Category: Gadgets

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New Gadgets

I’d been waiting all month for the opportunity to upgrade my phone.  My lease was up at the end of the month, and I was waiting for them to tell me that I could upgrade without paying off the rest of the lease on the phone.

Which finally was today.

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What a day

Started with a leg cramp.

Continued with a ‘dead’ car battery.

Then got a charge on my credit card from Amazon for an item that I forgot was pre-ordered months ago, yet I still tried to dispute it.

At least a birthday lunch for a co-worker was good.

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comiXology Storage Mitigation

One issue I decided take care of with the new iPad mini 4 was to move all trade paperbacks (including those from amazon/Kindle) and non-continuing comic series to the iPad, while keeping all ongoing series on my Galaxy Tab 10.5.

I almost ran out of space on the iPad.  Yikes.

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Hell Froze Over

Back in 2010, I said I would never buy an iPad.

Last Friday, I picked up an iPad Mini 4.

Which isn’t the same thing as a full sized iPad.

So there.

The reason I picked this up was because my iPod appears to be dying, and when I looked for a replacement with more storage, the 128 GB iPod was the same price as a 128 GB iPad Mini 4.

So I figured, what the heck.

One cool thing it allows over my Samsung tablet is the ability to customize the MLB At Bat app icon.

So yeah. Hell hath frozen over.

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iPod Fixed?

Looks like doing a factory reset did the job, the free space on the iPod appears to match the free space reported in iTunes.

Go me.

Woo.

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iPod Failure?

I’ve been fiddling with my iPod for the past few hours.  It doesn’t seem to want to respond to a proper sync with iTunes, so I deleted all the music and am currently reloading them.

One problem was that it said that it was 4GB over limit, even though I didn’t add anything.  On the contrary, I deleted a few playlists, that were still listed on the device after a couple of ‘successful’ syncs, but the playlist I wanted to add was not found in the list.

I even went in and marked a few apps for uninstall, and it still said I was over capacity.

Looks like it’s syncing now.  Arrgh.  I hope it’s not dying.

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Mouse

My wireless mouse appears to be crapping out on me, even after swapping out the batteries.

Currently have a wired mouse connected to the main PC.

It’s working fine, and to be honest I don’t think I’ll need to get a replacement, until this mouse craps out.

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Pump the Brakes

Today’s overly obsessive moment almost resulted in me picking up an iPad 4 mini.

But I shook it off.