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Continue reading â: TiVo
I have one of these things but never really used it that much. Mainly because TiVo Transfer is very buggy on the Mac and it is hard to program because you have to be right there. Some solutions for both. TiVo Transfer is replaced by iTiVo and i.TV lets you…
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Continue reading â: Cool stuff
Battery powered lamps. Very chic. Neoz.com.au 2tb hard drives. Newegg.com reviewers think the seagate is unreliable. Like the hitachi. Reliability is an issue for these including the WDs. Amazing at $180 for 2tb. Not bad to try with Drobo Pro.
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Continue reading â: Mac buying recommendations
For many folks, the question is a new Windows 7 machine (I haven’t reviewed any of these yet) or get a Mac. Here are current recommendations. First, discounts are hard to come by, but Apple Insider offers 3% or so off. Also, there are sites that help with sales tax…
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Continue reading â: Apple hits again
Cool product intros today in order of coolness: $1000 MacBook is polycarbonate but with glass LED screen and 7 hour battery. Man, what else makes sense to get Magic Mouse now has a multitouch interface like the iPod Touch and iPhone. Cool gestures iMac 27″ now has the Intel i5…
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Continue reading â: Cameras to buy
OK, so the fall is here and time to buy things (when isn’t it?). So here is an early Xmas list: Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF1. This is the camera to get for something that is light and portable that you can throw into your bag and travel three continents (hint!). 12…
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Continue reading â: Two weeks of use for three bluetooth devices, get the Motorokr T505
OK, got three bluetooth things and after two weeks here is where they are: Motorokr T505. This thing is amazing. It is a hockey puck that you put in your car. Seems to have a really long battery and is an incredibly good speakerphone. I don’t know how they do…
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Continue reading â: Time Capsule failures
Time Capsule failures lead to opening of virtual cemetery – Ars Technica No one is really sure how widespread the problem is, but it has been enough of an issue for one individual to start a website dedicated to cataloging the failures. The Apple Time Capsule Memorial Register collects Time…
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Continue reading â: iPHone apps
Two cool new apps for iPhone 3GS owners only: Layar and Cardreader | 9 to 5 Mac Layar ($FREE – iTunes link), the Augmented Reality program we profiled when it was for Android only. It needs the compass of the 3GS to navigate the Augmented reality world created with the…
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Continue reading â: Print from your iPhone
9 to 5 Mac | Apple Intelligence t continues to vex many of us that we canÃĸâŦâĸt print from our iPhone – surely it would be a simple matter to enable printing over WiFi or Bluetooth? Now you can, thanks to EuroSmartz new app, ÃĸâŦÅPrintÃĸâŦÂ ($3.99), which joins the companyÃĸâŦâĸs…
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Continue reading â: Google Sync is cool
I’ve been using it for a while and it is really very good. Much less buggy that our Exchange stuff. And it is great to see other people calendars. Works better than native Exchange really. Now, it does push mail too, so you don’t have to configure imap. AppleInsider |…