Archive for September, 2007

Sure, the blog isn’t a month old. But I will be taking a couple of weeks off from the web, starting Friday. Don’t worry, I’ll be back around the first of October. PhoneNews.com will be fine, and I’ll be around in case anything breaks.

Apple has released version 2.0.2 of Apple Software Update for Windows. So, if you have QuickTime, iTunes, Safari, or Bonjour installed on your PC… you probably want to open up Apple Software Update so it can update itself.

Yes, as I’m sure you may have noticed, iPod touch is conveniently missing Bluetooth. Though many have confirmed already that it has the hardware, Apple submitted iPod touch to the FCC with it disabled.
Now, you’re probably wondering “what on earth is going on here… Apple now can do Stereo Bluetooth in iPod, Mac, and iPhone… [...]

Yes, I have plugged Safari on this blog. No, I am not currently using it very much. Why? Because a Safari 3 beta bug with the latest versions of WordPress.
Basically, when you edit an entry with Safari 3, all paragraph and line breaks are released… resulting in the saved entry being one massive paragraph. Of [...]

Looks like this article was damaged somehow… oh well, we’ll get it back from a backup soon…

The one thing that I do not understand about iPod touch is the lack of Mail. Apple’s email client would run just fine on iPod touch… just as well as it runs on iPhone.
Leaving out other iPhone applications is actually understandable, for transitory reasons. Apple’s Notes application was not iPod-compatible… it did not work with [...]

There is only one utility that Mac OS X should have… but doesn’t, and that’s constant SMART drive monitoring. The SMART status of your hard drive is an early-warning system that tries to predict when your hard drive is about to fail. Granted, some types of failures simply cannot be predicted, but SMART has saved [...]

Microsoft has announced that Windows Media Center (Vista) will be upgraded to support up to four CableCARDs. Unfortunately, I couldn’t care less. In case you don’t know, CableCARD allows devices like TiVo and Windows Media Center to receive digital (and high definition) cable channels.
Problem is, CableLabs, the folks behind CableCARD, refuse to allow anyone to [...]

Yesterday, Comcast came to my house. One of the great things about this blog, is I get to now chronicle some of my more interesting Murphy’s Law encounters. In other words, I get to vent over incompetence.

A lot of my friends have chatted me up on AutoPatcher’s demise. And I’ve been thinking about the issue myself, especially after I had to start suggesting hotfixes again. But I have come up with a good idea on the matter.
Some have, for awhile, scripted Microsoft’s download site to download all available updates for a [...]