Sep
9
The Genius in the Cloud
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So Apple released a bunch of new stuff today (read most of it at http://apple.com/hotnews), but of most interest to me is iTunes 8, and more specifically, the Genius mode. The Genius is supposed to investigate the information in your library (playlists, track played counts, ratings, etc), upload it to the ‘Genius in the iTunes [...]
Jul
27
The Third G
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I gotta say, the process of upgrading from an iPhone to an iPhone 3g is way too easy for it’s own good. Even let me chill out in the store, activate it using my Mac as opposed to the store’s Mac, and restored all my old data. And for the locations with 3G, the speed [...]
May
28
Mac Address Book <-> Google Contacts Syncing (without an iPhone)
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So today, Apple released an update to Leopard: 10.5.3. Plenty of bugfixes abound, but a new feature was snuck in: Google Contacts Synchronization. This allows you to keep your address book in sync between Google, your Mac, and your iPhone. I say this because the caveat of this new feature is that it’s only enabled for [...]
Sep
6
Corporate Altruism: the iPhone rebate
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Yesterday was undeniably a big day for Apple, Inc. After changing their name from Apple Computer, Inc. to Apple, Inc., as their focus had shifted from the Macintosh to their consumer electronics department, Apple has truly outdone itself with the iPhone, on track to sell it’s millionth unit at the end of this month, consistently [...]