Busy, Busy, Busy

Wow, there's a lot more to learn than I thought...

 Constantly reading web articles and talking to anyone I can trap for a couple minutes has brought me to this one conclusion:  I didn't quite have as good of a handle as I thought.
 It's OK, though, I just need to regroup and hit it again.

Still researching who I need to talk to about business licensing and insurance...pretty much anything I need to know about being able to legally get an office in town.  I have decided that is probably my best option, since I don't live directly in town and an office would definitely look and feel more professional to the clients in my opinion.  I tried looking at it like a customer and figured that I would be way more comfortable bringing my computer to a store or office than to some guy's trailer house a little ways out of town.  I have discovered that my next big step is to write a business plan, so more info on that as I work on it and I will include any nice tips or helpful tools I come across.  I hope I can save someone the headache of trying to figure this out on the Web, because legal stuff in general gets pretty vague online without using a live chat site and paying $50.

Latest Projects:

Some interesting new projects have come my way, including a couple of rather abused Dell Dimensions that won't start (no official diagnosis yet, pretty sure one is just a bad hard drive but I currently need to get a good one to test, the other has yet to boot and I have to find the diagnostic codes for it), and an iPhone 4 that would not charge.

The iPhone I got running after I replaced the dock port following the guide in ifixit.com (See the manual here), which was a tedious process but I gotta say I was all sorts of excited when the thing turned on.  Be VERY CAREFUL with where you keep parts and how you keep them organized.  I used ifixit.com's Project Mat (check it out here!), and it served me very well, but whatever you do find somewhere to keep those tiny screws organized.

I pulled the pics off using XP's Scanner and Camera Wizard (yes, I still run XP, and yes, I am one of THOSE people.  7 is great and all, but there's just something about XP that I can't get away from), and restored the phone.  Unfortunately, restoring the phone updated it to the newest build (6.1.3 at this time), which means I have to do some more playing to get the phone either downgraded to 6.1.2 so it can be jailbroken or suffer with the semi-tethered jailbreak for 6.1.3.  Since it is going for sale anyway, I would rather make it convenient and semi-tethered phones are not so very much.

I also cleaned out an older computer for a friend's kids, you know the computer with 15 users on it that all have a million flash games installed...one of those.  They told me it was running too slow (go figure) and that they wanted me to speed it up.  So got it home and ran some of my favorite cleaning tools and virus scanners and rifled through their start up options for a while and it will be on it's way soon.


In the future I will give more detailed walkthroughs on some of these projects, and better reviews on some of my favorite products and gadgets, but I am trying not to rush things too fast.  Baby steps, this is my first blog, remember?

Thanks for checking in, and we just gotta keep on going.  I would rather be doing this than anything else!