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Belated Goodbye to Print Newspapers

Picked up the Sunday paper (San Jose Mercury News) this morning for the first time in eons — wanting to check out the coupon inserts for my latest gig at Coupons.com — and it’s amusing to see how the content is both obsolete by the time it hits the newsstand and inferiorly static compared to [...]

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Apple Fanboy, Hear Me Roar

In honor and memory of Steve Jobs: 2004:  I’d never owned any Apple product. 2005:  I bought my first Apple product, an iPod Classic. 2007:  I bought my first Apple computer, an iMac, through a friend of a friend’s Apple employee discount. As of today, I’ve already owned and retired: That original iMac 2 iPod [...]

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Why I’m not switching to the Verizon iPhone

The promise of greater network reliability?  Alluring! But I’m not switching quite yet.  Here’s why: No simultaneous voice and data — This is a non-starter. I frequently access the Internet while on a call. AT&T allows it, Verizon doesn’t, because of the nature of CDMA. Limited international reach — GSM is the global standard, and [...]

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Addicted to Apps: My Name Is JSK, and I’m an App-aholic

Curious as I performed my religiously weekly review of Gizmodo’s “This Week’s Best Apps,” I just used WetFish Software’s App Store Expense Monitor (free download) to determine that over the past few years I’ve downloaded 269 apps for the iPhone and/or iPad, spending a grand total of $596.09  on paid ones.  I daresay I’m a [...]

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DreamHost Chat Support Rocks!

I just have to say, that in this day and age of cold, calculated, cost cutting and crappy customer service, DreamHost chat support is outstanding. First and foremost, it’s effective.  I just migrated my blog from joonsookim.com/blog to blog.joonsookim.com.  I’m not particularly technically savvy — plus, I’m told I can be . . . well, [...]

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Android (Nexus One) Irony

Alright, I don’t want to get anyone in trouble here, especially after what I sort of consider the kindness of strangers, so I won’t disclose too much detail. I’m in NYC.  I bumped into a couple Google folks — Google folks working on the Nexus One launch.  Sincerely, I congratulated them, knowing it was a [...]

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iPhone Relief Part I: Battery Life

I know I’ve been complaining a lot about my iPhone.  Apple products are supposed to just work — that’s their brand — and this one just hasn’t, at least not for me.  But I’m seeing the light at the end of the tunnel of technology torture, and just about everything’s working now, if not the [...]

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Apple Screws Up With the iPhone Yet Again

Some of you may know that I’ve been having myriad problems with my iPhone 3G, mostly around rapidly deteriorating battery life and inability to restore from backup. Today, Apple released the new 2.1 firmware, and it’s broken my Exchange integration.  Right now, I have no calendar, no contacts and no email — the unit is [...]

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Product Review: iPhone 3G Second Impressions

I’ve been the proud, delighted owner of my 16MB white iPhone 3G for a week now. I love it. But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have its drawbacks. And I find that many of my complaints are around the absence of functionality I had on my BlackBerry Pearl. Following my first impressions, here’s what Apple [...]

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Product Reviews: My Favorite Third-Party iPhone 3G Applications

Here’s what I’m loving so far: Evernote — This is a pre-existing capture-organize-search application new to me. Take notes, photos, voice notes. Among the many potential uses, I’m taking photos of random scraps of paper I’ve had lying around, tagging them for Evernote and then tossing ‘em. Love it. WritingPad — You’ve got to try [...]

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