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If you have a little time to visit DC here are some nits 0. Its hot in DC so do yourself a favor and tour at night. The monuments are amazingly open way into the night. There is a wonderful walk from Lafayette park past the treasury to the eisenhower…

Quick notes on accessories for the iPad. They are just coming out but the apple case really works well although expensive at $40. Having the stand is nice although I don’t use it as much as i would expect. The screen protector is a good thing although unlike the iPhone…

Hey i posted mono price.com cables were great and cheap but they only sync they don’t charge ipads at all. Don’t know why. See http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=11618818&#11618818

Ok, the latest things acquired: The water pistols that are electrically powered and which look like real guns are actually pretty cool. Lots of fun squirting Used my Leatherman Wave over the weekend. What an amazing tool. Was top rated by Outdoor magazine three years ago, but never got around…

Well, there are so many large sensor cameras. The Lumix GF-1, Epson EP-2 and now the new Sony NEX-3 and -5 and the Samsung NX-10 with Nikon and Canon rumored to be coming out with theirs. The net is that if you can hold off, I wouldn’t buy one of…

If you have a whole summer free and want to make your NXT robot sing from your Mac, what are your options. If you have Windows and Bootcamp, you can use the free Lego software, otherwise off to open source you go… Mactech

John reminded me that even with my Drobo, I’m still not really safe in terms of data loss. It handles two drive failures, but it still means things can get lost. For a while I was manually backing up to tongfamily.com which is unlimited data on bluehost.com, but it isn’t…

Well iPhone 4 mean dead iPhone in chinese, but what the heck, mine is on order. July 2 baby. My buddy Bruce points out however that if you want maximum flexibility, in the UK and Canada, they are going to sell unlocked iPhones for unsubsidized price of $600 or so.…

Ugh. I love the new iPad but there are still quirks. Today it is getting gmail to run properly. The confusing thing is that you should never use the default gmail setup on an iPhone or iPad. That is because when you delete it doesn’t save the deleted mail on…

Well, if you want to backup your Mac, there aren’t very good choices. Time Capsule is wonderful in terms of specs, you can from a network restore from it, but it has an incredible failure rate. I’ve lost 6 of 8 Time Capsules in the last two years with no…