The iPhone is one of the best thought-out devices ever made, but that doesn’t stop if from having a shortcoming here and there.
One of it’s more obvious flaws is that the metal around the headphone jack is so damn slim that you can’t fit most 3rd party headphones. Sure, the iPhone headphones have a mic built in, but they’re really not that comfortable in even my big ears, and they’re downright painful in Sara’s.
So, I did what any enterprising (read: cheap) geek would do, and hacked a super comfy and great sounding pair of Sony Fontopia headphones to fit. They’re only $30, so the risk here was pretty low, but that doesn’t make this first picture any less scary. Here’s the step by step photos with their captions.
An iPhone, some headphones, and knife. It’s going to get ugly.
The jack is too small for normal headphones
The adaptor itself fits, but the casing is too wide
These little Sony fontopia earbuds are super comfy and deliver great sound, for about $30. Lets make them fit.
The L jack only needs to be trimmed a little.
You can easily cut through the rubber casing trimming off about 1mm
Then whittle down the grey plastic a little
Final product
Perfect fit!
It now sits perfectly flush
And music sounds great!
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I’m always amazed by the great clips that find their way there, but this one literally made me guffaw here in the office. That’s got to be one of the most clickable links I’ve ever seen. Something behind that link is exciting, but you don’t know what!
Here’s the link for the curious (SFW)
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We’re currently taking a summer hiatus from our podcast, The Alternative Music Show, but we’re still evaluating new music. Crazy Fraizer’s song “Crazy (City Lights)” has been stuck in my head, and seemed to fit really well with these pictures in iPhoto, so I set about making a little music video.
You can download this promotrack for free, but if you enjoy it, please support the artist and purchase the full album!
“Crazy (City Lights)” (mp3)
from “After Autumn”
by Casey Frazier
(Cul De Sac Records)
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There’s a new term being tossed around twittersphere like crazy this weekend: “bacn”. Originally written about by Andy Quayle, the term got a lot of buzz at Podcamp Pittsburgh, and for good reason. Sure, we don’t really need another buzzword, but bacn describes a problem we all have, and defining that problem will help bring about solutions.
Bacn refers to emails that you want, but don’t want to deal with right now, like that newsletter that you signed up for that you never really have time to read, or notifications that the umpteenth user followed you on facebook.
If you mark these emails as spam, you’re likely to never see them again. Deleting them isn’t much better, and even leaving them unread still breaks your attention to see if an email is worth dealing with.
That attention-breaking ability is the sneaky evil of bacn. Even services that I adore like twitter and flickr can be a little obtrusive at times. All of those little flow-interrupters mean that you spend a lot of your day getting back up to speed on whatever you were working on before you… hang on, there’s another email… eh, more comments on my photos, back to… wait, what was I doing?
Luckily, theres an easy solution to the bacn problem!
About a year ago, I merged all of my email accounts into one giant gmail account purely for their bacn filtering. I’ve still got all my old email addresses, they just forward to one inbox.
The beauty of gmail’s filtering, and the reason I believe it beats any other email solution hands down, is that the filtering happens before the mail hits your inbox. When I get a new notification from facebook, it comes in, “skips the inbox”, and gets labeled facebook. Most importantly, I never get the little growl popup that notifies me of new mail, and my flow continues uninterrupted.
Once or twice a day while I’m taking a ‘brain break’ I’ll flip through my labels and take care of any pending friend requests, comments, and any other bacn that’s come in during the day. I save at least 30 minutes a day by batching all those little requests, and probably a good deal more.
I’d be very interested to hear about other people’s bacn management techniques. Are there any mail programs other than gmail that allow you to filter before inbox and notifications?
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When Sara and I look at getting a place, not needing a car for every little errand will be high on my list of wants.
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I’ve been working hard on some new stuff for Clipmarks and admittedly haven’t been paying as much attention as I’d like to the quiet traction that Clip-to-blog is gaining in the New Media space.
Clip-to-blog lets you clip the best parts of a web page and easily post them to your blog, and I’ve always hoped that my new media friends would see it as a great tool for keeping your blog up to date with fresh, relevant content. Recently, the awesome Adam Broitman wrote me for a little help getting clip-to-blog running on a.mediacirc.us, and he’s now clipping up a storm. Podcaster extraordinaire C.C. Chapman has also posted a few clips, and now new-media mavens Julia Patricia Roy and Amanda Mooney are going to town as well.
I’d love to hear from anyone else using Clip-to-blog - how it worked for you, if you liked it, what we can do to improve, etc. One thing that we’re definitely looking at is adding the ability to post to a specific category, what else should we add?
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After reading way too much about the price and supply of oil, I’ve kept a watchful eye on the price of crude. It peaked around $78 a barrel last year, and after sliding down to the mid sixties, it looks like it is poised to set a new record, standing at $77 today.
I got sick of going to the Bloomberg energy page every time I wanted to see today’s price, and really wanted a graph of past activity.
I found oil-price.net and their nice javascript widget, and they agreed to let me make a google gadget from it. I whipped one up and added it to my page. You can add it to your google start page by clicking here
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Sometimes after looking at a UI for the 100th time and testing a text field at 1:30am, I get a little loopy. Tonight, instead of my usual semi-humorous blather that I type into the text field, this little bit of detective novel schlock came out. I typed the first line with my mind blank (usually at that point I type something inane like “mookiepoo” and copy and paste it over and over) and the rest just flowed out. It kinda makes me smile, so I figured I’d share.
“That’s just the way the cookie crumbles, jack.” And with that, the man was gone. The soft, wet slap of his footsteps on the rain soaked pavement faded away, and I was left holding her bloody corpse. Not your average Tuesday. By the time the police were through with me, I felt like a rag doll. They’d put me through the ringer, but my story was rock solid. Hell, I was the one who’d called them to the scene. I walked out of the precinct and was smacked in the face by a bright noon sun and the stink of San Francisco in summer. I hadn’t slept in 30 hours or so, so I figured it was time for some grub. “‘Nother rough night at the Station, huh Mac?” Maggie greeted me. She seemed to be saying that a lot lately. Her diner was tiny and the food was barely edible, but it’s hard to screw up potatoes and eggs. “Well, you know me, Maggie. I’ll have the usual” “I need two scrambled, all the way” “And Maggie, have ‘em go easy on the egg-shells this time, I’m trying to cut down” “Ha ha. You’re a regular riot, pal” Like I said, they’re hard to screw up, but not impossible.
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I don’t know if he’ll make it to everything he plans to, but I’m anxious to see where Noel’s journey takes him and watch as he goes. It’s only 11.11 to chip in, I’m doubling down on the luck of seven myself tonight
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Nate from Cruxy shows us his Facebook app and talks about the process of developing it. Download or watch in full res
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I took some video at the Facebook Developers Meetup in NYC that Amit set up Wednesday. It was a great event and not only did we have Dave Morin, Director of Platform for facebook live from WWDC via iChat, but Mark Zuckerberg also dropped by!
I’m looking forward to doing some serious hacking on the Facebook platform in the coming weeks. Parts 2 and 3 of this video featuring an app demo and Zuckerberg’s talk will be coming as soon as I can get them encoded.
Sorry for the video hiccups - I ran out of space while recording straight into iMovie and had to burn some stuff to DVD.
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The blogTV folks are working really hard to make something great and are doing their best to get in touch with everyone who tries out the system.
I definitely love the interactivity of having two hosts from completely different places on at the same time. It’s extremely cool, and I’m looking forward to seeing what comes from blogTV in the future.
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Clipiverstiy, my new video podcast where we feature interesting things we learn on Clipmarks.com has been approved on Digg’s podcast section. I’d really appreciate your diggs to help get the show onto the “up and coming” list. Suggestions and comments about the show are always appreciated as well. Thanks!
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At Clipmarks, we’ve started a daily video podcast called Clipiversity (short of for the Clipmarks University) featuring some of the stuff we learn on clipmarks.com each day. I figured I’d drop an episode here in to give you a sneak peek. If you like the show, click here to subscribe
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You can also see all of the clips we talk about on clipiversity by following the user “Clipiversity” on clipmarks.com
- Internet Terrorism Judge, “What’s a Website?”, clipped by BobbyRutan
- Helmets attract Drivers closer : Increases risk of Accident, clipped by thefoxalmighty
- Florida Pub in Hot Water Over Ambiguous Bathroom Signs, clipped by cpltaiji
- What a total bitch!, clipped by spikechan42
- 5 Pressure Points To Relieve Body Discomforts, clipped by zephyr1
- Bully Sign: ‘Don’t Be Like Me’, clipped by thisnamecantbetaken
- Study finds 25 countries block Web sites, clipped by dorine1722
- Granny grows horn, clipped by LorisKnight
- JERRY FALWELL — SAY HELLO TO RONALD REAGAN!, clipped by travislaborde
- Free guns in Virginia, clipped by kkcapricorn
- President Bloomberg?, clipped by kmcolo
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bike helmets, internet terrorism, funny signs, atheism, bullying, weird stuff, ann coulter, jerry falwell, gun laws, bloomberg
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A bunch of us have been putting together a friendly little game of Ultimate Frisbee each saturday at 4-ish in central park. We play on the field just inside the park at 98th and 5th.
It’s a lot of fun - you should join us if you’re in NYC!
Music by The Unlovables
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