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iPhone Update 2.2 Update - Quick Review

By Keith • Nov 21st, 2008 • Category: Featured Stories, Technology

When I first purchased my iPhone last October, every software update was like an epic event. Of course, back then, there were major things being fixed and added all of the time. That last REALLY big update was 2.0 when the App Store was added and all hell broke lose as people started [...]



Boxee - The new way to watch TV

By Keith • Oct 31st, 2008 • Category: Featured Stories, Lead Story, Technology

Keith talks about Boxee, a new Media Center for Mac.



Taking some of the fun out of rumormongering

By Justin Colby • Oct 14th, 2008 • Category: Today's Thoughts

Today there is an Apple event at 10 AM Pacific time, during which the the Willie Wonka of white earbuds will unveil some new laptops. I’m an occasional reader of the great mac rumor/news/commentary site macrumors.com , but I’ve noticed that they’ve gotten too good lately. The last iPod revision was pretty well nailed by [...]



iPhone Apps

By Justin Colby • Jul 14th, 2008 • Category: Today's Thoughts

Some of these developers are really making some incredible use of the iphone SDK, even the silly little ones like the lightsaber. I’m excited to try the guitar tuner app too.  I don’t care about the people complaining about a price drop- Apple has taken something I bought over a year ago and made it [...]



Snow Leopard: Safari 4.0 Reviewed

By Keith • Jul 9th, 2008 • Category: Featured Stories, Lead Story, Technology

Since I loaded the newest OS from Apple, 10.6 Snow Leopard, I have been on a quest to really give Safari a chance. I have not been a fan of Safari in the past. Ever since the birth of Firefox, I have been a strong supporter of that cross-platform browser.
But let’s talk about [...]



6 Ways to Prepare Your Article For Digg Success

By Justin Colby • Jul 7th, 2008 • Category: Featured Stories, Humor/Editorial, Lead Story

For our readers who might not know what Digg.com is, it is what is known as a “social news” site. It is intended to be a forum where users submit content that they think is interesting, (they “Dig” it) and other users vote on those stories based on how relevant or interesting it is. Over time, Digg has expanded past their original tech focus and is a general-interest site.



Life without Bill Gates and Steve Jobs (and Woz)

By Keith • Jul 2nd, 2008 • Category: Featured Stories, Lead Story, Technology

Last Friday marked the end of Bill Gates’ job at his company Microsoft—so he can now focus all of his attention onto his new life’s work, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Now whether you love or hate Microsoft, love or hate Bill Gates, you have to respect him. You have to respect [...]



Snow Leopard Review - Mail.app

By Keith • Jun 26th, 2008 • Category: Featured Stories, Technology

Here is the first of a couple reviews for Snow Leopard as I am choosing to break it down and do it feature by feature as I use the programs in Snow Leopard. Keep in mind that this is the developer copy, and it may explain why some of the features don’t work like [...]



Snow Leopard Testing Coming Soon

By Keith • Jun 26th, 2008 • Category: Featured Stories, Lead Story, Technology

I am currently in the process of preparing to install Apple’s latest OS, OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. Please don’t ask where I got it from; let us just say that I have it for testing purposes.



Imitation = Flattery: iPhone

By Keith • Mar 21st, 2008 • Category: Featured Stories, Technology

We have all have all heard that imitation is the highest form of flattery, and that is what I am going to focus on in this article in regards to the iPhone. More than two years before the iPhone was even talked about openly by Apple, techsites and fanboys started creating art work of what [...]