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iPhone: The First International Phone

י"ב באלול ה'תש"ע (August 22, 2010) Aliyah

Since moving to Israel in 2004, I’ve purchased two new mobile phones. The first was a Sony Ericsson T630 that I bought from a shop on Jerusalem’s Ben Yehuda Street in early 2005. The second was a first generation iPhone that I bought in America in early 2008. My reason for buying the first phone [...]

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Hebrew in Office for Mac

י"א באלול ה'תש"ע (August 21, 2010) Computer

Mac users in Israel, and probably in many other countries, have long experienced befuddlement and frustration to find that the Mac version of Microsoft’s market-dominating Office suite doesn’t support right-to-left languages like Hebrew, Arabic or Farsi. Now it’s clear that even the next version, Office for Mac 2011, won’t support right-to-left languages. Over the years, [...]

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AppleJack for Snow Leopard

ב' באב ה'תש"ע (July 13, 2010) Computer

Do you have a Mac? If so, go now to download AppleJack and install it on your computer. Then forget about it. When something goes terribly wrong with your computer at some date in the distant future – and you can’t access the GUI, don’t have a startup disk, etc., you should then remember that [...]

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10 Reasons NOT to Delete Your Facebook Account

כ"א באייר ה'תש"ע (May 5, 2010) Aliyah

If you’re in the habit of following these things, you’ve by no doubt now read Dan Yoder’s 10 Reasons to Delete Your Facebook Account. I’ve seen it posted in six or seven places in just the past few hours. Unfortunately, it makes less and less sense every time I skim it. For the following reasons [...]

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Do you like models?

ט"ז בניסן ה'תש"ע (March 31, 2010) America

Only ridiculously hot international supermodels? Well, my brother has built one just like that, and he calls it the UVA Mini Bay Game. Check it out! Update: I understand that the UVA Mini Bay Game has been taken down due to a trademark or copyright issue, though I can’t see how it would have been [...]

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America in 140 characters or fewer

ו' באדר ה'תש"ע (February 20, 2010) America

Last month I went to visit America for a couple weeks and I recorded the entire trip on the Twitter. Here are all my tweets, from the minute my vacation began to when I got back home. Sorry they’re in reverse order – I can’t find a tool that will export them from first to [...]

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iPhone OS 3.1.x Messed Up My Data Plan!

י"ח בכסלו ה'תש"ע (December 5, 2009) Computer

Though I previously reported that I’d upgraded my iPhone’s firmware to 3.1.2 and that it was good, it was not actually working perfectly for me: Apple did one of their annoying moves and messed up access to cellular data plans on unlocked iPhones in OS 3.1. Consequently, I lost my connectivity when I went from [...]

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I Hate Gallery

י"א בכסלו ה'תש"ע (November 28, 2009) Computer

For quite a few years I’ve used Gallery to store pictures in an online photo album. Gallery sucks, has always sucked and continues to suck in ways I can’t even begin to describe. I remember the first time I tried to install it by hand – I couldn’t get it to work, despite doing everything [...]

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Protect Your iPhone

י"א בכסלו ה'תש"ע (November 28, 2009) Computer

Since I’ve been responsible for many iPhone users jailbreaking and unlocking their iPhones to use in Israel – a country where iPhones still have never been available for sale – I want to help get the word out about hackers targeting jailbroken iPhones: they exist. Fortunately, it’s easy to protect your iPhone. I’ve followed TUAW’s [...]

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Linksys WRT54GL + Apple AirPort Express = Nirvana

כ"ח במרחשון ה'תש"ע (November 15, 2009) Computer

As dedicated LWL fans, you surely know that I experienced an electrical surge last month, resulting in some weird issues with some of the gadgets in my apartment (read about my attempts to get Iomega and Amazon to replace a fried power supply for one of my hard drives). What you may not know is [...]

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