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Sunday, September 13th, 2009
Lock screen quickly in OS X Snow Leopard
So I’ve started bringing my personal MacBook Pro to work on occasion to use at lunch for personal tasks and also sometimes througought the day in lieu of my work-issued Dell. The Dell is tiny, underpowered, and has about 30 minutes of battery life before it dies (what’s the point of an ultra-portable notebook when [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Apple by Jason T.
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
Interest still strong amongst teens and professionals in iPhone
Fortune’s Apple 2.0 weblog posted an article today covering the Piper Jaffray report surveying teens and the ChangeWayve Research survey professionals on their interests/intent to buy. They reported that 16% of teens and 30% of professionals plan to buy iPhones. The percentage amongts teens was down from the period right after the 3G launch, but [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized by Jason T.
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
Macworld 2009 Keynote Roundup
The keynote is 1/6/2009 at 9AM Pacific time. Here are some places to follow the Macworld 2009 Keynote and any liveblogging I could find: Engadget Macworld 2009 live Ars: Ars Liveblog of Macworld 2009 Keynote Macworld 2009 complete coverage page Ars Twitter updates TUAW Macworld 2009 landing page Macworld 2009 predictions Macrumors Macrumorslive.com Rumor roundup [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Apple by Jason T.
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
Headlines from Ars I find interesting…
Rumor: AT&T may finally announce iPhone tethering this week. For those who don’t know what this is, essentially tethering allows you to hook up your iphone to your computer and use it as a wireless modem–surf the web, play games, etc. through your phone’s 3G/Edge/GPRS signal. Question though is how much extra will this be? [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Apple,iPhone,Microsoft,Music by Jason T.
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
The Big Three’s New Bailout Ad
I don’t know where this actually originiated, so I’ll link to the place I found it, which in turn seems to link to the image somewhere else. Nonetheless, I’m re-posting it here, you know, in the spirit of sharing on the internets. I’ll claim that this is related to the blog in that it’s new, [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Advertising,Content,Off topic,User generated content by Jason T.
Friday, December 5th, 2008
Offensive words slip into Nintendo’s Animal Crossing
Nintendo sent some media outlets copies of Wild World, an Animal Crossing game for the Nintendo DS. Apparently you can share and import some of the player-created content into the Nintendo Wii’s console version of Animal Crossing. Wired’s reporting that somehow a player managed to get around Nintendo’s content filters and inserted an offensive word [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Content,Nintendo,Social Networks,User generated content,Wii by Jason T.
Friday, November 28th, 2008
Pomegranate Phone: Utterly Brilliant
“The ultimate all-in-one device” “Where no phone has gone before” Introducing the Pomegranate NS08 Phone. Utterly brilliant is how I can best describe it. It’s a phone that does absolutely everything that you want it to, and it puts the iPhone to shame. This upside-down tear-shaped device packs a ton of features into a sleek [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Advertising by Jason T.
Friday, November 21st, 2008
Steve Scher does it again: makes a “wiki” on the air
If you know me, you know that I can’t resist any opportunity to lambast Steve Scher, Senior Host of KUOW’s Weekday program here on Seattle’s NPR station. Now, Steve Scher in the past has had some real awesome shows…again if you’ll know me you’ll know these are three of my favorites: “Best pho restaurants in [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Content,Social Networks,User generated content by Jason T.
Thursday, November 20th, 2008
This viral campaign makes me puke
So I have two “WTF” factors for this post. One is Fred, the other is the ZipIt. There is this YouTube dude called Fred (his YouTube page) (or his home page). I just don’t get it. I don’t get it at all. I stumbled upon his blog post from Videogum, which talks about how Fred [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Apple,Content,Hardware,iPhone,Social Networks,User generated content by Jason T.
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
Best iPhone/iPod Touch Game Review: Enigmo
So today my co-worker brought in her new “iTouch” which she’s purchased for her upcomming extended travels. She was talking about how she downloaded PacMan, and I was trying to show her some of the games I’ve downloaded. I thought I’d tell her about Enigmo, which is, according to creator Pangeasoft: Enigmo is the most [...]