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iPod 2.0 Goodness

July 12th, 2008 · No Comments

The upgrades to 2.0 for the iPhone and iPod Touch has arrived. If any one has tried to install upgrades and new applications in other smartphones then they will appreciate just how good iTunes + iPhone/iPod integration is.
I upgraded my iPod touch to 2.0 and added in Ebay app, AOL Radio (with NPR goodness on [...]

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Tags: Apple · IPhone · Kiwi News · iPod

iPhone Mania Hits Kiwiland

July 10th, 2008 · No Comments

[Uploaded on July 10, 2008 by SashaNZ]
IPhone 3G Mania struck New Zealand at 12am (NZ Time) this morning as red beanie (touke) wearing yanks desend on Auckland’s Vodaphone  shop on Queen St.Both ifixit.com and Engadget.com flew to New Zealand to get their mitts on lamburgers and Apple’s iPhone.

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Tags: Apple · IPhone · Kiwi News · Kiwi Stuff · New Zealand

Apple Flash Holdout Flash In The Pan

June 18th, 2008 · No Comments

[Uploaded on August 31, 2007 by nobihaya]
The Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen spilled the beans over progress made on getting Flash working on the iphone yesterday:
MACMILLAN: And then just to follow-up was on the Apple iPhone 3G — any update on Flash support within that device? Thanks.

NARAYEN: With respect to the iPhone, we are working on [...]

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Mobile Times They Are A Changing

April 1st, 2008 · No Comments

Come gather ’round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You’ll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you
Is worth savin’
Then you better start swimmin’
Or you’ll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin’.
2007 will go down in history as the turning point where smartphones became mobile [...]

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Tags: Apple · Google · IPhone · Technology

BMW M3 CSL Strips Down

November 3rd, 2007 · 1 Comment

BMW has released a stripped down M3 for the club racing circuit. Based on the original 3.0 CSL. Coming in at 3052lb (1385 k) it is 400lb less than the standard M3. What’s more it produces 360hp from a non blown 3.2L inline 6 engine…..

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Airport Extreme is a Dream

June 26th, 2007 · No Comments

I have just installed the new Apple Airport Extreme at home to replace the Linksys and older Apple Airport Express.
The whole process took less than 20 minutes to:

Connect Powerbook G4, MacBookPro and Dell Laptop
Add HP Officejet 6100
Add 2 USB Hard Disk Drive

The bonjour system is amazing. All the peripherals came up and synced the first [...]

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iPhones Delivered to Stores

June 25th, 2007 · No Comments

iPhones being delivered from an undisclosed location…..
…waiting the freight at each location on Sunday were armed personnel, who were reportedly hired by Apple through its courier’s ground handling agent and then cleared by the Transportation Security Administration. Armed guards are extremely unusual for freight coming out of the Asian sector, those familiar with the matter [...]

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Tags: Apple · Blogroll · IPhone

Real Steve Channels Fake Steve

May 31st, 2007 · No Comments

While fending off the evil eye from Bill Gates (whilst Bill was looking for ideas to steal), Steve Jobs managed to put in that he reads the Fake Steve Jobs blog.
Walt Mossberg asked: Do you read the Fake Steve Jobs blog?
Jobs: I have read a few of the FSJ things recently, but I thought it [...]

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Apple Share Holders Confab

May 13th, 2007 · No Comments

This weeks Apple Shareholder’s meeting offered some more insight into the world’s favorite computer company with the world famous crusty and opaque CEO, Steve Jobs.
Aside from handing Greenpeace representatives a new one, (however Apple shareholders have managed to get Jobs to respond), Jobs also noted that the iPhone is on time, there is a [...]

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Another Nail in Zune Coffin

April 2nd, 2007 · No Comments

Just as soon as I proposed that Microsoft adopt a DRM Free platform in order to compete with Apple, Apple announces DRM free music from EMI on Itunes….
Reacting to Apple’s announcement Monday that it will soon begin selling music tracks from EMI without copy protection, PiperJaffray analyst Gene Munster advised investors to look out [...]

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Tags: Apple · iPod · zune