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iOS 4 Released 22 Jun 2010 | 07:53 am
Today Apple released version 4.0 of it’s mobile operating system for iPhone and iPod touch. (Sorry iPad users, you have to wait until later this fall.) The OS-formerly-known-as iPhoneOS includes a lot...
Why Flash on iPhone OS Would Suck (Besides the Fact that Flash Sucks) 31 Jan 2010 | 04:34 pm
If anything has bugged me more about the iPad announcement than the iPad itself, it would be the constant moaning and groaning from the blogosphere and its commenters (Download Squad article, I’m poin...
Adium Beta for Mac – Simply Amazing! 28 Dec 2009 | 01:57 pm
I’ve know about Adium for a while. Adium allows you to have an instant message (IM) chat with most major chat clients such as AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), Windows Live Messenger (MSN), Google Talk and...
Merry Christmas! 25 Dec 2009 | 07:34 pm
Hopefully everyone will get lots of gadgets and gizmos, maybe some software too. Well, that’s more like my own wish, but hopefully you all have a wonderful and happy Christmas!
Tech-on-the-Cheap: DIY Digital TV Antenna 23 Dec 2009 | 04:11 pm
Make posted a tutorial last January for building your own digital TV antnna but somehow I missed it until last week. Tonight I tried it out, and it works! It took about an hour and required a few salv...
What’s Going on at eBay? 18 Dec 2009 | 06:58 pm
First, a confession: I like to shop for “fixable” gadgets on eBay from time to time. My latest obsession has been the iPod touch and out of all the parts/repair gadgets I have ever shopped for, this o...
Tech-on-the-Cheap: Refurbished Tech 11 Dec 2009 | 08:39 pm
Have you ever wondered what happens to that broken piece of tech that you send back to the manufacturer for a replacement? What about fully functional, returned units? Certainly they don’t just toss i...
Thunderbird 3.0 Released 9 Dec 2009 | 07:57 pm
Back in the good old days of Yahoo! I used to have an e-mail account with the privilege of POP3 access. Instead of needing to login via webmail and keep my browser window open, I could just open a POP...
Tech-on-the-Cheap: Repurposing Old PDAs 9 Dec 2009 | 07:39 pm
Ah, the personal data (or digital) assistant. They were all the rage back in the 90’s. You were high tech with that 160×160 monochrome screen and 1MB of memory. And at those boring meetings you were a...
Tech-on-the-Cheap: Repurposing Netbooks 7 Dec 2009 | 07:35 pm
So here goes my attempt at a recurring feature, Tech-on-the-Cheap. Either save money or get more bang for you buck out of today’s (and yesterday’s) technology. One of my recent passions has been the ...
