IPhone: The Musical
David Pogue of the New York Timessings about the iPhone in IPhone: The Musical.
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iPhone Losers
The New York Times ran a story yesterday discussing the plight of iPhone speculators. These are people who waited in line to buy one or more iPhones to sell on eBay, Craigslist, etc. Apparently they have not been faring very well. Some have returned them due to poor response. Others have actually sold them at a loss.
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Microsoft Extends Xbox 360 Warranty
Microsoft has announced that it’s going to extend the warranty on the Xbox 360 and implement some design changes for future manufacturing of the product as a result of the product suffering from a significant amount of hardware failures. The warranties will be extended to 3 years from the date of purchase.
Microsoft, who also said sales of the game consoles fell short of their 12 million target in it’s fiscal year ending June 300 (it only sold 11.5 million), will take a hit of over $1 billion dollars over the extended warranties and will also compensate Xbox 360 owners who have had to pay for repairs that will now be covered by the extended warranties.
The move was announced to Xbox360 users in an open letter from Peter Moore, Microsoft’s vice president of the Entertainment & Devices Division.
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Secunia Software Inspector
It’s interesting how Windows users are always so concerned about having the latest updates for their operating system installed but don’t take the time to be sure their other software is up to date. I was recently turned on to the Secunia Software Inspector that checks for updates of installed software as well as Windows so Windows users can be a bit more secure in knowing their applications are as up to date as their operating system.
It’s a Java application and as such Java will prompt you if you want to run the app. After clicking Run you’re returned to the web page. Clicking Start from there will kick off the process. There is a ‘thorough’ mode that enables it to check for apps in non-standard locations. This mode obviously lengthens the amount of time it takes for the scan to run. As it’s running the inspector will begin to show you a list of the software you have installed along with some information on any updates that may be needed including links to the download the updates. Pretty neat.
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Tricia’s Quicken Tutorials
I was trying to work out some things in Quicken when I got stumped. I couldn’t figure out how to do what I wanted to do and the online help wasn’t very helpful. After some Google searching I came found Tricia’s Tutorials. Though Tricia doesn’t update it anymore this site is full of great tutorials such as ‘Tracking Student Loans in Quicken’, ‘ Tracking Your Mortgage and Escrow Account in Quicken’ and ‘How to Incorporate Your PayPal Account into Quicken’. Though there are only 22 posts you are sure to find something useful there if you are a quicken user.
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