Posts Tagged ‘Apple’

This Penny Arcade comic was too funny not to spread the love.

OK, I’ll admit it. I’m an Apple fan, love their stuff and have a few pieces lying around the office. I use an iPhone and am typing this on my 13″ Macbook Unibody.

I recently took a fantastic vacation with no laptop. I used my iPhone to listen to a bunch of full albums that I hadn’t spared the time to listen to in years and read a book using the kindle app.

This got me thinking that a larger version of the iPhone to use while on the couch would be cool. Enter the Apple Tablet, or should I say, enter the rumors of the Apple Tablet. You see, Apple hasn’t announced any such product and are denying the rumours as stoutly as they did the iPhone rumors of a few years ago.

Thing is that it’s a brilliant marketing ploy. Folks are frothing at the mouth to plonk down their hard earned on this product that doesn’t even officially exist.

Got to say though that the model is a proven winner. Hook it into the iTunes store and skim 30% off anything that is sold. Lock the thing down so that you can’t put non sanctioned apps on it and away you go. Giggling like a school girl all the way to the bank.

As was proven by the app store for the iPhone, there is a huge market for these low cost, high volume apps and there are a lot of new millionaires walking around thinking how lucky they were to get in on the ground floor of the iPhone app thing.

The question remains what is to come and will it make as large a splash. I kinda think it will and it the form factor proves to be as easy or easier to use on a couch as a fully fledged laptop, I can see two of them coming to this household.

I held out on getting a kindle or any other ebook reader, to see what apple would put out and if it does the kindle app as well as web, email and other apps I can certainly see a good market for it.

Ciao.
Shane

Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard

With MacExpo 2009 firing on all cylinders, this was too good not to repost.

I have a MacBook on the top of my shopping list and should be able to pick it up early February. Unless of course they announce the MacBook Wheel and can get that within the first quarter of the year.

Enjoy,
Shane

The new Macbook is still calling my name and while Apple doesn’t seem to be doing a lot in the way of post Christmas there are bargains to be found.

The best I’ve seen so far is at Amazon. $100 off on the Macbook 2.4ghz with Free shipping.

$1499 with free shipping on the new Macbook sounds like a bargain by any definition of the word.

There is a bunch of stuff I’m looking forward to tackling in the new year once my Macbook arrives. High on the list are iphone development, movie editing and writing some new music for the kids.

I look forward to mine arriving and will be doing some articles on the tech, programming and programs around it when it turns up on my doorstep.

I know Macmall has had some good prices, especially on the older models. Has anyone seen better pricing that Amazon?

Kind Regards,

Shane

Check it out at Amazon

Well I’m in the middle of restoring my 16G iPhone 3G.

If your sync is interupted, say by disconnecting the cable or receiving a call, it’s possible for your ipod index file to be corrupted. What can happen then is that your entire library of media turns into “other” in the storage system.
There are a couple of fixes if you have a jailbroken iPhone, if you are running stock (as I am) there are significantly fewer. The “recommended” fix is to restore your phone through iTunes.

Things seem to be going so well so far and I’ll write further if there are complications.

Since the latest firmware updates, the restore and syncing process is significantly faster and less painful.

I’m hopeful there will be a fix in the next firmware release for this bug, it’s a little annoying.

Cheers,

Shane

It looks like the outrage is dying down and the support group that was the SUPER THREAD has wound up. It hit 1115 pages before being locked by moderators and a new page was started that has barely hit 17 pages in a little over a week.

As with any new launch, failure to meet demand results in outcry and dismay. In the whole scheme of things people had to wait two weeks to get their new gadgets and there was some gnashing of teeth.

What can we learn from this? Well for one, the iPhone 3G launch and apparent shortages kept it and Apple in the news, which probably helped to move more units. Even with the much publicized delays, folks rushed AT&T stores to get their Direct Fulfillment order in or lined up for hours outside Apple stores in the hope that new shipments would bring enough iPhones for them to get one.

I haven’t seen the figures yet, but it seems that despite some issues with a small number (percentage wise) of handsets, most folks are very happy with their new iPhones. Mine seems to be just great and although I’m I"ll find several more apps for it, the ones I have so far seem to work as advertised.

The wait to get your hands on a new iPhone 3G through Direct Fulfillment now seems to be under a week. If you are lucky enough to have an Apple store handy, you can more than likely just walk in and buy one now.

We’ll have to wait for the next BIG release to see the same sort of reactions as were seen online about this latest release. Most likely something  along the lines of a TMX for christmas or the next iPhone in about a years time.

Shane