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Patrick Havens on January 22nd, 2009

…or giving the soldier an excuse to be carrying his ipod Touch on patrol. How To Improve Security with an iPod Touch… National Security, that is. The Firearm Blog posted photos and information about an iPod touch using a M110 rifle mounting system that attaches to a side mounted picatinny rail.  It was designed by [...]

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Patrick Havens on May 6th, 2008

I’ve been asked before what this DRM thing is, or why they can’t listen to their music anymore. Well Mark gets asked to explain it to his dad and linked is the letter… To give you an idea on how well written this was, read this one paragraph that may just answer your question on [...]

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Patrick Havens on February 28th, 2008

Its a tool that is often used in school. A tool that in retrospect I would of assumed was just a typical Apple program. But the story behind it, show that it was anything but typical. [...]Graphing Calculator 1.0, which Apple bundled with the original PowerPC computers, originated under unique circumstances. I used to be [...]

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Patrick Havens on November 24th, 2007

Here is an interesting little video that shows a little ingenuity.  Without a normal power source and you want to McGuyver a charge for your ipod?

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To all iPhone customers: I have received hundreds of emails from iPhone customers who are upset about Apple dropping the price of iPhone by $200 two months after it went on sale. After reading every one of these emails, I have some observations and conclusions. First, I am sure that we are making the correct [...]

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Patrick Havens on September 5th, 2007

They announced updates to their ipod line, and then added one toy that has been giving me huge urges to fondle it. Now, I’ve raved before about different toys that I’ve wanted to get. But this itouch has me jumping for joy. I love the iphone and hate AT&T Cell Phone service. So I was [...]

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Patrick Havens on July 17th, 2007

In late June, the iPhone hit the US market. Apple aficionados queued for days to be first in line to get their greedy little paws on the long awaited gadget. fudder-employee Marc Esslinger is an Apple-fan as well – also because he has a very special relationship to Apple. His father Hartmut Esslinger designed the [...]

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Patrick Havens on July 12th, 2007

In February of 2007, Apple Inc. acquired ownership the CUPS source code and hired me (Michael R Sweet), the creator of CUPS. CUPS will still be released under the existing GPL2/LGPL2 licensing terms, and I will continue to develop and support CUPS at Apple. [Article #475] This is interesting, and a smart idea for Apple.  [...]

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Patrick Havens on July 9th, 2007

Greetings irrational fanboys and Apple haters! Ten days and 12,000 words later, our stone-cold look at what it means to own an iPhone is done. Before we get to the in depth hands-on, here’s the verdict I’d give any good friend: Wait to buy the iPhone. Wait for What? Wait until Apple updates the software [...]

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Patrick Havens on June 29th, 2007

OK… considering all the news about the release of the iphone today I wasn’t surprised that someone disassembled it. Well I have to say that this is one of the clearest and best disassembly I’ve seen. As I’ve seen: (18:27:19) Me: good find (18:27:22) Me: very detailed (18:31:41) Him: I would have thought the logic [...]

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