Wasting Your Time Archive

  • iOS 4 golden masters now on BitTorrent (illegally, of course)

    iOS 4 golden masters now on BitTorrent (illegally, of course)

    Posted on June 8, 2010 | No Comments
    Not surprising: iOS 4 and iTunes 9.2 (which is needed to install iOS 4) golden masters have hit the Web. I see them on at least one popular BitTorrent. Your phone’s UUID has to be registered with Apple’s developer program otherwise you’re just wasting your time. Best plan of action? Just wait the few days [...]

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  • Wanna read Kindle books on your iPad? Of course you do~! UPDATE

    Wanna read Kindle books on your iPad? Of course you do~! UPDATE

    Posted on March 12, 2010 | No Comments
    All the Apple marks are excited about the iPad. Not me, but whatever. What I am excited about, though, is seeing consumers use the items they've bought in the manner of their choosing. Say you've bought a bunch of books from the Amazon Kindle store. (Don't tell Devin!) Those books are only "supposed" to work with the Kindle and the various Kindle readers, but with a bit of work you can read them wherever you want—yes, including on your iPad.

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  • The 5 Rules of Black Friday

    The 5 Rules of Black Friday

    Posted on November 25, 2009 | No Comments
    Black Friday is almost here. It’s a great time to score some deals, but don’t go at it willy-nilly. Follow these 5 simple Black Friday rules to avoid the scams and wasting time. 1. Doorbusters are stripped-down crap What we call doorbusters, stores call loss leaders. These items are heavily advertised and retailers will lose money on them. Because of this, [...]

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  • Silly study looks at iPhone users’ dating habits. Yeah.

    Silly study looks at iPhone users’ dating habits. Yeah.

    Posted on November 5, 2009 | No Comments
    There's a silly study, conducted by Retrevo, making the rounds that purports to analyze how iPhone users fare in the dating world. I know, right? One stat to whet your beak: one in three iPhone owners have admitted to breaking up with their significant other via text message. Amazing.

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  • It shouldn’t be this difficult to upgrade a hard drive

    It shouldn’t be this difficult to upgrade a hard drive

    Posted on September 14, 2009 | No Comments
    You know what's a little more difficult than I first imagined? Upgrading the hard drive in my late 2006 iMac. I had initially wanted to upgrade the hard drive so I could finally dual boot between Mac OS X and Windows 7, since the old drive, a 250GB model, was pretty much filled to capacity. (Trying to run Mac OS X with only ~5GB of free space isn't ideal.) And even though the iMac user manual clearly states that the only user-replacabable parts are the RAM, I figured, “Bah! I think I can handle a simple hard drive replacement.” I did, but not before wishing I had never so much had broken out a screwdriver.

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