Today I realized I’m a huge hypocrite, and it’s not helping my youngest child.

Coming home today, I learned about a smart phone challenge they did on one of my favourite podcasts, Note to Self. The two goal of this challenge were, to get people to realize how much they used their phone, and to help them reduce that dependency.

They brought up research that explored the consequences of phone addiction. For example, if you take pictures all the time, of everything in your life, you...

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I had read that if you encrypt your iPhone backups, when you restore you won't have to re-enter all your mail, wifi and other passwords. So I dutifully encrypted the backups. And then I forgot the password. I didn't really want to have to redo all my app organization and settings the next time I needed to restore my iPhone. Thought I'd post the steps to remove the encryption in case others need to do this: 1. Jailbreak phone 2. Install OpenSSH 3. Mount the phone on the desktop (I used...

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