Jan

10

iToner 2.0 Makes Ringtones Easier

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January 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment

I am not the biggest fan of custom ringtones.  Some of them are downright annoying; for example the “Ring, Ring” ringtone from the movie bedtime stories is absolutely horrid, and I love it.  I also am a big fan of the TV show “The Unit,” and I have a ringtone of the opening song as [...]

Dec

13

Pull My Finger No Longer Pulled from App Store

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December 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Yes, this is a victory, but I am not sure how glad I am the battle has been won.  If you have been tracking the Apple App store, then you know that one of the largest criticisms has been the capricious way that applications have been approved and denied.  One of the victims of Apple’s [...]

Dec

11

Sim City iPhone is On Its Way

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December 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Any self-respecting video game player, hobbyist, or computer user over 25 knows about the Sim City Series.  You know, those are the games where control freaks like myself can build and destroy empires.  With Sim City, ordinary folks can be as capricious and whimsical as the gods. Now, EA is putting that power at your [...]

Dec

5

Apple iPhone Market Share Grows and Grows

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December 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Pick a big number between 1 and 328.  If your number was 327, then you guessed the size of increase of the iPhone’s market share in the smartphone market.  That is not a typo, the i
Phone’s worldwide iPhone market share tripled.  On a worldwide scale, Apple is still lagging behind Nokia and Research in Motion.  [...]

Dec

2

The iPhone Weblog is Back!

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December 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Welcome back to the iPhone Blog.  As you can tell with the post dates, I have taken a slight hiatus.  Fortunately, I had my iPhone with me the whole time to keep me company (unfortunately, I was way out of AT&T’s service area), but I did get a ton of exposure to the app store [...]

Jun

9

3G iPhone is Official!

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June 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment

What do you get when you cross 300 hours of standby, a 2G talk-time of  10 hours  5 hours of 3G talk-time  5 to 6 hours of high-speed browsing, 7 hours of video, 24 hours of audio, 2.8X faster download speeds, black  matte, chrome buttons and $199?
That’s right, you have a 3G iPhone!  The new [...]

Jun

2

How Much for an iPhone Application?

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June 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment

The Apple SDK has been out for a while, and I just know the happy programming elves are busy working on iPhone magic. Next week, along with the announcement (probably) of the 3G (probably) iPhone, we will get our hands on the promised iPhone application store.
Now, I don’t know about you, but I have [...]

Apr

25

Possible 2nd Generation iPhone Details

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April 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment

This isn’t my scoop. Sadly, I am not that cool to know the people who know things. The fine technology bloggers over at Engadget (They get the photo credit too) are spilling the beans on their source (you know, a guy who knows a guy) that has reportedly handled and used the 2nd [...]

Apr

14

BD Touch SDK Promises Great Things

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April 14, 2008 | 1 Comment

Does any of this sound good to you?

Pushing digital copies of movies to an iPhone from the Blu-ray disc menu

Automatically cataloguing a viewer’s Blu-ray disc collection and providing movie suggestions

Displaying trivia and extra information about a movie in sync with the movie’s playback

Turning existing Blu-ray discs into games that use the iPhone as the game [...]

Apr

5

More 3G iPhone Speculation - Will it be Christmas in June?

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April 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment

People say that good news comes in threes.  Well, we have three very solid reports that the iPhone hardware revision, complete with access to AT&T’s 3G Data network will be out in June.
First,  there is an apparent iPhone shortage sweeping the nation. Typically, when there is an iPod refresh coming, Apple lets the existing stock [...]

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