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Fast Apple Customer Support

Today I bought the 24 song, 2.3 hour-long Van Halen record Live: Right Here, Right Now from the iTunes store. But there was a snag: “Why Can’t This Be Love?” failed with an error -100000. I tried restarting it a … Continue reading

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A Sad Day: Steve Jobs Is Gone

It’s a sad day in the world. A visionary man has left us. Thanks, Steve, for all the great products that I use every day. I wish I could take credit for the sad Mac image, but I found it … Continue reading

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GV Places 1.1 Now Available In the App Store

After sitting in the to-be-reviewed queue at Apple for a week, I’m happy to announce that version 1.1 of GV Places is now available for purchase. The full list of changes is here.

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GV Places 1.1 Submitted To App Store

Yesterday, I submitted version 1.1 of GV Places to the App Store for review. I am hopeful that it won’t take as long to get through this time, but I’m not holding my breath. The biggest news is that I … Continue reading

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GV Places Is Now In the iTunes App Store

I am pleased to announce that my first iPhone app, called GV Places, is now available in the iTunes App Store. If you have an iPhone (preferably a 3GS or 4) and a Google Voice account, you might like it. … Continue reading

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First Rejection of My iPhone App :-(

I submitted my first iPhone app, called GV Places, to the Apple App Store on Monday, May 23. On Friday, May 27, around 9:00 in the morning, it entered the review process. About ten hours later I received the first … Continue reading

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Apple Doesn’t Seem To Want My Money

Yesterday, like six billion other people, I tried to pre-order a new iPhone 3GS from the Apple Store online. After trying multiple times getting multiple timeouts, I was finally given a message stating that they could not complete my request … Continue reading

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Dear Nintendo: A Wii Storage Solution, Please!

We have a Wii. We’ve had it pretty much since they hit the market. We love it, yes Wii do. Except for one thing: the unbelievably small amount of internal storage the thing has. It only has 512M of storage … Continue reading

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Dear Apple: Some Java Love, Please?

I love your machines. Truly, I do. Back in 1988 I bought a toaster-model Mac SE, with one megabyte of RAM, and I loved it. It only had a nine inch, black-and-white screen, and I loved it. For various reasons, … Continue reading

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My First Impressions of iTunes 8 “Genius”

After Apple announced iTunes 8 yesterday, I downloaded and installed it, eager to see the new “Genius” feature. This feature had been rumored to be similar to Pandora, the wonderful service that finds you more music based on what you … Continue reading

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Apple Still Working on MobileMe

I just received an email from Apple regarding MobileMe. Here’s what it said We have already made many improvements to MobileMe, but we still have many more to make. To recognize our users’ patience, we are giving every MobileMe subscriber … Continue reading

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