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Now see here, you Yanks. This whole iPhone concept…it’s just not cricket. You plebes may fall victim to the seductive powers of Sir Steven Jobs, with his shiny expensive bobs and brickabrack, but we Brits are made of tougher stuff. You won’t find it so easy fobbing off your gadgety thingies on us, by […]

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Agonizing abdominal pains are being felt across the globe today as the world laughs hysterically at Windows Mobile. According to a report posted by Net Applications, iPhone accounts for .09% of the overall browser market, leaving Windows Mobile choking on Apple’s dust with .06%. Not a bad record for a device that’s only been […]

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God, Why Dost Thou Hate Me So?

Saturday, January 19th, 2008

God hates me. Nothing else can explain my recent steady string of bad luck. My plans to devote free time to writing, and my entire holiday, were derailed by a bout with food poisoning…or stomach flu (it’s not clear which is the culprit). While most of you were enjoying vast portions of poultry, piled […]

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Germans. You think you’re all so smart with your pickled cabbage, exotic sausages, fine Pilsners and now UNLOCKED iPhones? For just a few hundred Euros, you can waltz over to a computer, dock your iPhone, pay an unlocked premium fee through iTunes, and enjoy the privilege of using your iPhone on any wireless carrier […]

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Rakesh Agrawal’s 3 year old daughter devised a clever means for watching instructional videos on her father’s iPhone using common refrigerator magnets to mount the device on the fridge. Positioned for just her height, the industrious little scamp uses her iPhone to learn Yo-yo techniques by watching How-to videos from Veronica Belmont of Mahalo […]

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Free Wallpaper Friday: Turkey Genocide Edition

Saturday, January 19th, 2008

Welcome, dear readers, to another exciting installment of Free Wallpaper Friday, where I pass out free images like candy from a parade float. And this week I’m loading you up with a double does of sugary sweet wallpapers with a Holiday theme. Enough to kill a diabetic.
If you were expecting turkeys and cornucopias, you’re […]

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Thanksgiving Holiday Schedule and Site updates

Saturday, January 19th, 2008

In observance of the Thanksgiving holiday here the US, I will be posting content tomorrow and throughout the remainder of this week. How’s that, you ask? Yes…well it seems the only free time I have for writing these days is when not working at my real job. The holiday provides the perfect opportunity to […]

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XtremeMac Debuts New iPhone Chargers

Saturday, January 19th, 2008

XtremeMac wants to make sure you can keep your iPhone charged no matter where you go. To that end the accessories maker was showing off this week at MacWorld two new iPhone charger solutions - the InCharge Home and InCharge…

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QuickTate Texts You iPhone Voicemail

Saturday, January 19th, 2008

A tech start up has unveiled at MacWorld a rather interesting speech-to-text service for the iPhone which lets you have your voicemail dictated to text and then sent to you. The service is called QuickTate and it’s currently in free…

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Here is a nice feature for iPhone that wasn’t in the 1.1.3 “Press Kit”. If you update your iTunes to 7.6 you can “Manually Manage Music and Videos” for the iPhone. This means that you can drag and drop music…

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