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The HD2 Is Frying My Balls

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I’ve never had a phone with even close to this level of interference. If I get an email on my phone my computer speakers go nuts. With my Fuze I used to keep it on my desk about a foot away from my speakers- I never had any interference. With my HD2 I have to … Read more

Zuma For WM Revamped and Re-Released

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Zuma has been completely rebuilt and the new version is now available. If you’ve never played it, you have to shoot colored bubbles to make combos of three of the same color to break the chain coming at you before it reaches you. It’s a great mix of action and logic that’s highly addictive. Well … Read more

Hulu is Back on Skyfire! (Gone Again)

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Once upon a time you used to be able to use Skyfire to view Hulu content and one day we got a message that we were in a foreign country and didn’t have Hulu support on our browser. Well today Hulu started to work on Skyfire again. Both the Hulu and Skyfire blogs lack any … Read more

No More Dumb Word Play in Titles of Articles About Google Buzz Please

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Oh, Google Buzz, I love you. I’ve had so much fun with this thing, especially since I got my Nexus One in the mail. Actually the first thing I did with the phone was Buzz about my having just unboxed my Google phone. So it started out harmlessly but it has become an obsessive liability.

You see, a key component of my Buzz MO was crossing the boarder into Harlem where I would proceed to cross the line by posting something just slightly, oh so benignly slightly, racially overtoned to provoke a soulfull response from the hood. In my most recent Buzz I was engaged by a native a rap battle. I can’t post his attack, way too nasty for this place (but admittedly a pretty decent set of rhymes that made me feel bad about myself), but with the help of an online dictionary I came up with this retort:

Not bad, right? Cocksure of victory, he invited a vote from other Buzzers:

Can’t you see why I want to go back north and Buzz some more? So can my uncle, but he can also see why I ought not to. An email from him this morning:

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Steve Jobs’s Diabolical Plan for Global Domination

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Doesn’t anyone else see what is so obvious to me? Or has Steve Jobs’s diabolical plan for global domination already reached a point that humans don’t even see what is happening to them?

The whole iPhone (and iPod and iPad) thing is starting to sound like a 1950’s science fiction movie. If you’ve ever watched one of these now-totally-camp movies, the story line goes like this: A mad scientist bent on world domination invents a fanciful machine that turns humans into unthinking zombies over whom he has complete control. Now let’s update that storyline. A mad scientist by the name of Steve Jobs invents a fanciful machine called the iPhone that, according to a recent Stanford University survey, turns users into "junkies" allowing him and his evil empire to take over the world (at least the media world, so far). Now do you see it?

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Kinoma FreePlay and Kinoma Player 4 updates now available…

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YouTube recently made some unannounced changes that broke YouTube support in some of Kinoma’s products. Happily, updates for the affected products are available right now! They’re so easy to get that you’ll be YouTubing again in minutes. Here’s how… How to update Kinoma FreePlay To update immediately, go to Kinoma FreePlay’s main screen, show the … Read more

Spb Software Updates.. Just in case you missed them!

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So the past few weeks, Spb has updated several of their products. In case you didn’t catch them, here is a quick snapshot of what’s been updated. Spb News: The website shows the current version at 2.1.1 (April 2, 2010) but doesn’t show what was updated. Could be a minor oversight on their part. Spb … Read more

Want To Preview Facebook For WP7?

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As we all know, WP7 is based on Silverlight and if there’s a standalone Silverlight app you can pretty much drag and drop it to create a WP7 app with just a few sizing and control changes. Well, it stands to reason that if Microsoft has a Silverlight Facebook application that it will find its … Read more

Best Tech Support Ever

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iPad this…iPad that. See, whenever MS has an issue it’s headline news that gets mocked and jeered. Well, it’ turns out the iPad has a serious wifi problem and Apple is really stepping up the tech support:) Michael Arrington of TechCrunch notes “The device works fine near the router, but on the other side of the house, nada. But my Macbook pro and my Nexus One and other various devices I’ve brought into the house pick up wifi just fine in that area…My understanding of Wifi issues on devices, particularly cramped devices like the Macbook Air and iPad, is that it’s usually a hardware/design issue and something that can’t be fixed via a software patch.” The point is, if someone who is tech savvy can’t get wifi to work, you can imagine what happens to laymen…and even worse, people who can’t even be trusted to change a battery. Well there are over 1,000 messages in the Apple iPad forums about wifi issues.  So what does Apple suggest to fix these problems?

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Oh, Snap!

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Since HTC had limited control over making Windows Mobile less of an iceberg of bloated and buggy code they wisely asked their friends at Qualcomm to stuff as much horsepower as possible under the hood to compensate for the sludgy software and make guys like David K think that their new phone rivals the likes … Read more