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    Archive for December, 2008

    Why aren’t iTunes Gift Cards Accepted in Apple Stores and Vice Versa?

    My little sister received a few iTunes gift cards this Christmas and asked me if she could use them to buy a case for her new iPod. I was cautious to assure her because I had never explicitly heard of such a thing. I came home and explicitly read the exact opposite thing:

    What can I [...]

    Improving Gift Cards By Admitting They’re Gift Codes

    Another glorious Christmas has come and past, and once again my wallet is stuffed to the brim with gift cards!
     
    As my butt became extra sore on the car ride home today from Cleveland, it dawned on me that I shouldn’t have to carry so many gift cards or any at all!

    One Month With #Magpie

    About a month ago I signed up to be a twitterer for Magpie, an ad network for Twitter. Basically, they match keywords you tweet about with ads much like Google’s AdWords. They originally projected that I could make about 40€ per month if I agreed to let them insert ads into my tweet feed. Not [...]

    Landlord Fails, Tenants Uprise

    Bloomington, Indiana is a great town but has a stigma of its residents (aka townies) not being very smart. You’d think a college town would have plenty of bright people to overshadow those of lesser intellect. For the most part that’s true, but all of those bright individuals need places to live which means renting [...]

    Building a $100 1TB External Hard Drive

    In May of 2007, I bought a 1TB external hard drive that consisted of 4 250GB hard drives that worked together for over $366. It was awesome and still works great.
    Last week I bought a Hitachi 1TB SATA hard drive for $79.99 after rebate (it’s in the mail) and a SATA to eSATA & USB 2.0 External [...]

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