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KC

On 1/12/2014 11:59 AM, wrote:
On Sun, 12 Jan 2014 11:27:14 -0500, KC wrote:

On 1/12/2014 11:11 AM, wrote:
On Sun, 12 Jan 2014 09:57:08 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

In my absence, the gurus at Evasi0n and saurik of Cydia himself came up
with a working untethered jailbreak and ancillary programs for the
iPhone 5S and the latest OS, so, finally, I'm able to customize my
iPhone. The customizations are mainly "tweaks" that expand upon the
features of the phones, such as adding more controls to the Control
Center and deleting the ones Apple puts in there that you might never use.

Exciting, eh?

I was reading in USA today that Apple and Samsung are scared to death
about a new wave of smart phones coming out of China that run Android
and will retail for $100. They are cheap enough that the cell
carriers can give them away for a pretty short contract.

I still have not seen the need for one for me personally but I don't
even carry a phone.

It was nice yesterday when my wife was heading to the barn with a 6 foot
iron pry bar to displace a frozen feeder from the ground. She saw
lightning in the distance and I was able to pull up live strike
information within seconds. Turns out there was scattered strikes right
in her area, so we waited for an hour till the front and the strikes
were all 30 miles away, and over thirty minutes since any strikes within
20 miles or so and she went out to work the feeder... (note) when she
got there is was not frozen anymore... But I do love having that right
in my pocket...

When you live in the tropics you learn to recognize the clouds that
generate lightning before the first strike.

When we are out in the boat, my wife has her phone, no need for 2 and
around the house, I have this machine with the weather on a desk top
icon.

Yes, I can see it for you out in the open like that... Most times here
in the NE, driving you can't see over tree lines or hills, more than a
mile or two, maybe 10 if you are the top of a hill.... This thing has
several times saved our asses. Another really neat thing I like is the
google traffic where I hit a button and I get road conditions and
traffic live and interactive so I can scroll my trip from start to
finish and decide on the best route or change routes while driving like
I had to do last month during a blizzard... was watching bad wrecks and
delays, avoiding those areas real time...