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Richness of iPhone apps shows

September 17th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Well first Asphalt 4, then Spore and now X-Plane 9 Flight Simulator. The iPhone is the most amazing game platform available

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Richness of iPhone apps shows

September 17th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Well first Asphalt 4, then Spore and now X-Plane 9 Flight Simulator. The iPhone is the most amazing game platform available

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Leica D-Lux 4

September 16th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

This is a system compact based on the Panasonic DMC-LX3. So it has the same F/2.0-2.8 lense which is great and a 10MP sensor. It is a whopping $900 though, but it says Leica on it Makes me really want to see what the DMC-LX3 can do. It has a larger 1/1.63” sensor [...]

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iPod Touch and Logitech Pure-fi Extreme

September 10th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

If you are putting together the perfect “boom box”, then iLounge recommends the Logitech Pure Fi Elite if you want a bigger box with better sound or the nearly identical “Pure Fi Mobile” Paired with an iPod Touch, this is the dream stereo in a box. It’s incredibly reasonable at $96 at Pricegrabber

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Nerf HQ

September 2nd, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Now I’ve seen everything, take a Nerf N-strike gun and mod it at http://www.nerfhq.com/. Amazing what people can come up with. Personally I want the machine gun from the N-Strike line up. My favorite tough is the N-striek vulcan EBF-25 Dart Blaster. Which for $40 can fire 25 darts belt fed at 2/second.

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Blackberry Thunder vs. iPhone application momentum

July 29th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Well, Blackberry is finally responding to the iPhone with a touchscreen device that will be CDMA and use Rhapsody. Looks like a nice device, but we’ll have to see about how well it works. By that time though, the iPhone application race could be over. Pandora alone reported they added 350K users in a week, [...]

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iPhone 2.0 tips and tricks

July 24th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Most of these are not that obvious to me but the Edit button in Mail is useful as is saving images from the web
PDAStreet: Software Reviews: Review: iPhone 2.0 Software Upgrade
E-mail Management: You can now mass delete or mass move e-mails in the Mail application. Just tap the Edit button in the top right of [...]

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Canon RC-1 Wireless Remote Control

July 20th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

While I’m getting lost lense hoods and caps, I might as well get the remote control shutter release. It is a tiny 15g thingy that triggers the 400D, 350D or 300D (respectively the Digital Rebel XTi, Xt and original). It uses infrared from up to 5 meters and you can thread it on a [...]

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B+W 77mm Circular Polarizer Slim Lens Cap

July 20th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

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Slideshows on the Mac

July 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Slideshows on the Mac are confusing because iPhoto, iDVD and iMovie can all make them, so what should use when. Here’s a guide:
iPhoto ‘08 for quick and dirty on the screen slideshows
First this is confusingly actually iPhoto ‘08 , version 7.0 (why couldn’t they just bump the version to match the date?). This is the [...]

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