Apple

As with all my electronic hardware, I have a love/hate relationship with my MacBook Air. It’s beautiful, light, and does most of what I need it to do. I can haul it around an airport with ease. It’s great for surfing the Web and iTunes for my iPhone, and it’s perfect for when I’m traveling [...]

I’m noticing a not-so-subtle change in the force. I spent the better part of the week listening to Barack Obama, and I’m a moderate-to-conservative guy. Policies aside, he’s a persuasive man. Anyhow — I’m also a Windows guy for the most part, but have been known to ride (and occasionally cross over) that fence, as [...]

One of the most important things to me in terms of purchasing a new cell phone is how well it could be used on the Internet. Long before the iPhone, I wanted a device that gave me full e-mail and Web support so that I could always be connected wherever I was, but whenever I [...]

Stories at CNN, Ars Technica, and CNET are covering the fact that Apple is working on a plan that would allow unlimited “free” access to the iTunes music library — if users paid more up-front for their iPod devices.
This sounds interesting, but it seems like an up-front charge (when you buy the device, as a [...]

Do you remember when the first generation of iPod shuffles were called small? When Apple’s designers were dreaming up the iPod shuffle 1GB MP3 Player 2nd Generation, they had one thing on their minds: how can we make this small and compact 1GB player even smaller? The next step in the shuffle generation is 1/3 [...]

If you’ve been following the whole third-party iPhone applications debacle (and I’m sure that you have), then you know that the whole situation up until this point had just become completely ridiculous. Apple may not have been officially supporting the applications, but the hacks were plentiful, and oh so easy to take advantage of.
As I’ve [...]

This is a relatively old topic, but it had me thinking the other day. Now that Apple’s Boot Camp is a success and works well with Windows, the company is amazingly well positioned to take down Microsoft, at least in the consumer space. The non-Mac addicts were always worried about leaving their trusty old Windows, [...]

Apple today introduced iPhone, combining three products - a revolutionary mobile phone, a widescreen iPod with touch controls, and a breakthrough Internet communications device with desktop-class email, Web browsing, searching and maps - into one small and lightweight handheld device. iPhone introduces an entirely new user interface based on a large multi-touch display and pioneering [...]

Bummed out because you feel like the last person on Earth who can’t justify the high cost of an iPod? Maybe this’ll cheer you up! Reuters (via Yahoo! News) reports:
Apple Computer Inc. (Nasdaq:AAPL - news) expects the average selling price of its iPod digital music players to decline in the current quarter from the prior [...]

Michael Santo of RealTechNews writes:
Boot Camp, as Jimmy wrote about earlier, is a great idea. But it is beta software, and as with all beta software, you’re taking a chance using it.
Under the topic Boot Camp hosed my OS X partition, about a dozen users on an Apple discussion board shared experiences and possible solutions. [...]

David Johnston of RealTechNews writes:
Today I received a very interesting advertisement in the mail. It came from J&R, a retailer which I’ve purchased several things from in the past… enough to get me on the mailing list anyway. I normally like to pore over these kinds of tech advertisements just for fun and to make [...]

Michael Santo of RealTechNews writes
There has been a lot of attention paid to hearing loss and MP3 players, especially ones that use earbud headsets, and particularly (of course), the iPod. In fact, if you recall from my earlier story, Apple had been sued over iPod-caused hearing loss.
The free update, available for video iPods and [...]

Michael Santo of RealTechNews writes:
As we reported in late January, Colin Nederkoorn started a contest, purportedly because he told his boss that the Intel Mac would replace his IBM desktop and he could boot Windows XP on it. Well, hackers dubbed “narf2006″ and “blanka” have managed to do solve his problem.
The solution was [...]

Not a surprise at all. A lot of tech enthusiasts love to monkey around with new toys and see if they can fit square pegs into round holes, and Mac tech enthusiasts, especially, love to see how far they can go with their beloved Apple thingamabobs. May Wong of the Associated Press (via The Seattle [...]

Nyko Technologies, a peripherals manufacturer dedicated to enhancing the digital lifestyle, ships the Speaker Dock 2 for the Apple iPod. The innovative charging cradle allows iPod enthusiasts to listen to their favorite tunes in stereo sound, while recharging the iPod at the same time. The Speaker Dock 2 is compatible with the entire iPod line [...]

OK, so the Apple Mac Mini is looking cool, still. But instead of the price coming down, they are trying to march into the living room? What happened to being a transition to the world of Apple? Focus Jobs, Focus!

After reading this, I cannot help but feel like I need to be using iTunes a lot more often. Seriously, check out the virtual bankroll of cool stuff this guys gets for buying the billionth song from iTunes! It’s insane!

Early adopters are reporting that the MacBook Pro units that they ordered right after Steve Jobs announced their availability in his latest keynote are finally shipping. A few lucky buyers put up screenshots of their shipping confirmation for all to see, showing the ship date, along with the change in processor speed (Apple recently bumped [...]