Over the vacation my firmware on my Ipod touch was 2.2.1 and as I mentioned before with the JB. I was reading about the 3.0 update and the new features that it comes with so I was debating to update or not. Well... I did. I bought the new update (which is not that bad for the price from Apple) and went to work on JB'ing the device again. Boy what a pain in the arse that was!! One thing to remember (from experience) is:

1. Use the .IPSW file that was supplied with your update.

I was trying to get this thing to work for hours! I had redsnow 0.7.2 which ALOT of people were having issues with but FINALLY it worked! Another thing that I noticed is the JB only liked Cydia. Although ICY was listed, everytime I chose to install both on the break, it failed. As soon as I just chose Cydia and it was fine. I did however install ICY after the running pineapple did it's thing. All in all... sweet. I was afraid that I also would lose my online game stats for imafia and the likes because *clears throat*, I am da man... but to my surprise, all my games came back just the way I left them. Another bonus.

With that, I have the cool new 3.0 firmware on my touch AND my data back! Of course I had to re-sign for apps like facebook and etc. but you know what.... I didn't mind. I love this Ipod touch. It "almost" has me wondering what would my life be like with an Iphone but.... I am not THAT curious yet . I will try out the new 3rd party option to connect to Microsoft Exchange and try out the VPN feature as experiments. I still believe that RIM has the most SOLID and dependable handheld out there. My Bold kills the Iphone... well, except the browser.

First of all my vacation is going well! I just cooked up some cube steak and I am drinking my Heineken at 9am!! sweet. On the way to my campsite I decided to try out Trapster, a cool mobile app that allows you to be alerted to speed traps of all kind including traffic cams. What I was surprised about was the "talking" it does when it detects a trap. It does track your location but the only thing that I wish it could do is track you with movement on the map that it shows. I had to keep scrolling to my location. It still however tells you either way if there is a trap but based on the area in miles that you select. All in All it is a cool app to fool around with. This application has been exposed in several places like Fox61, CNN, Time and W.I.R.E.D. If you want to check it out, head over to http://www.trapster.com/.

I am going back to the old fashion bloggin'. It is much easier shooting up a post to the blog instead of trying to find time to sit down and record a whole podcast... oh well, can't say that I did not try! In the meantime, let me tell you... I bought the iPod touch and whoooweee! Nice. I jail broke the device so my warranty is out the window but hey... we have to live right!? It keeps me more busy than my Nano (2nd Gen) did when I had that. I will sell it to this dude I know at work for a couple bucks to get some type of return. I really think that the touch should be less expensive than it actually is.