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I love my drive to work, which takes me over the Appalachian Gap road: State Route 17.
As the seasons progress, the road conditions can vary depending on elevation and time of day. You really never know what you are going to see up there!
Here’s an example of the early morning snowfall on the western peaks, melting slowly in the sunlight as it crests the hill around 9 a.m. last Friday:
Taken in East Starksboro/Jeruselum area.
Until recently, I owned an iPod mini. I saw the iPod shuffle come out and decided I didn’t want one, and I am…
It’s that time of year when we seem to start getting more and more thunderstorms. If you’re one of the many people that…
People who get to know me notice two things about me immediately: that I love gadgets of all kinds and that I love…
Hammerhead Microfiber Cleaning Cloths 3-Pack: Last year we gave my 86 year-old grandmother an iPad for Christmas. We were a little wary of…
BBC is running an article about how owning a dog can increase your lifespan. They mention that having a dog around will lower…
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.