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To Jailbreak or not to jailbreak.  That’s the question. No longer. For a while my iPhone 2G was jailbroken.  It was a neat novelty back when there wasn’t an app store and there were a few cool features you could add via a simple web hack in iPhone OS 1.1.  Some days I miss the [...]

I’ve recently taken the plunge and purchased a new aluminum macbook, the first mac I’ve owned in nearly 16 years. This article is the first in a series on my return to Apple as my primary computer. Many years ago I was an avid fan of the “other” computers out there. I’ve had, over the [...]

Picasa for Mac

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Google announced today during Macworld the immediate availablity of Picasa for the Mac.   While I’m beginning to become a little pessimistic the Google matra (I have yet to actually use Chrome for more than a passing hour), Picasa is a solid photo library management utility that will certainly keep iPhoto on its toes. I’ve not [...]

A new study by ChangeWave research (as reported in Information Week) puts the iPhone as the contining leader in customer satisfaction amount SmartPhone users, though this article says not to count RIM out quite yet. Here’s the truth of it tho.  RIM has spent years focusing their products on the business customer.  Blackberrys do email [...]

The LA Times Technology Blog reports that iPhone developer Craig Hockenberry doesn’t like that there’s lots of free and inexpensive apps on the Apple App store.  Apparently the 2 million downloads a day that Apple claims to be supporting just aren’t his cup on tea.  On his blog he writes: We have a lot of [...]