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Man bites dog

Friday, April 18, 2008

Everyone knows that at&t has terrible customer service, right? It’s a nightmare, yes? Heaven knows I’ve said as much myself. We all know the score: the first slow activations, confused support, weird billing, yada yada yada. Ok, so I’m here to tell you that today hell froze over. Yes dear freaks, today I met an actual [...]

The death & life of my iPhone

Friday, March 14, 2008

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Last Saturday evening it was raining up a storm in NYC and I was rushing back from dance class. As I hit the sidewalk a taxi miraculously stopped right in front me. It was a sign from heaven. So I took it, thinking I could just dash home and save time. Ah! But the rain caused [...]

The Everlasting iPhone: Firmware Update 1.1.4

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

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Willy Wonka offered the everlasting gobstopper, the candy that never got smaller. With the new iPhone update, Apple offers the everlasting iPhone. Well, ok, it just seems like it. . . That’s right, fellow freaks, like many with virgin iPhones who went to the 1.1.3 firmware, I found that update seemed to suck the juice outta [...]

1.1.3 Upgrade: Effortless

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

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Each time we do this, Apple makes the firmware upgrade process easier and faster. As with my last upgrade, 1.1.3 came down like Willy Wonka’s river of molten chocolate — sweet and fast. I barely had time to turn the phone over (it was lying on its face) before the software had downloaded from iTunes. iTunes [...]

1.1.2 Charge Bug?

Sunday, December 16, 2007

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Howdy fellow Freaks! I’m back from my Caribbean vacation – no I didn’t try to take my iPhone, I know about those crazy AT&T data charges! – and it’s time to recharge my beloved device. Look carefully at the pic here, please. Yes, I saw the dreaded red bar. So I plugged iPhone into my [...]

1.1.2 Update: Easy as Eating Ice Cream

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

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In my infinite laziness, I waited to update to 1.1.2 until it appeared in iTunes this evening. The update took exactly 5 minutes. Then the phone restarted; as normal it disappeared from iTunes briefly. And I saw an image on the screen I’d never seen before: what looked like the iPhone and a cable with [...]

While Stephane’s off being famous. . .

Friday, November 9, 2007

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So boss freak Stephane’s off in Vegas at the big blog convention, right? And while we all know that normally what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, not so with Stephane. Nope. He gets the big story on C|Net. That’s just how cool he is. Yay us, as Buffy used to say. The rest o’ the [...]

Twice Bitten: Album Art Sync Bug?

Sunday, November 4, 2007

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First it was the Wi-Fi bug. Now I was syncing up some new music today on my beloved iPhone — syncy syncy syncy — la la la — nothing untoward appeared to happen at all. But! When I went to look at my coverflow, I noticed several of my new albums don’t appear there at all, [...]

Sent a little email. . .from my Windows desktop

Thursday, October 25, 2007

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So I came home from yoga, and checked my iPhone messages as I walked up the stairs from the subway to the street. Darn it! A little unfinished work bobble had popped up after hours! It had to be taken care of right away. But I was standing on the street corner in Brooklyn! What to [...]

Have I been bitten by the Wi-Fi bug?

Sunday, October 14, 2007

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As I reported here previously, the upgrade to firmware 1.1.1 seemed flawless once I finally got connected and re-activated. But in the last 3 or 4 days I’ve begun to have a problem connecting and staying connected to home Wi-Fi networks, particuarly (I think!) dlink and linksys routers. The Wi-Fi at Starbucks, the Apple store [...]