Below are posts from January 2008
Jan 15, 2008 |
Dreamhost, a very popular web hosting company, has had a billing glitch and charged hundreds of customers in advance for service of 2 years or more.
Some customers have indicated they have been charged in excess of $1000. Personally I was hit for $238 and $598 for two different accounts. Fortunately, one account had an old CC tied to it and the other is valid but can be fixed.
I do feel bad for those using debit cards who might see overdraft fees because of this glitch.
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Today is the big day. What will it be – new iPhones, Macbooks with optical drives and built-in high speed internet or an updated AppleTV home theater package comprised of mass storage, Airport Extreme and a 60″ plasma tv?
Wait and see and play bingo at the same time!
Jan 12, 2008 | | Tags:
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Not really. Actually, its just some immature jackassses from Gizmodo who have since been banned from the CES events for life.
The story starts when the Gizmodo guys decide that it would be funny to take a ‘TV b Gone’, which is a handheld device that turns off television sets like a creepy universal remote control of death.
The guys then decide to take several of these devices to the CES (Computer Electronics Show) in Vegas. CES is a billon dollar symposium of new technology displays…everyone who is anyone has a booth and they are there for one reason only: …
AppleInsider has posted some pics from the Moscone Center, site of MacWorld 2008. The images show banners from Apple proclaiming “There’s Something in the Air”.
My guess: Macbook Nano with built-in EVDO/WiMax/EDGE. Or perhaps a cluster network of some sort like that used by the OLPC. Or Bluetooth iPods. Or miniature oxygen tanks attached to all devices.
NewsGator, maker of NetNewsWire and other fine apps, have made all of their non-commercial products free as of today.
NetNewsWire is probably the premier RSS feedreader on the Mac, giving users a Mail-like interface and the ability to manage as many compliant feeds as they wish.
In a post on his blog, developer Brent Simmons says:By free I mean both that we’ve released it from its cage and that it costs no money. Zero dollars.
Upgrades are free. It’s free for new users. It’s freeware.
You can download it right away. Here are the change notes.
NetNewsWire is not alone—we’ve also made FeedDemon, …
UPDATE!
If you are looking for a slot game that’s NOT for a jailbroken iPhone, there are two available in the iTunes App Store now:
Lucky 7 Slots
Reel Deal Slots
If you are like me (addictive personality and a penchant for shiny things), you like casinos. In fact, you probably like slot machines because they provide just enough payoff to make you feel less like crap for spending 16 hours in front of one as you progressively get so drunk that you can no longer remember how much money you …
Jan 6, 2008 | | Tags:
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Poor Hodgeman. Makes me feel so bad for the lowly PC. 
Whatever happened to the age of innocence, when puppies and kittens were cute and cuddly, and the sun shone down upon the white picket fences and ice cream socials? Why, I remember when I was 11 years old and the worst trouble I ever got into was when I pointed that toy gun at President Reagan and then stole an ambulance. Boy oh boy was my Mom cranky about that one – I was grounded for a month!
Why can’t kids just be kids these days? Where has that wide-eyed wonder gone?
http://digg.com/apple/iPhone_1_1_3_Prep_is_a_Malicious_File_DO_NOT_INSTALL
Evidently a young man of the tender age of …
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So many questions…
Where can I find these?
Will viewing them land me in Guantanamo?
How do we know they are real and not some CIA faked propaganda?
How is it possible for these to be uploaded and not traced? For petes sake, the RIAA can find anyone who downloads the latest craptastic Britney Spears song, but the ‘war on terror’ team can’t find out who has ostensibly uploaded an Al Qaeda manifesto?
Do they use any DRM? Is there an iPhone version? Why don’t they have an iTunes podcast?
Such a bizarre world we live in now. 
CAIRO (AP) — Video messages …
With the recent rumors swirling about regarding an Apple sub-mini notebook – as well as Asus divulgence of an Apple tablet PC in the works, it seems almost a given that an Apple sub-notebook will be of the EEE form factor.
Ideally, the ‘Macbook Mini’ would be touchscreen using multi-touch and running a mish-mash of OSX from both the iPhone/Touch and ‘normal’ Leopard. But even if it is released as a traditional notebook (keyboard, trackpad and Leopard), it would be a sure-fire winner.
Reasons it would …
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