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App Purchases

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A partial list of apps I have purchased for iOS and Android: Purchased via iTunes Midway Arcade, Atomic Web, Blogsy, Star Walk Splashtop XDisplay, Splashtop XDisplay Unlimited Plex CameraSync, v1.2.2 (4+) KyPass, v1.8 (4+), Air Display, v1.6.1 (4+) Top Camera, HDR and Slow Shutter for iPad, v4.2 Disc Golf Course Locator, v1.2 Disc Golf Course Finder, v2.0 BlurFX, v3.1.6 Halcyon, v1.2 QuickShot with Dropbox, v2.0.1 (4+) AVPlayerHD, v1.47 (4+) TextGrabber + Translator, v2.6 (4+) Panorama 360 Camera, v4.7 (4+) Max

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Jambox vs. HMDX Jam

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This comparison is still in progress… this is just the initial draft 🙂 [more photos will be added] First we will start with a comparison of performance on six different songs covering a variety of eras and genres: Listening (at moderate/normal volume levels) Jambox ratings for the following sampling of songs: Thrift Shop – this is a fun song and the Jambox does a superb job here. Everything sounds as it should. Excellent Roll Over Beethoven, Chuck Berry -overall nice

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ACPI\SMO8810 Dell driver [SOLVED!]

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Q. Hi, I just bought a Dell laptop and resinstalled Windows 7 on it. Now I have an unknown device ‘ACPI/SMO8810’. What driver can I download to fix it? A.Here is the download link to solve your ACPI/SMO8810 Unknown Device issue: [download id=”10495″ format=”1″], Dell dl link NOTE: That is the accelerometer that is built into your laptop. More details about free fall sensors: That free-fall sensor is an accelerometer which can detect movement (i.e. downward acceleration or falling) and using that sensor

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How to reset iTunes Match, How to delete duplicate playlists

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There are some very helpful iTunes Match tips in the second half of this Wired article: I restored my up-to-date offline library and left this machine without Match enabled for a few days while I looked up how you reset your iTunes Match account. And that’s where the fundamental problem with the service rears its head: you cannot reset it. I contacted Apple to find out if this was true, and it is. Fact of the matter, I was told,

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Ordering new iPod touch 5th gen, ship date? [ship oct 9th, 2012] [arrival on 12th]

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UPDATE 2: the 5th generation iPod touch shipped out on Oct 9th 2012 via FedEx and has an expected arrival date of Oct 15th Oct 12th! (FedEx is ahead of schedule!!!) UPDATE 1: Amazon now has the entire 5th gen iPod touch line available for pre-order. I am considering canceling my Apple pre-order and switch to Amazon because there would be no sales tax in my state. UPDATE 0: the ship times and arrivals mentioned in this article are based

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BlackBerry PlayBook wireless file transfer, WiFi file sharing [SAMBA]

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The PlayBook tablet has some nice features built in: screenshot capability originally missing in Android, but in iOS for a long time Wifi file sharing (using SAMBA, i.e. the default file sharing protocol that Windows uses ) this can be accomplished on Android with 3rd parties apps and be fairly tightly integrated into the OS. on iOS, some apps utilize SAMBA but the locked down nature of the iOS file system makes it much less useful that BlackBerry’s straight-up file

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Use your e-reader as a display for your computer

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Over at Pocketables (one of my fav tech sites) they posted a nice little article asking Why are ereaders still stand-alone only devices? It is a valid question and if the Pebble watch is any indication, there is a lot of pent up demand for ultra-long lived devices using e-ink displays. If Pocketable’s premise was e-ink is good for a lot more than just reading books, and that the current ereaders should do more… then this along those lines, here

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