TechCrunch has reported that Apple has rejected an app for reading Sony’s eBooks because the app isn’t using Apple’s own in-app purchasing system to sell users the books. Previously, Apple’s stance has been that you can’t implement in-app purchases yourself in your own apps because that would be circumventing Apple’s entitlement to a 30% cut,…

This old gem is from back in the days when I was passionate enough about stuff to care enough to write blog posts explaining why OS X is the best OS. I’ve grown up a bit and am now lazy enough that if someone truly believes that their non-OS X operating system is better, then…

I’m periodically filling my blog up with old posts from the days when I was doing Facebook notes. Since the iPad was introduced a year ago this week, I thought I’d take a stroll back to the nostalgic time when I reviewed my iPad. iPad: the new face of computing April 6, 2010 at 9:35…

When Verizon announced the Verizon iPhone, they said that data plan pricing would be announced at a later time.  When that was said, I was expecting the worst, figuring that they were going to put the axe on unlimited 3G data plans and didn’t want to leave a bad taste in would-be customers’ mouths on…

I have traditionally held a relatively high level of respect for iFixit, a web site dedicated to the repair of your iProducts, providing parts and manuals for just about every Apple product made this side of the year 2000.  I gained even more respect for them about a month ago, when they announced their quest…

I’ve known about Evernote since its early days, and after seeing it evolve quite a bit, I started using it myself back in 09.  In the almost two years I’ve been using it, I’d like to pay tribute to how it’s changed how I collect information and reflect a bit on the things it could…

Just got done reading Jason Biggs’s Verizon iPhone related predictions (this is assuming that there even is a Verizon iPhone; I’m not totally convinced it’ll happen before 2012), and he’s predicting a very AT&T-sympathetic picture of what it will be like when Verizon gets the iPhone.  I really disagree: First, expect iPhone sales to surpass…

Edit: I regret my choice of words in this post (and in the title in particular); I wasn’t writing with my own voice; I was using the style of another popular blogger who was active around this time (not saying that I was writing this as a satire or parody; I literally was just that…

I have to say that I feel like the gay rights movement has come a long ways when the so-called “most hated family in America” is the Phelps clan of Topeka, Kansas.  For those unfamiliar, they’re these guys: What’s remarkable about this family is that they take gay hating so far, that nobody will even…

“Oh no he di’n’t!” I was having a civil conversation with some guy who was trying to explain to me how Apple would do much better business if they made cheaper computers (apparently in his universe Dell was kicking Apple’s ass in revenues, profit margins, and total cash on hand) and then he went and…