My iPhone 4S produces high quality video and I’m finding that I’m completely ignoring point-and-shoot cameras that I would normally use.   It’s all wasted, though, if the video ends up shaky which is the case with a video I recorded at a book launch a few weeks ago.  I leaned my elbow on a [...]

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I was in my hotel room with the TV on for background noise.  I think it was still on that annoying station that TVs in hotels always come on with.  Then I heard something about an app.  You know I had to check it out. If you find yourself staying in hotel rooms a lot, [...]

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Yesterday I called Red Top Arlington to take me back to my car at the Vienna Metro Station after a long day at work and received a confirmation text on my phone. The confirmation also included a link to this Taxi Magic app. I downloaded it and used it to get a cab tonight. It [...]

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I bought a Juice Bar solar charger from ThinkGeek. Of the choices available, this model was moderately priced at $39.99. I mentioned my purchase on Twitter and several people asked for my opinion.  My first impression based on the device having to charge initially for 6 hours via USB or 15 hours via light source was [...]

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So, I upgraded my old phone (iPhone 3G) to the new iOS 4 operating system.  The backup process took forever and I fell asleep on it.  When I woke up the next morning the update was done but I still needed to do the restore. Here are the features I noticed: Unified inbox. Finally! Emails [...]

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