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- iPhone 2.0 software available now
- MacRumors has decoded Apple's XML files and found a way to get the iPhone 2.0 software right now.Unfortunately, this trick doesn't work for the iPod touch. Perform a full sync of your iPhone Check Software Update and install iTunes 7.7. Download the new firmware image...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple iPod, Apple iPod Touch, Apple iTunes, Backups, Consumer Electronics, Digital Media, Digital Music, jason D. O'Grady, MacRumors, Management, Personal Technology, Tools & Techniques, Software
- Blog posts 2008-07-10
- Rumor Mill: iSight HD, new Intel chips, iPod touch 2G, patents (updated)
- Happy Friday! Let's take a look at some of the latest Apple rumors floating around. A MacRumors reader found references to an unreleased High Definition USB iSight in Apple's QuickTime system files. The line says "Next Generation USB iSight" in QuickTime's localizable.strings and also carries a reference...
- Tags: 2G, Apple Inc., Apple iPod, Apple iPod Touch, Apple iSight, Camera, Chip, Consumer Electronics, Digital Media, Digital Music, Hardware, Intel Corp., jason D. O'Grady, MacBlogz, Network Technology, Networking, Patent, Personal Technology, Semiconductors, Apple iPhone
- Blog posts 2008-06-20
- Getting pumped with your iPhone (or iPod)
- PumpOne has announced a partnership with Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide's new lifestyle brand, aloft hotels – portable personal trainers for road warriors. The service is designed for tech-savvy aloft hotel guests aloft hotels is Starwood's eighth hotel lifestyle brand and opens its doors to guests this...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Guest, Business Structures, Hotel, Workout, Workforce Management, Apple iPhone, Apple iPod, Handhelds, Finance, Hardware, Human Resources, PumpOne
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- Liveblogging: Apple's Q2 2008 financial results
- In a conference call today with analysts, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) discussed financial results of the second fiscal quarter of 2008 which runs from 01 January – 31 March 2008. Apple's revenue was up 43 percent year-over-year. The company posted revenue of US$7.51 billion and...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Sales Strategy, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, Revenue, Growth, Sales Force Management, Operational Accounting, Apple iPod, Finance, Financial, Sales
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
- Minimize TDMA interference with iPhone dock extender
- Getting tired of the GSM interference from iPhone any time it's near a pair of speakers? Me too. It's called "TDMA Interference" and it's an unavoidable side effect of how GSM phones work. It doesn't happen with CDMA phones (i.e. Verizon), but nearly all GSM phones including...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, TDMA, Apple iPhone, Speaker, Apple iPod, Cellular Phones, Phone, Consumer Electronics, Dock Extender Cable, Personal Technology, RadTech, TDMA Interference
- Blog posts 2008-04-16
- iPhone shock therapy
- Ever get a shock from your iPod or iPhone? I've been getting shocks now and then and they're not pleasant. Apparently I'm not the only one. There's a couple of posts about iPod shocks on Apple's discussion forums and it's been mentioned in other forums [1, 2] as well. Hardy...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Shock, Apple iPhone, Apple iPod, Headphone, Digital Music, Digital Media, Therapy, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Blog posts 2008-04-01
- Circumventing iPod's FairPlay DRM
- One of the first complaints you'll hear from new iPod owners is that they can't (edit: automatically) sync their new toy with more than one computer or that they can't sync more than one iPod with one computer. Stop by any Genius Bar and you'll hear this common refrain. ...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Apple iPod, Apple iTunes, Digital Music, Digital Media, Software, Consumer Electronics, FairPlay DRM, Personal Technology, TUAW
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
- iTunes 8 needs subscriptions and rentals
- In case you've been living under a rock lately, nearly every mobile phone sold today includes some sort of a music/media player. There's no escaping the incessant ads as we approach Christmas. In light of Adam L. Penenberg 's recent article for Fast Company I can't help...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Apple iTunes, Apple Inc., Video Rental, Movie, Apple iPod, Music, Digital Music, Digital Media, Video, Corporate Communications, Consumer Electronics, Marketing, Personal Technology
- Blog posts 2007-12-05
- Handicapping Macworld Expo San Francisco '08
- Now that Thanksgiving is behind us, that can only mean one thing. It's time to start handicapping the SuperBowl of Macdom known as Macworld Expo San Francisco. Let me get me something off my chest: "Macworld" has a lowercase "w" (It's not "MacWorld.") And while we're at...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Apple Inc., Macworld Expo, Apple iPod, Apple Macintosh, Apple iPhone, Desktops, Digital Music, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Hardware, Personal Technology
- Blog posts 2007-11-27
- Poor iPod touch battery life (updated 2x)
- I'm always leary of manufactures claims of battery life, my rule of thumb is to cut what the manufacturer says in half. Apple claims that the iPod touch gets "up to" 22 hours of audio playback time and "up to" 5 hours of video playback time when...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Battery, Apple iPod Touch, Engineering, Apple iPod, Battery Life
- Blog posts 2007-10-25
- iJailBreak for iPod Touch
- After iPhone firmware 1.1.1 succumbed to hackers last week, you knew that it wouldn't be long before the the iPod touch suffered the same fate. iJailBreak 0.2.1 was written by 13-year-old hacker AriX and is based on Niacin and Dre's tiff exploit and iPHoneUtilityClient iPhuc. iJailBreak is the first automated...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Apple iPod Touch, Apple iPod, Digital Music, Digital Media, Hacking, Consumer Electronics, iJailBreak 0.2.1, Personal Technology, Security
- Blog posts 2007-10-15
- Add/edit calendars coming to iPod touch?
- If this post on MacRumors forums is to be believed Apple plans to add the ability to add and edit calendars on the iPod touch. David J. Early sent an email to Steve Jobs complaining about a few features that are missing from the iPod touch (full-resolution...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Apple iPod Touch, Apple iPod, E-mail, Game, Digital Music, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Online Communications, Personal Technology
- Blog posts 2007-10-08
- New iPods unboxed and dissected
- You knew this was coming. It has become a ritual with new Apple products. Upon arrival, copious photographs are taken of the new product's packaging and invariably someone throws their warranty to the wind and cracks the case to take even more photographs of the innards. ...
- Tags: Apple iPod, Photograph, iLounge, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2007-09-07
- Apple updates iPod lineup; touch, nano and shuffle (Updated 10x)
- Apple CEO Steve Jobs used today's "The beat goes on" media event in San Francisco to announce the iPod touch. It's basically an iPhone without the phone and email. It's a full screen iPod that's 8mm thick with almost all of the features of the iPhone–except the annual...
- Tags: Apple iPod, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, iTunes WiFi Music Store, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2007-09-07
- Handicapping Apple's September 5 Event
- It's official. Apple has sent out invitations to a media event to be held on September 5, 2007. The invitation's slogan "The beat goes on" and iPod graphic don't leave much to the imagination as to what the company will announce. The real question is...
- Tags: Apple iPod, Apple Inc., Invitation, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2007-08-29
- Safari Bookmarks on the iPhone desktop
- Let me start out by saying that I am not an iPhone hacker. I haven't even using iFuntastic to tweak my ringtones. I'm deathly scared of bricking my iPhone, which I need to make phone calls and send emails, so I hack vicariously.That being said, one iPhone feature I've wanted...
- Tags: Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2007-08-20
- 6G iPod user interface leaked; it's not like iPhone
- According to a MacRumors video since removed at the request of Apple legal the new iPod interface will look stylish and more graphical - but nothing like iPhone, as most have predicted. Most people figured that the next iPod would simply be iPhone, sans the phone part. But would it...
- Tags: Leak, iPod, iPhone
- Blog posts 2007-07-23
- How to get video onto your iPhone (and iPod)
- One thing that I've been remiss at using on iPhone is video. With the exception of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (which I purchased for "reaserch" when the iTunes Store began selling movies) and an episode each of 30 Rock and The Dave Chappelle Show my iPods and...
- Tags: Video, iTunes Store, iTunes, iPod, iPhone Diary, iPhone
- Blog posts 2007-07-13
- iPhone Diary Day 7: Argh! accessories
- Apple's been pretty straight with us from the beginning about iPhone accessories. They said that some accessories will work, but others - especially those that send a signal, like FM transmitters, or that receive a signal, like voice recorders - will not.With those pre-qualifications in mind I was eager to...
- Tags: Music, iPhone Diary, iPhone, Accessory
- Blog posts 2007-07-05
- The iPod that you can drive over
- File this one in the "extreme gadgets" department. Over the weekend I managed to drive over my iPod. With my car. Sadly, I didn't do it on purpose.One of the best things about the second generation aluminum iPod shuffle is its diminutive size. One of the worst things about the...
- Tags: Flash, Hardware, iPod
- Blog posts 2007-05-29
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