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iPhone Tethering

Posted on June 6, 2011 by romkey

Free Wifi is great, isn’t it? Except when it’s worth exactly what you paid for it: nothing. I often have difficulty with hotel wifi. It drops out, you can’t get an IP address, the bandwidth is next to nothing. Forget … Continue reading →

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Brian Eno Is Alive and Well in My iPhone

Posted on October 9, 2008 by romkey

Given the current events in the US (or global) economy, “Bloom” rescues me from continually listening to only chill-out music and Radiohead’s most apocalyptic songs. Instead, “Bloom” allows me to anesthetize (or lobotomize) myself with a mini-Eno, embedded in my iPhone, happy to produce ambient music on demand or from my cue. … Tap out a few notes and it will play them back, looping them into a piece of ambient fuzz that could just as well be a song from "Music for Airports" . You can freeze the melody from evolving if you like it, but there are no provisions for saving, recording or sharing it, which is just as well. Continue reading →

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