From the Well that didn’t take long file: The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) is reporting that the iPhone Dev Team has released a jailbreak for iPhones running 1.1.1 TUAW: “The hack applies only to the iPhone at this time and is not meant for iPhones with modified basebands. An iPod touch jailbreak will be published…
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Apple Updates iLife and iWork ’08
Apple has released major updates to their iLife and iWork ’08 suites. Mostly the issues are compatibility issues and some small fixes. No major product enhancements or changes with this round of updates.
...Read MoreDrink Your Beer and Be Happy
Blizzard released another patch this morning for the popular MMORPG World of Warcraft just a week after patch 2.2.0 which added a ton of new features including Voice Chat. This latest patch adds new content for an Octoberfest style “brewfest”, Halloween-esque items and quests and a host of new graveyards. For the uninitiated graveyards are…
...Read MoreDone with it? Delete it!
One cool new feature I’ve found on the iPhone is it gives you the option to delete videos from it’s memory to save space when you’ve completed watching them. I can see this as leading to the ability to download movies from the iTunes store and then delete them when you’re done. Hopefully iTunes will…
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We just got back from the Apple store where I picked up one of the new aluminum wired Apple keyboards and I must say, it’s honestly the best keyboard I’ve ever used. No I mean it. I’m a peripheral sort of guy and this is really the best keyboard I’ve owned for both Mac and…
...Read MoreGoogle Presents Presentations to the World
So I’m looking at the new Google Presentation, part of Google Docs. The similarities to other presentation applications look like anyone who has ever made a presentation will feel right at home. Duplicate slide, insert image, change theme, share, publish; everything you’d expect but it’s all on the web. Pretty cool. I don’t think I’ll…
...Read MoreGet Your Edugroove On
Here’s something cool and new: iTunes is now offering iTunesU, a collection of lectures from Yale, Harvard, Stanford and other universities across the nation. I just downloaded Yvon Choinard, famous Yosemite big-wall climber and president of Patagonia clothing talking at Stanford University. Nice part is it’s FREE.
...Read MoreBuying for Baby
This weekend we picked up a stroller with an infant car seat for the new baby and a new mattress for the crib that my oldest son had been sleeping in. He has a new “big boy” bed. Picking a quality stroller/infant car seat combo was the hardest part though. Most of the reviews are…
...Read MoreUpgrading MarsEdit to 2.o
I did upgrade my copy of MarsEdit to the new version 2.o and honestly, I like the old style better. Yes, the new version does look more like all the new Mac applications but that’s part of the problem, it gets lost in the shuffle. Before it stood out nicely with the sidebar and unique…
...Read MoreCleaning House a Bit
I’m working on clearing all the RSS feeds in NetNewsWire. When you have over 14,000 unread items it makes NNW a bit doggy.
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