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Find my iPhone

The Find my iPhone feature available on iPhones and iPads is very, very handy if you ever lose or misplace your phone. The catch is you have to turn the feature on before you lose the device. Once lost, it is too late. So take a few minutes and enable and test the feature when […]

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Occupy movement is a cause, or an effect?

Wow, very thoughtful and though-provoking essay by professor Robert Jenson; worth reading and thinking about…. Occupy movement is more than just a flash in the pan. aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2011/11/201111191022862285.html

Virginia General Elections November 8th

In just nine days every registered Virginia voter will be able to cast ballots in the first state-wide general election since redistricting from the 2010 United States Census. Remember to check with the board of elections to find out your ballot before you vote so you have time to research your choices, or lack thereof. […]

FlashPlayer allows remote viewing/listening based on server settings

Every month since I disabled Adobe FlashPlayer on my laptops and desktops I have had that decision re-enforced by yet more news about security vulnerabilities, battery drain issues, and system crashes all derived from running FlashPlayer. I am so glad I disabled the junk software and recommend everyone else do that too. Here is reason […]

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Jabber/AIM/GTalk/Yahoo instant messages on iPhone

Enjoying OneTeam (http://oneteam.im/) new Jabber/AIM/Yahoo/GTalk client on my iPhone that supports Jabber Chat rooms beautifully.

Mobile Phone Carrier Contracts

If you are getting a new mobile phone, and you’ll be extending your contract, please have driver’s license, passport, military id, or state id ready. The carriers require that in order to extend your contract. You should also sync your current mobile phone to your computer to back up it’s data before switching it out […]

Started iOS 5.0 update for iPad

Woot! The long awaited iOS update is showing up in my iTunes 10.5 now; so I am applying it to iPad first and then iPhone 4 next. Squee!!!! Even more Squee: Airport Utility for iOS!!!

Getting ready for Friday

iPhone carrier plan comparison

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Evernote totally rocks!

I am replacing (finally) my venerable Palm Tungsten C and Palm Desktop Software on my Macs with Evernote… and it may replace some other things too – initial impression is: amazing! The driver to get off Palm Desktop (which I admit to using less and less lately) is that it is a PowerPC app on […]

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UltraViolet Launches

We’ve launched… uvvu.com This is what has been taking up a lot of my spare time for a long time.