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Continue reading →: Apple to offer $100 Credit to early iPhone buyers
AppleInsider | Apple to offer early iPhone adopters $100 credit – Jobs After personally reading hundreds of emails from disgruntled iPhone customers, Apple chief executive Steve Jobs appears to have had a change of heart and now plans to offer early iPhone adopters a $100 credit towards future Apple purchases.…
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Continue reading →: Mac OS X Password Recovery
Because OS X just logs you without a password by default (like Windows 95 used to), you can really forget your password as I did with a now ancient iMac (the one that looked like a lamp). So how do you recover. Well, Google is my friend and here is…
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Continue reading →: Gitzo GT-2530 Tripod and Markins Q-Ball Q3 Emilie one year later
I’ve had this tripod for a year now and I must say it was super expensive, but worth it. The tripod is $520 and the head is $270, so don’t lose it, but on the other hand, there are lots of photos I couldn’t have gotten particularly landscapes without it.…
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Continue reading →: Applecare
With PCs, I normally don’t get their extended warranty since they don’t tend to break. With Windows laptops, they normally have a year and I can fix most of them. (I’ve replaced the hard disk of an ASUS notebook four times!). But, with the Macbooks, we ended up buying a…
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Continue reading →: Windows XP Sudden Shutdown but CPU is cool
A DFI LanParty UT with an Athlon X2 3800 has been gradually failing. Throwing memory errors and now has sudden shutdown problems. It is very nasty figuring out what is wrong. If you read posts on sudden shutdown, folks often blame (so things you should try if you’ve got similar…
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Continue reading →: Blackberry Pearl Trackball cleaning
Mary and a couple of other folks have told me that their Blackberry Pearl trackball doesn’t roll right anymore. This is another casualty of progress as the sidewheel of the old Blackberry was very reliable. Apparently, you have to very delicately remove the thing and clean the lint out. It…
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Continue reading →: Nonstop US China flights
If you can believe it, there are only seven daily nonstop flights between the US and China and three via Tokyo. But it is really harder than heck to actually figure out the right flights using expedia or even a travel agent. The routings are wierd. So here is a…
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Continue reading →: iphone news
Now there is quite a bit of new about the iphone. Most significant is that there is now someone who can unlock the phone. So you can buy one from apple and then put any carriers sim into it. You still need a data plan with that carrier but no…
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