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The Greatest iPhone App You Don’t Have

Friday, December 19th, 2008

Sometimes there are ideas, and then sometimes there are ideas that just have to be made. Over what I can only assume were geek beers, the idea for Purr was born and as of today can be obtained from the iTunes Music Store. Designed by our Guru of Everything™ Scott ...

Product Review for Griffin ClearBoost for iPhone

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

My iPhone now sports Griffin Technology’s ClearBoost, a protective polycarbonate case with a built-in antenna booster. I was the lucky recipient of a pre-launch product, and I’ve had a couple of days to test it out. If my iPhone could talk, I am sure it would be thanking Griffin for ...

DriveSavers Now Supports Data Recovery for iPhones

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

My favorite company for recovering hard drives, DriveSavers, now supports data recovery for the iPhone. I first wrote about DriveSavers back in May, 2006. They did an amazing job recovering my Macintosh hard drive after going through a horrible ordeal with another hard drive recovery company. In their release, they ...

How to Install iPhone Firmware 1.1.2 on iTunes

Friday, November 9th, 2007

Apple made their iPhone firmware update available to the public before making it available via iTunes. The file itself weighs in at 160MB and can be downloaded here: iPhone Firmware 1.1.2 The only problem has been the lack of information on how to install the giant file. Although many people ...

New Evidence of an Apple iPhone SDK

Friday, October 5th, 2007

This afternoon I received an announcement from the Apple Developer Connection announcing their upcoming Performance Tuning workshops. These intensive developer camps aren’t unusual – Apple hosted iPhone web development seminars this summer. However, the description for this one caught my eye. It read (emphasis mine): These 3-day workshops are designed ...

iPhone Owners Feeling Sore About Apple’s Price Drop Should “Share Their Story”

Thursday, September 6th, 2007

Yesterday, Apple announced an immediate and significant price reduction for the iPhone — down from $599 to $399. Normally, a price reduction like this would be good news, but not if you were an early adopter who purchased the phone within the last two months. In fact, that’s the rub. ...

iPhone Sudoku

Friday, July 6th, 2007

Ever since attending the iPhone development session at WWDC last month, I’ve been itching to build my first web site for Apple’s new device. Tonight I took some time off and set out to see what I could come up with. I gave myself a time limit: two hours. I ...

Live From the iPhone Launch in Nashville

Friday, June 29th, 2007

I’m updating this post with photos and more below… Four hours to go and I’m here at Green Hills Mall waiting patiently in line for an iPhone. I’m camped out on the floor next to Sharper Image. There’s about 150 people in line in front of me. The first guy ...