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Should Apple pull the plug on the iPhone?

October 22nd, 2008 · 2 Comments · iPhone

Last year, John Dvorak said:
These phones go in and out of style so fast that unless Apple has half a dozen variants in the pipeline, its phone, even if immediately successful, will be passé within 3 months.
There is no likelihood that Apple can be successful in a business this competitive. Even in the business where [...]

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Is Richard Sprague going to eat his words?

October 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · iPhone

A year ago Richard Sprague wrote:
I can’t believe the hype being given to iPhone. Even some of my blindly-loyal pro-Microsoft friends and colleagues talk like it’s a real innovation and will “redefine the market” or “usher in a new age”.
What!?!? Without even mentioning that the same functionality has been available on PocketPC, [...]

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Error alert of the week

August 27th, 2008 · Comments Off · Macintosh, Programming, iPhone

Xcode gives this very informative error message when an iPhone enabled for development is being updated in iTunes.
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Spelling FAIL of the day

August 19th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Fun Stuff, News and Politics

The AP made an unintentionally funny spelling error when they posted this article, describing Lieberman as the Democratic “vice presidential prick”. Hopefully they won’t fix it, but here’s a screenshot just in case.
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BellSouth Sucks

August 15th, 2008 · Comments Off · General

For a long time, my DSL service has been very unreliable. As soon as it started raining, the connection would drop and it would go up and down every few minutes until the storm passes.
Today my phone service and DSL suddenly went dead. No dial tone and no DSL service. When I called BellSouth, they [...]

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Links for 2008-08-12 through 2008-08-13

August 14th, 2008 · Comments Off · Links

Links for 2008-08-12 through 2008-08-13:

Utternerd.org | Matt Freitag - The Utternerd (24/7 Office CSS too) - Lots of Mystery Science Theater 3000 Episodes
Tax Smears - If you received an email from Camp McCain stating that "Obama will raise your taxes", you need to read this.
One Man’s Quest to Digitize and Publicize Rare Vinyl - Thousands [...]

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Dead MacBook Pro Display

June 4th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Macintosh

I woke up to an unpleasant surprise this morning when my MacBook Pro wouldn’t wake up properly. I noticed it was warm and the display wouldn’t turn on. After rebooting, the display was still black, and it also wouldn’t drive an external monitor.
However, the MacBook Pro still showed up on the network for screen sharing [...]

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