So, the TechTards are about to get their panties in a Gordian Knot Again. Why? CrunchGear is noting a conversation that “Steve” had with Apple CSR’s. Apparently, you are not going to be able to buy an iPhone online. Nor are you activating it through iTunes …
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Mr MacLeod is back from his desert island this week and we’re back in SMS Text News Towers too - normal service has been resumed. This week we preview Ewan’s write-ups on the technology he took with him - the stuff that made it through customs and the stuff that didn’t. We also celebrate […]
Last week we mentioned that most consumers are so upset at Rogers for the high iPhone data tariffs that they have started an online petition that numbered 10,000 strong and growing. Now it’s been rumored that Apple itself is joining the mutiny. Boy Genius Report, the source of many legit rumors, […]
If you’re Canadian (and by looking at my stats, few of you are, so if you aren’t, move on) you’ve probably heard the growing attention that the iPhone has been getting in advance of its July 11th release. Most of it being negative, thanks to Rogers’ bald-faced, shamelessly blatant attempt at profiteering, that […]
Amazon is having a sale on the MobileMe boxes: MobileMe - $89.99 (from $99) MobileMe Family Pack - $134.99 (from $149) Full disclosure: affiliate links.
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The iPhone 3G on Rogers saga continues! Crazy Canuck Rogers Rumor du jour? Apple, upset about Rogers disgustingly high price plans for the iPhone 3G and the negative press towards what should have been a triumphant launch for both parties, is cutting its losses and giving Rogers the same shaft Rogers has […]
Vodafone has placed a Google Map of where you can buy the new iPhone. It’s a start, but what a terrible situation for the consumer to be in. The iPhone is being launched this friday and there is no indication weather there will be the ridicilous pricing that has caused […]
With the backlash rising against Canada’s exclusive iPhone carrier, Rogers may be facing sanctions by Apple for its exorbitant rate plans. An unconfirmed report indicates that Apple has diverted a large percentage of iPhone 3G shipments — destined for Canada — to Europe. Since the initial announcement of Roger’s rate plans, over 43,000 users […]
“Sales of Apple’s Macintosh computers have been growing much faster than PC sales overall, with many new Mac buyers switching from years of using Windows computers,” admits Walt Mossberg (allthingsd.com). And to help those who have made the switch, he’s assembled “a quick tip sheet explaining a few of the most common differences” between Mac […]
Wie heise online und die verlagseigene Berliner Morgenpost berichten, hat der Axel-Springer-Verlag angekündigt, innerhalb der nächsten fünf Jahre konzernweit rein auf Apple-Systeme umzurüsten. Mit seinen 10000 Beschäftigten und einem Jahresumsatz von 2,5 Mill. Euro (2007) wird Axel-Springer damit der größte Apple-Kunde Europas und weltweit die Nr. 2 - nach Google. Als Gründe für […]
The supply is expected to be plentiful, nevertheless a line has already begun outside of Apple’s Fifth Avenue retail store to buy iPhone 3G a week before its release. These people are serious and have their supplies for camping. Wouldn’t it be nicer to stay at home with your families? […]
Carry me back… July 6th, 2008 …to Old Virginnie!! (sp?) Another whirlwind weekend on the road!! We had not been to VA in a while. Thursday night we stayed in Charlottesville and hung out with Kimmers, C, K & M at our old stomping grounds on the Corner. Look at […]
I’ve been gathering requirements for my Asterisk-based home VOIP system and have just had an epiphany. I don’t need to buy any wireless VOIP phones to use with my Asterisk box; soon I’ll be able to just use my iPhone as my home phone! I was looking at the […]
Welcome to our second episode of SlashGear TV week in review. Ashley and Bree are no longer with Aradius, being replaced with Ann Pickrell. We got the LG Dare, iPAQ 910 Business Messenger, Sony Ericsson MBS-100 Bluetooth Speaker, Guitar Hero on Tour, and i2i Stream in to review this week. […]
iTWire has a great post about the blog coverage of the TiVo and iPhone launches down under. It is a bit of meta-blogging, blogging about blogging. And I couldn’t agree more with that they have to say. A pitfall a lot of tech blogs fall into is forgetting the target market of the products […]
Excelente idea de minid, iPhone Universal es un Framework CSS y XHTML para desarrollar en iPhone y iPod Touch. En palabras de Diego: “Todo empezó cuando Apple lanzó algunos ejemplos de la UI del iPhone hechos con CSS y HTML, ejemplos que encontré mediocres e incompletos” la idea es muy […]
SeattleBus 1.0 is done and uploaded into the AppStore - hopefully in time for the upcoming 2.0 launch. I didn’t get everything done I wanted to do for 1.0, so there’s a nice set of “to do” items pending for version 1.1 of the iPhone application. The speed of loading some of the […]
We found an excellent post while searching the Blogosphere today! Here’s a quick excerpt : Baseball star Alex Rodriguez of the New York Yankees and his wife, Cynthia, have broken up, according to the New York Daily News , amid media speculation that he has been seeing pop star Madonna. You […]
Google Talk for the iPhone Filed under: Mobile Phones | by: Rien | Hits: 26 Crave: Google is making its Google Talk instant-messaging application available for Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch. One of Google’s software engineers posted the news in a blog last week. “In addition to sending […]
If you are using OS X 10.5 Leopard, Spotlight can be used for quick calculations. Here is the breakdown. * is multiplication, / is division, ^ is to the power of (exponents), ! is factorial, and then of course there’s + and - for addition and subtraction, respectively. […]
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Here’s an interesting rumor from the iPhone blog that suggests that Apple is working on a slider style iPhone (the picture I’ve included is a photoshop from the iPhone blog). This would be an interesting idea given that one of the biggest complaints that I’ve heard from users of the iPhone is no physical […]
This weekend I freed up 30 GB of mp3 duplicates using a handy program called iDupe. I’d tried several programs before, including an early version of Corral all Duplicates without much luck, but iDupe was able to process songs via ID3 tags, file size, date modified, and some fuzzy logic I don’t totally understand. […]
Out of the closest iPhone lover Paul Thurrott of the Supersite for Windows got his beige-boxy hands on pre-release version of the iPhone 2.0 software update and the pre-requisite iTunes 7.7 software, and ran the upgrade process through its paces. His verdict? [Installing the 2.0 upgrade] is a multi-step and time-consuming […]
We already expected Apple to post an iPhone guided tour on their Japanese website, but what we didn’t expect (but should have) was the demonstration of the new character-recognition feature built in to the iPhone 2.0 OS firmware. Having already gone “gold,” the new iPhone 2.0 OS will bring character recognition to countries with […]
Aperture 2: Professionally Manage Digital Photographs, a new title from Ben Long, Richard Harrington, and Orlando Luna, guides you step-by-step through the entire Aperture workflow, even providing hundreds of sample images to experiment with. Download the free Aperture 2 trial, work through the book’s in-depth tutorials, and you’ll see how far Aperture 2 can […]
It’s crazy times right now. Lots happening. After the surprise birthday party last week, we were somehow more manic this week. On Thursday, Jess and I got out of work early, went to see WALL-E and had dinner together. Afterwards, we met co-workers at a bar as it was the day of Laura’s birthday. […]
July 11, 2008 is a significant date for those planning to purchase one of the hottest mobile phones available. The iPhone 3G officially goes on sale. If you are a current iPhone user who will be upgrading to the iPhone 3G you might have wondered what to do with your old iPhone. AT&T […]
Smithereens - Persuasion, Productivity and Prose: Apple Flips Rogers the Bird A Week Before Canadian iPhone Launch? Plausible Rumor This is an UNCONFIRMED rumor. But it sort of rings true doesn’t it? What a great little Canadian tech soap opera Rogers has become! Rogers has dropped the ball on the Canadian iPhone 3G so badly […]
Of three ultrathin portables — MacBook Air, Toshiba Portege, and Lenovo ThinkPad — which is the most usable? To find out, Computerworld turned to usability experts and 20 impartial testers. Those testers, David Haskin relates, found MacBook Air the most usable, the most fun, and the best value of the three. In fact, they made […]
A Retail Week compilou recentemente uma lista com as 100 lojas imperdíveis no mundo, entre elas as localidades Apple na 5ª Avenida de Nova York e na Regent Street de Londres. Apple Retail Store: 5th Avenue, Nova York (EUA) Apple Retail Store: Regent Street, Londres (Inglaterra) […]
One of the more interesting things I came across in my blog reading this weekend was the release of the second generation Openmoko phone. The Openmoko phone is the phone for the FOSS community with even the CAD files for building the phone available under a Creative Commons license and a price just shy […]
One device I have been following for a while now is the EFiX USB device that “is the most senseful hardware solution for a Mac™ on a PC experience. It allows the user to install Mac OS X™ straight from the original DVD without having to worry about patches, replacing files […]
All the iPhone buzz started at MacWorld 07 where Steve Jobs announced that Apple will soon be releasing a touchscreen phone i.e. the iPhone. The interesting fact here is that despite its launch in 2007, iPhone is being worked upon since 1999 and the following visual iPhone timeline can explain it no better. […]
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