Sharing Apps on Multiple Computers

This is totally new to me, and I can’t believe I didn’t already know this, but just like with music you purchase from iTunes, you can authorize up to 5 devices to use an application you have purchased and downloaded. I just found that out from reading iPhone Mom. She had linked to this video which explains how – it’s really simple. The short version is: when you’re in iTunes, looking at your app collection, you can just drag the app from itunes to your desktop and you get a file with the extension .ipa. Get this file to the other computer (you can email it – or if it’s over a network, just drop it on a shared folder, etc.) From the other computer, drop the file into itunes or double click it. To authorize it’s use on that computer you’ll have to enter your itunes username and password. Now I can get all these kid games I’ve downloaded onto my HUSBAND’S iPhone so the kids can play with his phone instead of mine!! HAHA!!

UPDATED So I just had to cycle back on to this and explain that I don’t highly recommend this 🙂 especially if you own multiple computers yourself. (ie. home computer, work computer, desktop, laptop, etc.) – You see – when you authorize a computer for the application – it’s not just to use that one application – it’s for your *whole account* – your music, your apps, everything. And you only get to do this with 5 computers total. Also – we ran into some weird issues on my husbands computer where it was getting confused because it didn’t see the computer as being authorized for two accounts at once – so it would switch back and forth between my account and his account (might have been something we were doing wrong too)… in any case. Be forewarned…

Totally Awesome Hair Accessory Giveaway from CoverYourHair.com!!

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You’ve seen my hair, right? Up in the picture above. It’s big. It’s curly. It’s unmanageable. It’s all over the place. I love the way it looks when I wear it down (on the rare occasion it also decides to behave), but it is a total pain in the neck. People love curly hair… when they don’t have it themselves. One major problem I have is my hair is always falling into my face. It would be the Cousin Itt effect if I wasn’t constantly pushing it aside. To deal with this, almost every day, I wear it back in a ponytail. But this look is getting really old and really boring.

When CoverYourHair.com contacted me about doing a review and a giveaway of their product, I knew, with my unmanageable hair, I was perfect for the job! The Pre-tied Bandanna’s are really fun, look cool and they do a great job of keeping my hair out of my face. I’ve also tried their wide headbands. You can bunch up the material all together to have it look more like a standard headband, or if you spread out the material, it looks a bit like a head scarf. There’s tons of other types of head gear on their site. Here’s an example of one of their pre-tied bandannas:

So, would you like to win a box of surprise hair accessories from CoverYourHair.com worth $25?

A basic entry is really simple to do. Just go to CoverYourHair.com and find your favorite hair accessory on the site, then come back here and leave a comment on this post telling me about it. That’s it! (Make sure you use a valid email address when you leave your comment – I will be using that email address to contact you if you win!) Only one entry per person can be done this way and you must complete this before you can enter via the additional methods I’ll talk about next.

If you’d like to better your chances at winning – here are a few more ways to get additional entries in: (When you’ve done one or more of the following, come back here and leave another comment and let me know. You can only get one additional entry per method I list below)

1) Join CoverYourHair.com Google Friend Connect:
Go to CoverYourHair.com, Scroll down their home page and click “join this site” in the Google Friend Connect box.

2) Become a Fan of CoverYourHair on Facebook.

3) Follow CoverYourHair on twitter and tweet about the giveaway.

4) Follow TheWorkingMom on twitter and tweet about the giveaway.
(If you follow both CoverYourHair and TheWorkingMom – you can just do one tweet. I won’t make you spam your followers) 🙂

5) If you have a blog or website, make a post (or put a note in your sidebar) about this giveaway and link back to this post.

This giveaway will end August 23nd at 11:59pm MST. There is no purchase necessary to enter the contest. I will be using random.org to choose the winner. I’ll contact the winner via email, and he/she will have 48 hours to respond. After 48 hours, another winner will be chosen.

Space, Light, The Universe and Everything in Between

(Just a side note – I am still sick (feeling ok but apparently still have a fever) and still bedroom quarantined. So, because I’m thoroughly bored, here’s what I do for fun. I exercise my brain).

I’ve been having an email conversation with a friend of mine and my dad. My dad, before he retired, was a high school science teacher, he also taught astronomy and continues to be fascinated by it. He sends me emails every now and then with heads-up about various cosmological events: A meteor shower (like we had a few days ago), the visibility of a passing space station overhead, a comet, etc. I’ve been sharing these emails with a friend of mine. The latest email was a link to a video which was absolutely amazing. You have to watch this:

My Dad originally said that perhaps the narrator was wrong in saying that the galaxies were traveling away faster than the speed of light, as anything with mass could not travel faster than the speed of light. A friend of my father’s responded that actually, the narrator is correct because it is not just the fact the galaxies are traveling away – but that the distance in between is expanding, because the universe itself is expanding. (If your brain is starting to hurt – this is how I “picture” this to try and understand it: you know in those horror movies, where the person has to run down a hallway to get away, and as they start running, the hallway strangely gets stretched out and longer… it’s kind of like that) 🙂

So this started a long thread of why can’t something (or can something) travel faster than the speed of light and why? Still need to be confirmed on my understanding, but I think it has to do with the belief that as an object’s speed increases, so does it’s mass (still don’t understand why this is) and thus the energy to maintain/increase it’s speed – as you reach the speed of light, the mass increases infinitely as does the required energy – all of which are impossible to produce. But this only deals with objects with mass – Light does not have mass – so it can travel at lightspeed. And what about other things that do not have mass… What about radio waves? Sound waves travel slower than the speed of light.

Then the question of why sound travels so slowly – and that one I think I understand to be because sound is not it’s own “thing” – sound waves are patterns in the air and air particles (or other particles of material that can continue the wave pattern). Without the air or particles (for example like in a vaccuum) – there is no sound. So “sound” is dependent on these other particles for it’s “movement”. (And this movement is just slower than light’s movement) Also, just an added piece of information – as you get further away from the sound’s source, the waves get longer. Think of a pebble being dropped in water – the ripples it forms and how it dissipates the further out it gets.

Later when I was talking to my Dad he added a brief explanation of what “red shift” is (it’s mentioned in the video). Just like sound waves get longer the further away you are (remember that pebble in the water – how the ripples get stretched out the further away you are – or think about an ambulance siren as it passes you, when it’s up close, it’s a higher pitch. As it speeds away the pitch seems to get lower) Light waves also get stretched out the further away you are. With sound, you don’t have to be very far away before it shifts like that, but with light, it is a LONG LONG distance (think millions of light years away) before that shift happens. (Red light waves on the ROYGBV – red, orange, yellow, green blue, violet – spectrum are the longest wave – like that lower pitch in the siren.) So when light shifts over distance, it shifts to the red.

Anyway, you get the idea. So my dad sent over one link which had a great explanation of how the universe is expanding. Even I understood it! LOL! I love discussions like this. I feel like my BRAIN expands. But, there’s definitely a breaking point where I reach my limit of understanding and tune the rest out. That blog looks to be full of some great information. I’ll have to read through it in small chunks so my brain doesn’t expand to exploding. LOL!

Also if your brain is hungry for more: This has some more detailed information about that video above.

Flu (do NOT say swine!)

So I’ve apparently come down with some sort of flu. After Tuesday’s Hip Hop Hustle class, towards the evening, my legs started aching. I figured it was just from the class – although it’s not usual for me to get so achy like that, especially when, as I had said originally, I hadn’t really pushed myself that hard during the class. The next day I woke up with a really bad headache and my lymph nodes were swollen on the back of my neck. I tried to head it off with Motrin, and took it throughout the day, but it didn’t seem to really want to let go. THEN when I woke up today… the headache was still there, my neck was KILLING me, every muscle in my body ached and I just felt BAD. Time to call the doctor.

She did not test me for swine flu, because in the end, the treatment she was going to give me would be the same. (Tamiflu) She asked me if I had chills or a fever – at the time, I didn’t have those symptoms, but by the afternoon I did. My fever spiked to 102 this afternoon and I had major chills. Felt like all my skin was contracting without my control.

I’ve never had anything like this before. I don’t have any respiratory issues except for the fact that this morning it felt like someone was sitting on my chest making it difficult for me to breathe. No runny nose. No cough. I started the Tamiflu immediately (hopefully that will help shorten the length of this) and I loaded up on Motrin to get my fever down, and pain meds to deal with all the aches. So now I’m sort of feeling okay – but just can’t seem to get my body temperature to normalize. I get under the covers under the bed and I literally sweat. I get on top of the covers, and I freeze. I’m kind of wiped out, but not tired.

I’ve locked myself away in the bedroom and Sam is currently taking over all kid-related duties – I really do NOT want them to get this. Zachary snuck away from him tonight and came in the room asking for a hug. I felt so bad shooing him away (of course I explained to him it was because I was sick and I didn’t want him to get it too) I said goodnight to Rachel via the phone on intercom. 🙁

The other not so nice side of this: I don’t have time to be sick. (Who does) I just got a new client – so this is their first impression of me. I have a major project due this week. I have a bunch of new projects starting next week. Aside from the fact that Sam is going to go crazy if he is in charge of the kids for too many days, Rachel’s birthday party is next weekend. 1) I’ve got to be better by then!!! and 2) NO ONE ELSE CAN GET SICK before then. I will feel terrible if I have to cancel her party. We actually haven’t done a birthday party for her in a few years. So this was going to be a big deal for her.

Ugh!!!

P.S. (Oh and just because I’m on the subject of complaining – so I’m stuck in the bedroom – why is there nothing but crap on the TV?? None of my favorite shows are on)

Back to School Snazl

So this Snazl thing looks pretty cool. Need to investigate it more to understand how it works. In any case – skimbacolifestyle.com is having a $500 Back to school giveaway by Nestle. (Which I discovered via a twitter from Jyl) So here is my entry.

You can enter too.