Droids, Google Phones, Contracts, and Termination Fees: What’s a Geek to Do?

December 18, 2009 gadgets

If you’re new here, please subscribe to my RSS feed. And follow me on twitter. Thanks for visiting!If you’re plotting and planning your way through Smartphone waters, trying to get your grubby hands on the latest, hottest phone and mobile OS, you’ll need to be very strategic. Either that or willing to drop some dough.
At [...]

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Open Source Life Streaming

December 17, 2009 blogging

Do you feel like your participation on blogs and social media can be wasted effort?
I love blogging and social media, but much of it feels like I’m dropping content into a well to never be seen again (like delicious), or a fast moving river that sweeps it away (like Twitter and FriendFeed).
We’ve got all these [...]

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Use Your Old iPhone as a Backup Phone

December 10, 2009 iphone

Now that I have pared down my twitter list to a small enough number of people I’m following so that I can actually pay attention, I saw this come across the twitter stream this morning.
My friend Todd Crawford wants to break his old iPhone 3G so he can get an iPhone 3GS…

There’s a place in [...]

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Twitter Purge

December 10, 2009 twitter

I just went through a massive twitter purge. I do this every once in a while, usually after realizing (for the umpteenth time) that auto-follow is a bad idea.
I’ll say it again. Autofollow is a bad idea.
Wait…

There, maybe I’ll remember that for next time.
I used Tweepi to go through my whole list [...]

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What is a Jumper?

December 6, 2009 dlp-tv

I get a lot of questions in blog comments and emails asking the question, “What is a jumper?” Many of the Samsung color wheel repairs require that a small jumper be removed in order to get proper colors after a color wheel replacement.
What is a jumper?
If you’re from England, a jumper is a sweater.
Or, [...]

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Droid Does T-shirts

December 1, 2009 Droid

I got a nice surprise today in my mailbox.
That box on the lower right contained a nice long-sleeve T-shirt that says, “Droid Does” on it.
I’ll wear it with pride, glad that I got my little bit out of Verizon’s $100 Million Droid Ad Campaign.

Yes, those are two iPhones. One of them is green with [...]

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Droid Battery Cover Problem Update

November 24, 2009 Droid

I know you’ve been hanging on the edge of your seat about this one.
A week and a half ago, I posted a video on how to fix your loose droid battery cover.
It has actually turned out to be quite a heated issue amongst Droid owners with discussions popping up in several Droid forums and blogs, [...]

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Noise in Samsung HLP5063WX/XAA

November 19, 2009 dlp-tv

Here’s question from a pained Samsung HLP5063WX DLP television owner,
Dwight asks…

“I have a Samsung DLP TV model No. HLP5063WX/XAA.
About six weeks ago it started to hum for a few minutes during warmup, but would get quiet after a minute or two.
Now, it makes an obvious fan rubbing sound for a few minutes before quieting down. [...]

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How to get an iPhone screen shot

November 17, 2009 iphone

Sometimes the easiest answers are right there under our noses, and what may seem obvious to some are complete unknowns to others.
Chris asks…

Hey Scott, just a quick question about some of your posts I have seen in the past. On occasion I have read something you’ve written about the iPhone and you will accompany the [...]

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Samsung DLP HL-P5063W Color Wheel User Feedback

November 17, 2009 dlp-tv

If you’re an owner of a Samsung DLP HL-P5063W and are having problems with your color wheel, you’re not alone.
For detailed information on replacing your own color wheel, see this post: How to Replace your Samsung color wheel.
Be sure to check out the information from other users below from this sampling of the [...]

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