Big money for iPhone developer start-up

iPhone start up Tapulous says its sales have grown to almost $1,000,000/Month for iPhone application sales.  Apparently a lot of iPhone users are tap tapping away.  Tapulous credits there revenues to application sales, ad revenues, and direct downloads of songs.  Anyone know an iPhone developer?

Check out the full article at Reuters.

Wanna know why Apple is designed so well?

Here is a video clip from "Objectified" an industrial design documentary.  In the clip, Jonathan Ive, Apple's chief designer, discusses the thoughts and details that go into making a few Apple products.  You can really tell the passion and thought that is put into every aspect of what they sell.  Even as I type this blog entry on my Mac book Pro, I can feel and see the difference in engineering over my Dell laptop.  If you have never experienced an Apple product, go on down to the Apple store in a mall near you.

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techTIMMY reviews the Apple Magic Mouse

Here is my video review/unboxing on Apple's new magic mouse.  As with most things Apple, this mouse is very well out together.  The features are all game changes and its not bad a a point and click device either.

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techTIMMY.net Unboxing: Apple's 15" Macbook Pro

After a very long waiting period, I finally got a 15" Macbook Pro and I wanted to show you an unboxing.  Apple's packaging has always been a step above the rest and this unit was no exception.  I am always impressed by Apple products overall fit and finish.

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Blackberry Desktop Manager for Mac's Available October 2nd.

The long awaited release of Blackberry's Desktop Manager for Mac will finally be here this Friday October 2nd. As proven in a recent article in Fortune Magazine, Blackberry is still the leader in corporate devices, even among mac users.  This is especially true in the self employed space where users own Macs but carry a Blackberry for its image of "business swagger."  Thankfully these individual no longer have to wait.  If I am honest, PocketMac wasn't all bad because it certainly let me sync contacts.  However, desktop manager is going to be even better because it should allow for tethering for internet sharing.  Enjoy...

Getting Fat: Theres an app for that!

Pizza hut has created an application for all you not yet greasy fingered iPhone users out there. Someone please email me when you have downloaded the app and ordered a pizza. Better yet, invite me over for some pepperoni and cheese. BTW, apparently you get 20% off if you use the app.

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Funny Apple Steve Jobs Keynote Montage

This truly depicts the way Apple keynotes go. Totally hilarious and totally funny.

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Mac OSX Snow Leopard Now Available! Enjoy

Snow Leopard now available for $29 to OSX users. Go get you some.

Mac OSX - Snow Leopard: Available August 28th.

GOOD NEWS! Apple's long awaited update to OSX will soon be yours for the downloading. By my calculations thats about a month early. If you are unfamiliar with the improvements this great update is going to bring, check out my early blog with all the lovely details.

You Too Can Be a YouTube Star?

This kids makes all of his videos from the web cam on a Mac in the Apple store. Not only is he totally funny for doing this, he is actually pretty good. I love to watch the people's reaction behind him when he is dancing. This kids got ingenuity for sure.

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Could this be the Apple "iPad"?

Photos and video(of a photo) have emerged of another rumored Apple iPad. The rumor mills are certainly in a frenzy so we will have to see what Apple comes up with. Most sources are saying the geniuses at Apple will announce sometime in September for a 2010 launch.

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Apple ups the anti with 2TB time capsule

Apple's Time Capsule is not just a hard drive. Its a wireless networking tool that allows you to wireless backup your data, while sharing it over your network, and linking up USB printers.

The best news isn't the 2TB version for $499, its the price drop in the 1TB version to $299.

Here are some of the top features for both:

1.) Automatic backup with Time Machine.
2.) Easy wireless networking.
3.) Simultaneous dual-band Wi-Fi.
4.) Guest networking.
5.) Wireless drive sharing.
6.) Print without wires.

Tom Tom App and Mount for iPhone.

Here is a video of a fantastic mount for the iPhone, and what from what I can see of the app, it looks pretty good as well. The mount seems to really make the iPhone into a proper gps unit, without having to luge around the second device. I haven't seen the figures on the app or the car unit, but as long as it's not insane, I would say its a good buy.

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Augmented Reality App Comes to Apple iPhone: Not just Android anymore

I have posted several cool augmented reality apps for Android handsets, and since the iPhone 3GS comes with an internal compass, we knew it would happen soon on iPhone. So here is the self proclaimed "First augmented reality app for iPhone."

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Zagat App For Android: Proof Android Rocks

You may remember the recently posted Wimbledon app for Android based phones. The application was created for Android phone users to be able to find their way around the events at Wimbledon. Now a similar app has been made to allow you to find Zagat rated restaurants/businesses. These are the kinds of application we expect from Android developers and they leave most apps in their dust.

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iPhone 3.0 Software Update Availble Today?

If you have an iPhone, you are going to want to keep clicking the refresh button on Apple's iPhone page.

According to their site the recently released iPhone 3.0 software update should be available to download today.






Here is a list of what you will get:

Cut, Copy & Paste

Quickly and easily cut, copy, and paste text from application to application. Select entire blocks of web text with a tap. Copy and paste images from the web, too.

Landscape Keyboard

Want more room to type? Rotate iPhone to landscape to use a larger keyboard in Mail, Messages, Notes, and Safari.

MMS

Send MMS messages and include video, photos, audio, and contact info.² Even tap to snap a picture or shoot a video right inside Messages.MMS support from AT&T coming in late summer.

Spotlight Search

Find what you’re looking for across your iPhone, all from one place. Spotlight searches all of your contacts, email, calendars, and notes, as well as everything in your iPod.

Voice Memos

Capture a memo, a meeting, or any audio recording on the go. Voice Memos works with the built-in iPhone microphone or with the mic on your headset.

Improved Calendar

Create meetings via Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync and subscribe to calendars with new CalDAV support.

Buy Movies, TV Shows, and Audiobooks

Download movies, TV shows, music videos, and audiobooks from the iTunes Store on your iPhone.³

Enhanced Stocks App

Get more at-a-glance information and view charts in landscape.

Safari Improvements

Enjoy faster performance, autofill user names and passwords, and more.

Internet Tethering

Share your Internet connection with your laptop with Internet tethering via Bluetooth or USB.⁴4. Tethering is not currently offered in the U.S. and some other countries. See your carrier for availability.

Stereo Bluetooth

Connect compatible Bluetooth stereo headphones, car kits, or other accessories.

Automatic Wi-Fi Login

Log in to a Wi-Fi hotspot and iPhone automatically logs you in when you connect again.

Sync Notes

Never leave a note behind. Now you can sync all the notes you write on your iPhone back to your Mac or PC.

Parental Controls

Decide what music, videos, and apps your kids can access.

iTunes Store Account

Create and log in to one or more iTunes Store accounts directly from your iPhone.⁵

YouTube Login

Log in to your YouTube account to save and sync bookmarks and rate favorites.

Shake to Shuffle

Give iPhone a shake and it shuffles to a different song in your music library.

New Languages

iPhone supports 30 languages and more than 40 keyboard layouts.

MobileMe Find My iPhone and Remote Wipe

Find your iPhone if you lose it and protect your privacy with Remote Wipe.

Run the Latest Apps

Run the next generation of iPhone apps, like peer-to-peer games¹ and more.

...as always, tell me what you think.

Mac OS X Snow Leapard: Windows Just Got More Lame

One of the many announcements from WWDC (Apple's developer conference), was the details and release of their latest software upgrades for MAC.

As if Apple software wasn't already good enough, now it will be, "better, faster, easier" and oh yeah take less room then the current version.

Here is a list of some of the improvements from Apple's website:

1.) More responsive finder - 1.7x faster PDF refresh, 1.4x faster JPG refresh.
2.) Quicker time machine backup - 50% faster backup times.
3.) Faster wake, shut down, and join wireless networks - 2x faster wake up, 1.75x faster shut down, 1.55x faster join wireless networks.
4.) Faster upgrade - 45% faster upgrade from Leopard.
5.) Smaller footprint - Frees up 6GB of space on your hard drive over Leopard.
6.) New Quicktime application - Cleaner, less cluttered look and feel.
7.) Chinese character input - Draw them right on the Multi-Touch trackpad in your Mac notebook
7.) New iChat application - 4x the resolution of the previous version.
8.) Faster more powerful Safari - 50% faster java script performance.
9.) More reliable disk eject.
10.) The list go on and on.

Whoa, at this point if you are a MAC user, you should be jumping up and down. If you are reading this on your PC, you might want to wipe the spit of your screen and head on down to the Apple store. The upgrade should be available in the "September" time frame at a cost of $29. Will it be worth it. Absolutely.

...as always, tell me what you think.

Apple Netbook would be killer and right on time

Its just like apple to come right over top of the progress that technologist have made, and come out with something completely show stopping. What with Verizon signing on to subsidize an HP netbook and the popularity of all tiny lap babies growing, it seems fitting for the folks at Apple to bring the pain. Ok, so I am an obvious Apple fan but lets face it, they make a great product. Many people out there say they wont bring a netbook to the market. Instead, they say it will be a tablet (think larger iPod touch.) I say it doesn't matter. Something bigger than an iPod touch but smaller than the mac book air would be a sure hit. The iPod touch is a great device and for the most part it really does have alot of good uses, but small screen size really limits its mass apeal in the laptop market.

Check out a couple examples of what people are thinking it may look like:





As with everything, we will have to wait and see what they actually come up with. But if Apple acts as they normally do, it won't fall short of awesome.

...as always, tell me what you think.

God Bless Apple...No really

I was watching TV last night, as I often do, and was totally amazed by the "PC hunting commercial below.



Did she say that a PC with a "faster" processor was better at video editing than a mac? Someone should tell her a little bit about Unix.

But thankfully Apple responded. Lets see if someone disputes the allegations in the ad below...I think not.

"I got a brick in the box"

Check out this article from Gizmodo...

If you are even a little bit "techie", you can imagine how that guy must have felt. Sitting at his house constantly refreshing the FedEx website. Just waiting for that new Mac Book to arrive. Then in a frenzy of box tape and packing peanuts, he finds....A BRICK!!!

If that's not enough, Best Buy and Apple are squabbling about who's fault it actually was. I want to know how the warehouse clerk managed to sneak the brick in and the Mac Book out. I guess the guys should be happy it was a giant poo or something.

Anyone else have a crazy shipping story like that?

...as always, tell me what you think.