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iOS6 Upgrade

Unless you’ve been on a desert island you know iOS6 is out now. I upgraded both my iPhone 4S and iPad 3 on Thursday. While not completely uneventful it was relatively smooth. There were related Mountain Lion and Apple application upgrades on my Macs. In my case, it was iPhoto and Aperture that were upgraded. It took most of the evening to get everything upgraded although most of that was spent waiting, either for downloads or installs. I updated my iDevices directly, over wireless, rather than through iTunes. There’s also [...] Read the rest »

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Updates All Around

It seems like ever computer or computer-like device I have received significant updates in the past couple of days, The 8 security updates for my Windows 7 PCs and VMs were the least time-consuming updates, much to my surprise, Apple released iOS 5 today so the last couple of days have seen related updates from apps to operating systems. In the middle of all this motivated to me finally upgrade my desktop Mac Mini to Lion. Let's not forget all those iPhone/iPad apps that have been updated in the last few days. A great way to kill 8 hours. Read the rest »

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What’s Was New Is Now Old

Yesterday I had a phone that had the latest technology. Today it's now an old piece of crap. Well, not really and not for another couple of weeks. But the iPhone announcement had me thinking of two things. Read the rest »

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Why I Got The Verizon iPhone

Continuing the disturbing trend I started with the iPad, I pre-ordered the Verizon iPhone once it was available. There was a lot written about whether or not there would be a rush to the Verizon iPhone once it became available. I guess you could say I was part of the rush so I might as well get specific as to why. Read the rest »

Maybe Apple Was Right

Well, today was the big day. The Apple iPhone event happened, the beta SDK was released, and Apple set the roadmap. As someone without an iPhone it wasn’t a big deal for me. But in the run up to the event there sure was a lot of hype and hope about them also announcing a 3G iPhone. About a month ago the company I worked for changed by company phone from Verzion to AT&T. The phone was a Blackberry and the plane included 3G. In the month I’ve had the [...] Read the rest »

Apple iPhone Battery Life

http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9730672-7.html CNet has a article that says Apple has announced that the iPhone will have a full 8 hours of talk time and up to 250 hours of standby time. The battery will last six hours on the Internet, seven hours of video and 24 hours of audio playback. Naturally all of these are “up to” times but even with the typical vendor optimism these are pretty good times. The Apple iPhone tech specs have been updated to reflect these times. Apple had previously published specs of 5 hrs of [...] Read the rest »

Apple iPhone Due June 29th

http://www.apple.com/iphone/ads/ All of you waiting for the Apple iPhone finally have a date and it’s June 29th. Apple has posted three ads on their website and they end “Coming June 29“. Now people can start speculating about whether or not they’ll be enough in the stores. There better not be because if there is people will say the iPhone is a failure because it didn’t sell out. (If your viewing this in the sidebar – click the post title to go to the ads.) Read the rest »