A Look Inside T-Mobile’s Emergency Response Teams
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TidBITS Redesign Is Now Live!
This has been a long time coming, and now I’m happy to announce that the redesigned Web site for TidBITS is now live. The backend was built by Glenn Fleishman, I did the graphics and HTML/CSS, and publishers Adam and Tonya Engst herded Glenn and I. We’ll be talking more about the redesign in TidBITS ...
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Un-damn: $100 iPhone Rebate
I shed a little tear yesterday at the news that the iPhone dropped $200 in price, but today I’m dry-eyed: Apple to Offer $100 iPhone Rebate for Early Purchasers.
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8 GB iPhone Now $400. Damn.
Yes, I finally broke down and bought an iPhone – on August 8, which inconveniently for me is outside Apple’s 14-day price protection guarantee. That means I paid $600 a month ago for what costs $400 now. But I’m not really upset, honest. Every single time I get a phone call, I feel a zing ...
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Hobbies
This short film is great: all about the frustration that hobbies can bring. (Better quality QuickTime version here, but it might not stay at that URL, so I’ve linked to the YouTube version below.)
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NBC Yanking TV Shows from iTunes
Macworld: iTunes Store to stop selling NBC shows in September NBC: “Thanks to Apple and iTunes, we’re making money we otherwise wouldn’t have made, so now we’re greedy bastards.” I suppose some people might be compelled to try the new Fox/NBC Hulu.com service, which I read somewhere will require that you’re online to watch. But ...
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Coffee Drinks Illustrated
This is a great, simple-to-understand diagram of popular coffee drinks: Coffee Drinks Illustrated. Click to view the whole thing. This would make a great poster.
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Macworld’s iMovie ’08 Review
Macworld has posted their review of iMovie ’08, written by Mike Curtis of HD for Indies. (I was originally tapped to write the review, but I had to back out; my plate is overflowing already, and I wouldn’t have had the time to review iMovie ’08 fully given that it’s now a completely new program.) ...
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Goodbye Gonzales. Dems, Don’t Screw This Up, Too
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announced his resignation today (effective September 16), eliciting a collective sigh of relief across the nation. The term “incompetent” gets thrown around too much these days (and isn’t that a statement on the political climate we’re living in), so I’m not going to say that Gonzales was incompetent – he was ...
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iMovie 7.0.1 Fixes Bugs
Apple today updated iMovie ’08, fixing unspecified bugs and addressing an issue with publishing to .Mac Web galleries. The iMovie 7.0.1 updater is a 9 MB download, or is available via Software Update.
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iMac Review at Apple Hot News
My latest Seattle Times column on Apple’s new iMac appeared on Saturday, and today a friend pointed out that Apple is featuring it on their Hot News page: “The very model of a modern Macintosh” iMac, “the very model of a modern Macintosh,” may have evolved over the years into “this new aluminum fighter-jet of ...
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