If you are a returning visitor to this site, you may have noticed that I am doing a bit of rearranging in the sidebar, inserting a few ads, removing some obsolete widgets, etc. In the process of evaluating things to delete, I clicked on the Alltop link, and proceeded to get lost in reading some [...]

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Tomorrow people who preordered the WiFi-only version of iPad will be lining up at their local Apple stores, or waiting impatiently for FedEx to deliver their new Unicorn. As I’ve said before, I opted to wait for the WiFi + 3G version, so it will be a few more weeks before that happy day for [...]

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After watching the live feeds of today’s Apple iPad announcement, audio/video from Leo Leporte’s Twit, and live blogging by Gizmodo and Engadget (both of which crashed their servers from time to time), I have to have one! As expected, Apple blew away the competition. My KindleDX is now obsolete (not that I was ever really [...]

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See update at the end of this post. A mentioned here earlier, my new iPhone 3GS was activated with only minor problems. Now we have another data point to add to the history. My husband’s new iPhone arrived yesterday, days earlier than promised by AT&T, thank you very much! So, I set about putting to [...]

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Some things have been remade frequently because they are fill a useful niche, and someone thinks they can either do them better, or because they want to see them in a new form, or perhaps they perceive a potential money-maker. This seems to be the case with color wheel applications. A quick Google search turned [...]

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