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Archive for December, 2008
I’ve decided to finally cut the cord and combine my personal blog back into the main usrlocal.com blog. usrlocal.com lost its focus for a while and I wanted to get back to talking about technology, tips and tricks and doing some software reviews. It had unfortunately become a story reposting site [...]
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Frenzic
18 Dec 2008If you are looking for a highly addictive fun game, I suggest you check out Frenzic. Frenzic is brought to you by The Iconfactory and ARTIS Software. You may recognize The Iconfactory as they are well known for bringing the iPhone world Twitterrific. And once again they have delivered [...]
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- Tags: Games, iPhone App Reviews, iPhone Apps
Freak Snowblower accident!
In: Dumb People| In the news
11 Dec 2008No, not about me….or Blair.
Avalanche captain Joe Sakic will be sidelined at least three months, the team said this morning, after he suffered three broken fingers and tendon damage following an accident at his home involving a snowblower.
Sakic underwent surgery with a local hand specialist Tuesday night, the team said. Sakic suffered the injury Tuesday [...]
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- Tags: Dump People, Freak Accidents, Snowblowers
iTunes Failure
In: Apple
8 Dec 2008I don’t get to write about this too often. But tonight I ran into a situation where iTunes did not fail gracefully.
I recently joined facebook and decided to test out the free facebook app from the iTunes App Store. So I plugged in the iPhone, fired up iTunes, and [...]
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- Tags: Apple, Dumb Errors, Fail!, iTunes
Facebook!
In: Dumb People| Links
8 Dec 2008I’ve finally given into the dark side. I wasn’t sure if I wanted to do it, but I figured it would give me a chance to reconnect with old friends.
So after much reluctance, I have decided to take the Facebook leap. I’m already a LinkedIn member, but I figured that Facebook [...]
3G arrives from AT&T!
In: In the news
4 Dec 2008I was attempting to get a multimedia message off the iPhone today and noticed a nice bit of news. 3G has finally arrived from AT&T
Whoohoo!!!
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- Tags: 3G, AT&T, des moines, iphone
The Missing Save Button
3 Dec 2008At work, our corporate network is mainly all Microsoft. Sure there are roles filled by some linux machines and for our ISP services, its almost all unix/linux. But for email, calendaring, document sharing, its Micro$oft all the way.
I’m the black sheep of the office running OSX on a mini. [...]
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- Tags: Apple, Microsoft, Microsoft Entourage 2008, missing features, OSX
My Inbox is out of control!
In: Tips & Tricks
2 Dec 2008I’ll admit it, I’m an email pack rat. I don’t like being this way, I just am. I’m terrible about deleting emails. I send myself links to read at a later point in time. I often use my inbox as a todo list by sending myself messages of things I need to [...]
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- Tags: Email Archiving, Getting Things Done, GTD, Inbox Zero, Pack Rat
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