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Monday, October 13th, 2008
Live coverage of Apple’s “spotlight turns to notebooks” event
Here are the links for some live coverage pages for Apple’s “spotlight turns to notebooks” event on October 14th, 2008. Live coverage sites (I’ll finish the links when they become available) Engadget MacRumors Twitter/SMS Coverage (check out their full Rumor Roundup) CNET GearLive The Mac Observer Gizmodo ArsTechnia (including rumor roundup) Enjoy!
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Thursday, October 9th, 2008
The spotlight turns to notebooks — October 14th
So, Engadget posted their invitation deets to the October 14th event being held by Apple to announce something about notebooks. From what I can tell it’s unclear (well they never leak details before so this is all from rumors) if they’re doing an accross-the-board product refresh, if there will be redesigns of the MacBooks and/or [...]
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Thursday, October 9th, 2008
I wish my iPhone would work as a phone
<rant>I’m getting a little fed up with AT&T. I’ve had more and more dropped calls with my iPhone these days. It seems especially troublesome when the phone has to switch from 3G down to Edge. There are two spots on my commute home where I am guaranteed to drop a call. And one of them [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in Apple,iPhone by Jason T.
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
Erase Old iPhone Backups
So say you had your first iPhone 3G stolen lost your first iPhone 3G, but you had it backed up. Now when you get your second iPhone as a replacement, it’s still running 2.0 software, not the 2.1 software which you had your first phone running. Hence your backup won’t work. So you upgrade your [...]
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Monday, October 6th, 2008
Despite Nvidia/MacBook Rumors, Analyst Downgrades Firm
Amidst the thrashing that the broader market took today, Nvidia shares closed down 13% today because an analyst at Pacific Crest downgraded the stock because he believes the company will sell its chipset division. This is in rather stark contrast to the swirling rumors that Apple will forgoe Intel chipsets (not processors) in their upcomming [...]
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Monday, October 6th, 2008
Watch Football in 3D on Your Holographic TV
I don’t know how I feel about this…maybe it’s because most of the holograms I’ve seen have been kind of funny brown-green colors, and viewable only from a limited angle. But researchers have been making breakthroughs in holographic technology which could one day allow us to create holographic television. Dr. Nasser Peyghambarian, chair of photonics [...]
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Monday, October 6th, 2008
Strong Fundamentals
To follow up to Jason D.’s Financial Meltdown post, here are some stocks that may or may not make up most or all of my portfolio….
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Friday, October 3rd, 2008
Finally, Flash for iPhone? Maybe…
Via MacRumors, Adobe’s Sr. Director of Engineering, Paul Betlem, comfirmed that an Adobe Flash player for iPHoen depends entirley on Apple’s approval. He did hint however that it was basically ready to go. This would fill one of the largest gaps that customers, including myself, complain about with regards to the Safari web browser. I [...]
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Friday, October 3rd, 2008
Netflix Streaming Arriving for Mac
The Netflix blog announced that, along with a host of new shows and movies, the dev teams at Netflix have been busily working on getting a Mac solution ready. No firm date was given, other than “by the end fo the year”.
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Friday, October 3rd, 2008
fring: New VoIP and Chat App Released for iPhone
Head over to the iPhone App Store or the fring website to check and download the new fring app. You get: Skype MSN Messenger ICQ Google Talk SIP Twitter AIM Yahoo! That’s quite the full list of messenger connections. More importantly, you get calling over WiFi. That’s sweet. I’m going to try it–I get shittay [...]