Dec
18
via Jalopnik:
Tyler Shipman loves Pontiac Fieros so much he posed for his senior picture with one he bought for $150. Weeks later he was diagnosed with terminal cancer. He’d need a miracle to finish his project car.
And boy, did that miracle show up in a big way. Watch the video above for the story.
Dec
16
This is huge for anyone who owns an Apple product and has ever dealt with having to fix, say, a keyboard that your cat puked on (ask me how I know this…): iFixit has released it’s fixit guides for iPhones, iPods, Macbooks, and Mac desktops under a Creative Commons license. For the average person, this basically means that you can access their online guides for free.
via Lifehacker:
We’ve always been impressed with the detailed, step-by-step guides iFixit has posted for MacBooks, iPods, and other devices. Now the site’s put every bit of its content, and future posts, under a Creative Commons license, one that allows for free, non-commercial distribution and modification, with attribution. That doesn’t mean you can go selling your own knocked-off repair guides, but you can rest assured that iFixit will get better international translations, and that its sometimes irreplaceable repair guides will stick around in one form or another for some time.
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7
…I find it funny that AT&T has released “Mark the Spot” for the iPhone [Free - iTunes link], an application made for the sole purpose of telling AT&T when your voice or data service has dropped off the map.
Somehow I think this is not going to end well for AT&T. Do you think that Verizon just might be able to capitalize on this? Maybe? Or is it a potentially-successful attempt at reconciling how the entire United States feels about AT&T’s service?
via Gizmodo
Dec
1
via Gizmodo: AT&T Comes in Last in Consumer Reports Study That Surprises No One
Here’s some news anyone with an iPhone could have told you: AT&T delivers crappy service that its customers hate. But this news comes from a reputable source, Consumer Reports, instead of the usual whiny friends.
Carrier exclusivity and all that.
Nov
27
…or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Overview.
I’ll freely admit that I suck with money: I spend it if I’ve got it, I can’t keep track of it very well, and budgeting is… well… one of those things I’ve never learned. For the last 10 years or so I’ve been an avid Quicken user, using it much like a high-powered check register: I’d enter every single transaction, and as those cleared the bank I would reconcile them in Quicken. With the advent and proliferation of debit cards and my preference to use cash less and less, the amount of transactions I was entering and reconciling was in the thousands per year. That’s a lot of work, and for very little gain it turns out. Read more »
Nov
18
I used to be a Verizon customer – a very satisfied one as my calls would never drop. I ditched them for a device I love just like many have done. Some people claim that AT&T’s network has suffered because of users like me are taking up all the bandwidth or something. Whatever: you get exclusive access to the hottest piece of hardware out there, make sure your network can handle it or you’re going to lose customers, as I will be looking to do in 2011 when my current 2 years are up and when Droid matures even more. But in the meantime, AT&T? The truth hurts:
AT&T did not file this lawsuit because Verizon’s “There’s A Map For That” advertisements are untrue; AT&T sued because Verizon’s ads are true and the truth hurts.
Smart move, AT&T: all of your customers know your coverage sucks. Your iPhone customers are dissatisfied with your service and would jump ship in a heartbeat. Maybe you have the “Nation’s Fastest 3G Network” but it’s only in the relatively rare cases where my phone can find it. Good move on a lawsuit as a response to something we all know is the truth.
I honestly thought I had gotten past having to actually check the number of bars my phone was getting when I was with Verizon. Not so now that I’ve switched to an inferior network. AT&T? You suck.
Nov
15
It’s good to see Lifehacker focusing on backup tools. After literally years of struggling with backing up various computers and laptops I’ve owned over the years, and having learned my disaster-recovery lesson the hard way when I lost the hard drive on my desktop in 1996 or something, I’ve recently settled into a very cozy relationship with Mozy. I signed up for the yearly Home Unlimited plan ($50/yr per machine) and have been nothing short of pleased with it’s performance.
Check out other options over at Lifehacker, but whatever you do? Make sure you’re backing up your data…
Oct
16
Oftentimes I look at my iPhone and wonder why I’m not enjoying it more like all those people on the commercials who link up with 27 of their closest friends in downtown San Francisco for some flashmob Titterific event… or something.
And then I find an app like RedLaser. So incredibly worth the $2 they’re charging for it. In short, point your iPhone at a bar code and it almost instantly will give you price comparisons across Amazon.com and Google Product Search. I started scanning everything in my house. It told me we could replace Anna’s BlackBerry for $249, told me where to purchase Ramen by the case, and even gave me price comparisons for a box of Winchester .308 FMJ. ($14.99? Are you kidding me?) It would seem that if something’s got a UPC barcode, this app will look it up for you. Simply awesome.
