I wanted to change my operator logo “AT&T” to AT&T’s logo with lowercase text.

Here it is if you’d like to use it. Check out www.modifymyiphone.com for information on how.

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Ok, given my earlier rant about my XP->Vista upgrade woes, I thought I’d follow-up with my thoughts on Vista now that I’ve lived with it for about two weeks. 

Overall, I’d say that I like the upgrade.  The visual effects are pretty and I like the Aero effects, but I really like a lot of the little touches more.  The differences in the way explorer works makes navigation even quicker.  I like how the Start Menu/Programs work.  As I more often use Run than not, being able to quickly type in the app I am after is a blessing. 

Performance seems to be pretty good too.  I do notice a slight dedegration in Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter, but it’s barely noticable.  Battlefield:2142 plays nicely and the Lord of the Rings Online beta looked great.

I do have a slight battle between Vista and the nVidia drivers going on.  I think the class action against nVidia is silly, but the driver keeps wanting to switch which of my LCDs is primary, so there certainly is work needed there.  [update: the updated drivers made available work much bette]

Creative Labs finally got off their duffs and published some decent Audigy2 drivers, so I was able to switch back to that vs the on-board sound.

Interesting thing about the new XBOX Elite.  The power brick changed from a three-prong plug to a two-prong plug.  Why would they make such a change?

*** UPDATE *** 

I had to replace my XBOX Premium (I highly recommend SAMS’S Club!), and the new XBOX Premium came with a two-prong power supply also.  Curious….

So does anyone know the best way to cool a 360?  I’ve put mine inside my entertainment center with the power supply outside in the back and usually leave the glass door open while playing.  The 360 still locks up from time to time, and I’m assuming it’s from overheating.  I’ve decided to put a 120mm fan in the back of the entertainment center to pull out the hot air, but i still wonder if it’s going to work.  i guess i should put the 360 on the bottom of the two shelves.  Maybe run a lower fan to pull air in and the upper to expel the hot air?  Not sure if two fans would fight each other.  Another thought I had was to buy one of those laptop coolers to sit the unit on.  Would it be better sitting it vertically?  Let me know if you have any ideas.

In the meantime, here’s a template I drew up in CorelDRAW for the 120mm hole and mounting holes in case you need one. 120mm Fan Hole Template

At the risk of dating myself (”I’m 39, I’m not old”), I’ve been installing operating systems for a long time. I’ve been installing, re-installing, scripting installing, etc. Windows since 3.11 and I know what I’m doing. Er, at least I thought I knew what I was doing. What I didn’t realize is that Microsoft had changed some of the rules. But before that, let’s cover some background.

If you frequently re-install your OS, you have probably come up with a few shortcuts and customizations that help you when you go back and do it again, and again, and again… For Windows XP, I always create a C: partition for the OS and applications, and a D: partition for all my data files, downloads, etc. By segregating OS from data, I can re-install XP at my leisure with no risk to my data. To keep my data on the D: partition, I use TweakUI to redirect My Documents, Desktop, Favorites, My Pictures, My Music, etc. over to the D: drive so I don’t have to move or copy data back and forth. When I re-install XP, I redirect those system folders and I’m good to go.

At this point, you might have figured out where I am heading with this… Read the rest of this entry »