Apple Archive

  • The iPhone Trickle-Up Effect

    The iPhone Trickle-Up Effect

    Who Is Getting Rich Off the iPhone?

    Ever wonder who is making money off the manufacturing and sales of the iPhone? Thanks to GigaOM, there’s a breakdown for that… and here it is. Also included are some other interesting iPhone stats. [...]

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  • How to Stream Your Music From Mac to Anywhere

    How to Stream Your Music From Mac to Anywhere

    BY Chris Dannen From: TechWatch | Fast Company
    Apple’s new Mac Mini now ships with server software, but Apple’s suggested uses are vanilla. With 1TB of storage and plenty of power, let’s put it to good use and stream some music and movies over the Intertubes.
    Snow Leopard Server can do a lot [...]

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  • How To Get Into An Apple iPhone Commercial

    How To Get Into An Apple iPhone Commercial

    CHICAGO (AdAge.com) — If you want your branded app to be included in Apple’s next iPhone commercial, the first rule is not to ask. The second rule? Make the app really useful to consumers.

    A handful of branded apps are currently enjoying a cameo in Apple’s latest iPhone spots. The bad news is there isn’t some formal [...]

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  • The Apple Tablet: When & What if?

    The Apple Tablet: When & What if?

    We’re less than a week away from the big September 9th “rock and roll” spectacle where Apple is set to make some big announcements. So far, what do we know for sure? It’s all about the iPod. But, the rumor mill continues to churn. What people are expecting? Plenty. One of the earlier reports from Apple Insider “independently confirm” that Apple will “introduce its 2009 iPod offerings and [...]

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  • Ditch my iPhone in favor of Google Voice? No way!

    Ditch my iPhone in favor of Google Voice? No way!

    Late last night, when I got my 20% Battery Alert Notification on my iPhone 3G, I decided to check my day’s usage. I was taken aback to realize how well my iPhone’s battery actually holds up. I knew, in general terms, that it was holding up fairly close to how long my BlackBerry Pearl’s daily charge would last, since I try to keep the same daily regiment of charging… at night while sleeping. Some [...]

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  • Apple Expatriates

    Apple Expatriates

    I really don’t get the latest round of Apple bashing. It all began with the debacle of the Google Voice app not being accepted into the iTunes App store a couple of weeks ago. Why is it so difficult for people, especially tech savvy business people, to understand why Google Voice was rejected? The answer seems obvious to me… it is designed to replicate native functionality of the iPhone [...]

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  • Macbook Touch, iTablet, or iZilch?

    Macbook Touch, iTablet, or iZilch?

    I went back and forth on whether or not to write this post because I don’t particularly like to speculate about rumored products, especially when they could possibly carry an Apple badge. I decided to pass. Then, not a couple of hours later, I came across this article “My theory on the Apple Tablet: It doesn’t exist, will never exist, and it is probably a 10 inch laptop”. I was literally laughing out loud. Not because [...]

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  • How to: Get iPhone Push Notifications for (just about) Anything

    How to: Get iPhone Push Notifications for (just about) Anything

    Utilizing the Growl notification system for Mac OS X, Prowl enables users to receive push notifications on their iPhone from any program or script that is running via Growl. It’s a highly extensible solution for notifications. As stated on their site: Prowl is a Growl client for the iPhone. Notifications from your Mac or Windows computer [...]

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  • WWDC 2009 Keynote Takeaways

    WWDC 2009 Keynote Takeaways

    Obviously the biggest, and most hyped about, news out of this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference is the newest addition to Apple’s mobile handset line-up… the iPhone 3G[s]. If you weren’t in attendance or don’t have (roughly) the hour and 40 minutes to watch the Keynote Address, here are some of my other takeaways:

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  • The New iPhone 3G[s]

    The New iPhone 3G[s]

    If you haven’t heard, it’s here… the all new iPhone 3G[s]!
    Announced today, all the juicy details as well as the street date of… drum roll please, June 19! That’s right peeps, we’re less than just two weeks away from getting our hands on a spanking new iPhone 3G[s]!
    With twice the speed, it appears that it [...]

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