The main reason I had a jailbroken iPod Touch is because I really liked the game Five Dice. Five Dice is an excellent version of the old dice game called Yahtzee. I was hoping that the developer would bring it to the App store once version 2.0 of the software was out and they came [...]
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Apple doing the right thing by communicating
Posted in Apple on Jul 27th, 2008
In infrastructure we face outages of systems at any time. When people can’t get to their applications, data, or email one of the most important things we can do is to communicate openly and honestly with them until the issue is resolved. People tend to be a little more understanding of the issue if they at least [...]
Resetting my expectations with the App store and syncing
Posted in Apple on Jul 27th, 2008
I realized a mistake I have been making with purchasing applications from the iTunes App store and the iPhone. I thought it would work like this:
Purchase an application from iTunes and it would then sync with the phone - check.
Check for updates to purchased applications with iTunes and have those updated applications sync to the [...]
Continued from Part 1…
Thankfully I was able to get her phone operational again by holding down the button at the top edge of the phone until it asked me if I wanted to power it off. I powered it off and back on again and all seemed fine, but I lost just a tiny bit [...]
There is so much to catch up on since Apple released 2.0 for the iPhone and iPod Touch that it’s hard to figure out where to start.
On July 11, 2008, we were getting ready to leave for a vacation to Myrtle Beach when I noticed the 2.0 software release for the iPhone was out. Since [...]
Are you backing up all of your data?
Posted in Apple, Personal, Technology on Jul 18th, 2008
I just spent the better part of the night trying to get data back from a friend’s MacBook that had a failed hard drive. Those of you that have had this happen while running Apple’s OS X may know the sickening feeling you get when all you see when you start up is an [...]
iPhone 3G not (yet) for me
Posted in Apple, Microsoft, Technology on Jul 9th, 2008
I haven’t updated in a while because there really hasn’t been much I felt like talking about, but with the iPhone 3G coming out in less than 2 days I figured I would give my unsolicited reasons why I’ll be sticking with my iPod Touch for now.
My issues aren’t so much with Apple as they [...]
iTunes, this should be easier
Posted in Apple on May 31st, 2008
There must be an easier way to do this or I am definitely missing something. All I wanted to do was create a playlist that excluded all songs that were listed as explicit. Sounds simple, right? Well, I searched around for a bit and finally gave up and decided it would be easier to just [...]
Firefox, Outlook Web Access, and cursor position
Posted in Blogging, Microsoft, Technology on May 21st, 2008
I’m usually the one to give the technical help, but now I turn to everyone for my own technical help as I can’t find this answer anywhere - but I’m still looking.
I am using Firefox to access Outlook Web Access and everything works just fine. But I noticed somewhere along the line, I think with [...]
eWeek, I surrender - so I’m leaving your feeds
Posted in Blogging, Technology on May 19th, 2008
This will be an almost exact duplicate of a post I made nearly one year ago about Infoworld and how they made the decision to clog my RSS reader with their advertisements, so I made the decision to unsubscribe. Today I get to say the same thing about eWeek, but their feeds are even worse. [...]