nick ring

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Apple Stores have no gift registries. Bummer. (TUAW.com)

Jan 5th 2010 10:26AM Shawn's point of the Amazon Universal Wish List is a good one--it also allows you add some non-Apple items as well--and, of course, Amazon's prices are a bit lower than Apple's own.

I can totally see the relevance of Apple products in a registry. My media devices and calendaring and etc. are all used more often than my blender (which I use, but rarely as a media device).

What to do with that old iPhone? (TUAW.com)

Jun 16th 2009 6:53PM I say sell it to another TUAWer for $50 (plus shipping) above the regular upgrade cost of a 3GS.. So if you've got a 16 sell it for $268 (includes $18 activation charge) plus shipping. and so on. friends all around.

Engadget's recession antidote: win a 32GB iPod touch plus a free copy of iPodRip! (Engadget)

Mar 26th 2009 2:09PM If we just give everybody a new 32G iPod Touch they will be so euphoric that consume confidence will be through the roof. everybody wins. there is food on every table on every planet. it's the new gold standard. party!

We call shenanigans: WiFi "allergies" do not exist, kiddies (Download Squad)

May 29th 2008 11:05AM I don't really want to get into the validity of their particular argument, but some of the arguments against it don't hold up so well. There is a huge spectrum of wave frequencies, some we can see (light), but most we can't. Different frequencies affect different things differently, they are not the same.

We already know that proximity to high-power electric lines increases the likelihood of certain forms of cancer. We already know that close proximity to transmitters in the FM radio bands can have serious effects. We already know that we can use very high frequency radiation to address various forms of cancer.

We also know that different people have different sensitivity levels to all sorts of things, natural or artificial. Is it so unreasonable to think that people have different levels of reaction to particular frequencies at particular strengths?

This is not to say that some/much of this may not be more psychosomatic than anything else--as various lines of logic or experiments suggest--but lets not make our counter-arguments on even shakier grounds than the ones we're arguing against. the answer to blind ludditeism is not blind anti-ludditeism.

The hundred gadget giveaway: round 7 (Engadget)

Sep 5th 2007 12:47PM twouldn't it be nice. it twould.

The hundred gadget giveaway: round 3 (Engadget)

Sep 4th 2007 2:37PM Thanks for the goodness. best of luck to all.

The hundred gadget giveaway: round 2 (Engadget)

Sep 4th 2007 11:49AM Oobah! Goodness. luck to all.

TUAW Back-to-School Giveaway Day 13: an iPhone (TUAW.com)

Aug 29th 2007 11:56AM It would certainly be nice. good luck all.

Why don't you pay for software? (Download Squad)

May 22nd 2007 12:45PM As a youth I pretty much didn't pay for anything. As I got older I started to buy shareware programs that did what I needed--a number of which I still use. I'm increasingly prone to using free and FLOSS programs.

Most donationware programs, I confess to forgetting about. I use it, but forget to head back and drop a little something in the bucket. Having said that, I get really annoyed by nag windows. I guess I'll make it a project to go through my software and check for donation buttons.

eMachines updates line with new desktops, displays (Engadget)

Apr 16th 2007 12:41AM I find the emachine threads kinda like mac vs. pc threads. Lots of anecdotals and lots of preformed opinions. all computers can break, every make has machines that have problems. Is it higher for emachines--maybe. I know early on that seemed to be true, but there seems to be some revamping.

As someone who's assembled his own machines off and on for almost 20 years, I bought an emachines T3085 4 or 5 years ago for around $399 after rebates (all came through). the spec to price ratio was very high.

It's been mostly flawless for me for throughout. The DVD burner weirdly conked out a year ago and just as I was about to replace it, it worked again. go figure. otherwise...

shop wisely and best of luck.