Officially disguised as a Canadian
There’s a trend on various networks to show off one’s home screen on their smart phones and / or tablets. Never being one to miss an opportunity to follow the herd, here’s my iPhone’s home screen: For good measure, here’s the second screen, because how can I get by with only two? I love folders.
Obligatory “I’m still alive” post. For microblogging, I’m on Twitter and ADN (App.net). I’m not on Facebook1. I’m on Google+ periodically. There’s Tumblr, where I lurk a bit, mainly to find lurid pictures for a friend of mine. There is a LOT of porn on Tumblr. You can also find me on Pinterest, where IContinue reading Hello, world
Success! Sort of … Instead of the complicated method I described previously, I’ve gone manual, which is, yes, more complicated :-). I started with the latest sms.db file from my new iPhone, and then editing SQLite scripts, incremented the ROWIDs by 30,000 for the message table, and 1000 for the others, so as to avoidContinue reading Merging iOS Message databases: update
I ran into a bit of a snag with my original plan. I built the framework for parsing the SQL script, one statement at a time, and catered for statements that wrapped over more than one line. It took about two hours to get to the point where I was ready to parse the SQLContinue reading Progress on Merging SMS databases
Disclaimer: I haven’t actually done it, yet. Last night I rediscovered my original iPhone SMS database from before I did a factory-reset on my phone. I had jailbroken my 3G ages ago, and ever since then, the carrier wasn’t updating properly, regardless of the SIM card I used or country I was in. So inContinue reading Merging two iPhone SMS sqlite databases
It’s snowing today in Calgary. While this is expected for March, it was unexpected for me. We moved here from Lloydminster last August, and after two-and-a-half years there, I thought we were used to heavy snow. The good news is, the yard is much smaller, there is no driveway, and the front path is muchContinue reading Snowfall