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One of the Dumbest Things I Did Lately…
…was wait almost 17 hours in line for an iPhone 4. That’s right, 17 hours. I’m not proud of it. It started when my girlfriend, Anne, and I arrived at Stoneridge Mall in Pleasanton at 5am. By then there were hundreds of people already lined up in the brisk morning. We made out way to…
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Why We Need the iPhone Jailbreak Community
In the past week, the nerds on the Internet were up in arms about Apple blocking Google Voice from it’s app store and for good reason. This is not the first time that Apple has blocked an application for asinine reasons. Their reason for blocking Google Voice? It “duplicates iPhone features.” I’m sorry, but NO…
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Read Then Watch "Watchmen"
From the moment I sat down in the theater and overheard a girl asking her friend, “I heard Watchmen about retired superheroes like The Incredibles,” I knew that reviews for this movie would be severely polarized. On one end, there will be the fan boys and girls that have read and fallen in love with…
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New Analog Meme?
I was thumbing through one of the used texts that I am going to be reading in the next week and I came upon this picture. I think people should put a nice note or a humorous picture like the one above for the next person when they sell back their books. It would probably…
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Hope in the worst possible time to try and become a journalist
Editor’s note: The previous quarter was tough. It was the first quarter in which I took classes that actually required me to do reporting. I had to interview several people multiple times and on my own time. My instructors gave me limited help with my writing and no help with finding subjects. I stretched my…
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Quick Review: KB Covers
I have never been a fan of keyboard covers but they are one of the best selling MacBook and MacBook Pro accessories at the UCI Computerstore. We just got in a new keyboard cover from a company called KB Covers and I thought I would take one for a spin and see if KB Covers…
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The Fall
Last night Anne and I went to watch The Fall at the local indie theater. From the trailer, I could tell it would be a visual masterpiece and I wasn’t far off. The entire movie was extremely pretty and there was so many little artistic details throughout the movie that made me really appreciate what…
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From Picket Lines to Checkout Lines
by Lewis Leong It is 7:30 in the evening, Feb. 25, 1970, when Stephen MacLeod steps out of the Magic Lantern Theater in Isla Vista, Santa Barbra, after watching the film, Fellini Satyricon with a few of his friends. Down the street is a Bank of America. Something catches MacLeod’s eye. There is a group…
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DRM Infesting TiVo?
CNet executive editor, Molly Wood has written and interesting blog post about a user’s experience with DRM on his TiVo. “I got an email today from a pretty furious Comcast user, who writes: ‘This morning, my kids and I decided to watch a TiVo HD recording we made last night of The Making of John…
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Best Sub-$60 Earbuds EVER
I did my laundry today and when I got my hoodie out of the dryer, I felt something in the pocket. I took it out and it was my pair of Sennheiser CX300 earbuds. I was PISSED at myself for letting something so stupid happen to my favorite pair of earbuds. I thought they were…
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The Thing About Macs
One thing I’ve noticed after owning a Mac for several months is that Apple has a tendency to produce great products that capture the imaginations of people around the globe BUT they always leave people wanting more. One example is the iPhone. People are still pining for the little device, a year after its announcement…
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DRM Dead
In my previous post, I spoke of the death of DRM in 2008 but what I didn’t predict was when. Today, SONY BMG announced plans to finally sell their artist’s music DRM free (via Gizmodo.) This is big news for the music industry and I’m ecstatic because the customer is finally getting the rights they’re…
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