We apologize for the recent downtime we experienced here at Timmyjohnboy.com. We had some database errors but our webhost was nice enough to help us through them and we reverted to a backup they kept for us. Needless to say, we are happy to be back up and running again.
Also, if you are a subscriber you may very well have received an update by mistake having something to do with Victory Bible Baptist Church’s website. It had to do with a test site I set up for a church’s site I am working on. The mistake has been resolved and you’ll not be receiving any more strange updates like that, if I have anything to say about it.
Thanks for hanging around with us! We’re sure they’ll be much more to look forward to here at Timmyjohnboy.com!
One of the parts of the Facebook “highlighted” story listings that I haven’t liked is having to scroll through all of them to find the newest stories posted. Sure, Facebook does a pretty nice job trying to figure out the stories I would like to read most, but I still like to know what’s the newest coming down the pike.
Now they finally give you the option to switch them around. Whereas the highlighted stories were always on top of your stream, now you can choose either to keep it that way or to place the newest stories at the top.
For me, it may just depend on the day so I’ll probably be switching back and forth quite a bit. Thanks, Facebook, for the choice!
It’s been awhile and I apologize. I’m not sure why because this is my site and I can post anytime I want to but you know what I mean. I just wanted to take a second before I went to bed to give you a quick update because it’s been so long.
I have not given up on Timmyjohnboy.com; I have just been really busy. The fact is, I have a few other blogging jobs and they’re taking up quite a bit of my time. I’m not upset by it because I love it and it pays my mortgage but it does mean that Timmyjohnboy.com has hit the proverbial back burner.
I’ll be back, blogging as usual. I’ve got a few ideas to throw on here and I hope this site continues to be a fun outlet of mine. OK, now back to your regularly scheduled programming.
This is a guest post by William Starkey. He runs a site all about BlackBerry cases and has a great deal of knowledge about mobile devices in general. Since the recent news coming out about cancer, brain tumors and cell phones possibly a culprit, William was kind enough to share about an app that just may help.
Is your BlackBerry hazardous to your health? The health effects of radiation spewing from mobile devices has been debated since the first cell phone hit the market years ago. Tawkon has released an app for BlackBerry that measures the level of radiation coming from your device so that users, regardless of whether they believe it is harmful or not, can at least be informed. The Tawkon app is also available for other popular mobile devices including Android and Apple (main site). read more…
How To Use Ringdroid To Make Your Own Ringtones For Your Android [step by step instructions]
Of all the many aspects of your Android phone that you can modify, customize and personalize, the ringtone is one of the simplest… if you’ve got the right tool. The classic (and still probably the best) app for the job is of course Ringdroid.
Ringdroid allows you to do several things that culminate into the creation of your very own ringtones. It allows you to choose MP3s to make into ringtones by making it possible to clip them and save them as ringtones. If you’re running Android 2.3, it also allows you to record your own ringtones using your phone’s mic. As you can tell, with these features the sky’s the limit!
Let’s go and do a walkthrough to geet a better look at how simple it really is to create your own Android ringtone. read more…
It was recently released that it is possible that cell phones may increase the risk of brain tumors and cancer. In other words, they don’t know. Could you possibly have been using that phone for years and unknowingly have been putting yourself at risk of tumors? We don’t know. What we do know is that there are a few percausionary steps we could be taking, just in case. read more…
This is a guest post by Paul from BroadbandExpert.com. He shares with us several ways to tell if a high speed internet provider is a good choice. You’ll notice that these tips are good while looking for almost any service provider so I am sure this article will be of some help to you!
The internet has brought about ease to many transactions we do. This is because the internet has proved to be a very fast means of sending information across long distances and places. Most of the things that were done with days and sweat in the absence of the internet are now done very easily on the internet, such as mail correspondence, money transfer and so on.
The success of doing something very fast on the internet can be determined by the type of internet provider you use. If you are a high speed internet user and you want to know what makes a good high speed internet provider then you are in the right place.
There is a lot to benefit from using a good high speed internet provider but you need a way to know whether your high speed internet provider is good or not. How can this be done without stress? In this article, we will be giving you four major tests to help you find a good high speed internet provider. read more…
Hiking is one of my favorite Summer pastimes! If you’ve ever watched me play most any organized sport, you’d think me to be out of shape. Hiking is different for me. I’m in shape enough for some real eight hour hiking excursions and that’s in shape enough for me!
Anyway, I love hiking in the Adirondacks of Upstate New York, especially in the High Peaks region around Lake Placid. While hiking mountains in the region, there are some beautiful summit views. If I can capture even just a part of those scenes (it’s impossible to really capture them, you have to see it in real life), I am happy.
There are several Android apps in my current arsenal that can really be an asset in capturing the beauty of an Adirondack hike (or any hike for that matter). Check these out and don’t be caught on a hike without them! read more…
I love my Android and I love taking pictures with it. I don’t always like taking the time to plug it into my laptop in order to get to those photos for further editing and sharing. That’s why I love PhotoCloud, one of my new favorite Android Apps.
Learn more about it on AndroidTipguys where I wrote an article all about it. Check it out: Automatically backup your photos to the cloud
BTW, you can look forward to me writing more articles for AndroidTipguys. Check the site out! Great tips and app reviews for Android users!
As you may have noticed, the commenting system for TImmyjohnboy.com has changed. It now uses IntenseDebate which should aid in discussions and it definitely help me, as a moderator of the site, to take care of things behind the scenes. Something was bugging be about it so I hit the Internet up for some answers.
The problem was that I wanted a commenting system on my blog posts but not on my pages. I couldn’t find anywhere in IntenseDabate to remove the commenting on pages; I still can’t tell why but maybe they’ll fix it. Until then, I found a fix posted on burchwords.com. All I had to do was add this code to the head tag of the header.php file (easily done through the theme editor within WordPress):
<?php if (!comments_open() && is_page()) echo ‘<style type=”text/css”>#idc-container-parent { display:none !important; }</style>’; ?>
This tip cleared up quite a bit of the clutter on the pages of this site. If you’re a WordPress user, I hop this tip helped you as much as it did me.
