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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Just today there was an announcment from Barnes & Noble about a new eBook reader they will be selling, made by Plastic Logic. I’ve already downloaded B&N’s iPhone app, which sits next to Kindle for iPhone in my reading apps page. They have matching apps for Blackberry, Mac and PCs as well. But I don’t [...]

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I have a chance to review a new, specialized video editing tool called vReveal, just in time to try to fix up some of the shaky vids I’m making with my new iPhone 3GS. But there’s a catch. vReveal is a MS-Windows® program. Normally this would not be a problem, since I have Windows XP [...]

Posted in Computers, MacOS X, Open Source, Operating System, Video editing, Virtual Machine, Windows 7, WindowsXP, audio, drivers, iPhone, smartphones, sound card, video card 2 Comments »

It has been roughly six hours since I first powered up my iPhone 3G S, but I am still waiting for the magical activation to happen. A little while ago it occured to me to look up my blog posts from June, 2007, to remind myself of how long it took to get the original [...]

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It’s here at last. Now, I’m not going to do the “unboxing” schtick — that’s been done. But as I recall from 2007 when we bought our original iPhones, getting the shrinkwrap off was the hard part. Connecting to iTunes and restoring from the backup I made from my old phone has gone well, but [...]

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Tomorrow is the day the iPhone 3G S arrives, finally. A couple of hours ago I checked on my order with AT&T, and saw that it has been shipped via FedEx, but there is still no tracking number posted there, so I will just have to be patient and trust. But one unexpected side effect [...]

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The iPhone 3.0 software is downloading now, to be installed on my old phone in advance of getting the new one tomorrow or Friday. Ohboyohboyohboy! Well, actually, I’m not all that excited, but it will be nice to have a faster phone with more bells and whistles. The fact that I dropped my old one [...]

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I said I’d report on the new mobile router, modem & antenna we bought this week, so here you are. It’s all good! At least so far. Right now we have the router (with the USB modem sticking out the side of it) sitting on the dashboard of our RV: Connected to the modem is [...]

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While it is not new technology, until now we have not had a satisfactory way to consistently get true broadband internet away from home. We’ve tried WiFi at various RV parks and internet cafés, smartphones, and even an internet-connected satellite dish, but they all have serious drawbacks. WiFi connections operated by uninformed park caretakers can [...]

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As we prepare for the second phase of our annual southern migration, I was considering our internet connectivity during our travels. Last night when I was trying to put on an event at the ISM, I kept crashing because the cable here has a problem with frequent drops. That’s one problem, but mostly while we’re [...]

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