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Microsoft Phone 7 Copies Apple – No Copy/Paste, No Multitasking & No Flash

March 19, 2010

Most advanced Mac users are used to seeing Microsoft copying many of the thinks that comes out of Apple in Cupertino (like Mac OS X Leopard and Windows Vista, as shown in this video by David Pogue).
Well, it’s no surprise that Microsoft probably is a bit jealous of Apple’s success with iPhone, so they’ve decided [...]

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iPad: 120,000 Pre-Orders First 24 Hours. $75,000,000 Revenue.

March 17, 2010

CNNMoney.com reports, based on calculations done by Investor Village, that 120,000 iPads were sold during the first day of iPad pre-orders.
They estimate that 69% ordered the Wi-Fi only edition, while the storage capacity was almost equally divided with 33% each (16GB, 32GB, 64GB).
Victor Castroll, an analyst with Valcent Financial Group, said:
“Apple has been able to [...]

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IT Pro’s: Total Cost of Ownership on Mac’s Lower Than PC’s

March 16, 2010

The Enterprise Desktop Alliance recently surveyed 260 IT administrators in the United States to learn which computer environment they believe is the cheapest to manage, when it comes to Macintosh vs PC.
Their results showed that Mac’s cost less to manage than PC’s, according to 65% of the IT admins, with 19% of them saying Mac’s [...]

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How To: iCal Birthday Reminders With Alarm (iCalBirthdays 2.0)

March 12, 2010

Here’s a quick and really neat trick for Mac users who would like to have birthdays listed in iCal. As default, your Mac will easily display birthdays in iCal, based on dates from your Addressbook, but it can’t give you an alarm and there’s no way to modify the events to do so.
So, somebody created [...]

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iPhone OS 4.0 With Multitasking Support This Summer

March 12, 2010

Sources with a proven track record in predicting Apple’s technological advances, told AppleInsider that Apple has developed a “full-on solution” to multitasking on the iPhone OS, but offered no specifics on how the technology would optimize resource conversation and battery life – two of the most critical issues surrounding the matter, alongside security.
iPhone OS 4.0 [...]

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Steve Ballmer Compliments Apple On The iPhone !!!

March 9, 2010

This is almost breaking news, because when Apple announced the iPhone, Steve Ballmer laughed at it.
Now, a different choice of words are coming out of Steve Ballmer’s mouth, about the iPhone, when he said at a speech at the University of Washington: “Apple’s done a very nice job that allows people to monetize and commercialize [...]

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iPad Ad Premieres At Oscars – Like iPhone Did

March 8, 2010

Like the “Hello” ad for the iPhone premiered at the Oscars some years ago, an iPad ad now also appeared for the first time, at the Oscars.
The background music in the ad is “There Goes My Love” by The Blue Van. I’m sure the song can be found in the iTunes Store if you want [...]

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Apple – The World’s Most Admired Company

March 8, 2010

Each year, Fortune (the magazine), elects the world’s most admired companies. For the third year in a row, Apple is the winner. This year, Apple even increased it’s distance down to 2nd place, Google, and 3rd place, Berkshire Hathaway (investment firm).
A total of 4,200 executives and analysts voted in Fortune’s study.
As BMW CEO Norbert Reithofer [...]

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Charlie Miller: Snow Leopard Easier To Hack Than Windows 7

March 3, 2010

Apple fanbois, you better buckle up, cause when the anti-Apple crew gets a hold of this little titbit from Charlie Miller, they might mock your choice of being a Mac user just a little bit.
Italian IT Security site, oneITsecurity, published an interview with Charlie Miller, two-year contest champion at Pwn2Own where the deal is to [...]

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Aperture 3 Brushes – A Quick Demonstration

March 2, 2010

I’ve been enjoying my Aperture 3 so much that I went ahead and purchased a license even before the trial expired, despite the Aperture 3 problems that some other users might have experienced, my Aperture 3 seemed to be running acceptable. Then, Apple recently released version 3.0.1 and things got even better.
One of the very [...]

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Friday Flick Find: Steve Jobs’ Meanest Jokes About Microsoft

February 26, 2010

Steve Jobs, Apple CEO, turned 55 yesterday. Happy Birthday, Steve! I hope you didn’t get a Magic Mouse though
Because of Steve’s birthday this week, I want to dedicate this Friday Flick Find to him. Well, to his “jokes”, that is.
I doubt we will see much of this in the future, unless Microsoft fails [...]

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Apple Magic Mouse: Just Got It & I Hate It. Wanna Buy?

February 24, 2010

It took me long enough, but I finally got the Apple Magic Mouse. My precious. I was too slow to get my hands on one the first shipments that arrived here in Malta and the next shipment was delayed for several weeks because of bad weather conditions throughout Europe for the past month or so.
But [...]

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Is Flash A Goner In The Future? What Will Happen?

February 22, 2010

Google just finished taking over On2 Technologies and their video format, VP8, so Free Software Foundation (FSF) sent an open-letter to Google where they encourage Google to release VP8 as an open-source format and also use it themselves on YouTube. By doing that, Google will “free” the world from patented and proprietary formats such as [...]

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iTunes App Store: 13 New Countries Added

February 21, 2010

TUAW reports today that Apple announced through iPhone Developer News that the iTunes App Store is now available in 13 more countries:
“You can now distribute your apps to more customers with the addition of App Store support in Armenia, Botswana, Bulgaria, Jordan, Kenya, Macedonia, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Niger, Senegal, Tunisia, and Uganda.”
If you’re a developer, [...]

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Apple Released Aperture 3 = Lots Of Problems !!!

February 16, 2010

Last week, Apple released Aperture 3 for Macintosh. The newest version in their range of “pro” applications, this one aimed at pro photographers, but amateurs who wants something more than what iPhoto can give them, are of course also welcome to use Aperture.
As you might have read, I recently got myself my first DSLR camera, [...]

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What Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Think Of Each Other

February 11, 2010

Bill Gates was impressed by the iPhone when Apple first announced it but he’s not quite as impressed by the iPad. When asked, he said it’s not like he thought “Oh my God, Microsoft didn’t aim high enough”. He thinks the iPad is a nice reader, but nothing he looks at and wished Microsoft would [...]

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iPhone Users “Downloaded” Flash 7 Million Times in December

February 11, 2010

By now it’s no surprise to anybody that the iPhone doesn’t support flash and that the new iPad is not going to do so either. Steve Jobs even demonstrated it (by accident?) at the iPad presentation keynote when he browsed to a newspaper website (I can’t remember if it was WSJ or NYT) and flash [...]

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Print Your Own Apple iPad. Today!

February 9, 2010

Remember the unbearable wait when iPhone was first announced? It was terrible, right? I bet you probably also printed an iPhone on a piece of paper and folded it to look like a real one.
If you can’t stand the iPad waiting, Revolutionary Concepts has created a few images that you can print out and stitch [...]

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