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11 March 2008 @ 9am

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Will MobileScrobbler work in the new iPhone SDK?

Here’s something I’ve been wondering about. Ever since Apple released the roadmap of iPhone development and the SDK details, they mentioned that third-party apps can’t run in the background. After avoiding it for months, I finally did the jailbreak on my iPhone last month because I realized I listened to music/podcasts constantly on the […]


Keynote Index Fund

A few months ago I was thinking about Apple’s rise in value after the iPhone and how Steve Jobs does a great keynote every year, and naturally I thought “I wonder if there’s a way to make money off quick investments around the keynotes?” Then I thought “What if you did this every year, for […]


The five minute Leopard review

After installing Leopard on three machines and using it for the past four days I figure I might as well write down my first impressions. Here are the high and low points for me:

The installer is a bit buggy in that it doesn’t seem to recognize hard drives with any sorts of special partitions made […]


Crap I love: Signal turns your iPhone into a really nice remote control

I’ve been hoping that someone was working on using the iPhone browser as a media controller and when I saw Signal, I decided to give it a try.
It works like this: you install the app and it runs an internal webserver that you connect to using safari on the iPhone. Whatever is running in […]


Testing out .Mac, iMovie ‘08, and the Panasonic AVCHD

I used PCs on a daily basis for about ten years, but over the last three or four years I’ve become a full-fledged Apple fanboy convert. I buy a new mac about once a year or so and have tried out pretty much every product they’ve released over the last few years. So when Steve […]


A smarter audio manager

Here’s what I typically do in the course of a day.

Start iTunes, play some new songs while I code, read email, and surf the web
About every 15min or so, I run across a youtube video, mp3 link, or vimeo post that I want to watch, so I…
pause iTunes, let the video/music play in my browser, […]


Canceling tmobile

Getting an iPhone meant I’d be leaving tmobile after four years of service, and I re-upped my contract last year for a blackberry pearl, so unfortunately that also meant I’d get hit with a $200 contract charge. Today I called to cancel and I knew it might be painful so I decided to record it. […]


24 hours with the iPhone: my dream mini computer

After my initial problems, I got a new iPhone from my nearby Apple store and spent several hours using it. My first reaction is that it’s very good, meeting the almost impossible expectations I had for it. Photos are fun and look great, movies are nice and will work great on planes, and the iPod […]


Some lingering iPhone questions I haven’t heard answered anywhere…

So I’m thinking about getting an iPhone, but a few potential dealstoppers keep coming up and I haven’t seen much info on it even though it’s coming out in less than two weeks. Maybe some of you readers can help.

Is there an airplane mode where phone functionality is shut off? The one place I find […]


Apple Rumor: Multitouch Everywhere!

I’m pointing to SBJ’s post about multitouch Apple rumors because I really want this to be true.
Multitouch is amazing. When I got to see Jeff Han demo it at Etech last year, everyone was blown away, but it feels like it’s a couple years off, right? If Apple could release it in 2007, they’d get […]


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