Back in July, Last.fm released the 1.0 version of their free iPhone app which basically lets you have access to the millions of songs streamable from their website by accessing various stations.
The 1.0 app has a rating of 3 out of 5 stars with most complaints being that it crashed frequently. Other low ratings were [...]
Seagate FreeAgent Go Drives Debuted – Seagate announced it’s next generation of absurdly thin notebook-sized drives. The drives start at around $160 for a 250GB.
Picture messaging for the iPhone – Send free, unlimited picture messages and geo-tagged location to any mobile phone in the world. Have the convenience of sending multi-media messages (MMS) to virtually [...]
Gears, Google’s “browser improver” (for lack of a better term), has come out of beta and is now officially available for Safari.
Gears is a browser plugin that extends its functionality by allowing it do things like store data locally in a searchable database as well as run JavaScript in the background to improve performance. A [...]
Today, Apple released its 5th update to OS X 10.5 (Leopard).
The update is currently available via Software Update and should be available on the Apple website within a few hours.
The last update (10.5.4) was released on June 30. Apple has, on average, released an update to 10.5 every 65 days.
This update includes quite a few [...]
In November of 2004, a few months after I got my first Mac (a PowerMac G5), I registered theappleblog.com not really having any big plans of what I’d do with the site. I was a senior design student in college and just wanted a new site to design and something to write about.
My first post [...]
I feel like we’re a bit of a broken record on this topic, but I just don’t think people are grasping how big of a deal this really is. So let me say it right up front so you know what I think: Apple’s App Store approval process is broken and seriously must be fixed [...]
Today Apple released its 2.1 software update for the iPhone. The get the update, just connect your iPhone and fire up iTunes.
Some of the more significant updates/fixes in this update:
Decrease in call set-up failures and dropped calls
Significantly better battery life for most users
Dramatically reduced time to backup to iTunes
Improved email reliability, notably fetching email from [...]
So when the first ad featuring Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates aired, I was mildly confused and more than anything really wanted to give it a chance. But this evening Microsoft aired the second ad in the series and now I’m really just flat out baffled by Microsoft’s decisions with this ad campaign.
This particular [...]
Today, Apple’s biggest conference Macworld, opened for registration. The dates for Macworld 2009 will be January 5-9.
Apple has traditionally used Macworld as a time to make some fairly big product announcements and updates.
In 2008, Apple announced the MacBook Air, Time Capsule, iPod touch software update, Apple TV 2, and the iPhone/iPod touch SDK.
In 2007, they [...]
If you missed seeing Steve-o live in person today (which you did), then you can now watch the entire “Let’s Rock” special event keynote online at Apple’s site.
The full event is a little over an hour long and gives you a few more details than our previous coverage of the event.
This Friday Apple will be releasing the 2.1 software update for iPhone users.
This update will be completely free for iPhone users and, according to Jobs, will fix address a lot of issues such as dropped calls, crashes, and painfully slow sync times. Along with the fixes will also be better battery life.
The 2.1 update for [...]
Today all four iPod models got at least some love ranging from storage upgrades to new designs.
iPod classic
This version of the iPod has seen the fewest model design changes and today is no exception. The iPod classic has been offered in an 80GB version and a 160GB version. Apple has now discontinued the 160GB version [...]
At this morning’s special event, Jobs announced quite a few updates in relation to iTunes and the iTunes store including the newest version of iTunes, Genius, HD shows, and the return of NBC.
iTunes 8
Today Apple has released the next major version of iTunes, available view Software Update or the Apple website. The biggest new feature [...]
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Yesterday, the long awaited Spore was finally released here in the US.
Spore, a product of Sims mastermind Will Wright, has been in development for some 8 years with the public knowing about the game for about the last 3-4 years. The lengthy development time along with multiple release-date delays built up a huge amount of [...]
Since the launch of the original iPhone back in June 2007, the only place you could (legally) get an iPhone in the US was either at one of Apple’s 197 retail stores or one of AT&T’s 1,800+ retail stores.
As of Sunday, that number of locations has increased by almost 50% as close to 1,000 Best [...]
Since news came out that Microsoft would be deploying a “Microsoft Gurus” program as part of their $300 million effort to improve their image, they have been consistently compared to ripping off Apple’s “Genius Bar” program.
Microsoft Gurus is program Microsoft is starting up where they will deploy customer-service reps to various electronics retailers such as [...]
Since the App Store’s launch back in June, I’ve had mixed feelings about the overall level of quality of the applications for sale. Knowing that Apple has control over what does and does not make it in to the store initially had me with the mindset that they should indeed do a bit of quality [...]
Tonight Microsoft aired its first ad featuring Jerry Seinfield. The ad (including Seinfield) is part of a new $300 million ad campaign Microsoft has put together to try and breathe new life in to the Windows operating system.
The 90 second ad spot is comprised mainly of shoe-banter between Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfield in a [...]
Yesterday it was announced that Adobe will be announcing (gotta love announcements announcing announcements) Creative Suite 4 on September 23rd.
Adobe will be holding a special little event online showing all of the upcoming features of CS4 (which is rumored to be released as early as this Fall).
For those hip to trying out beta products, you [...]
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