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

Wayne Dixon — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:00:18 +0000

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 [...]

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Macheist Nano Bundle 2 almost gone

Wayne Dixon — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:15:49 +0000

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 [...]

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Apple goes to the Oscars

Wayne Dixon — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:43:32 +0000

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 [...]

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iPad Official Release Date Announced

Wayne Dixon — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:00:49 +0000

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, [...]

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Apple drops the price of Mac Developer program

Wayne Dixon — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:05:54 +0000

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, [...]

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Parallels: Bare Metal Hypervisor announced.

Wayne Dixon — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:00:39 +0000

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, [...]

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Rant about the Apple ‘Mighty’ Mouse Failures

Wayne Dixon — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:39:16 +0000

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 [...]

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Traveling with Apple Gadgets

Wayne Dixon — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:00:51 +0000

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 [...]

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Apple’s iPad and iBooks.app unbundled

Wayne Dixon — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:00:20 +0000

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 [...]

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All the signs hint at a MacBook Pro refresh

Wayne Dixon — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:00:46 +0000

Evidence has begun to suggest that we’re on the verge of a MacBook Pro refresh. Some of the most telling evidence has come from retailers with missing or deleted SKUs for current MacBook Pro models. When SKUs go missing people tend to notice. There have been screenshot from a Best Buy employee circulating the internet, [...]

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PwnageTool 3.1.5: Now ready for iPhone OS 3.1.3

Wayne Dixon — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:23:15 +0000

The iPhone Dev team has been hard at work since iPhone OS 3.1.3 has been out, and today they’ve released PwnageTool version 3.1.5. If you’re adventurous and don’t mind the possibility of losing your current jailbreak, then feel free to head on over to the iPhone Dev Team’s blog and take a look at what you [...]

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iPhone OS: Ideas on how Apple could win against the Jail Breaking Community

Wayne Dixon — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:10:12 +0000

With Apple releasing iPhone OS 3.1.3, and closing the hole for jail breakers it got me onto the idea that Apple could actually win (well mostly win) against the jail breaking community. I have some ideas on how Apple could achieve converting some of the jail breakers over to the non-jailbreak side. There are three groups, [...]

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iPhone OS 3.1.3: Some details behind the hidden fixes

Wayne Dixon — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:10:07 +0000

Just recently, Apple released iPhone OS firmware 3.1.3. Our own Sofia Fontes wrote about the iPhone OS 3.1.3 being available, but I thought I would go into the details of the non-apparent bugs. In it contains fixes for both the iPhone and iPod Touch. For your convenience, here are they are: There are 3 possible code [...]

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iPad: Why so much more for the Wifi + 3G model?

Wayne Dixon — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 03:00:58 +0000

Apple introduced the iPad a few days ago, and since then I have been trying to determine which model I will end up buying. I keep attempting to justify my need to purchase the Wifi + 3G Model. The cost difference between the Wifi model and Wifi + 3G is $130. $130 seems like [...]

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iBooks: Did You Mean iboobs?

Wayne Dixon — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:00:38 +0000

I think Apple has some editing of their algorithm to do when it comes to searching the US iTunes App store. I tried, although I knew it was futile, to search for iBooks, one of the new Applications for the iPad. So these are the results I received. This one is from the desktop version [...]

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Apple’s iPad: Data plans explained

Wayne Dixon — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 02:24:05 +0000

Today Apple announced their ‘latest creation’ the iPad. The iPad is essentially a larger form factor iPod touch with the capability to also provide 3G data for use while you’re out and about. Let me break down the data options. First off, there are two models to choose from with differing capacities of 16GB, [...]

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Apple’s 01-27-2010 Event: Outlandish Predictions Edition

Wayne Dixon — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:03:16 +0000

Apple made it official. They will be holding an event to show off ‘our latest creation’ to the world in the Yurbo Buena center for the Arts on January 27th, 2010 at 10AM PT. Here’s what I would like and expect to see. Let us start with the most plausible. iPhone OS 4.0. [...]

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iProxy: A Proxy for iPhone

Wayne Dixon — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 23:00:12 +0000

I ran across a twitter post that mentioned iProxy, a proxy for the iPhone. I decided to try it out, and here is what I found. The application works, compiles and installs all without errors. The process is quite simple and is outlined below: Download the .zip, or .tgz file from the downloads page. Extract the .zip or [...]

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Rumor: Apple’s Tablet to be US only?

Wayne Dixon — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:53:10 +0000

9-to-5 Mac has some speculation that the rumored Apple tablet will be US only. I find myself agreeing with this. I can see it staying only in the US at least for while. When the Amazon Kindle was first introduced back in 2007 it was US only. Why? Well, it’s all thanks to publishing agreements. [...]

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Apple + HarperCollins = Tablet Content?

Wayne Dixon — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 02:06:48 +0000

According to the Wall Street Journal, HarperCollins has been in talks with Apple to produce more than just standard e-books for the rumored Apple Tablet. The standard e-books, being text with an occasional picture, have been going for $9.99 as a standard price. Brian Murray, chief executive of HarperCollins, claims that enhanced e-books, containing video, author [...]

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