Harry Finocchiaro

I LOL’ed

One of the first things that caught my eye about iOS 4 was the unified inbox. I know that I could have had 2 instances of exchange before, but I didn’t like the fact that I needed to manually change files on the iPhone. With this in mind, I went forward and upgraded to iOS 4.

Unified inbox worked right of the bat. It wasn’t until later in the day that I started having issues. I would receive email and it would show “(No Sender)” as the From email, and “(No Subject)” in the subject line. I read online a couple places that said a quick reset of the phone should clear it up, so I gave that a try. It worked! All of my emails were back to having a sender and a subject. But… it came back as soon as I got a new email.

Since none of my other friends were having this issue, I postulated that this issue must be caused by some jailbreak app. My first choice to uninstall was LockInfo, which is an awesome app that displays email and other information in an easily readable list on your lock screen. Well my first guess was a good guess, it fixed the issues. Turns out that LockInfo will function on iOS 4, but it is certainly not bug free on iOS 4. I suppose I should have read about it before installing.

In any case, that was the solution and now I wait until the issue is fixed before I reinstall. I could not find a lick of this on the interwebs, so I hope that I’ve helped someone find an answer to this annoying issue.

I’ve discovered something amazing. However, it’s not that youtube video. It’s something even more amazing. And more than likely, you’re like myself and haven’t heard of it — it’s a TV show called Three Sheets.

I found out about the show when I was having a discussion with one of my friends. He was telling us about how his little brother does not drink alcohol, but was absolutely intrigued with the TV show Three Sheets. The explanation I got was: “It’s a show about this guy who travels around the world and investigates the drinking traditions of each place he visits.” That sounds fun already, right? It was no wonder that this dry, twenty-one year old was so intrigued.

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I put out a new version already, because someone found a pretty huge bug I created in my last version. In v1.8, users were unable to drag and drop to the library, graveyard, or exile icons. As well as not being able to chat.

This was caused by my refactoring and trying to move event subscriptions to the designer. I must have missed some events!

Sorry for the problems; however, updating should work now. I hope you have a smooth update experience.

Please report any problems to my support forum: http://emptygee.harryfino.com/phpBB3/index.php

The newest version is available and it’s the best one I’ve released yet. I put a lot of work into trying to clean it up and make it more like a legit program. I’m still working out some kinks, but thats what beta testing is for. Here are the changes:

• Overall graphical changes (i.e., fonts, window styles)
• Redesigned the network connection experience
• Added the ability to reconnect to an interrupted game
• Added the ability to restart a game (and choose new decks if desired)
• Redesigned the new game window to remove the decks
• Redesigned the deck selection window
• Fixed the flickering of the card outline when dragging a card and not moving the cursor
• Moved the deck builder into the main application
• Fixed a bug with the updater app looking for the database in the wrong folder
• Added database updating to the “check for updates” option
• Added checking for updates on startup
• Added a loading image to the deck builder (and deck selector) when loading card
• Added changelog to the installer

Download it now!

If you have any questions, please visit the support site I put up at http://emptygee.harryfino.com/phpBB3/index.php.

I haven’t made a post about EmptyGee in a long time, but it still being developed.

In the latest release, I made some nice improvements to the dragging and dropping on the battlefield. You’ll now see an outline of where the card will be dropped, which also works when moving multiple cards. I also added the ability to check for application updates so people don’t need to constantly poll my website for changes (all 2 people lol).

Since I created a new installer type, which you can read about below, I recommend uninstalling any previous versions of EmptyGee before installing the new one. You can download the new installer here: http://emptygee.googlecode.com/files/EmptyGeeInstaller.exe. I also created a website for EmptyGee, and a forum for support.

More on the updating process after the jump…

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Unfortunately, we’re not talking about Heroes here. For those of you living under a rock, here is a link describing the situation in Haiti: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,672655,00.html.

If you have an extra dollar, consider making a donation to the American Red Cross, or some other association. Here is a link from LifeHacker, which will tell you safe ways to donate: http://lifehacker.com/5447987/how-and-where-to-donate-to-haiti-and-avoid-scams.

$5 dollars can go a long way…

Anyone who has the original iPhone will probably tell you that it’s sitting somewhere on their desk being used as a paper weight. After all, if it doesn’t have a SIM card it’s pretty much useless, right? Every time you turn it on you get that annoying SIM card message. And when you plug it into iTunes you get the same damn message.

That is exactly what was happening with a colleague of mine. His old 2G was sitting around taking up space. Why did I care? Why would I want that paper weight!? I’ll tell you…

I transformed his old iPhone into a nice wireless device for my fiancée to use. Not only that, but because I set it up using my iTunes account, I was able to download all of my paid apps onto it. I no longer have to let her use my iPhone (my precious, precious iPhone) in order to check the weather or look at LOLCats. It’s a win-win situation, imo.

So here’s how to do it:

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If you’ve ever wanted to share that glorious moment of beating a game, or crushing your friends’ high score, or show a friend a new app you downloaded without having them buy it first, then maybe you’ve needed to take a screenshot on your iPhone.

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Its the day before Thanksgiving, and I have a 5 hour drive to Lexington, VA, tonight. All is good though, after having a nice laugh. So I thought I would share with you one of my favorite internet clips: