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Apple Curb-stomps Flip Video‚ but Denies Me My Beatles

As a result of an announcement made at Apple’s ‘It’s Only Rock and Roll’ event‚ you can officially kiss goodbye any hopes you had of doing something stupid in public and not getting caught.  Yes‚ the rumors were true – the newest iPod Nanos can now capture you being Sharpie skunked by your “friends” in [...]

Apple Preps Big-Ass Server Farm to Cater to my Personal Fantasy

Cult of Mac has an interview with Rich Miller of Data Center Knowledge, a site devoted to the data center industry.  Rich speculates that Apple’s reportedly 500‚000 square-foot facility (which would make it one of the largest in the world) suggests a “cloud computing” scale. Silly rabbit.  Obviously SJ reads TMA and is looking to [...]

I Can Find My iPhone: Unless You’ve Stolen It

One of the big draws of the “Find My iPhone” feature of the new iPhone 3.0 software is supposed to be the ability to track the location of your phone in the event that it’s stolen.   Even if you’re not going to out and out Charles Bronson the punk, you can at least send [...]

iPhone 3.0: What’s Good

The folks over at the Edible Apple have put together a nice little summary of the marquee features of the new iPhone 3.0 software scheduled to be released June 17. While Universal Search will probably be the most useful, the ability to download any iTunes content onto one’s iPhone is playing into my own particular [...]

Apple and N.C. Flirting Over Server Farm

According to the Charlotte Observer, Apple and the state of North Carolina are negotiating a whopper of a tax break should Apple decide to locate a massive server farm there.  Of particular interest to me was this quote: “Though the Apple site is initially expected to employ fewer than 100 full-time workers, legislators said the [...]

Unsolicited Suggestion for Apple’s Cash #1,505

Every time Apple reports earnings‚ every analyst on the Cupertino beat weighs in with their idea for how Steve should spend his now $30 billion pile of cash.  Most suggest acquisitions of some kind.  The ideas range from the unimaginative to the straight-up retarded (unless someone could explain how you print money with Twitter).  Because [...]