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Microsoft Becoming Apple With First Retail Store, Online PC Sales

Written on October 22, 2009 by Darrell Etherington and 21 people have commented

Talk about biting someone else’s style. Not only is Microsoft trying to add some cool factor to its brand using celebrity influence, a game which Apple has long had in the bag, now it’s also opened its first official brick-and-mortar retail store, and it even just began offering PC hardware for sale via its online [...]

Unlocked Apple iPhone Available From Buy.com in the U.S.

Written on April 13, 2009 by Darrell Etherington and 6 people have commented

If you’re still skittish about being locked in for a lengthy contract and don’t mind the fact that new hardware will almost undoubtedly be hitting the streets in only a couple of short months, and if you have money lying around not doing anything useful, Buy.com has a deal for you, for the low price [...]

Apple Introduces Cross-border Shopping, for Some

Written on March 24, 2009 by Darrell Etherington and 8 people have commented

Up until today, Apple customers have only been able to ship products bought via Apple’s online stores to addresses located in the country of the store they’re ordering from. I say up until today because as of now, that’s no longer the case.
Now if you wanted to give your friend in Mexico an iPod for [...]

OnLive Will Make a Hardcore Gaming Machine Out of Your MacBook

Written on March 24, 2009 by Darrell Etherington and 5 people have commented

The Game Developers Conference for 2009 is just underway, and already there’s some big news which has particular relevance for that rare and frustrated breed, the Mac gamer.
I’m a Mac gamer myself, and have pretty much given up the OS X side of things and just decided to do all my gaming in a Windows [...]

App Review — Watchmen: Justice is Coming (As Long as You Don’t Mind Waiting)

Written on March 10, 2009 by Olly Farshi and 7 people have commented

App Quick Stats

Watchmen: Justice is Coming

$0.99

iTunes Link

With Watchmen arriving at movie houses around the globe, the iPhone game attempts to brings the grim world of the costumed hero to you.
There’s a whole heap of Marvel in my comic collection but, I’m afraid, not so much DC. I preferred my heroes to [...]

First Look: Carbonite Online Backup for the Mac

Written on March 10, 2009 by Matthew Bookspan and 72 people have commented

Get ready for yet another cloud-based backup offering for the Mac. The folks at Carbonite are now shipping a beta version for us Mac folks. Should we be excited? Well, let’s see…
After trying out their software, I can’t say that it does anything more useful than my current solution, Backblaze. In fact, I can say [...]

AT&T Begins Offering At-Home Activation for iPhones Bought Online

Written on December 11, 2008 by Darrell Etherington and 1 person has commented

In yet another move designed with the intention of moving as many iPhones as possible this holiday season, AT&T began taking orders online for the iPhone 3G today. The option is open to anyone, and includes both the 8GB and 16GB models. A minimum two-year contract purchase is required when ordering online.
Once you select your [...]

How to Get a Boatload of Free Online Disk Space

Written on November 04, 2008 by Matthew Bookspan and 25 people have commented

I thought that might get your attention. Well, boatload might be an exaggeration, although how about 8GB of free storage space? More importantly, how about they support either the Mac or the iPhone?
As part of any backup solution, having offsite storage is pretty key these days to protect your data. Recently, I was looking at [...]