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		<title>The iPhone and the clipboard: an uneasy alliance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently spent some time as a guest of the Ontario judicial system.  No, not as a prisoner, something much more unpleasant: jury duty.

	
	Recommended Reading

This is the second time in five years that I&#8217;ve &#8220;done my duty&#8221;, and in both instances the week consisted of 99% waiting around and 1% being rejected out-of-hand by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gigamegatech.com/2010/06/07/the-iphone-and-the-clipboard-an-uneasy-alliance/</link>
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		<title>Book Review: SQL Cookbook by Anthony Molinaro</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Like many developers, I&#8217;ve bounced between various relational databases on my coding projects, primarly DB2, SQL Server and Oracle.  If someone asked me if the SQL I write is compatible with all three, I&#8217;d sheepishly admit that most of it is.
Sheepishly, because generic, cross-platform SQL tends to be inefficient SQL.  You can get away with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gigamegatech.com/2010/05/28/book-review-sql-cookbook-by-anthony-molinaro/</link>
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		<title>An Audible Improvement in iTunes 9.1.1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was pleasantly surprised to find that the latest iTunes patch, version 9.1.1, fixed a problem with Audible audiobooks on my iPhone and iPod Touch.  
Previously, whenever I added new content from Audible I would lose my current place in whatever audiobook I was listening to.  The next time I listened to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gigamegatech.com/2010/05/25/an-audible-improvement-in-itunes-9-1-1/</link>
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		<title>ePub Crawl: Pulling a Book out of an App</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago, technology publisher O&#8217;Reilly began selling some of their books as iPhone apps [iTunes link] for a surprisingly low price &#8212; generally just $5.  These are the full versions of the books, not just an extract.  The apps come bundled with Lexcyle&#8217;s Stanza e-reader, which is feature-rich, fast, and stable.  All things considered, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gigamegatech.com/2009/09/14/epub-crawl-pulling-a-book-out-of-an-app/</link>
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		<title>Look Ma, No Button: Forcing Google Chrome To Become the Default Browser</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently switched browser preferences from Firefox to Google Chrome.  I was forced to make the change by a lack of RAM &#8212; the software development tools I use eats up most of my RAM, and Firefox has become so bloated over time that it wants 300M of its own to display a few tabs.
It [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gigamegatech.com/2009/09/09/look-ma-no-button-forcing-google-chrome-to-become-the-default-browser/</link>
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		<title>Review: Best iPhone Apps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This book is a top notch implementation of a questionable concept.  Like a shiny new sports car on a dealer&#8217;s lot, it looks and performs great right now, but its value will fall as time goes by.
The problem is that a book of iPhone app recommendations is similar to the &#8220;best of the Internet&#8221; books [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gigamegatech.com/2009/08/10/review-best-iphone-apps/</link>
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		<title>Kindle comes to Canada, Kind Of</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I saw a rumour (not rumor!) over at iPhoneInCanada.ca.  They say that us Canadians can get our filthy mitts on  those delectable Amazon Kindle books by doing the following:


	
	Mmmm, forbidden fruit

Get an iPhone or iPod Touch.  (I suppose you could also try to get an actual Kindle, but that&#8217;s a different rumour).   If you&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gigamegatech.com/2009/08/05/kindle-comes-to-canada-kind-of/</link>
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		<title>The best iPhone case that $4.38 can buy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Shipping included.  Seriously!
I bought one of these to protect my multi-thousand dollar (including data plan) iPhone 3Gs.  The photo pretty accurately reflects the styling (meh), but it doesn&#8217;t do justice to the fit.
The phone sits snugly in the case, which sits nicely in my shirt pocket.  The front flap has a hard (presumably plastic) insert [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gigamegatech.com/2009/07/28/the-best-iphone-case-that-4-38-can-buy/</link>
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		<title>Green lies, from the National Post?!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite its source, the quote just seemed wrong: &#8220;Your microwave uses more electricity to power the digital clock for the 23 hours and 55 minutes a day that you&#8217;re not using it than the five minutes you do to heat your dinner.&#8221;
The source is a column by Jim Harris in the National Post newspaper.  I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gigamegatech.com/2009/07/26/green-lies-from-the-national-post/</link>
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		<title>Review: The Twitter Book(: The iPhone App)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the last few weeks I&#8217;ve gone from someone who thought Twitter was the apex of pointless self-obsession to, well, someone who reads books about Twitter and then writes reviews of them.
While there is definitely more to Twitter than &#8220;I&#8217;m eating a ham sandwich&#8221; posts, it isn&#8217;t a complicated piece of software to use, either.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gigamegatech.com/2009/07/24/review-the-twitter-book-the-iphone-app/</link>
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