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OK, these will probably evaporate soon, but tuaw.com reports: If you text “yes” to 11113020 you will get 1000 free rollover minutes from AT&T Mobility If you enter your Amex card number you will get five free iTunes songs. If you are an Amex platinum user, then you sign up for…

I use Google Calendars a lot for schedulling, but the colors are never quite right. In fact, now I have all the different calendars as brown. There is no easy way to set colors, but if you have a jailbroken phone, you can actually hack SQLlite, or most simply, you…

OK, here are some great tips I’ve found. In random order: Vuescan for the Mac actually works well, but has glitches. The main issue is that sometimes it gets the colors all wrong even though the prescan looks good. The solution is to restart you Mac and then the colors…

We’ve got a bunch of these helicopters that are tiny and micro and they are fun but hard to control. Brookstone has gyro-stabilized helicopters that are much easier to fly and more stable for $40 but in Popular Mechanics, they point out that Horizon Hobby has more expensive ones called…

The “Old” Apple software is like anything on the PC kind of quirky. Here are some of the asymmetries 1. The iPhoto slideshow is beautiful and most of the web says you can’t just turn it into a movie. You have to use iDVD. Turns out that in fact there…

Well despite all the things going on, I’ve been working through scanning old images. Been using an iMac with Vuescan 64-bit for Snow Leopard. And an old Minolta DiImage Elite 5400. Lots of settings for vuescan for this thing, so here are some notes on usage. Also see Robert Feinman’s…

Rather than some huge expensive things that rotates the focus, these guys decided to use the software inside the camera and it turn the focus using the autofocus already built in. Clever! So the USB Follow Focus is small light and elegant:

Well of course there is the Verizon iPhone, but the main thing that’s depressing is no GSM compatibility so not really a good world phone for us.  There is CES Best of Consumer

The Internet Movie Firearms Database. There is nothing cooler. Here are the weapons on the Expendables! All star action case, but the weapons were amazing: The single action colt revolver Like Black Ops, the Dual Wield Kimber The F2000 which is a bullpup and in Call of Duty as well\…

  Skiing Magazine has the most complete reviews but makes it all but impossible to find things. No sorting at all on anything, the default appears to be by greatest width to narrowest as if that makes sense and somewhat by date, although 2006 reviews appear quite often which is either…