But, enough of my excuses. Let's get down to the nitty-gritty. And, by nitty-gritty, I mean the boring stuff that has been happening to me since I last posted. There's a lot that has happened, but not all of it has been post worthy, so I'll leave some stuff out.
If you read any of the other blogs that I write/contribute to, you'll remember that I had to buy a new mp3 player because my iPod Touch's battery had crapped out on me. So, I ended up buying an Archos 5 to replace it. Now, I loved my iPod Touch, and I still do, so I was determined to try to get the battery working again. (Note: I do also love my Archos 5, if for any reason, because I have the DVR Station for it as well that lets me record TV straight onto the player.) So, in trying to find out why my Touch's battery so suddenly died, I started doing some internet research to see if anybody else's had done the same thing. I thought for sure that I would be the only one who had issues, but after only a few minutes of looking, I found what I was looking for. Turns out that when Apple released the iPod Touch OS 3.1 people all over started having battery issues, as well as many, many other issues. People with an iPhone started dropping calls, or never recieving them, they also couldn't access their text messages or their voicemails. But, the biggest problem was the battery for most people. Where we used to be able to keep our Touchs and iPhones unplugged for several days, it was now a miracle if they made it through an 8 hour work day. So, how did I go about fixing it? Well, I never had the problem with OS 3.0, so I did some searching and found a way to downgrade my Touch back to the previous OS, which fixed my problem. I was exstatic. But, now I had not only my Touch, but an Archos 5 as well. Not that this is a problem, I just felt somewhat foolish for immediately going out and replacing my Touch. So, now my Archos 5 has become more of a DVR and less of a bring-to-work PMP. I still will bring it out and about with me, especially when I'm going to want to watch movies, but it usually sits atop my TV recording my favorite TV shows now.
Speaking of my Archos, I found out that the movies and TV shows that I downloaded from the iTunes Store aren't able to be played on it... without help. So, I've been doing some searching for a program that can take the DRM off of my iTunes purchases so that I can watch them on my Archos's beautiful, large screen. It's slow going, but I'm certain that there are programs out there that can do it.
I finally did something that I've been wanting to do for a while now. I had my PSP modded with a custom firmware so that I can play ROMS of older games on it. I can now play PSX/PSone, N64, SNES, NES, Gameboy/Gameboy Color/Gameboy Advance, Sega Genesis, Sega Saturn, Game Gear and even Scumm games on it. (You know what a Scumm game is, even if you think you don't. Remember Monkey Island? Day of the Tentacle? Those were all Scumm games.) I'm so stoked about that. Granted, some of the ROMS I've downloaded don't run superbly well on my PSP (some are downright ridiculously slow), but the classics all run really well. I've been playing a lot of Super Mario World on it over the past few days, and I'm loving it. It's funny how a game like Super Mario World will run perfectly fine, but a game on the same system, Donkey Kong Country, runs super super slow on my PSP. It's frustrating, but I'm okay with it. I'm really trying to find a place where I can download PSX and PSone ROMS to play on it. I'm eager to see how they run on the PSP, the same goes with Sega Saturn games.
That's about it for new things in my life. I'm still doing photography, but it's slow going now. People just don't usually have their pictures taken this time of year. But I'm still keeping my hopes up that business will pick up.
This post is already super long, so I'll just wrap this up now.
