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So there is a nice report on cnet about an human denial of service attack on the Apple Retail Store Genius Bars.
According to this story, and the FSF site DefectiveByDesign, the goal is to book as many 10-minute time slots as possible over a two-day period at the Apple Store in a lame attempt to [...]

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This is the first post using the Wordpress app for the iPhone.
It’s a pretty nice application, but it would be better if it supported the rotation feature to get the horizontal keyboard.
I do like the fact that you can add photos.

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As I keep browsing the App Store to find more interesting applications, I find my self wondering exactly what criteria Apple is using to place the various applications in each category.
It’s not the actual application category or sub-category that I find strange, but the generic categories:

All iPhone Applications
All iPod Touch Applications
All Free Applications
New

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This morning, as I have for the couple of days, I checked the App Store in iTunes for new applications for my 8GB iPhone 3G.  I noticed that when I sorted the new applications by release date that the NYTimes application showed a release date of July 16, 2008.  I thought that it was odd [...]

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This is part one of a short series of articles detailing the process I went through to restore a friend’s table pc after her hard drive dies due to a head crash.
Background
My friend has a Gateway CX210X Convertible Notebook. This model uses a SATA internal drive. Her drive died sometime last Friday afternoon [...]

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