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A mishmash of thoughts on religion, life, technology, and whatnot.

iPhone EDGE users getting hosed?

AT&T screwing its EDGE iPhone users? | 9 to 5 Mac.   When I was in the Shoals area visiting over the holidays, I did notice that EDGE was way slower there than I remember it being when I was having to use it when I had the original iPhone. I could ...

Great Stuff from the App Store

It's amazing how many apps are released in 1 week for the iPhone. Since the App Store was launched, I've followed the RSS feed from PinchMedia that lists all the apps that get added, and there are easily 500 per week. Most are useless, or lousy, but out of 500 ...

Google’s Voice-Enabled Search for iPhone Now Available

Googles Voice-Enabled Search for iPhone Now Available - Mac Rumors.   Absolutely incredible. Works as advertised. I said, "Alabama football schedule 2009," and it recognized my voice search in about 2 seconds and found it. I said "Camp Sumatanga" and it recognized it perfectly. I said "Toad the Wet Sprocket Something's Always ...

I’m not a PC

Well if Neocon Ben Ferguson is a PC, I'm definitely a Mac. The Seinfeld ads were a disaster, but these are an improvement. The problem is that sure, a lot of people use PC's, but do they harbor the same affinity for them and for the brand that Mac users have? ...

Snatch saves me $128

So I really wanted one of these: for my which is hooked up to my And then I saw Pad for iPhone and I thought... this has promise, but the interface is really flawed. Today I found 2 apps that make me no longer want the $130 bluetooth keyboard. The best of ...

Some of my favorite iPhone Apps

This whole AppStore ecosystem is ingenius. The prices for most of the apps are low enough that people will buy more on instinct instead of worrying so much about a $35 application. Here are some of my favorites: OmniFocus It's a little expensive, and the sync process is a bit slow, and ...

Amazon’s New Universal Wish List

I usually point people to my Amazon wish list come holidays, but there's always been one feature that it's been missing to make it truly useful. There have been items that I've wanted, but that either haven't been released yet, or were not available on Amazon. Until today, you couldn't ...

Pennies for iPhone

The iPhone is simply a juggernaut that other cellphone makers just aren't going to be able to top. Even without the third party apps, it was the best phone on the market, but now with all of these really cool apps coming out for it, there's no way a Symbian ...

NetShare is back on the AppStore! [Update]

Nullriver Introduces 3G/EDGE Tethering App for iPhone [Updatedx4] - Mac Rumors. Who knows what the hold up was, but get it while it's hot. I wish it were cheaper than $9.99, but the developer has done a lot of great work on the Installer software which you get when you jailbreak ...

App Store - Apple Pulls iPhone Tethering App

Iphone 2.0: Apple Pulls iPhone Tethering App. Grrrr... I've been following the RSS feeds from Pinch Media of new applications that have been added to the App Store pretty religiously, but I just missed this one. Apparently, sometime last night an app got through that allows you to tether your internet ...

January 5th 2009
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iPhone EDGE users getting hosed?

AT&T screwing its EDGE iPhone users? | 9 to 5 Mac.   When I was in the Shoals area visiting over the holidays, I did notice that EDGE was way slower there than I remember it being when I was having to use it when I had the original iPhone. I could ...
January 3rd 2009
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Winter Geocaching

Scenes from around the Wolf River as we were out geocaching yesterday: [gallery] Because of the great weather we've had over the break, I've had the chance to get in some geocache hunts. Today we hit a couple of the easier park and grab ones while out for lunch, but the main ...
January 2nd 2009
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Great Stuff from the App Store

It's amazing how many apps are released in 1 week for the iPhone. Since the App Store was launched, I've followed the RSS feed from PinchMedia that lists all the apps that get added, and there are easily 500 per week. Most are useless, or lousy, but out of 500 ...
December 31st 2008
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Weightbot for iPhone

Click to Read: Lifehacker: Weightbot Tracks Your Weight with Pretty Graphs, Friendly Interface. Weightbot has been getting a lot of press here lately. I'll echo the praise, it's a great iPhone app to go along with all those New Year's Resolutions to lose weight. It's got an outstanding UI, really makes ...
December 28th 2008
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Hey Ladies - The Best Music of 2008

Why Hey Ladies? There's a significant trend this year with a record number of female voices in my choices for this year's mix—half of the songs. Last year, it was two. The other big trend was that this was the year of the male/female duo, most of them married couples. ...