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  iPhone 4 Case Review: Gumdrop Air Shell Ok, so after much case deliberation I finally decided on getting the Gumdrop Air Shell (the white one from the Skater Nation collection). I liked the precise cutouts around the camera lens and the volume buttons on the side. The short answer here is that I think it is just OK. It’s the most expensive [...]

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  Movie Review: The Last Airbender could not have been worse Ok, against my better judgement I went to see The Last Airbender. I admit, the months leading up to the movie got me a little excited about the movie, the trailers looked fun and I sort of back burnered any thoughts of how bad a director Shyamalan is. Only in the moments in line waiting [...]

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  My search for an ultralight iPhone 4 hard case So, I’m not satisfied with the Apple’s bumper case. My preference is a slim hard case, covering the sides and back – generally that means a polycarbonate case. So I surveyed the land and unsurprisingly found many around – I decided to narrow the field by looking only at those that added sub-millimeter thickness to [...]

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  My beef with True Blood Every scene with Tara and/or her mother in it. Ever. That is all. (unless Lafayette is in it telling off the mother. that makes it tolerable.)

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  What am I missing about this new FaceTime revolution? Ok. Don’t get me wrong, I think FaceTime is pretty neat. I want to press that damn facetime button all the time – it’s sitting there like a big red button. However, I don’t see it as this big revolution that everyone else does and I’m wondering what I’m missing. I mean… is it really [...]

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  Google vs Apple App Stores: Moderation So I read the news with initial horror then acceptance yesterday when it was reported that Google had remote wiped some apps from Android handsets. The “nuclear option” in hyperbolic web frenzy. In some ways I agree with Gizmodo that if Apple were the one exercising this kill switch, the world would be in arms [...]

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  iPhone 4 Case Review: Bumper Ok, so. What to do about suiting up the new iPhone? Go to the Apple Store and pick up the bumper, right? I grabbed a black one (the only one they had in stock, but what I would’ve gotten anyway, what can I say, I’m like that). The short answer is that it’s just ok. [...]

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  Libretto W100 embodies what’s wrong with the netbook/tablet market I read various reports about the new Toshiba Libretto W100 tablet? netbook? something… this morning. Quite an interesting device, dual screen clamshell, but small (2x 7″ screens), and somewhat light (1.8lbs) unlike that crazy Kno. As a hardware device it’s somewhat compelling – standard Toshiba industrial design, but 2 smallish touchscreens in a nice package [...]

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  AT&T could be crowdsourcing their network problems away As an iPhone user I hate AT&T. Their service has degraded noticeably over their iPhone having tenure. That’s why it infuriated me when I read how their femtocell product (essentially putting a cell tower in your house that uses your probably-not-ATT provided broadband to carry your voice and data) will be a for-pay product [...]

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  Twitter is a feature, Facebook is a data business I think a lot about Facebook and Twitter, because… well, I guess because I’m a nerd. While I like and use both, there are a variety of reasons why I think that Facebook’s going to make it and Twitter is not. Part of the reason is that I believe that Facebook is much more mainstream [...]

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  Holy frack, Apple’s going to sell a lot of iPhone 4’s I mean, the Apple store is down again, after coming up and going down before trying to cope with the load of people trying to pre-order iPhones since I think 4AM EST. Seriously? How many people have to be trying to pre-order a $200-$300 phone at some ungodly hour in the morning to bring down [...]

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