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There has been a lot of buzz recently about the commercial for Motorola’s new phone, the Droid. Commercials were recently launched that mock what the iPhone can’t do. It has brought on yet another flurry of “iPhone Killer?” articles. The Droid will not be an iPhone killer, though. But the Android platform will be.
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I found a cool hack for iTunes where you can enable half star ratings in iTunes. Now I can rate songs 1 and a half stars, 2 and a half stars, etc.
Mac:
Open terminal and type:
defaults write com.apple.iTunes allow-half-stars -bool TRUE
Windows:
Open the iTunesPrefs.xml file at %appdata%\Apple Computer\iTunes (type that path in the Run command box) and [...]

When it comes to refurbished products, many people shy away from them. They don’t want a product that has had problems in the past. For me though, I prefer refurbished. Heck, I’m even considering buying a refurbished Vizio HDTV soon. Refurbished products are cheaper and usually go through more testing than a new product.
Now that [...]

Every time a new touch screen smartphone comes out, every news writer calls it “The iPhone Killer”. I assure you that the BlackBerry Storm will not even come close to infiltrating the iPhone market. You know why? Teens think the iPhone is cool. It turns out that 8% of US teens already own an iPhone, [...]

Apple currently owns the entire music player market. They are also moving in on taking the smartphone and TV recorder categories with the iPhone and AppleTV. Anything Apple creates these days seems to be considered cool. The Apple brand represents the opposite of Microsoft. That’s what makes it so cool to own something by Apple. [...]

I love my Apple TV, but typing using the dinky remote they include is a pain. I discovered that if you run the Remote App on an iPod Touch or iPhone you can use it to type into fields on your Apple TV. The same screen will appear on the screen of the device.
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The Andoid Phone is set to come out next week. Everybody seems to be saying that it will be a definite iPhone killer. HA! Sure the Android phone is cool for us techie geeks, but these people that are pitting it as an iPhone killer are way off base. The iPhone is cool, sexy, and [...]

About a year ago, somebody discovered a patent filed by Apple for an iPhone Nano. Apple discounted the rumors that surfaced about the device, claiming they have patents for all kinds of things that never get made. Well, it appears that an iPhone Nano is actually on the horizon. InformationWeek is reporting that an iPhone [...]

I am floored by the amount of items that iTunes installs on my PC. I just want to be able to listen to my music on my PC, but iTunes wants to creep and crawl into every crevice of my operating system.
qttask - A part of QuickTime that wants to run in my taskbar every [...]

Lately I’ve had some strange feelings. Recently I found myself wanting an iPhone. Yah! Me wanting an iPhone? Previously I had thought that the iPhone was a great waste of money since there are so many more superior products on the market. I also have no need for a device that does so much. So [...]