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19 February 2012 0 Comments

iPhone Camera Accessory – olloclip

It’s no secret that the iPhone has a really great camera in it. In fact, the latest iPhone, the 4S, has a really great camera! If I was forced to come up with a complaint about the camera in the iPhone 4S, I think the best I would be able to come up with would [...]

27 July 2011 5 Comments

Mac Resource Inspector – Apple Store

I went to the Apple store the other day with Valerie to get her MacBook battery looked at. In years past, the technician at the Genius Bar usually would just run some diagnostics or maybe even use a couple tools from a bootable CD. They have quite a cool setup nowadays though. They now take [...]

26 July 2011 2 Comments

The Best Computer I Have Ever Owned!

MacBook MINI

January 29, 2008. Apple announced the MacBook Air. It was nothing short of amazing! Thin, light, and beautiful. I got one shortly after release and loved it for about 2 weeks. The machine was absolutely perfect until you tried to do any real work on it. Because of its size, it had to sacrifice on [...]

2 July 2011 2 Comments

It *would* be great….for $149. HP Touchpad.

It *would* be great….for $149. HP Touchpad.

  Well, I went to see it in person, and after trying very hard to keep my expectations very low, I was still somehow disappointed. It pains me to say it; I want WebOS to survive in the worst way, but sadly this launch (if you can even call it a launch) did nothing but [...]

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17 June 2011 0 Comments

Battery Life: It’s about damn time!

Everyone’s universal complaint about smartphones? Battery life! It’s a sad but true fact that we have been conditioned to think that if a phone gets 8 hours of battery life, that is “good”. That is not good, it is crap. My worst battery life experience was the Samsung Charge, which I returned because of this. [...]

14 May 2011 0 Comments

Samsung Charge (I have signal again!) *UPDATE* Phone = returned.

Well after a brief 5 month stint on T-mobile, I have now left. According to them, they have “the worlds’s largest 4G network”, but according to me, their network sucks. I was using the kick ass Samsung Nexus S on T-mobile; everything about the phone was fantastic, except the carrier it was on. I found [...]

1 May 2011 0 Comments

Quick Hands On: Blackberry Playbook

We were in an Office Depot yesterday to drop off some packages to be mailed  when I happened to see a display for the Blackberry Playbook. I had seen many online reviews for the tablet but hadn’t actually seen one in the wild yet. We took the opportunity to go check it out and play [...]

31 March 2011 0 Comments

Make your own CR-48! ChromeOS Netbook.

Since Google decided to not send me a ChromeOS CR-48 notebook, I had to make my own! (I still REALLY want a CR-48) The Hardware I picked up a super cheap Acer Aspire One over at Fry’s. Model:  D255E Processor: 1.66GHz dual core Atom Memory: 1GB (upgraded to 2GB for $23 from amazon) All together [...]

7 March 2011 0 Comments

Rooting around in my Nexus S.

Well, It finally happened. My Nexus S was working too perfectly, so I had to go ahead and root it and load a custom ROM. :) Here is a quick little how-to of what I did to make it all work. All files are linked below. This is not a final release of CyanogenMod 7, [...]