Hi! I'm testing Jott...

Hi! I'm testing Jott sent into my Polymathmatics Blog for fun. We'll see if it works, I have no idea. And I have no idea to even [...] as a published or just as a draft. Well, will be [...] to you. There's a bunch of speakers in the background and I'm using my bluetooth headphones. [Poor Audio Quality, Please Listen] listen

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I am leaving the above as it came in from Jott just to show how it did. I was not trying to speak loudly anymore than I would to someone I was talking to on the phone. I don't know if I will use this for much, but it is nice to have. It certainly is a good fast way to make a quick draft of an idea, but it requires me to go in a clean up my common ticks of speech and any mis-transcribed sections.

I've got too many hacks

iPhone Hacks: Running out of Application space on your iPhone or touch? - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)

I finally jailbroke, jailbreaked  (what is the past tense of jailbreak?) my iPhone a bit ago and after playing around with all the hacks out there, I seem to be running up against the ~300MB limit for files in the user directory.  I found this explanation on TUAW but have only done half of it.  It looks straight forward enough, I just need to ssh into my iPhone from my computer because typing in unix command lines on the virtual keyboard is WAY too annoying to do anything more than a few lines long.

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A moment away from work...or securing iPhone WIFI over EDGE

I have been plugging away at some rather dull CSS issues and my mind kept wandering to the hacks on my iPhone. I am in a coffee shop just down the street from my place, and they have open WIFI.

I kept thinking about the new installed apps on my iPhone and how it would be nice to just grab whatever open WIFI signal that was around without worry. Then I realized there are two radios on the phone. The EDGE data connection can act as a low bandwidth channel to send encryption data to any site, and the WIFI can send content data. The WIFI connection can connect to the main site with a suffix from the phone number. The encryption can be updated in real time say over an SMS message. So the only thing that gets sent over the clear would be the web address and that could be scrambled with a VPN like middle man server.

I did a quick search and it doesn't look like anyone is doing this yet. The programming is beyond my kung-fu but I would love to feel comfortable using open WIFI hotspots as well as the ones I have to pay for the encryption.