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Mark the Spot Lets You Tell AT&T Exactly Where Your iPhone Crapped Out

iPhone: Say what you will about the iPhone as a device, but if there’s one consistent weak spot for U.S. users (particularly in cities like New York), it’s AT&T’s service—specifically frequent dropped calls. Mark the Spot quickly reports your problems.

The app is a breeze to use. Whenever you experience a dropped call, failed call, lack of coverage, data failure, or poor voice quality, just fire up the app, ..read more

Windows 7 Transfers Your Wireless Settings Easily

After discovering how easily WEP can be cracked and creating a long, secure WPA2 key, you’ve probably noticed it’s a pain to get friends connected to your Wi-Fi network when they stop by. Windows 7 makes this process easy.

Over at the How-To Geek site (my home away from Lifehacker), guest blogger Ciprian writes up the quick and easy process of transferring your wireless network settings from your Windows 7 PC to any other machine ..read more

YouTube Auto Buffer Makes the Popular Video Site a Lot Better

Firefox with Greasemonkey: The YouTube Auto Buffer Greasemonkey script tweaks the popular video sharing site to fix some of its most common annoyances. Specifically, it stops videos from automatically playing, turns on HD/HQ playback for all videos, and hides in-video advertisements.

All three of the tweaks YouTube Auto Buffer makes can be toggled, so if you’d really like to get rid of in-video ads but don’t want to always watch videos ..read more

Google, Apple, and AT&T All Make Their Statements to the FCC over Google Voice

Apple’s been bad, and now the FCC is all over Apple, AT&T, and Google trying to get to the bottom of the Google Voice app rejection from the iTunes App Store. So far no one’s really saying all that much beyond some legal maneuvering, and the only interesting bit of information (”What explanation was given for Apple’s rejection of the Google Voice application?”) was redacted. TechCrunch has ..read more

Remains of the Day: Facebook Acquires FriendFeed Edition

Social networking site Facebook snags up social media aggregator FriendFeed, we patiently await more Windows 7 deals, and AT&T’s Terms of Service are looking shady.

FriendFeed accepts Facebook friend request FriendFeed is the coolest social aggregator we’ve seen, but it never really caught on with users at large. With this new Facebook partnership, the popular social networking tool hopes to compete with the likes of Twitter for your real-time online activity and search. [FriendFeed Blog] Facebook ..read more