iPhone mini May Drop RAM Storage

Accessing music, video and photos on the iPhone mini “would be a mostly cloud-based iOS,” according to Cult of Mac’s anonymous sources.The rumored changes to MobileMe include a new Internet-based iTunes library storage system for iPhone users. Since content would be pushed wirelessly to them, the need for large amounts of RAM for local data…

Apple iPad vs. HP TouchPad: Game On

If I were to predict, right now, who the two front runners will be in the tablet wars, I’d start by thinking about what makes a tablet appealing to everyday consumers and how consumers get exposed to the product. For example, Apple’s iPad is incredibly easy to use and you can pick one up at…

Particle Debris (wk. ending 2/4) The Wonders of Apple

The insane demand for the iPhone 4 at Verizon suggests not only demand for a great product but some disaffection with AT&T. Personally, while I think there will be an initial burst of movement away from AT&T combined with Verizon customers abandoning their Android phones in favor of the iPhone, it’ll all settle out in…

1984 Apple Board Hated “1984”

This story comes to us from Steve Hayden, an advertising exec who became a Chiat/Day vice president while the commercial was being created. Mr. Hayden wrote about his experience in creating the ad for Apple for AdWeek, as well as some of the aftermath in working with the company after Steve Jobs left. According to…

NEO-i iPhone Dock Includes Pico LED Projector

The device can project an image that is up to 120” across, though that large an image would be better in a darkened environment. On the Expo show floor, we were seeing movies about half that size being projected in a well-lit environment, and they were quite watchable. NEO-i can project onto surfaces from 8”…

Trio of Trusted TMOers Treats Macworld

Macworld Expo descibes Ted’s iOS: Under the Hood session asThis session delves “under the hood” of iOS to explore topics that go beyond the basics of what you’ll find in typical iOS manuals. For starters, you’ll learn about the iOS-related files stored on your Mac (from firmware updates to app files to backup files) – where they…

What if Apple Continues iPad 1 Sales After April?

That’s exactly what’s happening with the iPad. The tablet competitors that are any good are still not shipping in quantity and and Apple is on the eve of introducing its second generation iPad. Given that Apple shipped over 14 million iPads in 2010, it’s very likely that the cost of parts is now down considerably…

Particle Debris (wk. ending 1/14) Coming Down, Out of the Clouds

Here’s a chart from Business Insider that lists the reasons why some people still haven’t joined Facebook. “…they think it’s a waste of time. And they think that increasingly, as they see their friends sucked into a vortex of looking at photos, playing FarmVille, and posting status updates.” In Colorado recently a mother allowed her…

Microsoft Co-founder Paul Allen Refiles Apple Patent Lawsuit

The amended complaint includes details that weren’t included in the original filing, and also sports 40 exhibits showing the alleged patent infringement in action, according to the Seattle Times. ALong with Apple, Google, Facebook, Office Depot, OfficeMax, staples, Yahoo, YouTube, Netflix and eBay are named in the filing.Paul Allen hopes his lawsuit sticks this timeMr.…

2 iPad Apps for the Avid Reader

Puhl-ease! Most cell phones takes photos and HD movies just as good as any cheap digital camera. Besides, who’d want to carry something else around? (Duh!) Well, what IS hot this year? In a word:Tablets. You can’t spit without hitting a Kindle, Nook, or some knock-off or wannabe thereof. These tablets are special purposed, designed…

Rough Guides World Lens

One thing I’ve learned is that being “grown up” has little to do with age, it’s more like a state of mind, and that it’s an elusive state that I’m finding that few people ever reach. The reason it’s so hard to get to is because it’s is so hard to identify, it’s different for…

Infinity Blade: A Feast for Your Eyes [Update]

The man-mountain advances, sword raised, iron muscles tense. He issues a growl that chills me to the marrow. This will be painful. A while back, during an Apple media event Epic Games showed off a trailer for Infinity Blade and whetted our appetites with Epic Citadel, a free app that let us roam an impressively…

NuGuard Shell for iPad Guards Well

There are several different case types for the iPad. One type is a clamshell-like case that fits snugly around the back, and it’s preferable for many purposes. The Newer Technology NuGuard Shell is one of those. It’s great and very modestly priced. I was watching an episode of ABC’s Castle recently, and Alexis was sitting…

Apple, Sex, and Corporate Values

There is a time honored technique, around much of the world, to use sex to sell goods. And by sex, I mean something so innocent as a pretty woman selling laundry soap or something as upsetting as a glimpse of a strangled female movie star to lure people into a crime drama. Even so, the…

Danish Newspaper Protest Apple App Store Censorship

In an editorial titled “Double standards in Apple’s Disneyland,” Heine Jørgensen wrote for the newspaper (from a Google translation, and mind the mild profanity), “Steve Jobs, who privately is Disney’s largest shareholder, is the closest you get to a god in the engineering world. And just like God, he tries to restrict anything that resembles…

3 Free Shows on iTunes

Yeah, whatever. My theory is far simpler. See, zombies offer us a certain freedom from one of our most ingrained cultural taboos; dissing the dead. Think about it. What fun is it to unload a clip into body that is just lying there all rigamortified and gross? And we certainly don’t want to unload on…

TMO Holiday Gift Guide Part 2

TKO Solutions X-BandThis product is for anyone who ever has to, or wants to, make presentations to others using their iPad. There is nothing more awkward than trying to hold your iPad with one hand and demonstrating something with the other. The X-Band, at US$19.99, grips the four corners of your iPad and gives you…

Acer Announces Three Tablets, App & Music Store

The 10.1” Windows device (shown below) will run a processor from AMD, according to PC Magazine, and feature two cameras (one front, one rear), WiFi and 3G connectivity, and be 15mm thick (Apple’s current iPad is 13.4mm thick). The company said this device would ship in February, but didn’t a name or pricing for the…

iOS 4.2 for iPad: What You Need to Know

You’ll know version 4.2 is ready when you connect your iPad to your Mac (or PC) and look at iTunes under the Summary tab. (Of course, we’ll also alert you here at TMO news. But sometimes there’s a lag from the time the earliest customers see their update in iTunes until others see it —…

In Defense of the Beatles

On the Internet, the immediate reaction to this momentous announcement was: *yawn* — followed by an avalanche of snarky and derisive comments. The gist of most of the comments was that Apple’s announcement was too little, too late.  Typical remarks (with the snarkiness removed) ranged from “This is fine…but too much hype, hardly worthy of taking…

Skyfire for iPhone Too Popular for App Store

“The user experience was performing well for the first few hours, but as the surge continued, the peak load on our servers and bandwidth caused the video experience to degrade,” the company said.Skyfire for the iPhoneSkyfire lets iPhone users view Flash video by intercepting the Flash content they want to watch, re-encoding it for HTML5,…

Microsoft Word 2011 is Worth the Journey

There has never been a Macintosh program that has been so loved, so reviled, so controversial, so often purchased, so written about, and so often taken as a signpost for the health and well being of the Microsoft Macintosh Business Unit as MS Word. A program of this scope, almost like a public figure, has…

Skyfire Brings Flash Video to iPhone

Skyfire for the iPhoneInstead of displaying Flash videos on iOS devices, Skyfre intercepts and converts them to HTML 5, then streams them to back out to users. The process works around the inability to play Flash content natively on iOS devices, and it took about two months of work with Apple to get Skyfire approved for…

Should You Get a MacBook Air?

Let’s start with the bottom line. Are you happy with the new MacBook Air? Delighted. Spectacularly so. The MacBook Air is all that I expected it to be — and more. My old MacBook Pro (MBP) had been a reliable workhorse. But I can’t say I ever enjoyed using it. In fact, if I had…

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