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I recently ran into a pretty annoying situation with the iPhone. Normally, it’s a breeze importing photos taken on the iPhone using iPhoto. But somewhere, iPhoto got stuck on one photo in particular, saying it was “unreadable.” Problem was, any photo taken after that one, iPhoto refused to import.

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I think a week was missed here and there, but another Elite Tech News Podcast was recorded this past weekend. Participating in this one was Mark “Rizzin” Hopkins, Art Lindsey, Steven Hodson and myself. It had been a while since I did one of these, and we didn’t have too many tech stories to cover, so the episode is a bit more rambling and relaxed than usual.

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Now that the iPhone 3G is losing its shiny new gadget smell (*cough* Safari crashing *cough*), the rumor-mongers are wondering what’s next from Apple. There’s no doubt something is coming real soon now, September specifically, as Apple likes to have refreshed goodies set up for the back to school and holiday seasons. So I’ll run down the more interesting rumors and add my take.

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Cnet has a decent article about the prospect of a touch-screen Mac. This seems like a no-brainer following the multi-touch innovations of the iPhone, and also some aspects of the Leopard OS (Cover flow in the Finder, Quick Look) that seem particularly suited for multitouch on the Mac.

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In the interest of fairness I checked out 2 Across, another crossword puzzle iPhone app. It’s cheaper than Crosswords yet promises to do the same thing - download crossword puzzles from the web and let you solve them, so you’ll always have a supply of crossword puzzles with you wherever you are.

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Simplify Media is a free iTunes app that allows streaming of your iTunes music collection, stored on your computer, to your iPhone, wherever you may be.

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I just installed Disqus 2.0.1 on this blog - I decided to be fashionably late on this one because I had 4,000+ comments that needed to be imported into Disqus and it seemed there were some bugs with the initial 2.0 release.

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Right now I have a “problem.” I have season 1, disc 1 of Mad Men lined up in my Netflix queue. It’s marked with “Very Long Wait” and hasn’t yet arrived.

Meanwhile, the entire first season (13 episodes) is available in iTunes for $19.99.

Of course, I could always Bit Torrent the whole shebang and get it relatively soon, for free.

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The iPhone 3G still has issues. As I write this, the two biggest bugaboos are MobileMe and wimpy 3G reception.

Chuqui 3.0 (former Apple employee) posted two insightful (and juicy) rumors as to what’s going an at Apple regarding to these two issues:

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