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View all →June 9, 2008
Review: Netflix Player – Get Dad Movies On Demand
I'm going to try something this week and write up some quick product reviews in case you are looking for something to buy your dad or husband for Father's Day. This year, budgets are tight so even spending $100 may be pushing it, but when you make a tech decision, you should do some careful reviews prior to pulling the…
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June 9, 2008
The 3G iPhone Dust is still settling … and Accessory Announcements come!
Hot on the heels of the iPhone 3G news-breaker are now peripheral press releases coming from accessories manufacturers. The first one that I have seen comes from Speck with a product line crafted exclusively for the iPhone 3G. While I typically only do product reviews of products that I can actually test, I'm breaking my own rules by posting a…
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June 8, 2008
Ways to Track the Apple Developers Conference Live
Tomorrow will be a tough day on the net...well, not for everyone, just the people interested in what Steve Jobs will be saying at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) Keynote. The WWDC runs from June 9-13 in San Francisco and promises to be full of explosive announcements. We already know that the 3G iPhone will be revealed, that there…
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June 5, 2008
GoGrid and RockBox and Video Podcasts
So GoGrid and RockBox are not related, not related at all for that matter. However, the two are joined together in this video PodCast episode of Gadget Guy on Linux Journal. I am writing about this for a variety of reasons: RockBox looks like a great way to re-use old MP3 players GoGrid is a great product (heck, I work…
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May 31, 2008
Fix It: Apple OS 10.5.3 Fails to Get to Login Screen
It seems to me that Apple rushed out the 10.5.3 operating system update. And that really pissed me off. Not because of the fact that they are releasing updates to fix bugs or security holes or pre systems for up-coming announcements...that stuff I like. What I don't like is if these fixes and enhancements are rushed out the door without…
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May 26, 2008
NASA Phoenix Lander, the Web and Social Media: A Different Experience
Years ago, when space travel was new, people stopped everything just to watch a space ship take off or land or someone walk on the Moon. Those were and still are, HUGE achievements. We have yet to send another manned mission to the Moon and with a huge Federal deficit and a world-wide recession looming, it's a miracle that space…
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May 16, 2008
I wish a WordPress Developer would make the following plugin
I'm not a developer, more of a tinkerer, looking at people's code and tweaking things. Never had an hour of coding schooling in my life but I can step through some stuff and get the jist of it and even mod it to my own liking (fixed a few WP theme issues and plugins). There are a couple of plugins…
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May 15, 2008
Transition from DD-WRT to Tomato on Linksys Router
I decided I was tired of waiting around for the next version of DD-WRT to come out (v24) which, as of this writing, was at RC7, I believe. I twittered today that I was tired of waiting and got a tweet back saying that I should check out Tomato and that people were saying some good things about it. I…
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May 13, 2008
Fix it: Cannot Sync iPhone with Any Computer
Today I received an email with a plea for help from Rav. The contents are as follows: In desperation I am emailing to you for help or direction. I cannot connect my iphone to any computer ( used different computers and cables). Was able to do so but I think I downloaded software through installer and since than iphone is…
Read more →April 23, 2008
Web 2.0 Expo – Day 1 – Quick Comments & HighTechDad meets iJustine
Web 2.0 Expo kicked off today in San Francisco. The company that I work for (ServePath) decided last Friday that we needed to be there as an exhibitor, mainly because our newest product, GoGrid, is perfect for startups and Web 2.0 (3.0?) companies. After a quick scramble of sign printing, stunt creation (look for the guy circling Moscone on a…
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April 16, 2008
BART Ticket Kiosks Running Windows 2000 Professional?
Today I tried to add some money to a BART ticket and came across an interesting screen. I guess they had just been servicing the ticket machines and they were "rebooting." What I saw really surprised me. First, they are running on a Windows platform. Second, they are running not on Vista, nor Windows 2003 Server...not even Windows XP, but…
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March 18, 2008
Fix-It: iPhone Bookmark Sync errors
Been a while since I did a post so here is a quick one...an iPhone Fix-it. I'm on firmware 1.1.4 on a Jailbroken iPhone and recently started getting some errors when trying to sync my device. As iTunes was synching and hit the bookmarks section, I continually received the following error message: "iTunes could not sync bookmarks to the iPhone…
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