I use an old-school tape adapter in my car when I want to listen to my iPhone while I drive.  I live and drive in a heavily populated area, and the FM band is crammed full of stations, so the FM transmitters do not usually work very well for me.  Barring removing my antenna like [...]

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I have been looking forward to push notifications on the iPhone ever since they were first announced.  I knew that programs like instant messaging on the iPhone would be truly usable then, because you wouldn’t have to “sign out” to do something like check an email or make a call.  It was a long wait, [...]

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After almost two full days with the new iPhone 3.0 software, there are a handful of  things that stand out for me as clearly AWESOME…things I wish had been a part of the iPhone OS since the beginning (or at least the introduction of the iPhone 3G).
1) Copying multiple photos from the Camera Roll to [...]

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One of the main reasons I wanted to jailbreak my iPhone was to be able to scrobble the tracks I played on my iPod to my last.fm account.  I really love last.fm, both for the radio features and just to have a history of what I’ve been listening to.  I like to track my habits, [...]

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I have to say, up until last night I wasn’t really that excited about the release of iPhone 3.0.  I was happy when they announced it some months back, and I knew I’d be happy when it got here, but I wasn’t so blown away by any of the features that I was jumping out [...]

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My Apple decals arrived today in the mail, so you know I had to make my pretty Mini even prettier (though I am sure John from Dell is probably dying a little inside, sorry John!).  The rainbow stickers from icolours.ca were cute, but they were too small and also too thin to cover the Dell [...]

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I got the shipment notification on my Dell Mini 9 today, and imagine my surprise when the tracking information showed that it shipped Wednesday night (instead of Friday, as the automated order status line had told me) for arrival TOMORROW! Picture me almost falling out of my office chair from sheer glee and you have [...]

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Today my first post for Gear Diary is up and ready for your reading pleasure!  I have been a long-time reader of Gear Diary (since it first launched in fact!) and I am really excited to do some writing for Judie and the site.  I reviewed Pocket Informant 1.0 for iPhone.
Go read it here:  http://www.geardiary.com/2009/04/01/review-pocket-informant-10-for-iphone
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One of my post-Christmas gift card purchases this year was a 40GB Apple TV. I wanted one for quite a while, and gift cards are the ultimate enabler! When there was no refresh for the Apple TV at MacWorld, (because who doesn’t hate buying something only for the new version to come out [...]

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So, I can kind of blame the wonderful developers of Pocket Cocktails for the hangover I had the day after my birthday.
You see, Pocket Cocktails is an absolutely gorgeous drink recipe app for the iPhone.  The interface is fun and retro, which is a big plus for me…but the real beauty lies in the recipes [...]

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