New number: I'd like to point out that I made a full year without an iPhone. Mostly out of sheer lack of cash and a super-great plan with Sprint (500 minutes, unlimited everything else for $32 a month), but none-the-less, I made it. A month ago, the Company told me that they'd no longer give me $50 a month for my $32 a month cellular plan, I knew it was time. I was going to have to switch over to the company plan on AT&T anyway, so the iPhone...

I picked up a Samsung Upstage at Best Buy last night. While the whole experience has been a nightmare, I can definitely not recommend this phone. I'm by no means a power-user, but when the battery runs dry after 3/4 of a day's work, you've got problems. I should have known when the salesman registered me on the Sprint network with a box with no phone. Let me tell you, it's a lot easier to get your number ported to a display phone than you'd think. We called Sprint,...

I was hoping to write today about this beautiful new camera I received yesterday. I was going to post wonderful pictures and talk about how wonderful my girlfriend is. You see, last week wasn't too good. I had my first wreck; sliding into the back of a girl on IH820 in Fort Worth. No one was hurt and the damage wasn't too severe, but it was still not the most pleasant experience I've ever had. I went to Lubbock this past weekend and had a nice visit with my family,...

"People haven't been willing to invest this much time and money or engineering in a store before," says the Apple CEO, his feet propped on Apple's boardroom table in Cupertino. "It's not important if the customer knows that. They just feel it. They feel something's a little different." And not just the architecture. Saks, whose flagship is down the street, generates sales of $362 per square foot a year. Best Buy (Charts) stores turn $930 - tops for electronics retailers - while Tiffany & Co. (Charts) takes in $2,666....

Merry Christmas Adam, Lee, Whitney, Elise, Kyle, Cayce, Patrick, Martha, Lauren, and Me! Here's hoping for an Apple phone! Apple's Keynote is at 9am PST....

A few days back, I was reading on TUAW about a new mac program called CrossOver that allows you to run Windows programs natively in OS X. I knew about these types of projects, most notable WINE (which this is based on), but didn't know they were close to being ready for prime-time. I downloaded CrossOver this morning and installed. Totally painless and worked from the start... the only problem is that I couldn't think of any Windows software I actually wanted to download. Goes to show you that OS...

It's Christmas, in the Summer again, for mac users. WWDC 2006 kicks off tomorrow with his Steveness giving the keynote at 1pm EST. Expect new mac's, maybe an ipod update, and a preview of 10.5....

It's another great day on the South Plains as a new mac user has joined the fray. Welcome, Whitney Sue Green, to the society! She received a beautiful MacBook Pro today; although I'm a little jealous that it's faster than mine. Wish I was there!...

The past few weeks have been a little overwhelming, I have to admit. I've been blessed beyond measure and given so many things. To recap, I'm going to culinary school in one of the most beautiful parts of the country; which happens to also be the best culinary school in the nation, and they wanted me. I've got a beautiful and wicked-smart girl who I see everyday, whose ability to mock me and correct my grammar rivals my own tendencies to do the same. So things are going well,...

Seriously, the man is a flippin' genius....

I thought the day would never come! It's looking like Tivo is FINALLY going to put out TivoToGo for mac! I'm betting there's an interface to make the video small-sized for the ipod with video (notice how I didn't say video ipod, because that's just plain wrong)....

everyone should wish their computer manufacturer were as smart as His Steveness. So what did Steve do instead? Well, it's often difficult to tell, with the man nearly always being at least one step ahead of the rest of us. But if I'm interpreting the jet trail correctly, his plan reads something like this: Think about what would have happened if, prior to the launch of the iPod, Steve had called in all the record labels and proposed the iTunes Music Store. When the labels got done laughing, they would...

mac humor. click to read the whole thing......

Something big is about to happen. iTunes 4.8 came out today with native support for video playback. As in, you can load all your movies into iTunes and it will open quicktime when it needs to. So I'm thinking either iTunes Movie Store or video iPod. Hopefully both....

Unlike Hoover who cannot cease the praise, I was undecided when I first played with the new Dashboard of Mac OS X Tiger. The default widgets weren't all that great, though visually pleasing. It was when I started digging around on the Tiger website that I found the ones that really interested me. I've got a widget that I drag files onto to automatically upload to my server. I've got a similar one that uploads to Flickr (which I'm using the heck out of). I've got one tracking my...

There's an ever-increasing number of us who can tell you without hesitating that Apple computers are a better value and a better bang for your buck than ANYTHING out on the market. We don't say this because we're Apple Zealots (which we are), but because it's true. Apple computers are expensive because they're top-of-the-line and this article points out that it's the same amount of money you'd end up spending on an Intel machine that doesn't work. It's beauty AND value, people. You know, this mythical friend of mine always...

Take a long, hard look at this picture and see if you can tell me what doesn't fit. The answer is buried in the comments....

Tiger arrivves on April 29th. Go look at the pictures of it and tell me that Steve Jobs isn't god....

I'd like to take a moment to welcome Lee Horn of Losing Brain Cells to the Mac family. Lee proudly received a Dual 1.8Ghz G5 today from Apple. Enjoy!...

The iBook could have never done this!...

Fabulous article in the NY Times today about the Genius Bar available at Apple Stores: The concept of a bar came to Mr. Johnson one night when he was thinking about the kind of environment Apple wanted to create in its stores. He said he was inspired by Four Seasons, the Ritz-Carlton and other hotels where service is paramount. "We believed you had to bring the people dimension back into retail," said Mr. Johnson, who joined Apple five years ago after 15 years at Target. "We thought, What about giving...

Today was a very, very good day. FedEX delivered unto me a 20" Apple Cinema Display and a Dual 1.8Ghz G5 PowerMac. The iBook has served me well, but will tempt fate with a new owner via eBay. So far, the new setup is superb. The "Power Tower" (as Adam and I call them) is wonderfully fast. I've yet to find anything that can slow it down. The Cinema Display is beyond awesome. I see colors and shades I never saw on the iBook. That's saying a lot, because Apple...

SO SEXY! I can't believe Apple brought back the Cube, well the 1/2 Cube! Now there is no reason not to own a mac. It's powerful and small and pretty, all for around $500. When was the last time you saw Bill Gates or Michael Dell make people as crazy as Steve Jobs can. It's like Christmas for Mac people. New flash-iPod, new iLife, new mac's....

It's just three days until Macworld San Francisco opens. It's a big time for mac users and lovers of style. Expected to be announced are a sub-$500 g4 mac, bigger iPod Mini's, a flash-based iPod, iLife '05, an iPhone made by Motorola, a new office suite, amongst others. It's going to be huge! So huge in fact, that they've announced new products, that would have usually gotten considerable time, early due to the numerous bid things they'll announce....

ITunes, the leader of the digital music services pack, has a catalog of over 700,000 songs -- but that's not nearly enough for Apple. To maintain its lead, the company is on a hunt to find exclusive music, everything from out-of-print singles in music company vaults to songs that have never been pressed onto a CD and even recordings from the estates of deceased artists. On the conference call about the first birthday of the iTunes Music Store, Jobs said that getting such songs online is one of the next...

A few months back, I wrote of my success with the Salling Clicker applescripts via Bluetooth on my iBook. (i realize 98% of you didn't understand any of that) Basically, on my cellphone, I can control my iBook. I can change songs, albums, watch movies, or even use the joystick on my Sony Ericcson T616 to control the mouse. Well, for the few Mac people out there, I have something else to recommend. Yellow Mug software is making some cool tools these days, but I think the best is the...

Moderator: Over the years, the media and analysts have always focused on market share. But although Mac market share is relatively small, Apple is profitable and is making products that affect the entire industry. Steve Jobs: Apple's market share is bigger than BMW's or Mercedes's or Porsche's in the automotive market. What's wrong with being BMW or Mercedes? Jobs is a brilliant man....

I'm sure most iPod owners are feeling the same way I am these days... I can't get enough music to satisfy my listening needs. I carry my iPod around with me all day on campus, I listen to my iBook whenever I'm home. When I'm downstairs, I'm either watching some television on Tivo or listening to some music via the Home Media Option on Tivo. I'm living a music-centric life, and I can't get enough music. Just this week I've purchased 4 cd's and acquired 5 others. My iPod is...

Kyle Lent is making the switch!! He's the proud owner of a 40gig iPod and soon an iBook G4. Now, when adam hoover and I watch kyle play, we'll sit and giggle when we see his iPod or iBook and talk about how even the rockstars have seen the light! I will say that it's about damn time Kyle, look at the music you like!! It's all not mainstream and it's all available from the iTunes Music Store. Good work!!...

Allow me for a moment to laugh hysterically at a new found love for my mac and cellphone. ........ Ok, I'm ready to explain why! A week ago, I got a new cellphone. Cingular has finally upgraded most of Texas to a GSM network and is offering phones that do more than just, you know, call people. I bought a sleek, sexy new Sony Erricson T616. It's beautiful and has a built-in digital camera. I still haven't figured out how to post the pictures to the PhoBlog from my phone,...

You've all heard me talk about the Apple iTunes Music Store... Well, now those of you still stuck in 1990 on Windows PC's can use it too! http://apple.com/itunes/ for the free download May I recommend Matt Nathanson's new album "Beneath These Fireworks" as your first download?...

In the past, I linked to an amazing article at Apple Matters about the iPod and how a sense of community is built through ownership. I simply posted a tidbit of the article and posted a link. This was July 5th. Today I received an email from the editor as follows: From: Date: Thu Oct 9, 2003 8:13:09 PM US/Central To: regan@somewherequiet.org Subject: please remove AppleMatters content While I appreciate that you must like AppleMatters I'd rather that you not take the content of one of our writers and publish...

I'm in the Apple store in Highland Park, TX and it's so amazing. James and Adam, you'd be in heaven here with me. They have entire video editing rigs set-up and demo's of everything the mac is used for. They don't have any G5's since they aren't shipping yet, but it's still very amazing. Don't worry, I'm taking pictures!!...

You know you do it. I find myself doing it all the time. I'm talking about the glance you take when walking by someone else with an iPod player. Need further explanation? Here's a scenario: You walk off your morning train and join the herd of fellow commuters as you walk into the hustle and bustle of the train station. You see a businessman, mid-30's bobbing, his head to music and walking just a few people in front of you. You walk a little faster, dodging and weaving until you...

You know you do it. I find myself doing it all the time. I'm talking about the glance you take when walking by someone else with an iPod player. Need further explanation? Here's a scenario: You walk off your morning train and join the herd of fellow commuters as you walk into the hustle and bustle of the train station. You see a businessman, mid-30's bobbing, his head to music and walking just a few people in front of you. You walk a little faster, dodging and weaving until you...

Welcome to the family, Mr. iPod!...

Welcome to the family, Mr. iPod!...

i'm sitting in my backyard with my iBook and my new wireless connection. sure it's not that practical, but it's so much more fun to be able to surf from wherever you want....

i'm sitting in my backyard with my iBook and my new wireless connection. sure it's not that practical, but it's so much more fun to be able to surf from wherever you want....

It's so painfully obvious that mac users are the most creative, intelligent people out there. Need proof? Do you like Jason Mraz? He uses an iBook; i found a picture of him with one here. Also, his music is amazing....

"good judgement comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgement" ~ Bill Gates I'm a complete Mac convert. I love this thing and it works like a charm. OSX is leagues above Windows and the included software is incredible. I love how all the main programs you use for media are built in. No third-party drivers to bring your system down. Viva iBook!...

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