Archive for August, 2008
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008The one piece of iPhone functionality that nearly every user has been clamoring for, but Apple has been strangely under-motivated to provide has arrived by way of an independent open-source developer. GeekBrief.TV tonight broke the story of Zac White, who figured out how to make copied information from one app available to another app, without [...]
Awaiting Blu-ray Assimilation
Monday, August 18th, 2008I’ve resisted thus far, but I fear my time is running out. The time is nigh for my assimilation into the growing pack of Blu-ray player owners. I was a fairly early adopter of the DVD format, getting my first drive in a high-end Compaq desktop in early 1997. That was a pretty easy decision: [...]
Import Qik Videos to Your iPod
Friday, August 15th, 2008For any who haven’t heard, Qik is a service that allows live, streaming video to be sent from certain camera-enabled phones to the web (mostly Nokia models, but a few others are supported). See something you want to share live with the world? Qik’s the way to do it. A couple of days ago, Qik [...]
Keeping Driver Discs Where You’ll Find Them
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008Driver discs are funny things. They almost seem disposable, the way they come in paper envelopes and might only be used once. You use them to set up a new piece of hardware, maybe a printer, then what? They don’t sit on a shelf well without being rehoused in a plastic jewel case, and if [...]
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