Of course, it’s a spectacular quarter in the middle of the year. Regardless of Apple but any company that randomly announces the following numbers clearly had a great 3 months: Net income up 73% or $818 million versus $472 a year earlier. Revenue up to $5.4 billion versus $4.4 billion a year earlier. That’s $58.7 […]

As you might have heard, Apple doesn’t reveal much about future plans 🙂 So, of course, it’s speculation but it will be back at some point when Apple needs a sales boost to the laptop line. First, they are selling both lines like crazy. The high margin MacBook Pro orders are back-ordered as the new […]

While the SMS texting on your iPhone is capped at 200 unless you spring for more, there are a couple easy ways around it if whomever you’re chatting with has IM chat capability – presumably on a computer but also with other phone devices. FlickIM: (AOL/AIM) Your iChat user name is your AIM/AOL name so […]

Since some 40-50% of iPhone users are reported to be newbies to the iTunes – here is a basic and beginners guide to getting music & video onto your iPhone (of course, if you’re new to iPods, most of this will also work for you). While iTunes is now the front end to syncing for […]

Of course, you’ll need Handbrake to convert from DVD to an iPod/iPhone friendly format. (Our How To). There are some options you might want to keep in mind in Handbrake. The presets for the iPhone (and Video iPod) settings are lower than what you want for AppleTV and sending to a TV set so it […]

OpenMoko has released the developer version of its open platform cell phone called the Neo 1973. Neo 1973 is an homage to Marty Cooper who is credited with creating the first cell phone in 1973.  $300 and its yours! (more for the full bore developer kit). OpenMoko is a project to create a smartphone platform […]

BTW, we have updated this post here – now up to 400 mini apps. Programmers are amazingly resourceful these days – give them access to HTML, Ajax and Javascript, and a challenge – there are already at least 200 mini apps for the iPhone. Note: Some of the links in this post are for the […]

Email survey via your iTunes account email (presumably – I also activated the AT&T.com “wireless account” using that email so it might’ve been from there). Pretty comprehensive – asking everything from the beginning to end how you liked the buying experience, why you decided to buy, how you bought, how did activation go, did you […]

Having an iPhone means people stop you on the street or at the ballpark and ask if they should buy an iPhone also so this general checklist will help you decide. This is not a comprehensive checklist discussing technical specs – this is for the average person deciding if they want to switch. The iPhone’s […]

T-Mobile’s HotSpot@Home is a good concept – at home, add a router – cell calls (in or out) are er, routed through the wireless WiFi router. You presumably will get better cell reception, you can make and receive calls with no add’l cost. This also works with their WiFi Hotspots around the country – calls […]