The One With Aldacron

It seems cellphone users in the United States are finally catching up with the rest of the world. People in Asia and Europe were using the data functions of their cellphones for some time before the iPhone and similar phones came around. In Korea and Japan (and I hear some places in Europe) they’ve been [...]

I’ve imported a lot of CDs with iTunes over the last few years. It usually goes well, but now and again something will get screwed. Sometimes I’ll wind up with a file that’s got several minutes of dead space on the end. Or, worse, iTunes will hang during the import process, freezing the system and [...]

I have a shiny, new iPhone sitting on my desk, still cradled in its box. A complimentary case is parked right next to it, package unopened. The reason being that I don’t yet know if I get to keep it. After all of the rumors, confusion, and misinformation around about foreigners buying iPhones in Korea [...]

Last Tuesday I attempted to buy an iPhone in Seoul and failed. Even though I have an F-5 visa which, according to information released by Korea Telecom, makes me eligible to be treated the same as a Korean (and well it should, given that this visa even allows me to stand in the line for [...]

There’s an article up at the Joognang Daily that describes the difficulties foreigners have in getting an iPhone in Korea. The release of the device here has highlighted KT’s abhorrent policies more than any other product. In most cases, foreigners I know with cell phones registered in their name (myself included) opt for SK or [...]

It seems 2009 was, for me, the Year of Lost Devices. In early August, I lost my 8-month-old cell phone. In October, I threw my two-year-old iPod Classic in the washing machine. I still have the cell phone that I bought to replace the lost one, thankfully. But to close out 2009 on a low [...]

Last November, I bought a Samsung Haptic 2. It was my first touch phone and took a little getting used to. But before too long, I was hooked. It’s a fairly high end phone, costing around $600. Rather than paying up front, I opted to tack on monthly payments to my phone bill for 24 [...]

A group of web developers called 9Astronauts has put together an awesome little tribute to MJ. It’s an animation of the lyrics extracted from tweets. You can see it at billietweets.com. One of those novel little ideas that have a big impact.

Geoblocking, the act of restricting web content or services based on a visitor’s location (as determined by his IP address), is a practice I have come to loathe. Being American, I am naturally drawn to web sites which serve content for American visitors. Being that I live in Korea, I am often prohibited from seeing [...]

Good news for software developers, artists, writers, movie makers, and anyone who wants to make a living off of their creativity. The four men behind Pirate Bay, that cess pit of digital piracy, have been found guilty of violating copyright laws. Each of them have been sentenced to a year in prison and will all [...]