Dudes, It?s AAPL, Not APPL!

I have a major pet peeve with people who constantly refer to Apple’s stock as “APPL” instead of its true stock ticker, “AAPL”. While it just might make more sense for it to be APPL, the truth is that it’s not. So when I see news media, stock promoters and others talk about whether Apple’s [...]

published on Monday, the 8. October 2007

Idiot Alert: Man sues Apple for ?bricking? iPhone

Where high profiles and high profits exist, so do the scum of the earth. First, Dongmei Li sues Apple for $1 million for chopping $200 off the iPhone. Apparently the $200 she “lost” when Apple dropped the price is now worth 5,000 times what it was a month ago. Now, Timoth Smith has filed a lawsuit against [...]

published on Monday, the 8. October 2007

Popcorn 3 Review

What Roxio says Popcorn 3 does: Copy DVDs (non-encrypted) DVD-Video Compression TiVoToGo (which only works with a TiVo Series 2) Convert video for lots of devices: iPod, iPhone, PS3, PSP, XBox 360 Supports Turbo.264 Disc labels Create DVD menus Create compilation DVDs with 4 hours of video Batch “Fit-to-DVD” “lets you que multiple DVD-Video folders for DVD-9 to DVD-5 conversion I tested Popcorn 3 on [...]

published on Monday, the 8. October 2007

Which Way Is Up!?

Based on my time spent playing with the iPhone interface, I present to you my new term which represents a very serious condition facing geeks today. Scroligo | skro-li-go | noun The vertigo-like sensation induced by switching back and forth between the inverted scrolling orientation on iPhone and the traditional on a MacBook trackpad. Believe it or not, [...]

published on Thursday, the 4. October 2007

Leopard most likely on track for October release

According to ThinkSecret, Leopard is still on track for its delayed release estimate of October. This gives Apple a matter of a few weeks to declare a Gold Master, produce a significant number of copies and get them to retail stores. It’s a time crunch for sure. I don’t remember the exact timeline of things with the [...]

published on Thursday, the 4. October 2007

A chink in the AirPort armor?

Is it possible the AirPort Extreme base station isn’t catching all the malicious traffic bound for my home network? I just opened Console to check on an issue I was having with lookupd, but I was distracted when the ipfw.log firewall log file popped up with quite a lot of blocked attempts. How many? Try 7831 [...]

published on Thursday, the 4. October 2007

Spire releases new line of laptop bags

Spire, makers of fine laptop bags, have just released an update to their line of laptop bags. The new bags are definitely a bit more stylish and not quite as cold and business looking as the previous line. Prices start at $80 for the smaller bag and go up to $100 for the largest with three colors: [...]

published on Wednesday, the 3. October 2007

iPhone Recognizes Audio Email Attachments

Dan at UneasySilence points out that if you’ve upgraded your iPhone to the latest version (1.1.1) the email viewer application now supports wav and mp3 files in your email. This is surprising to me that it wasn’t inherently in the iPhone to begin with… Dan points out that this is useful if you’re using a [...]

published on Tuesday, the 2. October 2007

A plea to Steve

Not that it will be delivered, but I just sent an email to Steve Jobs: Steve (or his assistant, secretary, mail reader, etc.), I have been a devout Apple fanatic for years. I was just about to give up on Apple when you came back. I used the IIe, Classic, LC, Quadra, Powermac, PowerPC, and now Intel [...]

published on Tuesday, the 2. October 2007

Are Keyboard Problems Plaguing MacBook Pros?

After much anticipation, my new MacBook Pro arrived this weekend. Following an evening of migrating files, applications and settings to the new laptop, I was extremely pleased with its speed, responsiveness, and all the little things that make it an excellent Apple laptop. But this morning, when I reached the office, we hit a serious [...]

published on Monday, the 1. October 2007