If you read my original iPhone review, then you know that I was pretty impressed with Apple’s first generation cell phone. My first impressions were nothing short of stellar. The original iPhone wasn’t perfect, and I pointed out a few flaws in the first iteration. Since that review, Apple has addressed some of [...]

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I covered FriendFeed rooms already and I think it’s a good addition to an already successful system at FriendFeed. Yesterday, FriendFeed rolled out new features for FriendFeed rooms.

One of these features is pretty significant: Semi-public rooms. Semi-public rooms allow an administrator of a room to have control over the posts [...]

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Now that everyone’s had a chance to digest the new announcements from Apple at Macworld 2008, I’ll go ahead and express my thoughts on each announcement:
Time Capsule [link]

From Apple’s perspective, this creates a great incentive for users to upgrade to Leopard. I believe users will see the benefit of Time Machine and also justify [...]

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To do lists are a big part of my work day. Everything from tasks I have to accomplish at work from personal tasks that need to be done at home, a checklist is involved in some sort of fashion. Today, I took some funds from my Paypal account and purchased a pro account [...]

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Apple, Inc unleashed their newest operating system, dubbed, Mac OS X (pronounced “Oh Es Ten”) Leopard, or just “Leopard”. You haven’t heard? I’m sorry. Well this update to the popular operating system, “Tiger”, has been on the hearts and minds of Apple geeks for almost two years. If [...]

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So earlier this week, I went ahead and updated my iPhone to v1.1.1. Since there were lots and lots and lots of warnings from Apple to consumers that this update would disable previous hacks and possibly damage unlocked phones, I held off like a good little lad. I wish some of those people [...]

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Hot on the heels of the new iPhone update, natetrue has reported that the new iPhone firmware is indeed encrypted like the iPod touch:
Yo guys, the latest iPhone firmware just came out. I can confirm that it is encrypted like the iPod Touch firmware, and so far no one has cracked it open to view [...]

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Regarding my post yesterday regarding the iPhone price drop, Apple listened:

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Therefore, we have decided to offer every iPhone customer who purchased an iPhone from either Apple or AT&T, and who is not receiving a rebate or any other consideration, a $100 store credit towards the purchase of any product at an Apple Retail Store [...]

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The iPhone price dropped from $599 to $399 after being on the market for about 60 days. There are many that are calling those of us who bought it at $599 “suckers” and we shouldn’t complain since that’s the price of early adopters. I’m sorry, but I’m going to have to disagree for [...]

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A little while ago, a company named Apple taught me a lesson that I should have remembered from Public Enemy in the late 80s: “Don’t believe the hype!” I’ve learned to recognize speculation for what it is and keep my expectations low. I saw in in endo today that there is another [...]

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