You’ve finally gotten around to taking that big vacation of a lifetime. You took along your trusty iPhone and documented the experience with many, many photos you’ll never get a chance to take again and will cherish for the rest of your life. In other words, your iPhone was the only camera you had with […]
Where to Find the Best Apple Discounts
Apple discounts: you know you want ’em. We’re talking iPads, iPhones, iMacs, MacBooks, and more at the cheapest prices anywhere. Here’s your insider’s guide to hunting Apple discounts like a pro.
Apple Closing Mac OS X Downloads Section
With the announcement of the Mac App Store it should come as no surprise that the historical downloads section on Apple’s website will be closed come January 6th. Apple sent developers an email about the change: Apple Developer ———————————– Dear [name], Thank you for making the Mac OS X Download site a great destination with […]
The Beatles – Now On iTunes
Minutes ago Apple revealed The Beatles are now on iTunes. The Beatle’s 13 studio albums are available for download from the iTunes Store at 99¢ to $1.29 per song. The band’s complete box set is available for download at $149. The addition of The Beatles’ catalog to the iTunes store has been the center of […]
Apple Teases iTunes Announcement – Music In The Cloud?
Apple has teased a new announcement tomorrow regarding iTunes. The question on everyone’s mind: what is it about? Visiting Apple’s home page today reveals a teaser, in typical cryptic Cupertino fashion: “Tomorrow is just another day. That you’ll never forget.” Rumors and speculation have fueled the notion that Apple will be moving iTunes to the […]
Apple Now Worth More Than Microsoft
I’m not a stock guy, and I have an accountant to handle many of my business items. As such, some of the subtle nuances of the business world are lost on me. Fortunately, I can read. Like this article from yesterday’s Business Insider: Apple’s stock market capitalization (AAPL) has not yet quite surpassed Microsoft’s (MSFT), […]
Apple Tree Hugging – Greenpeace Gives Apple 4-Star Rating
It used to be that Apple was frequently chastised for building electronics that were harmful to the environment for all sorts of reasons. Then one day, someone in Cupertino woke up and said, “We’re all a bunch of hippies here, right? Why not help our planet instead of hurting it?” That’s when the process changed […]
Sonos “ZonePlayer S5” IMPULSIVE REVIEW
The revolutionary sound system has arrived! It has a name, it has a subwoofer, it has tweeters, it has wireless-integrated technology, it has superior sound, it has pure qualitative quality: it is the Sonos “ZonePlayer S5” music system. In an age that has adopted digital music, the Sonos “ZonePlayer S5” cannot be overlooked, or go […]
IMPULSIVE REVIEW of “iDropDead FE” App
The “iDropDead FE” application for the iPhone is a game involving the brutal beating, dismembering, breaking and decapitating of cartoon bear rag-dolls. The physics puzzle game appeals to a certain taste, as one must smartly choose which flick of a thumb will send the cartoon bear on a path to shred its body as much […]
IMPULSIVE REVIEW of the iPhone Application “Facebook”
Social networking eases onto your iPhone, as though it were your MacBook! One of the many detriments to using social networking sites on a mobile device is that the interface is slow, clumsy and, in short, a shell of what it would be gracing the screen of your home computer. With the latest updates, the […]
YouTube Find: Apple.com through the years
One of the first articles I posted on Apple Gazette was a look back at 10 years of Apple.com. Some clever fellow has taken a collection of images from Flickr covering the entire history of the Apple.com domain and spliced it into a video. I hate that its not the entire site design, just a […]
Big Surprise…The Apple Store is DOWN!
No wait…that’s not a big surprise…in fact, that’s the biggest UNsurprise of the year. 😛 As you would expect, the Apple Store is down, waiting for all the new goodies that our old buddy Steve is going to have waiting for us after the Keynote. Speaking of the Keynote, live coverage begins in just over […]
New iPhone Ads on Apple.com
Yup, it’s turning out to be “Apple Ad Thursday” here on Apple Gazette. Apple has posted 3 additional ads on their site in the “switch” vein for the iPhone. This time the topics covered include checking weather to stop a flight delay, mobile blogging (which I still haven’t been able to do effectively with the […]
All 300+ Leopard Features on one page
Apple has a page on their official site now that covers every single one of the 300+ new innovations of OSX Leopard. The page reveals some new .Mac syncing such as the Dock and the Dashboard, tabbed chat in iChat, photo browsing in Mail, video recording in Photobooth, multi-page PDF creation in Preview…and literally hundreds […]