I managed to use up 80 MB of my iPad data plan in just under 12 minutes by downloading a single magazine via Zinio. As I was doing it the emails rolled in warning me that I was running low.
10:49 AM
Your 250 MB of data for 30 days for $14.99 rate plan has 17% of the plan remaining.…
Read the rest “AT&T Plan Nearly Out of Data”
The new version of the NetFlix channel on the Roku player now lets you search for any movie in their library.
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I got a nice little note from AT&T today. My data plan actually has 23 hours left on it according to the iPad itself. I used 160MB for the month. I had been a little paranoid and left the radio off for the first couple of weeks.…
Read the rest “Congratulations, your auto-renew of 250 MB of data for 30 days for $14.99 was successful”
For what I think is the fourth year in a row Apple is offering their free iPod Touch with the purchase of a Mac promo. This is like getting $200 off. Even when you pay sales tax you still beat Amazon’s price.…
Read the rest “Apple is offering Free iPod Touch again this year with purchase of new mac — waiting until after WWDC to buy”
Once of the best features of Amazon Kindle is the ability to sync your location between devices. I would love to have that ability in my Audible.com audiobooks. I often listen to books on my iPod in my car. I have the same book on my iPhone but it is very difficult to get back to the same spot.…
Read the rest “The @audible_com iPad app should allow synchronized bookmarks across devices like the Kindle app– now that would be cool”
I was just wondering this morning if Wired would ever come out with their iPad version and behold it is there. For $4.99 you can have access to the June issue with Buzz and Woody on the cover. $4.99 seems like a fair price for this issue when you consider what the newsstand version costs.…
Read the rest “Wired Magazine is now available for iPad for $5 per issue”
I updated to VirtualBox 3.2 but could not get my virtual computer to login without reverting to safe mode. I looked for the upgrade because my virtual window was constantly showing black areas until I moused over them to force them to re-draw.…
Read the rest “Had to downgrade back to Virtual Box 3.18 to get past the black screen and reboots”
It was as if a billion voices cried out in horror and were suddenly silenced. A company known for it bloated scare-ware buys a company known for keep SSL from being affordable.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64I71S20100519
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http://www.airspacemag.com/multimedia/videos/Go-For-Launch.html
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Be sure you know your login credentials before updating from Tweetie 2 to Twitter 3. Since the company has changed the usernames and passwords have to be re-entered.
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For the last three years Apple has offered a free iPod with the purchase of a Mac. I’m hoping they repeat the trend this year.
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I’m away from home and using my iPad to keep In touch. My only WiFi access is very limited and does not allow basic services like IMAP, SMTP, or VPN — only web access is allowed. That should not be a problem because I can get my email in Safari by going to me.com…
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http://developer.apple.com/wwdc/sessions/
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