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iTunes Gift Cards, also known as iTunes Gift Certificates allow you to give your friends or family a credit at the iTunes music store - the webs largest online music store. This credit can then be used to buy songs, albums (Beatles), playlists, audiobooks, music videos, movies, and TV shows even iPhone and iPad programs / apps (Angry Birds is great). Buying a gift card is easy and it can be emailed or even handed to the recipient in person (after you've printed it out) and you can even mailed to a far off friend with just few clicks of your mouse.

While trying to archive avchd footage from an SDHC card to a DVD on my internal drive of my 2009 Macbook Pro unibody,  I got all kinds of weird error messages in my console: 

Sometimes it's nice to have the lyrics of a song, perhaps it's a particularly soppy romantic song you want to get all teared up over or just a rocking 80s tunes you want to sing along to. This article will show you how to get the lyrics to any song for free and automagically add them to your iTunes Library one song, album or entire library at a time.

One of iTunes most annoying features is it's insistence to do a full backup every time you plug in your iPhone. You know the drill, you're dashing out the door to go for a run or you're off to the gym and remember that you want to listen to the latest podcast from the BBC. You plug in the iPhone, fire up iTunes and hit the sync button only to be met by an annoying "Backing up Richard's iPhone" status message that just sits there for ever while your precious leisure time ticks away.

Just updated my iPhones firmware to version 2.2 and I was eager to try out street view, the google maps functionality that lets you view a photograph take from the ground by one of its fancy roaming hi tech vans.

Free iPod, free iTunes Gift Card, free PSP, free Xbox, really! Let's get this straight, free means you don't have to exchange money for the items I just mentioned but you will have to exchange something. So how do these schemes work. Companies such as Rewards1, giftmonkey.com, and the like have deals with other companies such as credit card companies or cell phone carriers. So they get paid when you sign up for these services then if all goes as planned you will receive the gift. But here's the problem with these kind of offers:

[This article was written in July 2008 - speeds are somewhat better as of Aug 2009 but I'm convinced that AT&T voice service is getting worse - dropped calls etc.] Doing some informal 3G speed testing of my iPhone 3G here in the republic of Boulder. I positioned myself under the main cellphone antenna array in the center of downtown boulder.

This is a mini Flickr Photoset test:

It's that magical time of the year when a new software update for the iPhone is being released, Ver. 2.0. In my over eager state of folly I decided to update my phone as soon as the software was released.