Whats been happening?
The past 2 months since I last posted have flown by. I have neglected to post many finished articles lately (many drafts sitting and waiting), but here is a quick update on whats cookin!
Deal.iz.io is doing well, not great, but doing well and over the next few months were going to refocus the iOS app toward a webapp, which should be exciting. Unforunatly lately deal.iz.io has been getting neglected as well as this blog due to the halestorm of projects/different things going on for both myself and Steve Rolfe (the co-founder of deal.iz.io/app.iz.io).
In recent news I’m still doing Market Research work for OdonnellCo; if anyone needs a Full Service marketing firm thats the place to go. Dan, Eileen, and the whole staff are just great people who do outstanding work. Speaking of marketing, I just got picked up by Shizzlr to jump in and take on a part time marketing role. Shizzlr is also run by some awesome people and good friends of mine, co-founders Nick Jaensch and Keith Bessette. Over the past few years they have been building an excellent startup/app and have gotten several serious investors to back the company, and I’m glad to be a part of it. Shizzlr is a unique social event/ social planning application, that you all will be hearing much more of!
Thats about all for now, but stay tuned for some cool stuff!
Xbox 360 DIY Horizontal Riser Mod, With Kinect packaging aka “Sticky bar mod”
The Xbox 360 is undoubtedly a great console, however one of its major downsides especially first generation Xbox 360 is the sheer amount of hardware failures. With electronics and computers a general rule of thumb is that if you can increase airflow, and reduce temperature, you increase the lifespan.
This DIY mod is for both Xbox 360 first generation and Xbox 360 Slim owners who like to set their xbox 360 horizontally. This DIY mod utilizes Xbox Kinect packaging materials to create a subtle and nearly invisible riser to give your Xbox 360 some increased airflow by lifting it further off the platform it rests on. I perfer horizontal configuration myself because its less likely to get knocked over that way.
So you think you bricked your SD card?
So you just installed the latest hottest ChromiumOS build or one of Hexxeh’s custom ChromiumOS builds (or some other bootable linux distro on it like ubuntu, Mandriva Flash, Pendrivelinux, etc.) on your SD card and it didn’t go over well. The next logical thing to do is to reclaim the space on your SD card, so you stick the SD card back in your windows machine and your only able to reformat it to a fraction of its previous size or worse it’s not even loading up. So by now you’ve come to the conclusion that you somehow manage to brick(kill) your SD or microSD card. And now you can’t use it on your windows machine anymore. You can’t reformat it, you can’t access it, and you can’t see it. All hope seemes to be lost. Well, it turns out there is a very simple fix.
