Jan 25
adminApple, Tech, iPhone
There are many useful and fun applications in the App Store. There are also many pointless apps that seem to catch public attention. While the list of available applications is long, there are two apps I am still waiting for. First, I am hopeful that Adium will release a chat client for the iPhone. Word on the street was that they would release one, but it seems apparent that was just a rumor for the time being. Second, I have wanted a way to remotely monitor my Mac server. This is easily the most important machine in my home network, and it provides many useful functions.
iStat widgets and menus have long been available for the Mac, and are a very popular suite of apps for many Mac users I know. The fact that they are free makes them an even better deal. If you like them, please donate. The one weakness is that these programs are focused on local monitoring, and don’t have a mechanism for remote monitoring. More
Aug 04
adminApple, Tech, iPhone App Store, iPhone, NetShare, tether, tethering
When I bought my first iPhone, and read the many reviews online, there was the occasional murmur from geeks wishing for a tethering solution for their iPhone.
Tethering is the process of linking your phone to your computer, and using the phones data connection on your laptop.
While i thought it would be kind of cool, I didn’t really care. The first gen iPhone is EDGE only. We all know that EDGE means SLOW. It’s fine for most iPhone tasks like checking email, getting RSS feeds, and mobile-formatted sites. Otherwise, it is slightly painful to use. That’s really not a good tethering solution.
Fast forward to today, we have the iPhone 3G now. If you are one of the lucky folks who have 3G in your area, tethering becomes a much more plausible thing. The problem is, AT&T still doesn’t have a solution for us iPhone users.
This past week I read an article about a new application in the iTunes App Store. It’s called NetShare – and it let’s you tether your iPhone. More
Jul 13
adminApple, Tech, iPhone App Store, Apple, iPhone, iPhone 2.0, iPhone 3G, iPod Touch, iTunes, Multi-protocol chat
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Like most iPhone owners this weekend, I was having a blast with the new 2.0 software. Also as a .Mac user, I have watched the painful Mobile Me transition unfold (well, it still is). While waiting for the Mobile Me rollercoaster to stop, I spent a lot of time experimenting with or reading about many of the 500 applications now available for iPhone and iPod Touch users. Interestingly, I noticed one important application not on the list. More
Jun 12
adminApple, Tech, iPhone .Mac, Apple, iPhone, Mobile Me, MobileMe
The day apple released the iPhone, and in the process, provided only minimal support for its own .Mac service – I was perplexed. What the heck were they thinking? Every other Apple solution allowed for total syncing of Mail, Contacts, Calendars, Bookmarks, and more. Why didn’t the iPhone? In the age of ActiveSync, Blackberry Enterprise, and other solutions offering full sync of at least email, contacts, and calendars it makes no sense. The iPhone seemed a perfect match for .Mac services, and therefore a point of discontent as a .Mac user. More
Apr 02
adminApple, iPhone Fix iPhone, iPhone, iPhone Broken, Jailbreak iPhone, Recover iPhone
I have had my iPhone since the product was first released. I have really enjoyed it, and I have always been interested in the updates Apple brings. I have also played around with the “Jailbreaking” process, which allows you to apply 3rd party applications and modifications to the iPhone.
For a while now, Apple has been secretly working on the iPhone 2.0 software. Not secretly in the sense that nobody knows, but secretly in the sense that there is no real detail about it, short of some screenshots.
Tonight, I did a search online for iPhone 2.0 beta. For the first time, there was a copy of the new beta firmware out. “SWEET”, I thought. I downloaded the file. More
Mar 10
adminApple, Tech, iPhone Beta, iPhone, iPhone 2.0, iPhone Enterprise, Popular
“Isn’t the iPhone already big?”, you ask. Well, sort of. In the smart phone market it is beginning to see a decent percentage and is in second place to Blackberry. That’s good news, and is a good sign for us early adopters, who from day one hoped that Apple’s first attempt into the cell phone business would pan out.
While the news is good around the iPhone, I dare say it is going to get a lot better (and I don’t say it because I own one). More
Jan 16
adminApple, Media, Tech, iPhone Fox, Fox Digital Copy, iPod Movies, iTunes
Wait, hang on, calm down. Take your Apple fanboy hat off for a moment and just hear me out.
First, I am a big iTunes, Apple TV, and iPhone user. I am very much interested in an integrated, digital life. I have gone through the many hours of ripping about 115 DVD’s to an Apple TV quality resolution. My wife thought I was crazy, but now that all of our movies are quickly accessible on our HD TV, streamed from an “iTunes Server” of sorts, she never wants to go back. Simplicity and instant gratification.
That is the future. That is the fast track that we are on. DVD’s will be going by the wayside, and even the Bluray/HD-DVD war is really not worth fighting about. More
Jan 01
adminApple, Tech, iPhone
It is fairly impossible at this point to not know about the Gear Live videos and discussions about their supposed pre-release version of the next iPhone software update. I have watched those videos, and seen the Q&A portion on their site. It all looks very interesting, and if it is indeed the next version of software for the iPhone, there are some definite welcome additions, like sending SMS messages to multiple recipients.
The “wobbly” icons to signify desktop customization look a little weird.
The thing the makes no sense: How are they able to broadcast this stuff all over the internet without being shut down? More
Dec 16
adminTech, iPhone
In the ever-changing world of portable computing, are laptops going to soon become a thing of the past? It wasn’t long ago that having a laptop was an indispensable part of my day, even after work. Now, not so much…
A few months ago, we decided to buy a new iMac. We wanted a decent home machine to use for photo editing, and a place to put some learning games for my son. (He just turned two and is addicted to computers, so we figured we would start to take advantage of it).
Subsequent to getting this new machine, I began to debate whether or not I needed a laptop any longer. Well, I decided that I didn’t need my Macbook Pro. More
Nov 21
adminTech, iPhone
I have daily perused many of the Apple-related news sites for quite a while now (years). I usually enjoy much of the content available, although I sometimes have to filter out the excess fanboyism (yea, nice word).
Since the release of the iPhone, there has been a shift in the focus of a few news sites. While I anticipated a lot of swirl around the iPhone shortly after its release, I didn’t anticipate it would last so long. A good example of this shift is The Unofficial Apple Weblog. TUAW is a great site that I have followed for years. Since late July, there have been many days when I wondered if there was any non-iPhone news in the Apple world. More
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