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  • 1M iPhones and 10M app downloads

    Wow, at this rate of 10 apps per new iphone, this is going to be an amazing platform. The lower price I’m sure really helped. Hope I get mine soon. (Despite the short battery life and I’m going to love the white color!) Mac Rumors: Apple Mac Rumors and News You Care About Despite long…

  • New MacBooks July-September?

    Mac Rumors: Apple Mac Rumors and News You Care About While Montevina’s speed upgrades are also said to be modest, it has also been rumored that Apple will be revamping the physical design of their next notebooks to bring them in line with the current iMac and MacBook Air. Recently leaked photos depicting a more…

  • DD-WRT

    Still have two old Linksys access points. Both a WRT-54G and it is a shame to throw them away even though the Apple Airport Extreme Base Station is easier to manage. I have loaded “DD-WRT”:http://www.dd-wrt.com which I’d recommend to anyone with the time. Way more powerful and easier to understand firmware. Strange things about it…

  • iPhone 3G Reviews

    Well, “ilounge”:http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/live-iphone-3g-vs-iphone-comparison-test-results-here/ has a good first review set: * The White 16GB is going to be much cleaner with fewer fingerprints than the black one. I’m kinda regretting ordering the black one now that I’ve seen photos. The white one is actually quite cute. * Some folks are saying that this is really like iPhone…

  • Paintball

    Kids loved it and I’m getting over being hit in the throat from point blank (the 14 year old who did it still lives 🙂 Anyway, turns out quite a few “places”:http://seattle.wikia.com/wiki/Paintball and there is even a review site at http://www.pbreview.com/fields/49/ Eastside Paintball in Duvallwhich is probably the closest ForestFire Paintball at Lake Stevens KC…

  • Realtek Reverb

    I don’t know how my Dad’s computer got this, but its an old PC with a 2003 (!!!) Realtek driver and a terrible reverb/echo. google:”Realtek reverb” revealed a very smart person “saying”:http://www.elitehackers.info/forums/archive/index.php/t-3012.html to look in the Control Panel for the Realtek audio control and change “environment” to none. It was set on default which was…

  • Canon MX700 High Quality Printing

    Like the “Canon i9900”:https://richtong.org/2006/06/canon-i9900-from-canon-digital-rebel-xt-printing-with-photo-paper-pro-adobe-photoshop-cs-or-cs-2-and-red-river-68-lb-glossy/#more-2629, the MX700, although much lower quality, does allow color matching and so forth. You just have to be able to decode the very cryptic Paper profiles that Canon uses for its paper. They are as follows, where Paper Pro is their best and Paper Plus is their good quality photographic paper.…

  • Red Cliff (赤碧）

    Red Cliff （c. 赤鼻； py. Chi4bi4) is a new film by “John Woo”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Woo (c. 吴宇森 py. WÅ­ YÅ­sÄ“n) who did Mission Impossible 2 to name a one sounds awesome. It is based on historical events during a really tumultous time in Chinese history, the “Three Kingdoms period”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Kingdoms (c. 三国 py. Sānguó). It features three warlords…

  • Slideshows on the Mac

    Slideshows on the Mac are confusing because iPhoto, iDVD and iMovie can all make them, so what should use when. Here’s a guide: h3. iPhoto ’08 for quick and dirty on the screen slideshows First this is confusingly actually iPhoto ’08 , version 7.0 (why couldn’t they just bump the version to match the date?).…

  • Mac OS X for Windows Users

    I’m actually kind of amazed there are so few “books”:http://books.google.com/books?id=la-rJ7UWYhQC&dq=mac+os+x+for+windows+users&pg=PP1&ots=WzFrczmJam&sig=R3H_Uop0QuAfSd4dVNWPMA7g_Wg&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result and other resources that help a Windows user navigate the Mac. In the dawn of time, I worked on a project that made Excel understandable to Lotus 1-2-3 users, but given there are just a few small things, I sometimes wonder why Apple just doesn’t…

  • Cool Tool, iphone availability and early reviews

    “Apple”:http://www.apple.com/retail/iphone/availability.html has a tool showing what is available where. The stores open at 8AM. Amazing the demang. All models except the Black 16GB in Alderwood Mall are available at all four Seattle area stores in Bellevue, Lynnwood, Seattle and Tukwila. 16GB Black not surprisingly is the most popular model. And there are activation issues that…

  • DxO v5 sadness and alternatives

    I’ve loved DxO for a while because it handles distortion correctly. Sadly the move to “5.0”:http://luminous-landscape.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=26493 has gone poorly with lots of crashes and even with 5.2, people are still complaining about poor conversion and so forth. It’s not the only example of software taking giant steps backwards. Kind of sad. I have noticed that…

  • Obesity

    From a Credit Suisse investment report The U.S. is usually considered the consumer capital of the world and consumption of food is no exception as the world-leading obesity levels suggest. Using data from Center for Disease Control and the Forum for Health Economics and Policy, we estimate that 54% of the U.S. population is overweight…

  • Best way to get an iPhone 3G is to order from an AT&T Store

    Mac Rumors: Apple Mac Rumors and News You Care About Turnout appears to be heaviest at Apple’s retail locations, however many AT&T locations still be managing to sell out in under an hour. At stores where stock has run out AT&T is accepting orders that will arrive within the next few days. Alleyinsider surveyed 10…

  • iPhone for Business

    If you are a business with an “AT&T”:http://www.wireless.att.com/businesscenter/iPhone3G/index.jsp?bref=IB0003j3709y2141 account, you can buy the iPhone 3G via their “Premier”:http://www.wireless.att.com/businesscenter/premier/index.jsp portal support system. You just have to make sure you are eligible and the company pays your wireless bills. And you get an 8% discount on top of everything if you have five or more CRUs. They…

  • Finding an iPhone

    Amazing how Apple has created such excitement. “AT&T”:http://www.wireless.att.com/find-a-store/iphone/ has a dedicated page just for finding locations that might stock the iPhone. Not all locations do.

  • iPhone OS 2.0 nearly jailbroken

    Hurry, these guys are geniuses. Means hopefully you’ll be about to unlock the phone so you could use it on another carrier and still use the many freeware applications out there as well. Unlock/jailbreak for iPhone OS 2.0 imminent (screenshot) – iPhone Atlas The iPhone Dev team has posted a screenshot, seen below, of an…

  • ifixit and engadget fly to new zealand to get first iphone 3Gs

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  • Paintball Tactics

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  • Sync Server spinning

    I’ve had problems with sync between Entourage and iCal and sometime i get process Sync server running wild. So how to really break the link? It isn’t documented anywhere how this kind of syncing works. Even when you tell Entourage not to sync, I still see the Sync Server running. “Austin Kinsella1”:http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5793364 points out that…

  • How to replace your original iPhone with the 3G

    Because the first iPhone was unsubsidized, you just need to extend your contract by two years and then you end up with a new iPhone 3G and you have an old iPhone you can play with. iPhone 3G FAQ: How to replace your original iPhone with new iPhone 3G – iPhone Hacks iPhone owners in…

  • Time Capsule running hot

    I’ve noticed that Time Capsules can really run hot. I haven’t figured it out, but it looks like something keeps accessing them. “Speculation”:http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1428330 is that if you have the Time Capsule drives mounted on a Mac, then the hard disk stays spinning. I’ve had mine stacked and that seems to be bad too. You want…

  • 128GB SSDs

    Paradise awaits as 64GB Solid-state disks are falling. The MacBook Air SSD version just came down from $3100 to $2600 last week. Now Samsung has a cheaper technology called multi-cell so 128GB are coming this year and 256GB sometime later. This is going to be a real boon for laptop users, so hang on! PC…

  • Mac OS X 10.5.4 problems

    Well there is a bug fix release for OS X. Here are the things to watch out for: Mac OS X 10.5.4 (#4): Spotlight problems; random shutdowns; poor performance; more – MacFixIt Spotlight problems Some users have reported Spotlight problems after updating to Mac OS X 10.5.4, a relatively common occurrence with major system updates.…

  • MacBook Air Trackpad Button sticks

    I don’t know what happened. The trackpad button now sticks. Was fine, then a long trip and suddenly it breaks. Anyway the trackpad button is like a teeter totter. You can press the left side it does a click, but the button doesn’t come up. If you press the right side, it drops on that…

  • MacBook Air Disk problems and how to Remote Bookt

    Well, when my machine was freezing, I was used to Windows so my first thought was, uh oh, the hard disk is crashing. Ran Disk Utility and it asked me to Repair the disk with the installation Mac OS X. First note, you should always have this DVD with you whereever you go (I didn’t),…

  • MacBook Air Core Shutdowns and Freezes

    Well, maybe I’m hard on hardware, but have four problems with my MacBook Air right now in order of problems: h2. “Intermittent Freezing”:http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1415343&tstart=0 (aka “Core Shutdown”:http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1445521&tstart=1) Originally I thought that this was because my hard disk has corruption problems. ClamAV would run and then system would lock, so then I disabled this, but still had…

  • Airport Firmware 7.3.2 Problems

    Apple just release “7.3.2”:http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/timecapsuleandairportbasestation80211nfirmware732.html which is an update for the firmware and the airport utility running on Macs and Windows. Not clear what it has besides bug fixes. As with most Airport Extreme and Time Capsule fixes, it isn’t seemless. “Pokrface”:http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/8300945231/m/726007513931 has problems with it hanging the access points. Going back to 7.3.1 fixed that…

  • Spider Bites

    Hope you never get one, but “Termite.com”:http://www.termite.com/spider-identification.html has a good set of descriptions. Brown recluse Black Widow Spider. Headache and nausea Hobo Spiders. Takes 24 hours to become a blister and symptoms are fatigue and there will be immediate redness and severe headache. Funnel Web Grass