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CNET to the Rescue: What to do with old iPhones

Josh and Rafe are back on the show together again, finally. This week, we answer the burning question of iUpgraders: What to do with an old iPhone 3? Give it to your kids or a homeless shelter...or hack it? Tough call. Also: Jason answers audio questions, we have a few networking puzzlers, and we discuss how to ruin a perfectly good HD TV with bad video signals.

CNET to the Rescue: What to do with an old iPhone

Rafe's ideas: 1. Sonos controller 2. Computer for kids.

Josh's ideas: 1. Set it up in your kitchen as … Read more

CNET to the Rescue: Beg, borrow, and steal

With Rafe out on vacation, Josh and special co-host Seth Rosenblatt team up to take magic USB pens and helmetcams that we borrowed from our CNET colleagues to the test, as well as helping CNET readers out with their tech problems.

Topics discussed include: watching DRM'd iTunes videos on your TV, cloning that failing hard drive, getting Windows 7 to stop rebooting your computer every time it updates, and finding the perfect laptop-friendly backpacks. We've also got some great reader recommendations on pulling out contact information from your Mac's Address Book app, and using Bluetooth cell phone … Read more

How students have become online beggars

There's only one thing I know about students. There are too many of them.

The dominance of online practices over the traditional analog methods has meant that, truly, we need fewer people to make the commercial world spin around.

Machines can now do the work of thousands of interns. We therefore need fewer students to emerge from the college system, students who believe that they have talents given by God, when in fact they're not even all that good at beer pong.

These thoughts enter my head because of the existence of a site called SponsorMyDegree.com. This … Read more