Archive for 2008

MobileMe and iPhone, better buddies, but still not in love

Monday, August 11th, 2008, by moose

So, Mobile Me…
After my first unhappy experience with iPhone syncing using MobileMe, I deactivated it and went back to manually syncing using iTunes.
Until Apple published Mobile Me Update #3, where they say:
a syncing bug was discovered which caused contact and calendar data to not sync properly over-the-air with iPhones and iPod touch. For some users [...]

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MobileMeh [UPDATED]

Thursday, July 24th, 2008, by moose

So, mobileme…
I really wanted to like it… the idea is good, it looks nice… but it seems to be .Mac all over again.
I don’t care about the issue of the “push” not being real push and taking 15′ to propagate from my Mac to the “cloud”.
My problem is the sync with my iPhone. I subscribed [...]

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Spot The Idiot - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on the iStore deal

Saturday, June 28th, 2008, by moose

Are iPhone app devs getting a raw deal? - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW):
We mentioned yesterday a rumor that Apple won’t cut a check for iPhone application developers until the dev’s share of the sales tops $250. [...]
From the (indie) developer’s perspective, this stinks. They’ve already paid at least $99 just to participate, and now [...]

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everybody hates the Dock, except… DELL

Thursday, June 26th, 2008, by moose

So, Dell decided that Vista suxx and they really wanted badly to have OSX on their machines. But, of course, Apple told then to go make an OS for themselves.
And now, this is what Dell has come up with:
Dell Dock Puts a Little Mac OS X Into Vista Studio Laptops:

Sweet, uh?

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Return of the ’70s Weirdos

Monday, June 23rd, 2008, by moose

Newsweek.com:

That photo of 11 weirdos in ’70s clothes you may have seen on the Internet really is the original Microsoft team, snapped Dec. 7, 1978, on the eve of the company’s move from Albuquerque, N.M., to Seattle. Almost 30 years later, a few weeks before Bill Gates’s departure from Microsoft, the group (looking better) reconvened.

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Kudos to Apple’s Customer Support

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008, by moose

So I went on a business trip for a week and I noticed on my way back that the soft plastic sheath of the magsafe cable on my MacBook Pro’s power brick was desolidarising itself from the brick.
The metal wires you (barely) see on the picture are not the live wires, but rather the shielding [...]

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Spot the Idiot: Samsung’s “iPhone killer”

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008, by moose

So here we are with a new iPhone killer… wait, the killer is late, its target is already dead! Samsung’s Instinct was supposed to go snipe the iPhone, but Apple already sent it to rest, and now iPhone 2 is coming…
Walt Mossberg on Samsung’s Instinct:
Also, the timing of the Instinct is unfortunate. It was designed [...]

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iPhone 3G is nothing… [UPDATE]

Monday, June 9th, 2008, by moose

Just came back from a serious beer session at the pool bar, which means I missed the WWDC Keynote.
…and I caught up on the news… my take? Forget about iPhone 3G, forget about GPS support and the AppStore…
THE big thing? MobileMe.
This is THE MOBILE COMPUTING dream everybody has been prophesying for years… the famous CLOUD [...]

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