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Sep 30 2011

Rick shares his picks for Thanksgiving iPad apps


0 Rick shares his picks for Thanksgiving iPad apps

In Canada, due to our earlier harvest, we celebrate Thanksgiving in October. So, just as soon as we’ve stopped remarking, “Can you believe the summer is over already?” we start into marveling at the fact that it’s time to think turkey and stuffing.

In this visit to Urban Rush, I demonstrate five iPad apps that will help you get into the Thanksgiving spirit (does every holiday have a spirit?). I’ve got something to help you work your gratitude muscle, another to help you find the perfect Thanksgiving side dish, an app to help you pair the meal with the right wine, one to help you make sure you don’t burn the turkey and finally one to keep you from getting sick eating leftovers that are way past their prime.

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Jul 18 2011

Rick Yaeger is The App Man on Urban Rush


0 Rick Yaeger is The App Man on Urban Rush

In my first of hopefully many appearances on Urban Rush, I am dubbed “The App Man” and demonstrate a few cool apps for your iPad. As with any live tech demo, not everything goes according to plan. But I must admit, not everything that went wrong was entirely unplanned.

Apps demo’d:

LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 $4.99

Flipboard FREE

Star Walk $2.99

Discovr Music $1.99

Magic Fiddle $2.99

You actually can play beautiful music with Magic Fiddle:

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Rick Yaeger is The App Man on Urban Rush

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Aug 18 2010

Dial back your iPhone 3G or 3GS to a previous iOS

As mentioned before, iOS 4.0 on the 3G iPhone is not awesome—it’s slow, over heated, quickly drains the battery and is generally unstable. And though Apple is apparently aware of the problems and is working on fixing the situation, the rest of us need to get stuff done in the meantime.

My friend, Mike Bjorndal ( @mbjorndal ) pointed me to this iHackintosh article that allowed me to put my iPhone in DFU mode, restore an older firmware and boot back out of DFU mode again. After restoring my apps and settings in iTunes, I was back in business with a faster 3G iPhone experience running an older firmware.

Keep in mind, many of the apps you may be running now might require iOS 4.x and will be inaccessible from an older version of the OS. I take no responsibility for any lost data. Backup and then backup again…and then reconsider doing this hack.

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