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Apple's iPhone App Store - Five days later

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:05:26 -0400

As millions of geeks know already, Apple unveiled its new iPhone 2.0 software and App Store last Friday. By all accounts both efforts were big successes, with ten million copies of third-party software snapped up for iPhones and iPod Touches already.

Like any good geek, I joined the herd and have been spending the last few days trying (and buying) various stuff. And like any good geek, now I get to blog my impressions of said software:

But it wasn't meant to do that!

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:47:58 -0400

For the last few years, my second-most invaluable gadget (next to my iMac) has been my Palm Tungsten C PDA. I first got it to help me manage a work project, and it quickly became an invaluable ~~tool~~ spare brain, helping me do everything from managing meetings and coordinating tasks to editing documents and reading e-books.

Naturally, then, when my trusty steed abruptly died of digital old age on Friday, my foremost priority was securing a replacement.

I want my (Apple)TV (2.0)

Tue, 27 Mar 2007 14:25:22 -0400

Well, after originally getting all a-twitter at Apple's announcement of the iTV (now renamed AppleTV), I'm disappointed to learn that the final product doesn't quite match my original expectations.

Waiting for Apple TV v.2.0

Tue, 09 Jan 2007 15:23:38 -0500

[Updated 12:21pm] Like all true Mac fans (and here you thought I'd gone all-Wii, all the time, eh? ), I'll be spending a lot of my meager attention today following Apple CEO Steve Jobs' keynote speech at MacWorld Expo. In fact, as I'm writing this, I'm reading updates from the continually-updated live blogs at Engadget and MacDailyNews, feeding me the latest revelations.

The Christmas Eve comics update

Sun, 24 Dec 2006 21:41:59 -0500

Slipping a site update just before Santa Claus is due to drop down my chimney (not in that sense, you perverts ), we've got new Transformers comics guide entries for Transformers: Spotlight issue #3 and issue #4, as well as issue #1 and #2 of the new Transformers: Escalation limited series.

More fanboy than thou

Fri, 17 Nov 2006 14:14:55 -0500

Funniest read of the day: Mark Morford's column in the San Francisco Chronicle, with the deceptively bland title of "Apple Computer has made the world a better place".

A daily dose of Mac smugness

Tue, 07 Nov 2006 13:14:37 -0500

Yesterday: Anti-virus software maker Symantec announces the existence of Macarana, a "proof of concept" Mac virus.

MacOS X IS art!

Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:55:50 -0500

For those who didn't know, the Intel version of Apple's MacOS X uses cryptography on certain key applications to prevent users from running MacOS X on boring generic non-Apple computers.

This article explains how this encryption works; while most of this is too heady for us mere mortals, author Amit Singh ends the article by revealing a hidden limerick that Apple embeds in its protected applications:

iPod, five years later

Mon, 23 Oct 2006 17:37:31 -0400

For those who hadn't noticed, Apple's ubiquious iPod turned five years old today. Not that I care too much, as I don't own one, but I thought it worth noting the occassion by giving a hat-tip to Playlist's list of notable iPod quotes.

Herein my favorites, most from the ever-reliable "Look how wrong they were!" school of comedy:

Mac users can also be morons

Fri, 13 Oct 2006 20:40:01 -0400

[Updated 10/12/2006 8:34am] One of the pieces of news flotsam floating around the online Mac news sites today was this piece -- Apple's "Mecca Project" Provokes Muslim Reaction, originating from MEMRI and reproduced in its (brief) entirely below:

I want my iTV NOW!

Thu, 14 Sep 2006 19:10:00 -0400

Hot off da intarweb, Apple has announced -- among other iPod-type things -- the new iTV (tentative name), a set-top box that lets you stream all your movies, music, photos, podcasts, etc. from your Macintosh or Windows computer to the television set of your choice.

Apple: Nine-and-a-half years later

Wed, 16 Aug 2006 12:16:58 -0400

It's only August 2006, but already I know what I want to see at Macworld Expo 2007:

Apple: Ten Years Later

Big-screen bleep bleep bleepbleepbleep

Fri, 07 Jul 2006 13:21:02 -0400

This one's for all the Mac geeks out there.

Notes from the Apple cube

Sat, 20 May 2006 12:44:29 -0400

Assorted bits of Mac geekery that tickled my fancy from yesterday's opening of the new glass-cubed Apple Store on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue:

Mac Mecca - literally

Thu, 18 May 2006 13:36:14 -0400

Muslems have their Mecca (okay, technically, the Kaaba), and now us Mac-heads do as well: