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Sometimes when I fly, it just drives me nuts when flight attendants make an announcement about turning on your “Palm Pilots.” Well, they don’t make them anymore. The only pilot you are likely to see aloft is on the flight deck, getting ready to dodge that big cumulonimbus by flying around it. We hope. That’s my rather wordy way of introducing our most-read (and most commented-on) post of the year: Clueless flight attendant to passenger: Turn off that iPhone movie NOW! The flight attendant in this true story didn’t know that the Apple iPhone allows movie watching in airplane mode. No risk in captain-to-tower communication. But because this flight attendant probably was technology illiterate, well, the post title tells what…

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The IT word for 2008 will, I think, be either “continuation” or “consolidation” as existing trends become more obvious to more people and little new enters the market. Herewith, however, some predictions I hope not to be apologizing for next December. At the top of the list of continuations is SCO. No matter how the legal action pans out, it will continue to dominate direction setting in the Linux community - and until or unless IBM gets its collective head straight on the issue and cleans house, the polarization this case has led to will continue to undermine Linux legitimacy. Oddly, however, the number one Linux influencer for the year may turn out not be SCO, Torvalds, IBM or…

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I have an old 20GB iPod and even though I have a lot of music on there, I am only taking up half of the space available. So there’s another 10GB kicking around doing nothing and so I decided to start putting some useful iPod tools on there for when I’m on the move. [...]

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These may look like your typical cheap schlock shop knock-offs of popular gadgets, but they’re much more devious than that. You see, while they may bear a slight resemblance to a certain portable gaming system, media player and a dime-store pocket laser, they’re actually practical jokes that deliver a nasty shock.

Available in PSP, iPod and [...]

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The Australian Government has announced that they will be joining China as one of the few countries globally that broadly censor the internet.
The Labor Party’s policy was announced prior to the Australian Election in November (release here) and was justified on the basis that the previous Government’s policy of providing free copies of NetNanny to [...]

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Omnipresence was another big theme in 2007 with Twitter brining always on, always available communication to the masses. Whether this is merely the beginning of a broader trend, or something that will pass in 2008 is still to be seen. Certainly I’m not sure if I want to see lot of people live twittering births, [...]

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  Seems that after “Cathy” realized that her boyfriend seemed to care more about checking BlackBerry messages in bed than devoting his undivided attention to her, she reports that their relationship is in the process of ending. Maybe, as Boston Globe freelancer Alison Lobron writes, the seeds of what sounds like a breakup was planted after Cathy’s boyfriend checked his BlackBerry during post coital-cuddling. “The BlackBerry-to-bed scenario reflects a widespread difficulty: how to separate oneself from technology,” writes Lobron. So dude let’s see you take your BlackBerry out on New Year’s Eve. Meanwhile, Cathy will be out with her girlfriends, calling you a weirdo.

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Pinstack BlackBerry forum member marian_h writes that he (she, perhaps?) has been a BlackBerry user for the last two years. After two years of BB ownership and use, marian_h makes a post listing nine suggestions for future BlackBerry feature development: Don’t shut off the red led light for new alerts after a while, let the user shut it off to acknowledge the alert Alarm Utility - More then one alarm, more snooze options, unlimited ringing option Postponed Events and Task by a number of minutes you select when they come on, preset snooze times are lame Add birthdays and Anniversaries to contact, synchronize with outlook Phone numbers with extension are not showing in the caller ID with the name associate with…

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  This fall, a Sprint customer named Krystyl signed up for Sprint’s $59.99 a month unlimited broadband service. Unlimited? I don’t think so. As Krystyl’s YouTube video (via the Consumerist) reveals, she didn’t get an invoice for $59.99, but um, uh, $14,062.27. Here’s Krystal’s version of what went down: My name is Krystyl. I recently signed up for Sprint, to utilize their wireless broadband card, where I can use the internet on my laptop virtually anywhere where there is a wireless signal. I signed up for the unlimited $59.99 plan, at which I had 30 days to keep or cancel the service. Within the first week of having the service, the card that was sent to me no longer worked. I…

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