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Tethering Draining My iPhone 3G

Since upgrading to my iPhone 3G to iOS 4.x, battery drains when tethered to my laptop by Bluetooth, rather than charging.Bluetooth tetheringiPhone connected to laptop via USB cableLaptop plugged into A.C.I'm just curious if anyone else has experienced this? It never happened for me under iPhone OS 3.0.Please contact me via the Getting In Touch page.Thanks... (read more)

Written by Ted on Aug 17, 2010

Dropbox for Mac - On a Secondary Hard Drive

I've had this setup working great for several months. Let me walk you through it.Make sure your Dropbox folder is in its normal, default location at ~/Dropbox. If you moved it using the Dropbox software, move it back to the default location.Quit Dropbox. Make sure the application is not running.Give your secondary hard drive a unique name (without any spaces, such as "DropboxDrive".

  • Copy your entire Dropbox folder (including the folder) onto the external hard drive, so you end up with... (read more)

    Written by Ted on Jul 29, 2010

    Form Over Function - The iPhone 4

    I've always been an Apple fan, with plans of building a business around what I saw was a company that was going to explode onto the scenes. And it has. I recall back in 2002 telling people that soon "MP3s" would be a thing of the past and the new kid on the block would be "MP4s". Well, the name MP4 isn't used, but none the less, iTunes is the largest distributor of digital music, and so MP4s (or rather... (read more)

    Written by Ted on Jul 16, 2010

    iPhone Craze

    Seriously, who could've imagined this little company that was bashed for years for having "toy" computers and tiny market share could've turned into the company that builds the most-desired consumer electronics on the planet?Just look at the line-ups!... (read more)

    Written by Ted on Jun 24, 2010

    How Energy-Efficient Are You?

    Tell the world here.One question worth asking, though, is how much energy is used to recycle material rather than bury it?... (read more)

    Written by Ted on Apr 18, 2010