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How To Redeem A Damaged iTunes Gift Card
In: Entertainment| Mac OS X| Tech| iPhone
7 Dec 2009
Went a little overboard with the card scratching, eh?
Don’t Worry! Here’s How To Fix It!
Every year around the holidays the iTunes gift cards start rolling in. It’s a safe play for distant relatives, friends and colleagues. Needless to say, I’ve gingerly scratched the adhesive backing off many an iTunes gift card. That said, I wasn’t [...]
How To Fix An Xbox 360 Red Ring In 12 Minutes
20 Nov 2009
I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.
So Easy, A Caveman Could Do It
There’s no doubt that for the better part of its existence the Xbox 360 has been plagued by the dreaded “Red Ring of Death”.
In a perverse way, it’s the cancer of the 360 community– if you’ve been around long enough and [...]
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- Tags: Fix, Free, Red Ring, Red Ring of Death, Repair, Xbox 360
How To Jailbreak An iPhone 3G S
20 Oct 2009
Back in the early days of iPhone jailbreaking, things weren’t exactly easy. Jailbreaking my first generation iPhone took the better part of a few hours, running command line scripts and ensuring that you had the correct files for your particular baseboard or flavor of OS.
I’m happy to say that this time around, it’s a whole [...]
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- Tags: 3G, 3G S, iPhone, Jailbreak, Pwnage Tool, Unlock
You’re Due For A Rant, Palm
In: Entertainment| Funny & Offbeat| Tech
13 Oct 2009
One of these gals wants to sell you a Palm Pre, the other already knows you don’t want one.
OK, Palm, I didn’t want to have to tell you this way, but your commercials really suck– stop trying… seriously. I’m not sure if you were going for Borg, Minority Report Precog or a combination of both, [...]
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- Tags: Minority Report, Palm, Pre, Rant
My iPhone Groom’s Cake
13 Oct 2009
IMPORTANT NOTE: For greater appreciation and a good laugh, check out San Francisco Weekly’s 6 Saddest iPhone Cakes first.
I recently got married and my amazing wife had a fantastic iPhone groom’s cake made for me. There’s no doubt about it– it was definitely a huge hit!
Also, I learned that clever cakes, photo booths and crab [...]
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- Tags: cake, groom's cake, iPhone, wedding
BNO News Works Out iPhone Dilemma
18 Sep 2009
Just a week or so ago, BNO News (@BreakingNews), Twitter’s kings of domestic and international breaking news, announced rather unceremoniously that they would no longer support their newly released iPhone app.
With the newest revision of the app just weeks old, BNO’s announcement came as a huge surprise to me. Given the fact that I am [...]
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- Tags: app store, BNO News, iPhone
Simulating an iPhone App: iWebKit vs. iUI
28 Aug 2009
For those of you out there looking to produce a mobile site that simulates the look of a native iPhone app, you have probably run head first into two separate (but free) CSS/Javascript packages aimed at helping you achieve just that. If you’ve yet to stumble upon them, it’s your lucky day. The purpose of [...]
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- Tags: iPhone, iphone site, iUI, iWebKit, mobile safari, mobile site
App Review: ‘FTP On The Go’
In: App Review| iPhone
25 Aug 2009
FTP On The Go
Current version: 2.1 (rel. 8/25/09)
Size: 0.7 MB
Price: $6.99
Whether you’re a Web designer or system administrator, you probably don’t see too many days pass without logging into an FTP for one reason or another. Personally, I find 90% of the issues I deal with when away from my office are technical in [...]
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- Tags: app store, FTP, ftp on the go, iPhone, review
Safari’s Elusive Develop Menu
15 Jul 2009
To be honest, I’m surprised to be making a post about this but I’ve been asked this question a few times in recent weeks. If you’re a hardcore developer or designer, you undoubtedly already know about this, but if you’re an amateur webmaster it might be new to you.
If you’re like me, perhaps the biggest [...]
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- Tags: developer tools, os x, safari
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- Blake: Pedro, you can head on over to http://iwebkit.net/downloads and download the framework. It's already [...]
- Pedro: Hi Christopher, I am in the process of developing a DB driven application, but do not know yet, i [...]
- lesly: i have the same problem and i didnt know what to do but i saw this web site and hopefully it works f [...]
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- How To Redeem A Damaged iTunes Gift Card
- How To Fix An Xbox 360 Red Ring In 12 Minutes
- Two Ceramic Chihuahuas And A Microphone
- How To Jailbreak An iPhone 3G S
- You’re Due For A Rant, Palm
- My iPhone Groom’s Cake
- BNO News Works Out iPhone Dilemma
- Simulating an iPhone App: iWebKit vs. iUI
- App Review: ‘FTP On The Go’
- Safari’s Elusive Develop Menu
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