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iLounge just released version 3 of their iPod book. It contains lots of tips and tricks that you can do with your iPod and iTunes, information about tons of iPod accessories and even some sneak peaks at accessories for the iPhone! You can download a free copy from the iLounge website.
I’ll be honest here, I am not a huge Super Bowl fan. Last year, when the power went out during Beyonce’s performance (yeah…
Last Friday the hard drive on my workstation died. You never really think about this happening until it does, or what it means…
Get a FREE 1GB iPod shuffle with the purchase of a MacBook 2.16GHz Core 2 Duo 1gb/160/SD/AP/BT black v. A (New, never used)…
I think this podcast fits in perfectly for us at Small Dog. Dog Cast Radio is a podcast made by dog lovers like…
While Apple’s products have significantly lower rates of failure than a lot of their competition, things do go wrong from time to time. When I got my iPhone 4S at launch, it would occasionally restart itself. At first, I thought nothing of it, considering I was coming from an Android device that rebooted itself so often that it might as well have been saying, “Hey, just in case you forgot you customized your splash screen, here it is again!”
A couple of weeks ago, my phone didn’t just restart itself, but became a useless brick until I gave it a hard reset while plugged in. A quick Google search revealed this issue to be a symptom of hardware failure known in the diagnosis log as “panic.plist.” I checked my diagnosis log and there it was, three “panic.plist” occurrences in the past week. After a brief phone call with AppleCare, I was given the choice of sending the phone back to them and waiting close to a week for a replacement or to have a $730 hold placed on my credit card while they sent me a new phone overnight. As I didn’t have another phone to use, I opted for the latter.
Normally, to have a phone sent overnight would cost $30 but because I had AppleCare, the fee was waived. Cut to today; the hold has been lifted and I have a shiny new iPhone that has yet to give me an issue. Granted, I was within the original one year warranty, but had this happened after that first year, I would be scavenging Craigslist for a cheap replacement. Thanks, AppleCare–I owe you one.
I love my drive to work, which takes me over the Appalachian Gap road: State Route 17. As the seasons progress, the road…