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Jawbone ERA vs. BlueAnt Q3: a podcast-oriented comparison

Rose I’ve had several BT headsets going back to the Plantronics 510. I’ve had a Jawbone Icon than Blue Ant Q2 which I lost and than bought a Jawbone Era which I liked alot. It was small worked well. If I recall right though I couldn’t use Google now with it. I just know headsets always use to use voice dialer which sucked and didn’t bring up the actually Google to say dial so and so or text to so and so. And when I needed a stores phone number I…

A pax on the OS X Installer

…more. Everyone else in the Unix world uses tar instead of pax, but for some odd reason Apple had to be different. The pax tool is a pain to use, but I’ve discovered some convenient workarounds, to follow. Sometimes I want to see what’s inside an installer package, or extract the files from it without running the installer proper. On Mac OS 9, Apple provided the convenient TomeViewer utility; OS X’s equivalent is lsbom and pax, or the $20 shareware…