Walt's Blog

Feb 20

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Dec 24

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Jun 22

How To Jailbreak The iPhone 3G With 3.0 Software Using Redsn0w

I had a jailbroken 3G iPhone running the old (2.2.1) software and I wanted to upgrade to the 3.0 software (but keep it jailbroken). I did it last night and shot a video showing how it’s done…

Just a couple notes:

Here are the instructions from the Dev-Team along with a list of places to download redsn0w (I used this one).
When you run redsn0w, the first step asks you for an .ipsw file, you can get that from this page (you’ll select the iPhone 3G Firmware version 3.0)

Jun 12

How To Use Facebook Chat In Firefox Without Being On Facebook

I use this all the time…

Right click in the bookmarks toolbar in Firefox, select “New Bookmark…”
For “Name” type FB Chat (or whatever else you want)
For “Location” type Location http://www.facebook.com/presence/popout.php
Make sure to check the box to load the bookmark in the sidebar
Click “Add”
That’s it…when you click the new bookmark in your toolbar it will open up Facebook chat in your sidebar!

Jun 10

My Prediction For The Big iPhone News of 2010

Just remember, you heard it here first ;-)

Jun 06

My first vlog. Wow, this sucked more than the first episode of Awesomeology.

My first post to walt.me…or perhaps I should say my first video-blogging post, of what will hopefully become a lot of them.

I want to start doing these regularly, but I’ll try to keep them short, mostly because I want to look back in a year and see how much I’ve changed (or not), and I get bored if videos go more than like 3 minutes.

May 25

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Apr 16

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Mar 29

Everyone Always Talks About The Future Of Web Video, But What's The Present?

Yesterday I read an article titled Americans spend eight hours a day on screens. That doesn’t just mean computers, it’s all types of screens…televisions, computer monitors, cellphones, store displays, GPS units, movie screens, etc.

Not very shocking. If anything, I’d expect it to be higher.

What I found interesting was that the number of roughly 8.5 hours stayed fairly consistent in every age range. Only the medium changed. For example, those over 65 watched TV twice as long each day as those 18-24…but the younger ones were on the computer far more than the seniors.

As someone who’s putting out a web video show, what really surprised me was this statistic…out of the 8.5+ HOURS per day in front of screens, the average American spends just 2 MINUTES per day watching video on their computer.

If you think YouTube is a big deal now, just wait until next year when the average person views 4 minutes per day.

Web video is still a baby, accounting for less than 1% of total video viewed. That’s why there’s not much money in it. Not yet…but there will be. Viewing habits are changing and advertising dollars always follow the eyes.

If you pay attention you’ll notice that a handful of smart companies have already started moving ad dollars from TV to web video.

It’s like water trickling through a crack in a dam. And we all know what will eventually happens once the dam gets that first crack…