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Yet another installer.app source
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Continue reading →: Yet another installer.app sourceThe iphone hackers have this great over the air installer called Installer.app or the Apptapp installer. I’m always looking for new iPhone apps, the latest and greatest apepars on http://modmyifone.com/installer.xml, type that into the Sources/Edit/Add screen…
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Crow, Purple, Lark and other places to eat
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Continue reading →: Crow, Purple, Lark and other places to eatSeattle used to be pretty baron of great places to eat, but now the number of new trendy restaurants is getting hard to keep track of. Beside “Lark”:http://www.larkseattle.com/ which just won Best Chef in the Northwest from James Beard, there is also “Purple”:http://www.thepurplecafe.com/ in downtown which has great cheeses and…
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Axis and Allies
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Continue reading →: Axis and AlliesGot this game on a whim. It is actually pretty fun and even somewhat realistic. There are of course lots of sites that cover it and the strategies. The 2004 version as http://www.morrisongames.com/ explains had lots of rules changes. The main thing though is to figure out what strategies work.…
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TomTom GO 720
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Continue reading →: TomTom GO 720After reading reviews from “gpsreview.net”:http://gpsreview.net, I finally caved and got an el cheapo $300 GPS for our old Volvo. It cost about $3000 for the DVD Navigation unit in new cars, so its interesting to see how good the add-on products are. I have to say I’m amazed. The thing…
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Apptapp Repositories
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Continue reading →: Apptapp RepositoriesOne of the truly cool things about iPhone applications (assuming you have a jailbroken iPhone or iPod Touch) is that the user community is amazing. Most folks now use Apptapp which downloads applications over the internet automatically for you. You get Apptapp pretty much automatically if you use “jailbreakme.com”:http://jailbreakme.com for…
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Exposure adjustments in Snow
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Continue reading →: Exposure adjustments in SnowWell it did snow here in Seattle. An amazing day. A camera’s normally miraculous autoexposure system can be confused by snow. As “Luminous-Landscape.com”:http://www.luminous-landscape.com/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t195.html explains, the camera is set to see the world as 18% grey, so if the world is much more white (e.g., snow), it will tend to underexpose…