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What new Flash content?

August 31, 2010

We wonder what sites Dave Winer visits when he argues that Apple’s boycott of Flash for its iOS devices isn’t working. I see new Flash content several times every day when I catch up on the news with my iPad. What Flash-heavy news sites is Dave visiting, because we don’t see them. Before the iPad [...]

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Still no iOS app data backup in iTunes?

June 30, 2010

We’ve now seen four generations of iPhones, have witnessed iterations of the iPod Touch, and seen the birth of the largest iOS device, the iPad. And, of course, we’ve seen numerous versions of iTunes supporting the various iOS releases, with app management advances such as folders and the ability to import files like PDFs from [...]

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Upgrade to iOS 4 and lose cellular data?

June 25, 2010

A number of people have reported losing data over AT&T when upgrading older iPhones to iOS 4. The culprit isn’t clear, though many owners reported jailbreaking their iPhones in the past, though this doesn’t appear to be a universal factor. Regardless, the common solution for getting data back is to restore the iPhone from a [...]

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Heat: an unaddressed iPhone issue?

June 21, 2010

We didn’t give much thought to iPhones overheating last summer, when reports were going around about iPhones shutting down after a certain internal heat threshold was met. But that’s because we never encountered this behavior, since we evidently didn’t put our iPhone through these types of paces. Things took a turn when we began using [...]

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AT&T screwed up our iPhone upgrade eligibility.

June 15, 2010

While we may not think that the 4G iPhone is an enormous upgrade, it’s all about the cameras, and that’s specifically the area we’re hooked on. So for some 5 megapixel camera love (plus flash and HD video recording), the new iPhone has us interested. We bought the 3GS upon release, so we should be [...]

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Verizon FIOS: non-basic install a nightmare.

June 15, 2010

We jumped on the FIOS bandwagon for our last move in hopes of super-fast internet speeds. While cable was long-touted as an outstanding alternative over DSL, our Comcast connection wasn’t perfect, and the 12MB advertised speeds were hardly that. So when we moved to a location previously wired for FIOS, we thought we’d be in [...]

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