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Daily Highlights #11: Super Bowl XLV Media Day 2011

By On February 1, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Daily Highlights

The world’s most prolific blogger, Engadget Associate Editor, and fellow Wolfpack Alum, Darren Murph posted a great article with some behind the scenes footage of Media Day 2011 (part of the NFL’s Super Bowl XLV festivities).  The article exposed some extraordinary facts:

There are more than 260 miles of fiber optic cabling in use [...]

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AT&T Uverse: Using Your Own Router

By On September 7, 2010 · 1 Comment · In Gadgets, Technology

Myth: One of the trickiest things to do with AT&T’s Uverse is use your own router (ie. your Linksys wireless router, Apple Airport, etc.).

Fact:  It’s actually pretty easy and I learned by failing multiple times.  So here are some general steps on getting your existing router to work as a router with AT&T Uverse.

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Rooting Your Samsung Captivate & Removing AT&T Bloat

By On July 20, 2010 · 3 Comments · In Android, Android Development

First of all -> all the credit goes to ‘chaoscentral’ for the rooting procedure and ‘maerlim’ for instructions on removing the “features” added by AT&T.

Disclaimer:  I am not responsible for any damage that may occur to your handset or your life following the procedure laid out here.

How to root

Download the [...]

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Samsung (Galaxy S) Captivate Hands On/Review Roundup

By On July 13, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Android, Technology

If you’ve been following me, you’ll notice I am somewhat biased towards the Samsung Captivate coming to AT&T on July 18th $199.99.  Just thought I would list all of the review and hands-on articles and videos that debuted this past week.

Phonedog – Unboxing SlashGear – Unboxing TechnoBuffalo – Unboxing Mobileburn [...]

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AT&T U-Verse Pt. 2 – The Install & Thoughts

By On June 28, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Technology

So it has been a little over two weeks since I’ve had AT&T Uverse installed.  I’ll run through installation and some thoughts on the service.  If you don’t want to read all of this, summary: Uverse is great!

Installation

I was scheduled to have AT&T Uverse installed on Saturday, June 18th.  The premises technician was [...]

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AT&T U-Verse Pt. 1 – The Pre-Install

By On June 10, 2010 · 1 Comment · In Technology

Sooo, I’m getting AT&T’s Uverse package installed at my house in two days and moving from Time Warner Cable.  I am getting television and internet.  I’d thought I’d document this process because I was looking for this same information online and was unable to really find a good article (I found a few) documenting the [...]

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