Welcome to an Old Friend

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If you have been a fan hand-held computing for any length of time, then you have probably read one of Hal Goldstein’s (thaddeus.com) magazines. He and his team (most of the content comes from the readers themselves) have published several over the years: The Portable Paper, Pocket PC, and Windows Mobile and Smartphone. There are [...]

iTunes 9.0.1 Update

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Apple released an update (mainly bug fixes) to iTunes. This one, 9.0.1, doesn’t appear to add any new features, just clean up some odd behaviors.

One issue I am interested in seeing the improvements for is syncing between iTunes, and iPhone and iPod touch. Maybe it’s a perception problem on my [...]

iTunes 9 Feature: Home Sharing

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Much as I love Apple and Steve Jobs (good to have you back, Steve), I must confess that I take what Apple’s Marketing says with a grain of salt. Reality sometimes fails to live up to the hype. I know, some of you are thinking "he speaks heresy!" Think back to the whole MobileMe [...]

iPhone/iPod touch 2.2 Update

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Apple released the iPhone/iPod touch 2.2 update today. I’ve been expecting this for about a week now. Not sure why, just have. After all, Steve Jobs doesn’t ask my opinion or anything.
This update is focused more on stability issues (Mail, Safari, call setup). There’s some new features in Maps, [...]

iPhone 2.0 is Coming!

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At last, Apple has announced the 3G iPhone availability date – July 11th – which means we are that much closer to the release of the iPhone 2.0 software! While the new phone has some neat additions (like GPS) and faster network access, I’m looking forward to the new third-party applications that will be [...]