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Deal: Walgreens Free Ink Refill

In case you missed the TV ads, Walgreens is offering today only a free ink cartridge refill in their stores. You just need to go to Walgreens.com and print a coupon (yeah, not helpful if you’re out of ink), and then click their store locator (which will help you find the nearest store with a […]

Comment of the Week

Just a new idea I’m trying out. Once a week, I’ll take a comment I make from elsewhere on the web, and turn it into a blog entry. Nothing will change (not even to refine it)… except I will go out of the way to linkify it completely. The idea here is that it will […]

Upcoming Break

Sure, the blog isn’t a month old. But I will be taking a couple of weeks off from the web, starting Friday. Don’t worry, I’ll be back around the first of October. PhoneNews.com will be fine, and I’ll be around in case anything breaks.

Apple’s A2DP Rabbit Hole Gets Deeper (Updated)

Yes, as I’m sure you may have noticed, iPod touch is conveniently missing Bluetooth. Though many have confirmed already that it has the hardware, Apple submitted iPod touch to the FCC with it disabled. Now, you’re probably wondering “what on earth is going on here… Apple now can do Stereo Bluetooth in iPod, Mac, and […]

Nasty Safari 3 Beta Bug & WordPress

Yes, I have plugged Safari on this blog. No, I am not currently using it very much. Why? Because a Safari 3 beta bug with the latest versions of WordPress. Basically, when you edit an entry with Safari 3, all paragraph and line breaks are released… resulting in the saved entry being one massive paragraph. […]

iPod touch: Where’s the Mail?

The one thing that I do not understand about iPod touch is the lack of Mail. Apple’s email client would run just fine on iPod touch… just as well as it runs on iPhone. Leaving out other iPhone applications is actually understandable, for transitory reasons. Apple’s Notes application was not iPod-compatible… it did not work […]

SMARTReporter 2.3.0 Released

There is only one utility that Mac OS X should have… but doesn’t, and that’s constant SMART drive monitoring. The SMART status of your hard drive is an early-warning system that tries to predict when your hard drive is about to fail. Granted, some types of failures simply cannot be predicted, but SMART has saved […]

Quad CableCARD and I Don’t Care (Updated)

Microsoft has announced that Windows Media Center (Vista) will be upgraded to support up to four CableCARDs. Unfortunately, I couldn’t care less. In case you don’t know, CableCARD allows devices like TiVo and Windows Media Center to receive digital (and high definition) cable channels. Problem is, CableLabs, the folks behind CableCARD, refuse to allow anyone […]