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Facebook Notification of Alleged Copyright Violation
I recently uploaded a clip of my baby rolling over with some rocky background music on Facebook, and this copyright notice is what I get. The clip is less than a minute long and is only visible to friends. What … Continue reading
Why Wouldn’t An Apple VGA Adapter Work With An Apple MacBook Pro?
I purchased an Apple Mini Displayport to VGA adapter as a Christmas present for my sister this year. Turns out, the adapter doesn’t work with her 2012 MacBook Pro, it causes the computer to “beach ball” or hang until it’s … Continue reading
Hurricane Isaac Affecting The Cloud?
Looks like whoever coined the term “cloud” for Internet storage and hosting should have named it “fort” or something. Apparently people think the cloud is affected by the weather. These folks must be worried about Isaac in more ways than … Continue reading
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Apple Just Deprecated My iPad
Apple officially announced iOS 6 at today’s WWDC 2012. There’s lots of fancy features and everyone is excited. Then they dropped the bomb, the original iPad will not be supported. They will support the iPhone 3GS, but not the original … Continue reading
Saved From Windows Azure
I was looking at Windows Azure as a PHP cloud hosting solution recently, and decided to give it a try as it looks pretty straight forward. (The 90 day free trial is very tempting!) Unfortunately, I couldn’t even get started, since the … Continue reading
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The “New” iPad Speculators Are Silly
A quick craigslist search shows that there are a ton of people trying to sell new iPads (3/HD/?) for $100+ over retail. It’s kind of silly considering you can still easily walk into a store and buy one. I knew … Continue reading
Anyone Else Having Problems With CNN Live TV And Optimum?
Is it just me or is there a problem with CNN Live TV on the CNN iPad app? It used to work fine, but now when I try to log in with my Optimum ID it just shows a gray … Continue reading
Phone Manufacturers Don’t Care About You
I’ve been saying this for a while, but phone manufacturers don’t care about us, the customer. They just want us buy the phone and that’s it, give them money and leave them alone. Apple, and now even Microsoft, have figured … Continue reading
Adobe Gives Up On Flash
It’s official, Flash is dead. Well, not really, but it’s pretty much dead to anyone who has a tablet or smartphone. Adobe just confirmed that they are giving up on Flash mobile, and instead focusing on HTML5. They will still … Continue reading
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Hey, I Was A Social Media Pioneer Too!
It just occurred to me that I was a social media pioneer! Way back in 2003 I got the first camera phone in the US market with an always on Internet connection on Sprint. A little after that I setup … Continue reading
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