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And now for something completely different….  I’ve mentioned before that I like it when my hobbies and interests collide, and one of my hobbies is shooting.  I shoot rifles and handguns for fun and sometimes competition.  At SHOT in Las Vegas Magpul, who make a lot of nice tactical weapon accessories, announced several new products, [...]

Well, it was formally announced.  The Apple tablet…the iPad…is here.  Like every other major announcement the reviews range from the Apple fanatics that love it no matter what to those that point out every single thing it doesn’t have, or was supposed to have depending on where you get your rumors.  It doesn’t have a [...]

Well, I finally had to give in and get with the cool crowd and replace my severely beaten Blackberry with an iPhone last week.  After reluctantly loading my least favorite application, Apple iTunes, on my PC I started my hunt for apps to load it up with.  Late in the week one of my co-workers [...]

My worlds collide!  Great little tool for those EMC (and soon other arrays) people out there.  SANCalc is an iPhone/iPod Touch tool that lets you size up RAID Groups, LUNs, etc right on your phone.  It even understands Vault Drives.  Right now it supports the EMC CLARiiON AX4-5, CX3, and CX4 arrays.  Very handy.
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As reported here and here AT&T released their new 3G MicroCell yesterday in the Charlotte test market.  Hey!  That’s where I live!  I’ve been waiting on this device for a while.  Ask anyone I work with how my cell coverage is at home and you’ll find out it’s abysmal.  Calls are short, frustrating, and futile.  [...]

No…there still isn’t a Citrix XenApp client for the iPhone but Citrix did just release some new videos showing their Citrix Receiver that is coming at some point.  Click here to view them and see some updated information.  Hopefully it won’t be much longer!

If you use a Mac, and you should, for presentations you should check out the new Keynote Remote app for the iPhone.  It’s a very slick tool for controlling presentations and lets you view your notes right on your phone.  Available here.  It requires the new iWork ‘09 which was also released today.  The 30-day [...]