Phil on July 1st, 2009

iTunes is downloading as we speak.  I finally got sick of the behavior of all the podcast downloaders that I’d tried.

Juice would start downloading 4 or 5 files and then stall out randomly and not resume.
Winamp doesn’t do anything without brute force methods.
Doppler won’t queue more than 2 files at a go and locks up [...]

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Phil on June 24th, 2009

Darn it, Apple. Why do you have to tempt me with the little “0% financing” link dancing around slinkily underneath the “buy it now!” button??

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Phil on February 25th, 2009

The Apple keyboard clicks away under WinXP. I win.
This Apple keyboard, FWIW, replaces the existing Apple USB keyboard that I’ve been using. I really kind of like how Apple does their keyboards – minimal fluff (unlike nearly every Windows-oriented keyboard out there) and good features (like the USB hub on the old keyboard [...]

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Phil on January 16th, 2009

Tom’s Hardware Guide is leading off with a rumor that the long-awaited Apple Mac Mini refresh may be coming in March.
…with an Atom processor.
For those of you who don’t follow the personal computer technology biz quite as intensely as I do, the Intel Atom line of processors is extremely power-efficient.  …and not exactly performance-driven.  They’re [...]

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