Background Despite the availability of iOS 4, until today I had kept my iPhone 3G running on OS 3.1.3. The main reason I held off from upgrading the OS was in order to retain my third party software unlock (requiring jailbreaking the phone to install), which allowed me to remove my AT&T SIM card and [...]
Posts from ‘November, 2010’
Helping a Fellow Bicycle Tourist in Need
Each springtime, many hikers make the trek on the Pacific Crest Trail all the way from Mexico to Canada. The small town of Wrightwood in the mountains north of Los Angeles is known as one of the hiker friendly stops on the way. Locals often meet hikers where the PCT crosses the highway and give [...]
Travel with iPhone to Europe
For my Germany trip, rather than pay expensive roaming rates using my mobile phone with its US-based AT&T SIM, I looked into using a pay as you go SIM from Germany. (Swapping out the SIM on an iPhone sold in the US requires that the phone be jailbroken to then be unlocked, a subject for [...]
Cygolite Expilion 250 Review
As I explained in a previous post about bicycle lights, for several years I put up with the hassles of heavy bike lights with separate water bottle batteries, or running multiple self-contained LED lights that would quickly drain AA batteries. Now the Holy Grail of commuting bicycle lights has arrived: the new for 2011 Cygolite [...]