jpmist

Member since: Jul 9th, 2005

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MobileMe may be Apple's least "green" product, packaging-wise (TUAW.com)

Oct 29th 2010 2:14PM Let's bash Apple over something even more important. Exporting their manufacturing to China.

Apple has well over $40 billion in cash. For that they could have contracted manufacturing by US employees and still made a healthy profit.

AT&T offers free WiFi for iPhone users (TUAW.com)

May 1st 2008 12:53PM This works in Atlanta, also.

You can use your laptop, too. Fire up Safari, enable the "Developer" menu. Go to it and select "User Agent" > "Mobile Safari - iPhone" and AT&T will think it's an iPhone.

Leopard: will it blend? (Engadget)

Oct 27th 2007 9:23PM Biggest glitch I had was that my external Firewire drive would no longer work. Error message said the disk was unusable and I could copy off it, but not to it. Disk copy couldn't fix it, bad header or something. Tried it on my G4 laptop I hadn't upgraded yet and it worked perfectly with Disk Copy giving it a clean bill of health.

Now I have to find room to copy off all the files on the Firewire drive and reformat it. Thanks, Jobsie. . .

Download Squad's Invite-a-palooza: Day 7 (Download Squad)

Aug 1st 2007 1:53PM I'll bite, gimme. . .

iPhone: Prepay the right way (TUAW.com)

Jul 15th 2007 10:09AM IT DOESN"T WORK

I tried the 999-99-9999 SS# Saturday morning. It's Sunday and my phone is still a paperweight.

ATT caught on and when they detect a bogus SS# you get a message in iTunes stating that "Your activation requires additional time to complete" iTunes will send you an email stating the same thing.

At this point you're absolutely stuck until "iPhone activation support sends you an email with a 14 letter activation code that you have to call ATT and submit. I tried to call and have the whole thing cancelled, but you don't officially exist so they can't help you.

The activation code you have to give them basically rats you out as having put in an invalid SS# and for me that's where all hell broke lose. 5 ATT droids and 3 dropped transfers later I got some lady in Canada who spent 90 minutes trying to register my account with my 'fessed up SS#. My first impression with ATT was not a good one and I pray I'll never need them ever again.

I didn't get the email with my phone number until 4 hours later and three hours after that I got the link from ATT to finish activating the phone. Which I can't do cause it's Sunday and ATTs activation is down for maintenence until 3:00PM

Moral of the story is, they figured it out and it's not worth trying anymore cause it will FUBAR the whole process.

TUAW, you'd be doing your readers a service if you posted an update. You're the 4th google hit for "iphone activation prepay" so be a doobie and set the record straight and save a lot of people a lot of headache.

Top 10 Apple flops (TUAW.com)

Mar 27th 2007 9:35PM As far as Cyberdog, I bristle a bit at reading it being called a flop. It was very good at what it did and I hated it when it got abandoned. For it's time even it's slogan was cool, "On the internet, no-one knows you're a dog." Hmm, well, I guess you had to be there. . .

iPod nanos get storage boost, aluminum bodies, and colors (TUAW.com)

Sep 12th 2006 4:02PM >Rob, don't take it so hard. . .

I love my silver Mini, even bought a second one for when my first crapped out (which it did) so I'm happy to see I can buy a new model and get the same durability I had with the Mini. Has Apple ever made a worst gaffe, making the original Nano's so fragile?

AppleInsider posts MacBook pictures (TUAW.com)

May 17th 2006 11:16AM Ditto the comment above on the Black smudgemagnet. It appears to be a matt finish that will look like hell after a weeks worth of grabing in and out of the laptop case. I couldn't tell if the black finish was sprayed or if the plastic itself was black. I can't imagine Apple would be stupid enough to paint a black coating over the standard white case cause scratches would be horrifyingly obvious. But then, given Apple's design philosophy with the iPods, maybe they don't really care. . .

I did like the thinness of it and the extra screen real estate. Not all that impressed with the glossy LCD which seemed no different that the regular ones.

I have a grouse about the keyboard in that the top of the keys are perfectly flat. Without the sculpting the older PBs have it's too easy for your fingers to slide sideways and hit an adjacent key instead.

What did impress me was the speed. Using the nearby 12" Powerbook to open iPhoto from the dock I counted about 8 icon bounces. The MacBook opened iPhoto nearly instantly. . .

Download Survivor, but not via iTunes (TUAW.com)

Feb 2nd 2006 9:36AM OK so I'm fighting the temptation to buy the video just to see if running the file thru ffmpegX would convert it to something less temporary. Anybody know?

The other hack I've used is to play the video to EyeTV while recording it, thus making a permanent file of it.

Where there's a will there's a way. . .

TUAW Tip: Quit applications using Application Switcher (TUAW.com)

Jan 30th 2006 12:37PM I'm one of those Mac users who far prefer using the trackpad than the keyboard so when I'm too lazy to 'command-q' I just go to the dock, hold the program icon down for a second and a popup menu will open offering you the option to quit.

What makes this even niftier is that it will offer the option to force quit a program that's non-responsive.