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A 27-year-old Aussie has turned iPhone fixing into a full-time job, but he finds his over 650 “patients” very demanding.
In an interview with the Sydney Morning Herald, Rob Jacobs, who used to have a day job as a video editor, painted the picture of the weeping iPhone owner, desperate for a fix:
“The amount of [...]

Article Posted on January 6, 2009 at 10:13 am

Geek blogger Chris Pirillo now has an iPhone application dedicated to him and all his prolific output: Follow Chris (iTunes Store link) is a single-person feed scraper and aggregator that pulls together content from Pirillo stuff posted on his personal site, Twitter, Lockergnome and the Geeks forum. That’s a lot of Pirillo.
But why?
I contacted developer [...]

Article Posted on January 6, 2009 at 9:41 am

Google has entered the Mac side of free photo manipulation with the Monday release of Picasa for Mac. Although officially a beta version, the application previously limited to PC users is drawing positive comments from Apple iPhoto fans.
“Even though this early build of Picasa is missing some features, I’m going to use it and not [...]

Article Posted on January 6, 2009 at 9:31 am

If you’ve ever balked at the cost of repairing your Apple gear, especially your iPhone or iPod, for example, consider what the repair shop is getting into when it receives your damaged product. As the gallery below of pictures detailing some of the intricacies involved in repairing the cracked glass touchscreen of an iPhone shows, [...]

Article Posted on January 6, 2009 at 9:24 am

Later today, a computer industry trade show will open in the San Francisco area.
Many thousands of computer users, software developers and IT professionals will be attending.
At some point, a senior executive from one of the better-known computer companies will stand up on stage and say a few words about forthcoming products and services.
The audience [...]

Article Posted on January 6, 2009 at 8:55 am

The baked-in rumor news calls for a DRM-related shift in music pricing and portability on iTunes, an AT&T play for new revenues through “sanctioned” iPhone tethering plans, and yes, an upgraded Mac mini.
Phil Schiller’s Keynote is now less than two hours away and we’ll be down at San Francisco’s Moscone center throughout the [...]

Article Posted on January 6, 2009 at 8:30 am

Oppenheimer Tuesday upgraded Apple’s health to “outperform,” saying Monday’s announcement by CEO Steve Jobs provided a six-month period from talk of his gaunt appearance.
“The ‘Apple Community’ is now due an update in late spring, but until then the recovery will presumably be allowed to run its course without undue prying,” Oppenheimer told investors.
Monday, in an [...]

Article Posted on January 6, 2009 at 8:30 am

Itunes fans may soon be able to purchase more songs free of copy-protections, the result of a reported break-through in negotiations with music publishers.
According to CNET, the changes could be announced as soon as Tuesday at Macworld Expo 2009 in San Francisco, Calif.
Apple reportedly has agreed to adopt a three-tier pricing plan, shifting from its [...]

Article Posted on January 6, 2009 at 8:02 am

Responding to economic reality, Best Buy has begun selling refurbished iPhone 3Gs with a $50 discount, the electronics giant announced Tuesday.
A refurbished 8GB iPhone 3G returned a month after purchase will cost Apple fans $149, rather than $199 when bought new. A refurbished 16 GB Apple handset is priced at $249, rather than the [...]

Article Posted on January 6, 2009 at 7:36 am

I still prefer the Mactini, myself. Although the next gen version without the screen sounds unbelievable.
Onion News Network: Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard

Article Posted on January 6, 2009 at 1:42 am

“Dear Apple Community,”
→ Dear asshole bloggers,
“For the first time in a decade, I’m getting to spend the holiday season with my family, rather than intensely preparing for a Macworld keynote.
“Unfortunately, my decision to have Phil deliver the Macworld keynote set off another flurry of rumors about my health, with some even publishing stories of me [...]

Article Posted on January 5, 2009 at 3:14 pm

Bookmarklets are great little things. They’ve been proving themselves useful on desktop browsers for years, and are now getting an extra boost of interest from the iPhone community, because you can use them to make mobile Safari do more things.
The latest I’ve seen is Safari+, which is a collection of a dozen or so useful [...]

Article Posted on January 5, 2009 at 2:55 pm

An exhibitor at the upcoming Macworld Expo 2009 may have inadvertently lent credence to widespread rumors of an updated Apple Mac mini.
A press release from SeeFile software seems to say its digital media asset server will support “new Apple Mac Mini hardware,” according to Ars Technica.
The bit of PR may indicate the updated [...]

Article Posted on January 5, 2009 at 12:57 pm

A week after one survey found the Mac OS share nearing 10 percent, the gains appear to be increasing as Apple continues to make headway against Windows, an analyst said Monday.
Shaw Wu, analyst with Kaufman Bros., told clients he sees only accelerating advances by Apple. December’s 9.6 percent marketshare for Mac OS X was 0.75 [...]

Article Posted on January 5, 2009 at 10:58 am

Even if you don’t jailbreak, step on or otherwise open up your iPhone you can wear the innards on your chest.
No further details about who came up with the idea on the dedicated Exploded Phone site, but the café press page describes the T-shirt as “an exploded view of my brother’s taken-apart phone. He’s [...]

Article Posted on January 5, 2009 at 10:05 am

Palm will reportedly use the first day of CES to unveil a handset based on the long-awaited Nova operating system. The phone is seen as Palm’s best chance to recover from a disastrous 2008.
Citing a “trusted source,” CrunchGear says the handset to be released Thursday is described as “iPhone-like” with a potrait display and a [...]

Article Posted on January 5, 2009 at 9:32 am

Disney art director Stéphane Kardos has created a fascinating series of quick sketches with his iPhone using the Brushes app, most of them with a slightly gritty urban feel miles away from Magic Kingdom style.
You can check more out on flickr where he intros the iPhone sketches by saying that they were done in [...]

Article Posted on January 5, 2009 at 8:59 am

More than half of consumers say they plan to spend less on gadgets in 2009, according to a survey released Monday by a research firm.
Forrester Research announced 51 percent of consumers say they plan to spend less on gadgets this year with just five percent intending to spend more this year. The findings are part [...]

Article Posted on January 5, 2009 at 7:44 am

YES. YES IT WILL.

Article Posted on January 5, 2009 at 7:36 am

Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced Monday doctors say he has an easily-treated hormonal imbalance, according to a statement designed to quiet rumors of his increasingly gaunt public appearances.
“A hormone imbalance…has been robbing me of the proteins my body needs to be healthy,” the Apple leader wrote in a letter released.
The diagnosis follows “sophisticated blood [...]

Article Posted on January 5, 2009 at 7:15 am

Ladies and gentlemen!
Take your seats! Blow your noses! Switch off your iPhones! The time is drawing near for the annual Exposition Of Wonder And Amazement that is: Macworld Expo!
Pray cease your wild applause, ladies and gentlemen. We are gathered to celebrate the ending of Another Round Of Mostly Incorrect Rumors, and to cheer on our [...]

Article Posted on January 5, 2009 at 5:51 am

MacBook (Stop Motion) from Fernando Rueda on Vimeo.
Here’s a cute little stop-motion MacBook unboxing video.
***WARNING: SPOILERS***
I particularly like how the MacBook slides inside its sleeve at the end.

Article Posted on January 5, 2009 at 5:12 am

    
Did you know your iPhone and iPod Touch may contain the inscrutable wisdom of the Spheres? Two free applications on the iTunes AppStore promise to take the guesswork out of hard decision making, with the same whimsy and clarity offered by the once wildly popular Magic Eight Ball you might remember from your youth.
The Magic [...]

Article Posted on January 5, 2009 at 12:47 am

Just in time for the NFL playoffs, you can relive the glory days of your youth (applies predominately to American males of a certain age; your mileage may vary) with a free PaperFootball game for iPhone and iPod Touch.
Just like you did on school cafeteria tables back in the day, use touchscreen swipe gestures [...]

Article Posted on January 5, 2009 at 12:06 am

Phil Schiller at a WWDC beerbash. Photo by Graham Ballantyne (CC license).
I’m actually looking forward to Phil Schiller’s keynote on Tuesday for three reasons:
1. He is genuinely funny. He’s been great in keynotes past, and he can easily carry a whole keynote alone. See Charles Arthur’s report from Paris Macworld in 2004, after Schiller stepped [...]

Article Posted on January 4, 2009 at 11:34 pm