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Give it to your kids with a cheap prepaid plan 🙂 Also as another aside, if you just want a cheap data plan, then you can enable your old  iPhone 4 with a prepaid account according to osxdaily.com by calling AT&T and then giving them your old iPhone micro-SIM number. To get…

Well besides Siri, the other big reason to upgrade from an Iphone 4 to a 4S is international travel…it is a dual mode CDMA/GSM phone, so potentially you can use the very good Verizon network here (or Sprint if the coverage is good for you and their prices are much,…

What a pain. Have Mac Office 2011, it is very restrictive on activation, so have lost a few hard drives and now when I try to activate it says too many times, but there is no way in the interface to reset activations and when you try to call on…

I’ve lost 60K miles so far from American and BA and others when they expire miles. Here’s how to prevent that sort fo stuff: United. The best way is to donate 1000 miles to charity American. Donate 250 miles to charity If it is too late, if you pay money,…

Well, folks told me to try lightroom and I will, but for right now using best of breed tools, here is my current workflow: Shoot in raw and produce .CR2 files Download to the Mac and put each days worth of .CR2 into a set of folders that are :Year:Year-Month:Year-Month-Date,…

Great stuff that you can find on WSJ: Itemizing your home for insurance and disasters. The sites they recommend are knowyourstuff.org, stuffsafe.com Tracking your mileage points. gomiles.com, mileport.com

Well the resources are really improving. I’ve been using Qingwen on the iPhone, Chinesepod for audio and Chinesedict online, but a quick search shows there are lots more now. Like http://popupchinese.com/chinese/news And lots of reviews like http://learn-chinese.mychinastart.com/

This is a box that takes cable input and then distributes over your internal network to various network devices. So that for instance you can watch anything on say Comcast from your iPad 2 or from your Windows PC. Sadly these appear to be the only devices supported right now.…

Wel gizmo’s are wonderful, I have a Chef’s Choice 120 and it is a great knife sharpener which Cooks Illustrated recommended, but here are some other choices: Chef’s choice 110. Is decent a step below the 120, but cheaper. City Kitchen’s carries the 115 which looks pretty close to the…