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Zagg Invisible Shield Follow Up - BodyGuardz Review

I will start by saying this, DO NOT BUY THE ZAGG INVISIBLE SHIELD FOR IPHONE! It is a complete waste of money!

I received my zagg invisible shield on Febuary 10th, and recount my installation horror story here: http://www.dailyrelevance.com/iphone/zagg-invisible-shield

Im not one to completely disown a company, however, this has to be the worst product you could ever put on your iphone.  Here are just a couple of things that Zagg needs to seriously improve on before they ever consdier selling their invisible sheild to anyone!

Installation was the most frustrating experience I have gone though in a while!  Now, I can understand that it was my first time and that it does require a bit of a delicate touch, however, should it really be that hard?

Decreased touch response on the screen.  I brought this up with zagg support and they said “You’ll get use to the change in touch performance. It’s not hindered, just different.”  What is that supposed to mean?  Why would I want my touch performance to be different than if I had nothing on the screen at all?  To their defense, i never did call customer support.  But I was at this point fed up with the product and going to just live with it.

Now if those were the only problems with the product I think that I would be OK, but obviously they are not!

The cover becomes severly discolored!  I own a white iphone and after only 2 months with the zagg “invisible” shield it had become anything BUT invisible!  Take a look at this picture after removing the back cover:

I think you are also all asking yourselves, why are the corners black?  Well to my next point, that is lint collected on the corner guards that became semi-unglued and collected all my pocket lint for me.  Also it is stuck onto a white background so you can get an idea as to how yellow it became.  You might think to yourself that I did something wrong or I left it out in the sun.  Well i’m not the only one with this problem!  When I took it to a competitor’s cart in the mall, they had a drawer full of zagg invisible shields that had the same or worse yellow discoloration and “orange peel effect”, which is what the guy called it.

The orange peel effect is where the invisible shield is no longer flat and smooth, it actually starts to ripple and become deformed?!? ruining your view of the display.

What should you buy, if the zagg is so incompetent and discusting?  I will have to give a little plug to my installer at the Tysons Corner mall.  Its a competitor of zagg called BodyGuardz and I highly recommend their product.

How do they solve the above problems that zagg has not?

First, they offer installation services for free!  Thats all this guy does, he installs the protective cover on your phone and he does it right without any of the headache that you would have if you installed it yourself!

Second, if this thing does orange peel, discolor, or start to collect pocket lint i’ve got someone I can go to.  He also guaruntees that they have fixed these problems in their phone and with professional installation i doubt the corners are going to be peeling off too.

I took a blurry photo of the guys information that installed my bodyguardz onto my iphone but once I get home I will post all his information.  Its been a week now and I havn’t had any complaints.  However, like the zagg product I will post a follow up after a month or so to see how the body guardz for the iphone performs.

If any of you are near the Tysons Corner mall in virginia, stop by the BodyGuardz cart right in front of the L.L. Bean store and they will take care of you!  I told him that I would referr anyone I could and make sure that everyone would steer clear of the Zagg invisible shield.

Tags: body guardz, bodyguardz, iphone, zagg, zagg invisible shield

Creative X-Fi Ubuntu Support

After about a week of failed attempts at getting my Creative X-FI sound card to work with ubuntu, I finally found a guide that got me through!

For everything to work properly, you will need to disable the asla drivers and download a new volume mixer, all of which are outlined in the documentation.

You will need to follow the documentation pretty close except for some situations where the version numbers on the downloads have been updated and you will need to change the commands accordingly.  Specifically when obtaining the OSS source files.  When the document was written they were using v4.1, when i downloaded it was v4.2.  this will affect subsequent commands and will just have to be updated.

The last part was to get the volume controller working, which was done again by following the instructions and just downloading an updated version of the *.so file.  After doing that I had to remove and re-add the volume mixer to the pannel.

All is now right with the world!!  You can check out the guide here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OpenSound

Good luck getting the Creative X-fi drivers working on your ubuntu system!

Tags: creative x-fi, ubuntu, x-fi drivers

Ubuntu on pen drive, WoW!

Today I wanted to see just how easy it was to get ubuntu installed and running from a usb flash drive using instructions found over at pen drive linux.  It was not only easy, it seemed too good to be true!

All I had to do was follow their few simple instructions, which was essentially to download their installer file and the ubuntu 8.10 iso and I was done.  The only problem I ran into was that I didn’t have admin rights on the machine I was working on so I had to perform the final step at home, which was to make the usb drive bootable.  For some reason without local admin access you can’t perform this action.

After restarting the machine I had to make sure that I selected my computers boot menu at the post screen and select the usb device to boot from.  After that I was up and running on ubuntu in just a few minutes.

Boot time was rather slow, but I guess that is to be expected on a slow 8 gig flash drive I got from radio shack.  Ive got an 8 gig cruzar flash drive, I have no idea on the stats but seems pretty slow.

The only other downfall was that the default casper-rw file is only 1 gig and its defiantly not enough space to run the ubuntu updates.  The updates took quite a while to run, which was probably because it was over 140 days out of date.  A lot of stuff happens to FLOSS in that time period.

I would definatly recomend this to anyone who has been curious about linux operating systems but doesnt want to reformat their whole system just to play with the OS.  Happy nixing!

Tags: linux, pen drive linux, ubuntu, ubuntu on usb drive

Mafia live updates and tips

Just when I start to get board with mafia live, they throw out something new to get me going again.  The whole appeal behind this game is its total simplicity.   Mafia live doesnt contain amazing graphics, or hugely interactive levels, you buy fight and earn your way to the top by any means possible.

As always make sure to add me to your family and check out the mafia live family codes that I have posted.  Make sure to include your family code in the comments if you want other people to add you as well.

Some new fantastic things in the game include bulk buying and selling of items.  I know this was a huge pain for everyone when you start to get into the higher levels.  I’m not all that impressed with the web interface since its litterally just an iphone looking webpage.  One benefit is the reduced lagg when performing an action, but thats about it.

If you have not yet checked out the game, DO IT! its amazing addicting, and once you start you wont want to stop.

There really is no right way to play the game, just like there is no right way to sell drugs on the street!  Make as much money as possible.

For those of you that have not figured this out yet here are some of the main points that you need to understand to win fights and make money.

Mafia Live Tips

1. You only benefit from having 10x your level in family members.  If you are level 10, well you get the point.  Anymore than 100 family have no affect on fighting. More »
   Tags: mafia, mafia live, mafia live family codes, mafia live iphone

Mafia live - What do I do now?

It looks like the developers of mafia live have some work cut out for them.  Apparently there is a huge gap between level’s 25 and 51, where you do not get anything new!

What is the point?  Why should I keep playing? Personally, I think i find myself still playing the game because I just want to make more money and buy new things, but this is going to get old for me pretty fast.  So if the mafia live team is reading this, you really need to get more content into the game.

Has anyone tried any of the other mafia games out there for iPhone or facebook?

Fight System Updates:

If you really want to become a powerhouse fighting in mafia live, you need to forget trying to upgrade your energy.  Ive found that having high attack and defense points seems to far out weigh the overall equipment to family ratio.  Even with my 300+ family and each having an AK-47, I can still loose to someone with 80+ points in defense and far less family members.

This only seems to be accurate though when there is only a marginal difference in your family members, around +- 200 family fully outfitted.

Family Codes

649 891 506

Keep posting your family codes in the comments if you want to be added by others as ive gotten a huge uptake in users searching for family codes.  Ive also tried to keep up lists that I have found from cached google pages.

What do you guys thing about the game?  What things would you do to change it, and what do you think about the other games out there?

Tags: family codes, iphone mafia live, mafia iphone, mafia live, mafia live family codes, mafia live iphone

Zagg Invisible Shield

Targeted marketing worked again!  Somehow they have been blasting me with advertisements about the Zagg Invisible Shield.  Boasting its scratch proof material, crazy thin construction and easy installation.  Easy installation?

I got this thing in the mail after about a week, and was pretty excited to get see what this thing could do.  I had already watched the online video and was pretty confident that I could get this thing on there.  They always make things look so easy on video don’t they!

If you know how professional window tint is installed, then the concept is very similar.  You spray on this included liquid onto your fingers and the plastic, which keeps it from sticking right away and allows you to get everything adjusted.  Then just squeegee out the bubbles and your done!

Yea, things didn’t go down like that at all!  First of all trying to take off the paper from the plastic with wet fingers is near impossible.  I ended up using a pair of tweezers.  Second, make sure you are in the NASA rocket building lab with absolutely NO lint, hair, or fuzz because this thing is a magnet. More »

Tags: invisible shield, iphone, iphone cover, zagg

Mafia Live dot Org

I have put up a resource for mafia live enthusists here as it seems there isnt one central place for information about the game as well as a place to add/find codes.  Its a quick standup of Joomla that I threw together from a Rocket Theme that I found appropriate.  If you are interested in getting your site linked on mafialive.org let me know and i will throw up the link.

Tazer, a bad gift idea

I came accross this story, and it would be a crime not to share with everyone.

ONLY A MAN WOULD ATTEMPT THIS
EDIT: ONLY A WOMAN WOULD WRITE THAT…

Just try reading this without laughing till you cry!!! Pocket Tazer Stun

Gun, a great gift for the wife. A guy who purchased his lovely wife a
pocket
Tazer for their anniversary submitted this: Last weekend I saw something
at
Larry’s Pistol & Pawn Shop that sparked my interest. The occasion was
our
15th anniversary and I was looking for a little something extra for my
wife Julie.. What I came across was a 100,000-volt, pocket/purse- sized
tazer. More »

Tags: funny, shock, tazer, volts

Mafia live tips and updates

According to a mafia live employee post on getsatisfaction, the game was updated behind the scenes during the middle of the night. Not much appears to be changed except for a few new jobs and a supposubly more stable fight system.

I still don’t see the relevance of the whole mafia live fight system in general. One end says that people can sit online all day and spam for family members, in turn making them stronger and able to beat up on people with less family. Then an update was put out crippling this factor and making items more powerful. Now someone with 1 family memeber can attack someone with 1000 family members and still win as long as they have the right amount of equipment.

So what is the purpose of the mafia live slogan, “Build your family”? Isn’t the whole premise and success of this game bent on the virality and user growth? In its current state this no longer matters, i mean really who cares if invite someone because it doesnt get me anything other than the ability to do some jobs that without family I could not.

Mafia Live Tips for Newbs:

1) Buy equipmenet, if you are not able to find yourself anyone to add online - See my previous post - then stock up on revolvers or other low cost equipment to keep yourself from being from loosing to many fights.

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Tags: iphone, iphone application, iphone mafia, mafia, mafia live, mafia live iphone app

Mafia Live Iphone app

Ive recently become addicted to my iphone and the mafia iphone application is not helping me at all. The mafia iphone application is so addicting, that I find myself sitting there waiting for the time to count down so I can do more jobs and fight more people. If anyone would like to build their family, im accepting all applications. My mafia iphone app family id is 649891506 Add me to your family if you are new and would like to make some extra money in the mafia iphone application right away.

Right now there is a special going on and the application is only 2.99, I think that originally its 9.99. The mafia iphone application is the first app that I have bought for my phone and it was worth it. Im totally addicted!

Have fun and see you in the game!

Update, here is a list of ID’s ive found on the net. Keep checking back I will be growing the list as I find more!

Mafia live iphone codes:

649 891 506
222 770 158
116 648 372
539 787 048

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