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Entries from May 26th, 2009

Wrapping Up — Flip, Out.

May 26th, 2009 2 Comments

This is the fifth and final post in my series of reviews of the BlackBerry 8230.  These were originally written in April, 2009 on an internal blog and are being reposted here.
It’s been a great three weeks testing out the Flip. I’ve really enjoyed playing with the phone and getting the chance to share the [...]

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Applications a Go-Go – Apps on the Flip 8230

May 18th, 2009 1 Comment

This is the fourth post in my series of reviews of the BlackBerry 8230.  These were originally written in April, 2009 on an internal blog and are being reposted here.
Since I wasn’t overly impressed with the email functionality built-in to the Flip’s mail program, when it came to Gmail integration at least, I thought I’d [...]

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Mac vs. PC :: Will my next computer be a Mac?

May 18th, 2009 3 Comments

It’s been about two and a half years since I made the switch from being a dedicated Windows user to buying my first Mac. I have really enjoyed my MacBook and wanted to take a few moments to discuss some of the differences and similarities I’ve found with the Mac ownership experience, compared to my [...]

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Flippin’ Email

May 17th, 2009 2 Comments

This is the third post in my series of reviews of the BlackBerry 8230.  These were originally written in April, 2009 on an internal blog and are being reposted here.
I’ve been a BlackBerry user for the past 6 months or so, and before that I had used a couple of other Windows-based smart phones. The [...]

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Stack Overflow – Where Experts Exchange Information

May 17th, 2009 No Comments

Last year a new Q&A site for developers called Stack Overflow was opened to the public. We covered the site a bit on an episode of the AGP a few months back, but I just realized the other day that I hadn’t posted about it here.
The site is focused on the interaction between software [...]

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