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I'm into everything technology related, particularly anything Apple related. I enjoy programming and tend to lean towards server-based technologies over client-based. You can contact me on twitter, via e-mail, or follow me on friendfeed.

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$40 Billion Comments: A Response

Friday, March 19, 2010

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I was reading over the comments on my article Apple’s $40 Billion What to do: Big and Bold thoughts. There were 20 comments, which honestly is more than I expect on any of my articles. However, there were two particular comments that stuck out. The first comment is from Federico. It states: “Yeah, deprive the [...]

Apple’s $40 Billion What to do: Big and Bold thoughts

Saturday, March 13, 2010

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Apple has $40 billion in the bank. According to Apple CEO Steve Jobs, they are just sitting on it at the moment. They have no clear intentions on doing a whole lot with it for now. Jobs also emphasized that Apple must “Think big” with the cash. Well, I just happen to have some ideas [...]

Macheist Nano Bundle 2 almost gone

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

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Just a reminder for all of those who like bargains, Macheist has a Nano Bundle that is set to expire tonight. The Bundle costs $19.95 and is available from Macheist.com. Our own Josh Schnell wrote about this about a week ago, but they’ve added some additional items within that time. There are a total of eight [...]

Apple goes to the Oscars

Monday, March 8, 2010

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Apple has made its own appearance at the Oscars. Not only in person, but virtually as well. There are few ways that they have managed to make the Oscars their own. Apple CEO and Disney majority share holder Steve Jobs appeared at the Oscars. The picture below was snapped with Jon Chu and Steve [...]

iPad Official Release Date Announced

Friday, March 5, 2010

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Today, Apple announced the official launch date of the Apple iPad to be April 3rd, 2010. The April 3rd launch date is only 6 days beyond the original 60 Day date specified in the January 27th keynote. If the 60 days would have stuck, the date would have been March 30th. Beginning next week, Friday, [...]

Apple drops the price of Mac Developer program

Friday, March 5, 2010

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Today Apple dropped the price of their Mac Developer program from $499 to just $99. This 80% drop in price aims to accomplish more than just beef up the number of developers on the Mac. There have been some changes to the new ‘low-priced’ one size fits all program. There are no more hardware discounts, [...]

Parallels: Bare Metal Hypervisor announced.

Friday, February 26, 2010

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Parallels, the makers of the popular desktop virtualization software, has introduced a new server product; Parallels Server 4.0 Bare Metal Edition. In case you’re not aware, most virtualization solutions require an operating system to already be in place before you can actually virtualize another guest operating system. The Mac’s virtualization options include Parallels Desktop 5, [...]

Rant about the Apple ‘Mighty’ Mouse Failures

Monday, February 22, 2010

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I’ve owned a wireless Apple Mighty Mouse, now just called the ‘Apple Mouse’ due to trademark issues, since December of 2008. In that time, I’ve come to rely on the mouse for everything. However, there is one major issue with the mouse: the scroll wheel. The Apple Mighty Mouse has the most abhorred and useless item [...]

Traveling with Apple Gadgets

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

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My girlfriend and I booked a trip to London for later in this summer. With us actually having booked the trip, I have begun thinking about what type of gadgets will be needed for the trip. Here is the list I have thus far: In lieu of bringing a laptop I am planning on bringing an iPad [...]

Apple’s iPad and iBooks.app unbundled

Friday, February 12, 2010

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Daring Fireball’s John Gruber is reporting that the iBooks application will not be included on the iPad by default. He’s stating this because according to the feature’s page for the iPad it states, “The iBooks app is a great new way to read and buy books. Download the free app from the App Store and buy [...]