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HDSLR workshop coming to Honolulu

I helped to put together his website and his workshop launched to great success in Seattle last week. Now it’s coming to Honolulu, and Los Angeles if you’re on the West Coast. My buddy PF is bringing his workshop to Hawaii in December. A great time to be in Hawaii and learn some mad skillz [...]

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Can you hear me now? Yes i can!

How to drastically improve your cellphone signal. I gave-up my landline telephone years ago and have been using only a cellphone. But one of the problems with the magical iPhone 3G is that I can’t get AT&T service in Hawaiian Paradise Park. Actually a roomate had a Palm Treo and he couldn’t get an AT&T [...]

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We Americans sure like to test things

Nuclear explosions recorded on earth between 1945 and 1998. Of course we didn’t only test things, we’re the only ones to have used them ‘for real’ on somebody…twice.

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Downgrading the iPhone 3G back to 3.1.3 and restoring apps

I gave iOS 4.0 a try on my iPhone 3G and I went back to iOS3.1.3 Two biggest iOS4 features for the iPhone 3G were Folders and Unified Inbox. There really wasn’t anything else significant from the upgrade. Folders made it hard to figure out where you put apps if you have a lot of [...]

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I’ve got the solution to the leaking oil pipe in the gulf!

And it’s got a 100% satisfaction guarantee! The answer is here

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And you thought rockets were dangerous

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Use strong passwords

I got two messages in the past two days of records been breeched. Got a letter yesterday from the Blood Bank. They had a computer stolen that had my name, birthdate and last four digits of my Social Security number. They’re advising me to do credit check. The second notice is from the website ars [...]

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Instant, No Hassle Connections

That’s the motto for the group that created the USB connector. I guess they never had to deal with actually finding and plugging in the right USB cord to connect or charge a device. And for each of those below there are corresponding male and female connectors. Such a hassle to have so many cords [...]

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Reality distortion field set to 11

(1/6/10) The rumor mill has been running at full-tilt that Apple will introduce the iSlate tablet computer during a January 27, 2010 event. Seems like a pretty solid rumor but the thing that gets me is that it appears that big newspapers like the New York Times are thinking this new gizmo will save the [...]

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Can a volcanic eruption be the solution to global warming?

This past week I just listened to To the Best of Our Knowledge and they featured Stewart Brand, founder of the Whole Earth Catalog (if you don’t know what that is consider yourself to be young or maybe you were just too stoned at the time). Brand talks about how globally things cooled down when [...]

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