Eric

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iPhone photographers, get your Glif on with new tripod mount (TUAW.com)

Nov 28th 2010 12:30PM I have invested untold thousands into digital SLR gear and lenses. But as they say the best camera you have is the one you have with you. There are also a lot of cool photo apps on the iPhone that could benefit from a more steady shot, like hipstamatic, some of the HDR apps and as someone said earlier the time laps and video apps. I don't see many people lugging around a $500 manfroto tripod and a light kit for their phone but I do see them using one of the tabletop or cheap pocket tripods. The fact that it also doubles as a flip stand makes it worth buying. I know I will be getting one.

Is the new MacBook Air eating into iPad sales? (TUAW.com)

Nov 14th 2010 8:50AM maybe not $300 more but I would image the Air has much better margins. The iPad was designed to sell in huge volumes so they could make money with thinner margins.

Steve Jobs says hardly anyone was buying the Xserve (TUAW.com)

Nov 8th 2010 12:14PM I have a feeling you will see an announcement in January that Oracle will be providing OS X Server on Sun servers. With a "one more thing"... Apple's cloud service (mobile me), itunes store and mac app store has been using them for months now.

Xserve End Of Life: Some opinions and ideas about Apple's server strategy (TUAW.com)

Nov 8th 2010 9:45AM You could be right. But it may be Oracle / Sun providing the hardware and that could explain why Apple is not making its own Java binaries so they could all be provided by Oracle. That would be a huge boost for Mac in the enterprise. Would give huge credibility tot he mac platform as well as an alternative to linux running on Sun hardware. Maybe finally even see ZFS support on the mac.

Apple's Xserve hits end of life, order yours before Jan, 31 (TUAW.com)

Nov 5th 2010 11:49AM I was wondering the same but Apple has had sever software (and even server class "labeled" Macs) since the mid '90s. Just not a rack form factor. I think you will see more of a push in the workgroup area (maybe home entertainment applications or small businesses) and less true enterprise offerings. Apple has cut back in this area over the last several years, dropping their storage products (which never really performed that well) as well as dropping enterprise application development when they mothballed WebObjects. It is sad but most of the enterprise roots they brought over from NeXT are gone with the exception of OS X itself. Which, ironically, will probably succeed in the enterprise because it is a very interoperable client that plays pretty nice with any infrastructure and doesn't require mac os x server technology to get the most out of it.

Apple's Xserve hits end of life, order yours before Jan, 31 (TUAW.com)

Nov 5th 2010 11:38AM If you rack the MacPro it is only 4U (you do it on its side)... but that is irrelevant as the world is moving (actually has moved) to blade servers... now if apple had a blade system coming out that would be pretty interesting... heck even a big box with a bunch of mac mini motherboards in it would be kind of cool

Apple wins patents to MacBook Air, iChat, iPhone compass icon, more (TUAW.com)

Oct 20th 2010 9:27AM what is so special about the iPhone compass icon?

John Mellencamp is not an iPod fan (TUAW.com)

Aug 24th 2010 11:59AM It seems to be artists that have not released any new material (or at least commercially successful material) in awhile that suddenly become outspoken critics of (insert new technology boogie man here.) I suspect there is a clause in their contracts that say they have to be a RIAA spokes person if they can no longer produce music.

Seriously, most of the Beatles stuff was popular when released in mono or heard over an AM radio back in the 60s. The idea of re-mastering first appeared with CDs in the 80s as a selling point to get people to repurchase their libraries on a new medium. The reality was people simply liked the the new physical format and the lack of hiss they were getting from vinyl. Most of the time we listen to music in less than idea conditions e.g. While working, in our cars or walking on working out. Very few of us really put on a set of real headphones dim the lights and kick back in the leather chair for a evening of dark side of the moon. Though while traveling I do enjoy a few complete albums on the plane from some of my favorite artists even with the jet noise, lack of noise cancellation and limited dynamic range I can tell they are the Beatles.

Skype for iPhone gets iOS4 background multitasking in version 2.1 (TUAW.com)

Jul 22nd 2010 11:20AM They did it to prevent people form circumventing their changing for voip calls over 3G by tricking the app it to thinking it is on Wifi. Which at the moment can only be done on jail broken phones. Previous version just had a warning the first time it was launched but still worked.