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Fast Apple Customer Support

Posted on January 28, 2012 by Joey Gibson

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

Posted on October 6, 2011 by Joey Gibson

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

Posted on June 22, 2011 by Joey Gibson

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

Posted on June 15, 2011 by Joey Gibson

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

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Joey Gibson

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 :-(

Posted on May 28, 2011 by Joey Gibson

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

Posted on June 9, 2009 by Joey Gibson

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!

Posted on December 30, 2008 by Joey Gibson

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?

Posted on October 24, 2008 by Joey Gibson

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”

Posted on September 10, 2008 by Joey Gibson

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

Posted on August 19, 2008 by Joey Gibson

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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