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AT&T is desperate to keep iPhone customers

On a scale of 1to10, AT&T is scared to death of losing their iPhone customers to Verizon.
In a very visible, transparent, and elucidative email to their current customers, AT&T is making a blatant plea to current subscribers to stay on board at AT&T.  Touting their well publicized advantage of web browsing while on the phone, [...]

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Add a robot to your data backup plan

On a scale from 1to10, the Drobo FS is a freakin’ 10.
You may have noticed (or probably not) that I have an obsession with data, with data backup, and with storage.  We ran an entire month of posts all focused on data backup.  Anyone who’s lost data before tends to have this kind of an [...]

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Some favorite Apple vs. Android Pics

I’m an iPhone user.  Have been since the day the first one launched.  But I’m also a fan of Android.  I like Google, I like open-source (at least *more* open), I like open systems, and some of the handsets are awesome.   I still don’t think Android has the usability of IOS, and it probably [...]

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Why isn’t anyone calling it what it is (New Apple TV = Set-top box)

On a scale from 1to10, the new Apple TV is a set-top box.
Apple announced today the new version of Apple TV, a tiny little device for streaming HD movies to your home television.  This is very cool – the form factor looks awesome and beautiful, as we might expect of an Apple product.  It’s eschewed [...]

Please be a Smart Alec

On a scale of 1 to 10, the Smart Alec from Tom Bihn is smarter than I am.
Tom Bihn is a boutique bag maker.  Our senior correspondent, Sol, remembers Tom Bihn from his college days in Santa Cruz in 1995, though now the company is based out of Seattle, WA.  As (both) of our steady readers [...]

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Irony, peace offering, happenstance, or the all mighty dollar?

On a scale from 1to10, I just can’t decide what this means.
In my email today (picture below) I got an email from Apple, pushing the new Adobe Creative Suites software.  In the midst of the brouhaha over Apple trying to kill Adobe’s Flash software, they’re still pushing other Adobe products.  Is this:

Apple being fair-minded?
Apple making an explicit [...]

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How to fold the perfect t-shirt… with an iPad

On a scale from 1to10, it’s hard to justify a $600 purchase of a device for which I don’t have a clear purpose.  That didn’t stop me from buying it anyway, but since making my purchase I’ve struggled to find new ways to make use of the iPad.
It’s awesome for playing music, reading eBooks, and [...]

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Some fun quotes for a Saturday

All of these are, on a scale from 1to10, quotes that make me smile for one reason or another.
“Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend.  Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.”
- Grouch Marx
“I don’t want the world.  I just want your half.”
- Ana Ng, TMBG
“Sweet buttery Jesus, please [...]

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Too Much “Concept,” not enough “Album”

Shooter Jennings has a new album out.  On a scale from 1 to 10, it’s fair to middling.
For the uninitatied, Shooter Jennings is a musician, and the son of former outlaw country star Waylon Jennings.  I say “former” because Waylon sadly passed on about 8 years ago.  Nevertheless, his music continues to rock and roll [...]

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Facebook? MySpace? Friendster? Pssshaw. How about Tagworld?

Picture yourself in 2006.  Social networking was… nascent?  Maybe.  At the very least the whole space was still figuring itself out.  Lots of different networks were available.  MySpace was the biggest kid on the block.  Facebook was for students only – and only students at certain schools.  Bebo, Hi5, even Friendster were all big deals. [...]

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