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Entries for September, 2008

Apple Extends Non-Disclosure to App Store Rejection Letters

I can understand Apple’s desire to put a NDA on iPhone app development, but this seems to be taking it too far. I can guess why they did it, namely to avoid negative press, but I think it will do quite the opposite. The community on Digg already seems to be frothing at the mouth [...]

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iPhone firmware update 2.1 is awesome

I’ve been excited since I learned about the 2.1 iPhone update that Apple dropped this past Friday and I wasn’t disappointed. The update fixes several issues including:

“Significantly” increased battery life
less dropped calls and call setup failures (I had lots of setup failures)
“Dramatically” faster iTunes backups
Create genius playlists on the go (awesome)

These are juts some of [...]

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iTunes 8 and a new iPhone update

Today Apple released iTunes 8.  Here are the new features:

Genius: A sidebar that will suggest music from the iTunes store that is similar to what you are currently listening to and will also automagically create playlists for you.
HD TV shows.
A new way to view your music called grid view that displays the cover art of [...]

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Overpowered Death Knight

Huge scourge strike crit!

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Death Knight changes

I signed on to Wrath of the Lich King this morning and had to download a 488 MB patch. I was eager to check out all the changes, but for some reason the patch notes are several builds behind so I have no idea what has been changed.
As soon as I logged in I noticed [...]

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Contact Me

I had to change my contact page because my cfoms plugin is throwing tons of 404 errors for some gifs that I know are there so I disabled it. If you want to contact me feel free to email me: marcus (at) marcusmccurdy (dot) com

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