literary legend from Texas, only to find out that I’m from Nebraska, and I don’t even write for a newspaper! Sorry kids, as much as I would like to take credit for such masterpieces as “Expo offers ‘nifty’ concepts for green building“, I just can’t.

    And now that I’ve got that off my chest, and scared all three of our readers away for good, I would like nothing more than to tell you random facts about myself. I’m a computer technician, I go to peoples homes and fix their computers, like Geek Squad, only I don’t charge people an arm and a leg. I also do freelance web design on the side, and am currently going to school for graphics design. I have an obsession with coffee, and a hatred for Starbucks. I love music, even though I don’t play an instrument and I can’t sing to save my life, and if I had some advance knowledge that I was going to be stranded on a desert island the one thing I would take with me would be a Solar Powered iPod* filled with music.

    Please note: If you’re wondering what the heck the first part of my post was about, it’s pretty simple, I Googled myself today and you can’t find me until some where around the eleventh page, everything is about some guy who writes for a newspaper in Texas, pish!

    * The Solar Powered iPod doesn’t exist yet, but if Steve ever invents one, I’ll take the credit and happily accept a free one.

  • iPod touch

    iPod touchI have to complain, it’s in my nature.

    While the iPod touch just saved me from having to buy an iPhone, it’s not quite all I had hoped. While sporting all sorts of fantastic features, one simple little thing is missing, where’s my bluetooth at?! Wireless headphones, wireless syncing with your Mac… tell me that’s not a brilliant idea? With the ability to buy music on the go, it would make a huge amount of sense to be able to walk into the same room as your Mac and automatically have it sync those new mobile purchases with your Mac.

    Ahh well, it’s still bloody brilliant.

  • Video – Stupidity has no bounds

    A lot of you have no doubt already seen this clip countless times, but on the off chance you haven’t and would like to kill off a few spare braincells, here is Miss Teen USA 2007 – Ms. South Carolina attempting to answer a question.

  • In Loving Memory

    Yesterday afternoon I was sitting at a coffee shop with my girlfriend, and as I prepared to leave I asked her to pass me my computer bag, somehow as she handed me the bag she knocked over her drink. I watched in horror as 16oz of iced death spilled all over my laptop, it let out its last dying breath in the form of a loud pop, followed closely by a soft hissing noise as the coffee seeped between the keys.

    It only lasted a few short seconds, but they felt like an eternity as I stood by helplessly watching as its life was snuffed out right before my eyes.

    After 14 hours of “drying” out the computer won’t turn on at all, I didn’t exactly figure it would considering the nature of the sounds that came out of it as it was dying. Somehow I doubt Apple will be all that understanding when they find out that the reason my Macbook Pro isn’t booting is because my girlfriend spilled coffee on it while it was running. Maybe after sitting for another day or two it will miraculously work.

    Adding insult to injury, is the fact that I’ve had this computer for a grand total of three months. Oh, and I start school on Tuesday.