Gwen: Demon, OK? The whole nine—cloven feet and horns and teeth. He wasn't wearing lamé though. Lorne: Yeah, the evil ones can't pull it off. It gets camp.

'Harm's Way'


Buffistechnology 3: "Press Some Buttons, See What Happens."

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Theodosia - Aug 01, 2009 4:27:07 am PDT #10800 of 25501
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

  • Classics (nicely readable classic texts like Call of the Wild, Alice in Wonderland)
  • Light (use your screen for a flashlight)
  • Now Playing (looks up movies and showtimes near you)

I'm taking note of the ones listed here, some I haven't tried.


tiggy - Aug 01, 2009 6:31:47 am PDT #10801 of 25501
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore

my faves are: Facebook, Solitaire(the free one. there are a bunch of paid, but the free one is just as effective), Tweetdeck, iBowl, Bowl Lite(it's Skee Ball!), Urbanspoon, Zippo Lighter (for those times when you go to concerts), Word Warp, Fandango and White Noise.


Sean K - Aug 01, 2009 6:48:14 am PDT #10802 of 25501
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

If you jailbreak (I recommend it)

Seriously? I don't understand why anybody would ever run the risk of trashing such an expensive toy. I can't think of anything that I need my phone to do that badly.


Steph L. - Aug 01, 2009 6:58:51 am PDT #10803 of 25501
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

What is jailbreaking, in terms of the iPhone?

(Not, I assume, using it to dig a tunnel out of your maximum-security cell?)


Typo Boy - Aug 01, 2009 7:21:37 am PDT #10804 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

I want to search for urls of the forms *wind*.* meaning something or nothing followed by wind followed by something or nothing dot anything.

Not page content, but the urls of that form. With all the search engines out there can anyone think of a search engine or search engine/parameter combo that will do that?


omnis_audis - Aug 01, 2009 8:18:24 am PDT #10805 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

Jailbreak is a hack of the phone to bypass the Apple restrictions, so you can install what ever you want. It violates the user agreement, and if the phone needs service, Apple can refuse. And there was talk of Apple turning them into iBricks if you jailbreak it.

I forgot to mention Docs2Go. Just got it. Can't wait for excel on it. The Weather Channel app is good too. Flixster is pretty good.

  • If you have NetFlix, PhoneFlicks is ok. Clunky, but ok.

  • If you are a baseball fan, AtBatLite.

  • If you want to control your iTunes from anywhere in wi-fi range, Remote (also works great at Prom with Drew's ever so smart DJ'ing set up).

  • Sol Free is the solitaire that play. It's 4 or 5 free games, and you can pay to get more. I'm fine with the free ones TYVM.

  • Set (card game)

  • KPCC Radio (So Cal NPR)

  • Track Hurricanes Free

  • Flickit (for posting pictures to your Flickr account)

  • Epicentral (earthquake tracker)


tommyrot - Aug 01, 2009 10:49:06 am PDT #10806 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

I want to search for urls of the forms *wind*.* meaning something or nothing followed by wind followed by something or nothing dot anything.

I googled search url wildcard and found some interesting matches. Do you have Firefox 3? It does that automatically: [link]

Check out this site: [link] It found me 87611 matches. (The same url but different .whatevers count as one match, with checkboxes to show if .com, .net, etc exist for the url.


Typo Boy - Aug 01, 2009 11:59:34 am PDT #10807 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

Yes, the domain search does exactly what I want. I happened to notice a site turn up the other day in a completely unrelated search that had some stuff I was really interested in but had never shown up in normal google searches. I realized that for some reason it was not just not index well or maybe was there but 1 thousanth result or whatever. So being able to search domains rather than content might be a back door way of finding certain content. And it is. I've turned up few interesting things already. Now bookmarked. Again, thanks.


meara - Aug 01, 2009 12:13:44 pm PDT #10808 of 25501

Ooh, a set app! Thanks! And a few of those others i already had downloaded, but some othrs I'll look into. I say as I type on my phone while waiting for breakfast!


javachik - Aug 01, 2009 1:05:27 pm PDT #10809 of 25501
Our wings are not tired.

meara: shazam, which is an app that will recognize songs that are playing and give you all the deets (very cool and useful)

and Flightracker which is an awesome way to keep up with flight status!!!! Perfect for you!