Many people are puzzled by Apple’s seeming reticence to jump full speed into the enterprise market … well, here are the reasons why it’s not on top of Apple’s to-do list: (NOTE – GENERALIZATIONS ABOUND!) Enterprise Market is now a Commodity Market From 1986 to 1998, it was THE market to be in. It WAS […]

There are at least two announced hacks announced that have “unlocked” most aspects of the iPhone to use on another network. The simpler one is the Turbo SIM – which slips over your old SIM card (with some scissoring required) and you are able to use the phone overseas (presumably not the visual voicemail since […]

There is a new Disney Blu-Ray trailer for CARS. In one section of the trailer, they discuss a Blu-Ray only feature, click on a CAR during the movie and it jumps to a name and guide of the car … noting that there are 217 cars in CARS … and by slowing down and looking […]

Ever wanted to type the copyright icon, or do an accent over an A without having to resort to some character palette? Who hasn’t struggled looking inside a dingbat font folder for one of these like an umlaut? Well the good folks over at GoSquared via their blog Liquidicity have developed three handy PDF docs […]

One of the three apps included with Apple’s iWork ’08 is NUMBERS. Numbers appears to be a spreadsheet app and it is that but like PAGES, it’s really a page layout & presentation app disguised as a spreadsheet app. Of course, most people will compare it to MSFT Excel. Excel is all powerful and the […]

PAGES as part of iWork ’08 is aptly and smartly named. Because it’s not just another word processor – it’s really a collected series of classy looking templates that you can just use as is – or customize by keeping the formatting and page layout but dropping in your own photo or illustration and have […]

Not readily apparent – but if you tap on your contact and EDIT (right hand corner), it brings up the contact info AND a place to set a customized ringtone for that contact. Of course, you still have to choose from Apple’s not-so-exciting choices but this way you at least know if you should put […]

Are you ever standing in a store looking at the sale price and wondering – is this a good deal? Well, with the iPhone, wonder no more. I ws staring at a DVD set that was on sale but the line was long, how much was I really saving? Flip out the iPhone, checked out […]

Alright, idiotic might be a bit harsh but for someone who alledgely has business reporting & technology reporting experience, however, the dumb question he posed shows an appalling lack of knowledge of not just Apple Computers but the concepts behind branding AND the history of the personal computer market since the 1990’s. In case you […]

While it is ingrained us all to cheer and root for the underdog and especially, in the retail business to try and encourage independent businesses, in particular “mom & pop” ones, there are certain realities of selling computers and especially Macs that might just mean that era is a bygone one. Is it unfair when […]