Archive for July, 2008

Jul.29.2008

Weekly Dragnet - 07.29.08

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The Big Gent: Part 1

Jul.22.2008

Weekly Dragnet - 07.22.08

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The Big Bomb

Jul.22.2008

iPhone 2.0: Customized

So the iPhone 3G came out, the 2.0 firmware was released to all iPhone 1.0 users, we are all happy and content now, right? Well, kind of. The 2.0 firmware is a major step forward for the iPhone platform, this is true, however we aren’t quite to that “perfect device” status yet. The single greatest [...]

Jul.18.2008

Quick iPhone App Review: Truphone

So, as you may or may not know, I have just zero cell phone signal in my house. Since this is my only phone line, this poses a pretty large problem. “You can get a landline phone though” no, no I can’t. I refuse. So what does that leave me with? Well, VOIP of course. [...]

Jul.16.2008

Apple’s Mobile Me

Day 1: The Mobile Me switch over didn’t happen quite as smoothly as every would have hoped. Although this kind of thing is sort of expected with a massive service change over of this magnitude. It was scheduled to take about 8 hours, but took more like 48 to be up and running enough to [...]

Jul.15.2008

Weekly Dragnet - 07.15.08

Today on Weekly Dragnet
The Big Frame

Jul.14.2008

Quick Movie Review: WALL●E

We went and saw WALL●E the other day, and I must say it was a really good movie. It was quite a pice of art. They somehow managed to give the little robot more character and personality with no speech, than most real life characters in movies have. There were some connections to real life [...]

Jul.11.2008

zBoost Dual Band YX510 PCS/CEL

Recently my girlfriend and I moved to a new house. Everything in the new house is perfect, except for 1 thing that is a huge pain in the ass. We get very little to no cell phone reception in the house :( Currently I have AT&T and she has T-mobile, both of which get the [...]

Jul.10.2008

iPhone. Round 2.0

So the iPhone 3G comes out tomorrow, but since the 2.0 firmware was let out a little bit early today, I of course installed it immediately! I was using a hacked 1.1.4 firmware previously. There were several reasons that I have been wanting 2.0 for a long time. The biggest being the Exchange support and [...]

Jul.08.2008

MacBook Air: a few months later

Well It has been a couple months of constant use, and the hype is all gone over the MacBook Air, so what do I think of it now???
IT IS GREAT!!!

Specs for the machine I have:
CPU: 1.83GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
RAM: 2GB
HDD: 80GB
ok, ok, let me go through the Pros and Cons.
Pros:
- Extremely portable
- Great battery [...]