Blog Profile / iPhone Central
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| Filed Under: | Technology / Mobile | |
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| Posts / Week: | 26.7 | |
| Archived Since: | July 24, 2009 | |
Blog Post Archive
The Macalope: Loose talk
If you were wondering if ReadWrite had cleaned up its act since Dan Lyons left, fret not: Its Apple coverage is still as vapidly negative as it’s ever been. Derek Brown muses: “The Epic Battle Between Apple & Google Is All But Over—Who...Show More Summary
Remains of the Day: Face the music
Sony and Apple are at loggerheads over streaming music, AT&T gets ready to open the floodgates on video chat over its network, and the head of Turkey drops in on Silicon Valley. The remainders for Monday, May 20, 2013 are up a stream...Show More Summary
Senate report: Apple claims subsidiaries with no taxing jurisdiction
Apple has set up three foreign subsidiaries that the company claims are not resident in any nation for taxing purposes, in an effort to avoid paying tens of billions of dollars in taxes to the U.S. and other countries, according to a new report from a U.S. Show More Summary
Apple to tell Senate it pays every cent of its taxes
Tim Cook’s taking on the tax man. On Tuesday, the Apple CEO will appear before the U.S. Senate’s permanent Subcommittee on Investigations to discuss that body’s look into multinational companies and how they pay taxes. As a special preview...Show More Summary
The Week in iPhone Cases: Caped Crusader
If you enjoyed this week's roundup of iPhone cases, check out last week's edition, Precious.
Review: Make a visual display for your data with Status Board for iPad
Panic's $10 Status Board for the iPad is an app that fits a niche so spectacularly, it leaves you kind of breathless. Designed to display and update data from a variety of sources, Status Board offers an amazingly customizable way to...Show More Summary
Mac Gems: Delicious Library 3 lets you track your movies, music, and more
It’s been eight years since we reviewed the original version of Delicious Library, Delicious Monster's clever app for managing your media. But the question that greets Delicious Library 3, the latest edition in the franchise, is this:...Show More Summary
What to do when you have more content than room on your iOS device
This week, I take an in-depth look at just one question. I get a lot of emails about syncing music to an iOS device, and many people find it difficult to sync when their music library is larger than the space available on their iOS device. Show More Summary
Remains of the Day: Where in the world?
Mr. Cook goes to Washington, an Apple Store grows in San Francisco, and Mac spyware turns up in Norway. The remainders for Thursday, May 16, 2013, are going global. Apple on offense over $100B offshore stash (Politco) Yes, that’s right: Politco. Show More Summary
iTunes 11.0.3 enhances MiniPlayer, tweaks album options
If you were hoping that the next update to iTunes might reverse some of the drastic changes Apple made in last year’s version 11, don’t hold your breath. A minor update released on Thursday, iTunes 11.0.3, makes some tweaks to the program’s...Show More Summary
Review: DevonAgent Pro 3.5 a powerful search engine and browser combo
Back in 2008 when I last reviewed DevonAgent (version 2.3), I said this unique application had powerful research capabilities but was less successful at being a day-to-day Web browser. Now, many revisions later, this app (now calledShow More Summary
App Store surpasses 50 billion downloads
Brandon Ashmore, who calls Mentor, Ohio, home, is having a very good day. Apple on Thursday announced that Ashmore download the 50 billionth app from the App Store. As part of Apple’s promotion for the historic download, this makes Ashmore the lucky winner of an iTunes gift card worth a cool $10,000. Show More Summary
Getting started with Messages
If you thought the only way you could use your Mac to communicate with other people was to send email messages, I’m about to brighten your day. For years the Mac OS has supported instant messaging, a form of texting similar to sending and receiving messages with a mobile phone. In days past this was done with an application called iChat. Show More Summary
How to install Linux on a vintage 68K Mac
If you’re like me and happen to have a bunch of vintage Macs powered by Motorola 680x0 CPUs lying around, then you probably like to tinker with them. And what better way to tinker with obsolete hardware than by installing an obsolete...Show More Summary
Review: STM's Skinny for iPad mini is slim, but not sleek
Folio-style iPad mini cases are great for protection, since they cover both the back and front (and usually the sides) of the iPad. But they’re not terribly slim—in fact, a lot of folio cases are modeled after hardback books, and add quite a bit of extra bulk. Show More Summary
Review: Robot Unicorn Attack 2 is every bit ridiculous as it sounds
No longer are rainbows, sparkly dolphins, and synth-pop ballads limited to acid trips in your high school buddy's Astro Van. With Adult Swim's original Robot Unicorn Attack, an ironic novelty premise was married to a seriously addictive...Show More Summary
Review: Rugged Bluetooth speakers for travel and outdoor use
These days, it’s hard to imagine going on a camping trip or relaxing by the pool without our favorite iTunes playlists providing some musical entertainment in the background. But when a battery-powered device is so close to elementsShow More Summary
The Macalope: Still makes as much sense
The Macalope’s not sure what to make of The Street’s Rocco Pendola. With hair like Pendola has, sometimes he thinks he should make a rug. Pendola seems to run hot and cold on Apple. He’s kind of the Harvey Dent of Apple opinion-making. Show More Summary
Blurring objects you want to hide in iMovie '11
Reader Fred Hendricks wishes to be respectful of others’ privacy but isn’t quite sure how to go about it. He writes: I’m working on a just-for-fun movie in iMovie ’11 that I’m going to put on YouTube. In one scene you can see a car’s license plate in the background. Show More Summary
The Macalope Weekly: It's magic!
Yes, kids, in just three easy lessons, you can make anything be about Apple! News about Samsung? No, it's about Apple! News about Facebook? No, it's about Apple! News about the scientific properties of magnetism? NO, IT'S ABOUT APPLE! Presto change-o Writing for The Motley Fool, Salvatore Mattera performs the ol' switcheroo. Show More Summary