Monthly Archives: August 2008

my trip so far

Posted on by Sarah Cooley
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So as some of you may know, I am in southern California this week, visiting some friends, going to a church conference, and on Friday I will fly up to San Fran to visit some grad schools up in the Bay Area. So far my trip had been a lot of fun, and I know you must all be missing random sarah updates but here is a quick recap!

Flew to Oakland..had a 2 hr layover, got in to Long Beach…waited on the ground for 30 mins after a whole jet blue flight with NO TV :( Got to my friends house, hacked my iPhone…went live on Qik…A LOT!

Found out you can be a vegetarian and still eat In-N-Out burger ::yum!:: …streamed on Qik some more…had great green tea :) … drove and drove and drove (cause no one walks in Cali) ate at Marie Callender’s (it was ok) went to Wal-Mart for the first time (did you know they sell goldfish?) , tried to stream on Qik but there was no 3G in Wall-Mart :( Searched for fellow vegetarians…not much luck …. almost met up with Gary Vaynerchuk in LA but he had to leave early :( …. played with friends… went to a lot of church meetings… and now I am writing this post when I probably should be taking a nap :)

So Friday night I fly up to San Fran and hopefully I will be doing a lot of live streaming on Qik! If you want to make sure you will always know when I am live you can follow me on twitter

Hacked my iphone 3G

Posted on by Sarah Cooley
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So when I had a first the iPhone I was very afraid to hack my phone. I knew a lot of people who had it hacked and loved it. But I was holding out for 2.0 and the app store. To me it didn’t seem like there were any killer apps I NEEDED to hack my phone for. Until now… A few days ago I posted that Qik had come out for the iPhone 3G but only through hacked iPhone’s. Since the iPhone technically does not record video, Apple could not allow an app that would stream video live to the internet. But Qik released it anyway for hacked phones.

Now since live video is something that I love, this was enough to make me hack my iPhone. So I did! Last night using the iPhone dev teams Pwnage tool it was really very simple to hack the phone. So you might be wondering why I feel safer now than before? I guess it comes from the fact that when you hack an iPhone running 2.0 you still have access to the app store. So all the other apps I am running are Apple approved apps so I feel safer. Plus I know I can always restore the phone to the original software.So I have added a Qik embed to the random sarah live page, and you can follow me on Twitter for updates when I go live