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Cool Mystery Gift

Thursday August 13, 2009

When I got home from work last night, there was a mysterious package waiting for me. I wasn’t expecting anything and the return address was nothing I recognized. Inside was a small silver and black box and a note saying that it was a late birthday present from my friend Bob. Bob [...]

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No matter how hard you try to keep your music library organized, compressed, and free of ABBA, eventually you’re going to have more tunes than you can fit on your iPhone (or iPod, or any other mp3 device). The most recent iPod Classic has a capacity of 120GB, which can certainly hold a lot [...]

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Friday Five: iPhone Games

Friday June 19, 2009

The iPhone games that are occupying the highest percentage of my free time right now are:

FlightControl (previously)
Wild West Pinball
Parachute Panic
Wild West Guns
SkyBurger

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iTunes Tuesday: Display Song Lyrics

Tuesday June 16, 2009

Did you know that you can store a song’s lyrics inside iTunes? Simply right-click on any song and choose Get Info. Then switch to the Lyrics tab and paste the lyrics there. Now when you play that track on your iPhone or iPod touch, the lyrics will be displayed right on the [...]

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Flight Control

Wednesday June 10, 2009

The absolute best iPhone app on the market right now has got to be Firemint’s FlightControl. You are an air-traffic controller tasked with routing planes (and helicopters) to the correct landing strip at one of three different airports. It sounds simple — and it is easy to learn and play — but after [...]

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Whoa! I had no idea that you could use GarageBand and iTunes to create custom iPhone ringtones from any song in your iTunes library. That is bitchin’!

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Friday Five: iPhone Apps

Friday January 23, 2009

It’s time for me to revive the Friday Five here. We’ll start with a list of my five favorite iPhone apps:

Shazam
Twitterific
TapDefense
Vicinity
Morocco

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How to Handle a Ducking iPhone

Thursday December 4, 2008

For some reason that makes little sense, Apple decided to not include one of the words I use most frequently in the iPhone’s internal dictionary. So if I ever send you a text message saying that something is, “ducking awesome,” or that you need to, “get the duck out,” that is why. A [...]

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iPhone SMS Alarm Bug

Thursday August 14, 2008

This morning I discovered what is possibly the world’s most annoying iPhone bug. For some time now I’ve been trying to determine why every now and then I seem to sleep right through my alarm. The iPhone alarm can be set to be tragically loud and uncomfortably annoying, so the fact that I [...]

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iPhone Wallpapers

Tuesday August 12, 2008

I played with Photoshop a bit tonight while watching the Olympics and turned some of my favorite photos into iPhone wallpapers. (It’s certainly not hard to do — just resize any image to 320×480.) Here are 11 that I think look pretty good.

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