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I’m curious what people think of this stuff. For $170, you can have a small, battery powered GPS that you can hide in someone’s car and later, after recovered, get a map of where they’ve gone for the past 36+ hours.
Of course, we know that the technology for all of this was a done [...]

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Posting from the beast itself. Did a jailbreak. So far the only real excitement is MobileScrobbler, an awesome Last.fm client (I’m weisen on Last.fm).
Everything on the iPhone continues to be pretty. Even when crashing. Oddly enough, so far I’ve had the built-in web browser (Safari) crash more than anything else.
Enough typing on this [...]

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I am now officially a technology WHORE and here is the proof:

So I’ve been needing, yes ma’am, needing a new iPod for a while and I’ve been toying with the idea of getting an iPhone. For the past few months I’ve been saving a TON of money on rent by living with a friend [...]

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Here’s the MasterCard commercial:
- One brand new 3.0T MRI scanner, sited, installed, and running: $3M
- two research slots: $1844
- Having two and a half hours on a quiet Sunday afternoon to scan two newborn premie twins: priceless.
My life is starting to get better.

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I’ve been using DiVX mobile on my cellphone for a while to watch movies when on the road. Yes, I’m a geek and have one of *those* cellphones.
Anyway, when I first started to use DiVX mobile, I said down to try to work out how to encode movies for DiVX using free software. [...]

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Ryan Norbauer has a nice article on 43 Folders on his strategy for avoiding paper filing. This is definitely something I want to try in the next year or so. As a scientist, I’m forced to manage a large number of PDFs, anyway. Almost all scientific papers are available as PDFs now-a-days, [...]

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C|Net and others are reporting on a bill introduced in Congress re-authorizing Federal student financial aid for the upcoming year but requiring colleges to police students’ online behavior or risk losing their Federal funding entirely.
Let me put this into context. The entertainment lobby is so powerful in the U.S. that they’ve convinced lawmakers that [...]

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If you’re tired of the Verizon man sticking you for a dollar or so to call 411 (for Businesses), try 1-800-GOOG-411 by Google, the company that already knows too much about each of us.
I particularly like the feature where it will send me an SMS with my search results.

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I bought a nice, non-counterfeit Nokia phone recently and, being the technology nerd that I am, have been having fun with it. Unfortunately, it’s a Nokia business-class phone which doesn’t have a proper headset jack, but requires an adapter to use my block-out-all-the-outside-world headphones that I use when riding the T. I purchased [...]

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