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  • Dim Sum in Seattle (??????)

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  • iPhone Games

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    With the iPhone out, you get pretty board of the stuff there. Apple only allows web applications right now to run on it, so you have to find web game portals according to “Joystiq”:http://www.joystiq.com/2007/07/03/web-based-iphone-games-begin-to-appear/ like “MacMost”:http://macmost.com/iphonegames/, “iGiki”:http://igiki.com/i/Arcade_Gikis_.html or “fun4phone”:http://mynumo.com/iphone/fun4iphone.htm The best thing to do is to find sites liek “iPhoneHacks.com”:http://iphonehacks.com…

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  • Green Car Co

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    “Green Car Co.”:http://www.thegreencarco.com/product_info/ is for those of us who really want to save some energy. Now that the Scion xB is an overweight monster, beside the Prius, what can someone who cars buy? # “Plug Prius”:http://www.thegreencarco.com/product_info/universal_piprius_kit/ For just $10K more, you can buy a plug hybrid. (Wow that’s expensive), but…

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  • iPhone first look

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    The iPhone is amazing. Like the iPod, the kids learned to use it in three minutes and the most incredible part is that activation is actually wonderful. A reminder that carriers should stick with high quality networks and not try to be consumer companies. I am sure that no one…

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  • Top Firefox Chinese Translators

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    I’ve tried most of them and they seem amazingly buggy. What I really need is something that translates from Chinese ot Pinyin and English and ideally where it goes into a sidebar and also hovering so you can read it. The main issue is that most of these are pretty…

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  • NTFS-3G

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    Now you can read and write NTFS volumes. Mac OSx only allows reading with “NTFS-3G”:http://www.ntgs-3g.or Here are some miore notes: MacCast Forum [Powered by Invision Power Board] The first step is made possible by Google. They created a program called MacFUSE which allows for (oversimplification warning) new file systems to…

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  • Swedish SummeRun

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    “Swedish SummeRun”:http://www.swedish.org/body.cfm?id=1680 is a great event that helps raise money for ovarian cancer research. You’ll see us there! Powered by ScribeFire.

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  • United 500 Mile Upgrade and Global Service Tracking

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    If you are Global Services, you can extend the conversion of Mileage Plus 500-Mile upgrades to bonus miles. They stopped doing this, so losing these upgrades is a pure loss, so go to  loss.http://www.united.com/promoreg?title=Expired+500-Mile+Upgrade:%3Cbr%3EConversion+Registration&pcode=MPP697 Also, there is a new thing to keep track of at “http://united.com/gstracking”:http://united.com/gstracking in addition to EQM…

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  • Kids Games

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    Here are some that the kids are asking about: * “Sid Meier’s Civilization IV”:http://pc.gamezone.com/gzreviews/r25732.htm is the next step in a great franchise. Getting older now since it was released late 2005, but a nice game. There are two expansion packs now and it goes for about $37 at “Go Gamer”:http://gogamer.com…

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  • iPhone Activation Hack

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    So sue me » Blog Archive » iPhone Independence Day Magic iTunes 7.3.0.54 numbers: Offset 2048912: 33C0C3Offset 257074: 28Offset 257013: 33C9B1 Add “127.0.0.1 albert.apple.com” to c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts Download “Phone Activation Server v1.0”:http://nanocr.eu/wp-content/PhoneActSrv-v1.0.zip to activate your iPhone for iPod+WiFi use. Note that this application will not do anything unless you understand the…

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