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The title of this post is the slogan Jeff Croft suggests for the iPhone. Apple is no stranger to poking fun at Redmond, but that would’ve been a bit much. Even still, I like it.
Looking through my News Feeds last night and this morning, I’m almost sick of hearing about the iPhone again/already. [...]

There were many things going on at today’s Keynote, which I was lucky enough to be able to see live. So much great stuff happened, in fact, that many people may have missed something that I think was rather important.
In fact, I even think Steve was teasing us with this.
Did you notice how, almost every [...]

As has been reported in a few places, iTunes seemed to be a hot item destination this Holiday season. The iTunes Store got hit pretty heavily from what was presumably a load of gift cards and new iPod users looking for songs to stock up on. This has been the 3rd season in [...]

I’m not a huge – read: knowledgeable – user of Apple’s Mail program. I use it minimally but haven’t dug too deep into its nooks and crannies. So I’m reaching out to the readers of The Apple Blog for some assistance.
I have 3 accounts setup in my Mail program. When I create [...]

After sitting down after a wonderful day of family, feasts and fun, I checked my email. While it was downloading, I opened up my favorite time-waster game, MacIago. Imagine my surprise when Santa appeared superimposed on the board.

Has anyone else stumbled across any other hidden Christmas gems?

My Powerbook’s hard drive was filling up. So I used the WhatSize tool to see which directories were using my disk space. I discovered that I could see how much disk space was being used by another user on the computer. My laptop has three users: an admin (which is used only to install system [...]

I was reading a list on CrunchGear a couple days ago about “The Eight Ways The Tech Industry Tries To Screw Us”. Apple’s name appeared once, but I think they fit into a couple other spots as well.
At number 2, the obvious item was DRM. Apple was named explicitly on this point. [...]

Well, Microsoft has said it themselves, Windows Vista (due out in about a month) will be a huge nightmare to support.
On the official Vista development blog, Microsoft claims a study, conducted by IDC and commissioned by Microsoft, found that Vista will create 100,000 new jobs in IT, and that for every $1 Microsoft makes from [...]

Bryan Veloso shot me an IM this evening asking if I was aware of this particular issue his fiancé was having with her 5G 30GB iPod. I hadn’t heard of it and it seemed no Apple technicians had either. Which also seems to mean she can’t get it fixed…which is a bummer. So this post [...]

Bloomberg claims that Apple will be its own carrier for the upcoming iPhone.
I think that if Bloomberg is right, it would be a really great thing for customers.
Signing a contract with a wireless carrier today is a complete mess for the customer. There are way to many plans to choose from, and each one is [...]

One thing I would love to see fixed in Leopard is dialog boxes where the choices don’t quite make sense. For example, when you set up a new Airport Base Station and forget to change the default password this is what you see:

The two choices (Change and OK) really don’t match the question being asked [...]

I have a confession to make. I’m back-up challenged. See, I backup my system like a good boy, and generally run it about every 2 weeks. But I never really understand exactly what my backup tool – SuperDuper! – is doing based on whichever settings I use from week to week. [...]

If you’ve been following MacAppADay as I have, you’ve already seen that today’s freebie is Xslimmer. I had no idea this app existed previous to this (MAAD seems to be doing it’s job in that respect) or even what it did. Maybe I’m behind the times.
For those in the same boat as myself, [...]

I’ve got a friend who teaches at a University. He told me they’re talking about getting Macs for the department, with the intent of creating podcasts that their classes can download for notes and such. But he wasn’t sure what the best setup may be for this situation.
Here at The Apple Blog, we’ve [...]

The other day I pontificated about Mac software marketing. The short of it was, I’m into it. Well then I caught wind of this similarly-themed post from MacUser. Pat takes an angle which I hadn’t considered before. It seems he’s of the mind to hold off on buying some software in [...]

A while back I enjoyed making a bunch of the mini iPhoto Books for family members as holiday gifts. The size was fun and portable, good for the grandparents to show off and all that. They were relatively cheap, and in typical Apple fashion, easy to create.
But when they arrived in the mail [...]

This is more of a ’show me yours’ type of post. Course first then, I should show you mine.
While del.icio.us and ma.gnolia.com and other similar social bookmarking services become more and more integrated into our browsers, I continue to keep certain bookmarks locally, in a GTD-esque style. I replicate (I know, there are [...]

Both Paul Stamatiou and Ronald Heft have thrown out solid thoughts on the possibility of Parallels being bought by Apple.
Boot Camp is lame, Virtual PC never made it off the starting line, and Parallels really has become a core app that Intel mac users have on their machines. It’s made leaps and bounds past anything [...]

I will be in the market for a new Mac in early 2007. I currently use a PowerBook G4-1.5GHz, 2GB ram, 15 inch screen; 80GB hard disk. I use this for tons of stuff, including but not limited to: podcast production (Audacity and iTunes); Office apps (MS Office; InDesign); blogging (Safari); web development (Firefox, PageSpinner, [...]

A couple days ago I began to write about this post by Zeldman. But then I saw it referenced in another place or two, and thought it not significant enough to devote my time to when a couple others already had. But this thing just keeps popping up, and it’s got me thinking [...]