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Continue reading →: United 500 Mile Upgrade and Global Service Tracking
If you are Global Services, you can extend the conversion of Mileage Plus 500-Mile upgrades to bonus miles. They stopped doing this, so losing these upgrades is a pure loss, so go to loss.http://www.united.com/promoreg?title=Expired+500-Mile+Upgrade:%3Cbr%3EConversion+Registration&pcode=MPP697 Also, there is a new thing to keep track of at “http://united.com/gstracking”:http://united.com/gstracking in addition to EQM…
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Continue reading →: Kids Games
Here are some that the kids are asking about: * “Sid Meier’s Civilization IV”:http://pc.gamezone.com/gzreviews/r25732.htm is the next step in a great franchise. Getting older now since it was released late 2005, but a nice game. There are two expansion packs now and it goes for about $37 at “Go Gamer”:http://gogamer.com…
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Continue reading →: iPhone Activation Hack
So sue me » Blog Archive » iPhone Independence Day Magic iTunes 7.3.0.54 numbers: Offset 2048912: 33C0C3Offset 257074: 28Offset 257013: 33C9B1 Add “127.0.0.1 albert.apple.com” to c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts Download “Phone Activation Server v1.0”:http://nanocr.eu/wp-content/PhoneActSrv-v1.0.zip to activate your iPhone for iPod+WiFi use. Note that this application will not do anything unless you understand the…
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Continue reading →: iPhone mania
!>http://www.isuppli.com/images/iphone_shipment.png! Wow, these things are popular. I ordered mine online 5 minutes after the Apple store opened online so here’s a compendium of mostly good, but with three bad things (activations are taking a very long time, AT&T won’t unlock the phone for a new SIM for you, and the…
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Continue reading →: Kids Games
Here are some that the kids are asking about: * “Sid Meier’s Civilization IV”:http://pc.gamezone.com/gzreviews/r25732.htm is the next step in a great franchise. Getting older now since it was released late 2005, but a nice game. * “Nancy Drew The White Wolf of Icicle Creek”:http://www.cinemablend.com/games/PC-Review-Nancy-Drew-The-White-Wolf-Of-Icicle-Creek-4827.html. These are done for pre-teen and…
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Continue reading →: Yahoo Finance
This is an awesome tool, particularly the section called key statistics. I’ve never been able to figure out what all the measures mean, but “Yahoo”:http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/finance/tools/research-12.html actually defines them: Enterprise Value Formula: Market Cap + Total Debt – Total Cash & Short Term Investments EV is a measure of theoretical takeover…
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Continue reading →: Blackberry Curve 8300 Chinese Input
Blackberry finally has the Chinese input for the new Curve. “CSL”:https://www.blackberry.com/Downloads/entry.do?code=EEFC9E10EBDC4A2333B42B2DBB8F27B6 has the download. As a reminder, you install this and then you go to # c:\program files\common files\research in motion\apploader # delete vendor.xml # run the desktop manager and then select the application loader Powered by ScribeFire.
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Continue reading →: Apple iPhone mobs
Jon tells me that he is in the AT&T Wireless store and they are already sold out of 8GB iPhones. They are only letting 2 people in at a time. The “Apple Store”:http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/wa/RSLID?nnmm=browse&mco=556F9FCD&node=home/iphone/iphone now has it, but it is on a 2-4 week delivery. They are $500 for a 4GB…
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Continue reading →: Finally a decent Chinese translator
I’ve been looking for something works pretty interactively. Right now I use “xuezhongwen.net”:http://xuezhongwen.net for printed translations and also for doing things on mobile. Chinup seems to be the best extension for firefox. Uses tooltips to show the pinyin and the english and chinese. Most of the tools don’t show pinyin.…
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Continue reading →: Blackberry Curve
Just got one. It is much smaller than the 8700 and very light. It even has decent MP3 playing although no where as nice as the iPod. Main thing is that it is small and the sound quality is good. What it lacks is really decent navigation of songs, but…
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