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New Liberte yogurt flavours underwhelm

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I don't blog about food a lot, although maybe I should considering half of my Instagram feed seems to be food photos. But this seems as good of a place as any given that I have been scouting my local grocery stores for Liberte's new gourmet/upscale yogurt flavours, the chocolate praline and the caramelized pineapple and pecans. I love Liberte's yogurts - rich, decadent, flavourful. So I had high hopes for these. The yogurts come in a package of two individual servings. Very sleek and gourmet looking. Pull up the top and there's the chocolate - wait. Where's the chocolate? Guess it's at the bottom. Let's stir. That's better. Yup, all the chocolate and pralines are on the bottom. So how does it taste? Fine. I guess. I mean, it seemed to be less flavourful than their normal line of flavoured yogurts. It didn't seem to be as decadent. The ridiculously few pralines are there entirely for texture, such as it is. I guess my botto

The iPhone 7 earbud adapter is backwards

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I confess when I bought my iPhone 7, I took the included earbud adapter and threw it into my electronics drawer without really looking at it. The bundled lightning earbuds - obviously - work with the iPhone 7's lightning port. So I had no reason to go exploring that little 3-inch adapter thingy. Flying to the west coast a few weekends ago, I figured I should dig out the iPhone 7 earbud adapter because there would be a good chance I'd want to plug into the plane's audio-video system, which, of course, uses the standard 3.5 mm headphone jack. To my rather large surprise, the adapter was exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be. I assumed that the adapter would let me take my iPhone 7 earbuds and give me a traditional 3.5 mm headphone jack connector at the end. Instead, it's designed to take OLD earbuds with the 3.5 mm headphone connector and turn them into lightning earbuds for the iPhone 7. Which strikes me as a far more arrogant stance on Apple's