Monthly Archives: December 2008
David Pogue’s BlackBerry Storm review story
David Pogue wrote his original review for the BlackBerry Storm last week and his verdict was that the phone is terrible. And he was spot on. David Pogue posts another article detailing some of the email responses that he received to his original article.
Weird font bug in TweetDeck
Just noticed this last night and thought my eyes were going bad. The weird thing is that scrolling through the Tweets fixes the error. It must be some font rendering bug for this specific font in Adobe Air. I’m running TweetDeck on Leopard. It seems to only happen with the capital ‘S’. Here are the [...]
Unibody MacBook: screen brightness fluctuations
I’ve been noticing lately that on my 13″ Unibody Macbook the screen brightness fluctuates at times. It doesn’t happen very often, but it does happen. MacFixIt has confirmed this issue and details that it happens because of the ambient light sensor that’s placed at the top of the screen (if you place your hand over [...]
iPhone 3G: extra battery pack
Last week I wrote a post about the Richard Solo 1800, stating that you should “look no further” if you’re in need of extra battery life. Well, I’m wrong. I went against my own advice and looked further to find a much nicer (in my opinion) extra battery option, and a great review that compares [...]
Nokia N97: OS User Interface needs work
I just watched a video of the N97 (Above) that walks through some of the features of the new Nokia phone. The phone looks alright, and I mean that in a good way. It doesn’t look terrible on the outside, the camera lens cover looks pretty neat, and the flip up screen is sort of [...]
Why should I Jailbreak my iPhone? | List of the best Jailbroken Applications
It’s too often that I get asked “why jailbreak your iPhone?” or even worse, “why should I jailbreak?” Why should you jailbreak? Well, for two reasons. First, if you’re like some people (me?) and you just don’t want to be locked out of taking full advantage of your own phone for some obsessive compulsive reason, [...]
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iPhone Tethering: PdaNet quick guide [jailbroken iPhone required]
For those of you with jailbroken iPhones, PdaNet is the best way to accomplish tethering. If you’ve used it in the past and not been very impressed, give it another chance. The newest version is much easier to use and you won’t be disappointed. The latest version doesn’t require you to do anything special to [...]
VMware 2.0 vs. Parallels 4
As an update to my earlier post about VMware vs. Boot Camp, I’m now adding Parallels to the mix. I used the same Boot Camp partition that I used in the VMware vs. Boot Camp scenario. I installed all of the Parallels tools onto Vista and restarted… The verdict: *drumroll* – Parallels and VMware are [...]
Mac Security: Lock your Mac without logging out