How to: Create Custom Mask Effects For Photo Booth
Filed under: Apple Fanboyism, Awesomeness, Hacks, Tips/How To
Like most kids their age, faithful Macenstein readers Len and Jordan were messing around with Quartz Composer’s input parameters and Photo Booth last Friday night, and they figured out a relatively easy way to create your own Photo Booth masks. And by relatively easy, I mean even I could follow the instructions.
So, If you’ve ever wanted to put your face on Steve Jobs’ near-perfect body, read on! Read more
Jailbreaking provides MASSIVE increase in iPhone battery life
Just one more benefit to Jailbreaking the iPhone. Check out this incredibly messed up battery charge sensor amazing increase in battery life one lucky jailbreaker is experiencing on his iPhone!
If that’s LOW battery, odds are this dude’s iPhone can now power Connecticut, or at least Rhode Island.
Thanks to faithful Macenstein reader Rich for the link!
[via imageshack]
Rickrolling iPhone Jailbreakers
Jailbreaking sometimes has a charming, Forrest Gump-like “You never know what you’re gonna get” kind of vibe going on when installing apps. Will it indeed be sexy girls? A virus? Rick Astley? That’s probably the best thing about jailbreaking – you never know!
Hmmm… sounds like the Mrs. is not a Rick Astley fan…
Well, I don’t really see the problem here. I mean, who wouldn’t want a Rick Astley video constantly playing behind all their icons? Someone without a soul, THAT’S who.
When restoring (UN-jailbreaking) doesn’t restore everything
As much as I loved having a jailbroken iPhone, I decided to UN-jailbreak my phone in anticipation of the new 3.0 software update. I also had been experiencing some increasingly frequent crashes to the springboard, as well as what I perceived to be a general slowness to the phone, and figured maybe a factory restore would set things right.
In order to undo the Jailbreak, I figured all I needed to do was hit the “restore” button in iTunes, and then restore the iPhone from a previous backup. However, once the iPhone had completed its cycle, I noticed three odd things:
Apparently three of my customization options held through a restore: Erica Sadun’s Make It Mine (which let’s you change the carrier name from AT&T or what have you), and my numeric Wi-Fi strength and numeric battery level indicators ( I think I used Big Boss Prefs for those, although it was so long ago I don’t remember).
I’m not sure how those hacks went about making their changes to the iPhone’s OS, but for some reason I assumed a full restore would overwrite those changes. Probably somewhere in their documentation they said “Remember to undo us BEFORE your unjailbreak”, but I of course never read such things, as I assume many of you don’t either, so I figured I would just post this as an FYI for anyone else who will be un-jailbreaking. It will be interesting to see if any of these preferences hold through the 3.0 update next week (actually I believe Apple is enabling a numeric battery on their own. So maybe I will have two…) 
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