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Gracias for the Crashy Apps

Maybe I’m alone here, but every now and again an application running on my iPhone 3G (with its fancy 2.0 firmware) crashes. It usually occurs at the precise moment when I need that particular application to be doing what it’s supposed to do. I mean, seriously: Twitter updates are vital when I’m mobile, right? Well, whether [...]

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Time Machine Actually Works

As I mentioned in my inaugural post, I’m an IT guy. And as an IT guy, if someone has broken a piece of tech in the weirdest way imaginable, I’ve seen it. Suffice to say, nothing prepared me for the near mutant-style destruction that my wife caused her old iBook G4. Sadly, my wife has [...]

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Presto Change-O! Audio Codec Changes on the Fly

Ever had the need to quickly convert one of your AAC audio files to another format? I was asked today for a down and dirty way to quickly convert an M4A file to an MP3 file. The assumption was that we were going to have to look for an application to handle the conversion, or [...]

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The Wait is Over - iTunes App Store is OPEN for Business!

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(Solid) State of the Union

One of the more common complaints that I’ve been hearing about the Macbook Air (and I’m not referring to its slower processor, lack of optical drive, lack of additional USB ports, or wired ethernet ports!) is that Apple, in doing the computing public a “favor” is making solid state drives available as an option over [...]

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