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Remember what Apple did to music retail? Well, it’s about to happen again with books. Last night Amazon released an iPhone app for called Kindle for iPhone. While the Kindle 2 (which was just released last month) costs $359. The Kindle app for iPhone is free! Now, anyone with an iPhone can tap into Amazon’s [...]

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The late 90s wasn’t so long ago. . . [Link: Boingboing]

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Apple makes it sound so easy to migrate from one computer to another. So when I bought my new MacBook Pro at the Apple store I thought I’d just bring it home, plug it in to my old Mac Mini and be done with it all in an hour. In reality, it would be more [...]

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I’m kind of bummed on this screaming Trevor Graves review of the new Canon G10. I wanted one, but now. . . not so sure. Since it’s nearly impossible to hear what the faux-irrate Trevor is saying, here it is: I was so stoked on the G9 to see the G10s coming out I pre-ordered [...]

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From all the cheerleading I do for Apple, it would seem that I buy Apple products all the time. Not true. I have only purchased three Apple Computers in my life: an original Powerbook 100 , a Beige G3 and almost four years ago a G4 Mac Mini. Today, I finally broke down and bought [...]

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In July we bought a new 3G AT&T wireless modem card for the Macbook thinking it would be a great for the three weeks we’d be spending in the mountains with no Internet connection. For $60 a month, the card offered “high-speed” 3G connection to the Internet when in the service area. And, if we [...]

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Steve is obviously alive and kickin’ however, it appears that the market doesn’t care all that much as Apple stock lost nearly $5 on the news. [Link: Gizmodo]

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The crew at Appleinsider have found the latest patent filings from Apple that outline some new details on a potential “tablet computer” that may or may not be released at the end of September (pictured left). It reminded me of the first laptop I bought at Radio Shack back in 1985 (pictured right). That TRS-80 [...]

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B&H Photo is now showing the Canon G9 as discontinued. The camera that every pro photog says is the best point and shoot digi in the world is getting scarce, at exactly the time I thought I’d check it out. Happens all the time. Guess I’ll have to wait a while and see what Canon [...]

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On the conference call this afternoon (which ended at 3:05 PM PST) Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer broke down outrageously solid numbers for Apple. Revenue was up 38% vs. 07. In the first six months of 08 total revenue are up $4.3 billion compared to the first six months of 07. Normally, a company reporting these [...]

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