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What I like about that battery pack (from the last time) is that it holds it's charge for a long time. So when you go to use it you don't find it to be totally dead like some others that I've tried. Nice deal on the Kindle, and if I didn't have the iPad, iPhone and Kindle app for Mac I'd seriously consider one. But even the Nook hardly gets used now.

Looks good enough to eat, like my emerald green ES3X. I wonder if Jolly Rancher colors sound the best too? Be sure to order those ES5 as well - mine will be black-eye blue, I think...

I don't get it. Did he put someone else's face on that girl?

Downpayment on PS Audio Bridge through Ron Buffington at Liquid HiFi.

I dropped three calls in a row with 5 bars of 3g today. Not sure what's up with that.

Wow, that's pretty cool. I enjoyed it, and I wasn't suspicious that it was faked or anything. Now you have me thinking about it. There is another video where he performs in front of people:

I've always just selected all, and choose print, and select the options I want and print to PDF. No copy and paste into another app.

This is so sad. A little Abilify can go a long way...

Amarra wont sync FLAC to your 801 will it? Double Twist and Fluke are both free, and you'd only need them in order to sync your FLAC or MP3 files to the 801. It just happens to also let you listen to the files on your Mac too.

Well, setting up the iPhone 4 as a fresh new phone and not using a backup to install everything fixed it - the phone is working perfectly with great battery life. With 4.2 hours standby and 30 minutes of use I am at 96%, but yesterday I would have been below 70% with that kind of usage.

Did you get Fluke and Double Twist working together to play and sync FLAC files to the HM-801? I'm going to bring the HM-801 with me to the CO meet so other people can try it out as well, with two 8Gb SD with 7-8 albums each in 24/96, and one 8Gb with 16/44 FLAC (about 25 albums). I'll be bringing a nice Soloz 12-strand Litz-braid copper mini-RCA IC, plus I'll have the coax to mini jack adapter so people can hook it up to their CD or DVD players as a S/PDIF Coax DAC.

Just wanted to mention a couple of things that I learned about the iPhone 4: 1) One should listen to other people here and not restore an old jailbroken 3GS backup file onto a new iPhone 4. Otherwise it becomes slightly unstable and sucks the battery down 3x faster than another iPhone 4 that wasn't restored from a backup and treated as a new phone. In 10 hours I ran my iPhone 4's battery down to 18% with very light use, while our other iPhone 4 with heavy use with games was down to 72% on the battery in the same 10 hour period. And I ended up with 4 copies of all my contacts (I have 2073 contacts when there is only one copy). Fortunately MobileMe detected the problem and on my Macbook I got a message where it asked me if I wanted to use the contacts on my computer to replace the contacts on MobileMe. I turned off mobile me contact syncing on the phone, and turned it back on and let it replace the contacts on the phone with the ones online and that was fixed. Half the time when opening the settings control panel it would close immediately and have to be reopened. And the signal strength readings were much more unstable, and often reading 1-2 bars while sitting on the table while the other iPhone 4 three feet away was at 4-5 bars (not touching the metal band around the phone). Then after turning airplane mode on and off it would read 5 bars for a while. 2) It can take an hour to restore the iPhone 4 back to factory settings via iTunes, and twice that long to re-install everything fresh (didn't want to risk using the "remove data and settings" command on the phone leaving something behind). I took screen shots of the 120 playlists i wanted to restore to it, plus movies, tv shows and podcasts, so that I could select the same ones I had before, but the 10 pages of apps will take me even longer to re-arrange into groups by use and category again. I had everything organized into 20 folders before I had to wipe it all out, so I wont be doing that again until I know everything is working like it should. 3) My DLO silicone skin case for 3GS fits the iPhone 4 rather nicely, with just a little looseness along the sides. If I hadn't ordered a Casemate Gelli case a couple of days ago I'd probably be perfectly happy using this one, with just cutting a small hole for the flash.

It turns out my wife's work email, calendar and contacts app wont work with iOS 4 (IBM Traveler app) and therefore she can't move over to the iPhone 4 right now. So we wont be picking up her reserved iPhone unless it can be activated by someone else on a different phone number (or account). My own iPhone shipped from AT&T Wednesday for 6/24 delivery. Anyone have an idea if we can put my wife's reserved iPhone 4 on my son's number instead, knowing that it will add two years to her contract and not his? Or will Apple and AT&T insist that we first activate it on her number first, before we can move it to one of our other lines? My wife doesn't want to activate the iPhone 4 on her phone number at all, being afraid she'll be stuck with it and can't go back to her 3GS with all her contacts/calendar/email. Once I get my iPhone 4 activated, if I like it I was going to pass my old 32Gb jailbroken 3GS to my son, and either sell his 8gb jailbroken 3G or keep it as a spare. If I don't like my iPhone 4 I might sell it or pass that on to my son instead. But I don't think that any of us are going to upgrade an old phone to iOS 4 until 4.01 or higher comes out. I am also assuming that I can't pick up her reserved phone and simply sell it for a profit without activating it first.

I'm really happy with the Apple case so far. It's much easier to hold the iPad than with the first silicone skin that I bought and gave away. I did buy the CRYSTAL SKIN CASE - CLEAR WAVE DESIGN using the "IPAD30OFF" a while back, but I never got around to trying it yet. Doh!

When the pre-ordering for iPhone 4 came on line I tried for 3 hours to order an iPhone 4 from Apple, but their site was giving errors all morning. Instead I was able to order one from AT&T by 12 noon on "day one". But so far it has not shipped yet and is still "In Process". For some reason AT&T shows my order online as being done on 6/16, although my receipt was sent to me within 5 minutes on the 15th. I don't think I'm getting mine by the 24th. I had also reserved one for my wife via the Apple Store App, to pick up at the Apple store. But she wont be able to get her work contacts, calendar and email added for a week or two, so she offered to have me activate her new phone on my line, so it wont matter if the other one is late. Since both lines are eligible, and one iPhone 4 is being shipped to me for my line, will the Apple store let me activate her reservation on my number?

Star Trek Enterprise - The Complete Second Season.

Speaking of queens at can jam, will you be at the CO meet this August?

Not bad. I like her furniture too.

Using Fluke 2.5 lets me play FLAC in Double Twist natively (as well as quicktime) if they are in your main "Music" folder in your home directory. When I created the playlists for these FLAC files within Double Twist I had to drag the songs into the playlist in the right order manually. But then I could sync the playlists to the 801 easily (but not individual songs, they had to be in a playlist to sync). If you only use the 801 to play "albums" and not play music in folders on the SD card, then you could put all your FLAC in one playlist and sync that one playlist. (you can google "Fluke FLAC" and find the free fluke application) Double Twist also creates an .m3u playlist, although I think the 801 uses CUE playlists while my old windows mobile phone used .m3u playlists. But dragging the FLAC files onto the Fluke application will import the FLAC into iTunes, where you can play and organize them. I ended up first importing the FLAC into iTunes, and creating playlists for each album in iTunes for them. Then I imported those playlists into double twist. I was then able to sync the playlists into HM-801 with double twist and listen to them on the 801. I thought that importing the playlists from iTunes would be easier. But the music in the sync'd folders was played in alphabetical order by the 801 because the songs had their track number removed by iTunes. I had to play music as "albums" from the 801 main menu instead of viewing the music folders on the SD card and playing it from there - not a big deal unless you are listening to a mix or compilation of various songs stored in one folder, which aren't on the same album. This was because I had previously programed iTunes to removed song numbers from the file name when I import them, so my FLACs went into the iTunes Music Folder with no track numbers. I had run a terminal command that I found on the web a while back that would have iTunes remove song numbers; but I forget what the command was, or why I felt the need to not have track numbers back then. So, in my case I will likely just keep the FLAC files in their own folder inside my home "Music" folder, and create the FLAC playlists within Double Twist for syncing. iTunes is easier to make playlists in, and if your copy of iTunes doesn't strip out track numbers then I would import the FLAC into iTunes, make playlists, and then import that into Double Twist. The problem is that you still see the Mac invisible directory files on the 801 display, and I needed to use a utility to view the invisible files and remove most of them (but not the .Trashes file, and the spotlight files are still in the .Trashes folder). I am going to try downloading Blue Harvest 4 and see if that works to keep the invisible files away from the SD card.

I had a demo of the ES5 last week, and it looks like I'll be getting a pair too. The soundstage was better with more out of the head soundstage but still good imaging rather than being diffuse or anything; and I thought they sounded very well balanced in their frequency response. I also read a review of them today: Westone Elite Series ES5 Custom In-Ear Monitors

What happens if you press and hold the sleep button and home button at the same time for 10-20 seconds (plugged in or not, either way)?

I do believe lack of ALAC is the biggest issue I have next to the short battery life. I used MAX to convert about 25 of my favorite 16/44 albums from ALAC to FLAC, which barely fit on an 8GB SD card. My other two 8GB SD cards are filled with 15 of my favorite 24/96 albums which were already in FLAC when I downloaded them. The 801 is being used in my bed-side rig in place of my iRiver optical out > Headroom Micro Stack, and it's freed up a bit of space on my bedside table. As for having an interface to put music to the 801, when I have a chance I am going to see if the "Double Twist" music app for Mac will put music on the 801's memory cards. That is IF it is compatible with FLAC. I know I can use it to send MP3 music to another device, with an iTunes-like interface for listening to that music, and it can import my iTunes playlists.

Thanks. My wife is now pissed at me that my computer woke her up.

Well, looks like my wife's upgrade date was moved from October to now, so we could order another iPhone 4 if we wanted to... Hmm... I reserved one for her through the Apple Store app just in case. Then I could sell the old jailbroken 8GB 3G AND the jailbroken 32GB 3GS for the money to pay for the new phones.

iPhone 4 32GB black (through ATT website as an upgrade, since Apple is down)