Top-10 User Testimonials for Apple’s iCloud
icloud suck ass from hell
Top 7 Ways to Tell If Your Apple Store is Fake
It’s all over the news. Fake Apple stores getting shut down… even in NYC. So let’s help each other, right? It can be difficult to tell a real from a fake. So let’s empower you with some Consumerist-like tips to help on your next trip to the Apple store: Look to see how Apple is…
A World With Free Hardware (Google/Motorola)
Why did Google buy Motorola Mobility? For the patents, or in preparation for a world where hardware, like software, is free and ad supported? This is a tricky thing to consider in the Mac Era where, “Apple needs people to congregate around a very small number of designs–phones that are placed on altars, so that…
Why Old Spice Is Killing Social Media in 2011
Okay first check out this top-10 list of social-media marketing fails and wins. I just happened to find the Canadian article titled “Top 10 social media hits and misse in 2010,” and my own video hiding in it. Can you find it? Yeah that’s me as the press secretary for Tony Hayward. The accent is fake….
Facetime and DVD Players in Cars
I’ll bet you thought this would be a post about Apple’s Facetime (glorified video-conferencing via a wireless network but not carrier). Maybe you expected people to be Facetiming via the DVD players in their car. Oh contrair. You get a free mini-MBA lecture in high-tech marketing with a few topical references. If you’re an MBA…
Time To Kill AVCHD (and Tanbee Converter)
Prescript added post hoc: Thanks to Jeff and Jimmer (see comments) for useful tips on solving the AVCHD problems, including this Panasonic white paper. I found this Panasonic white paper about AVCHD and iMovie too. Sony and Panasonic invented a video format called “AVCHD” and I would like now to proclaim it dead. I remember…
Phone-Driven Television Arrives
Ladies and gentlemen I present the future of The Boob Tube: we shift from our cable boxes and laptops to… HDTV viewing driven by words you search via your exo-brain (you need to stop calling it a phone, or else it’s going to get a complex). Yes your phone is your remote, and your television…
AppleTV vs. iTV vs. Roku vs. TiVo vs. WTF?
I’m a long-time advocate of the AppleTV, and intrigued enough by the iTV that I’ve got one on route. So what’s the difference, you ask? First check out Ryan/NewTeeVee’s coverage of AppleTV vs. Roku vs. Boxeee. Liz/NewTeeVee provides more in-depth coverage of the AppleTV/iTV. So there’s no iTV. It’s just a new version of AppleTV,…
Apple’s iTV: Using Evil Powers to Help The Little Guy?
What do Apple’s iTV, the A-Team, Leverage and Burn Notice have in common? Read on… It’s been rumored that a $99 iTV may soon launched, and Bloomberg is reporting Apple “has a few content deals in the works that will allow iTunes users to rent TV shows for 99 cents” (via Technolog). Most Applephilaholics are…
iPhone4G Press Conference Parody
Oh hush. What it lacks in humor it makes up for in timeliness. Let’s see you put an iPhone4G in your butt for the Internet. Or drive into the backyard of some crazy person so you can get near a cell phone tower. My favorite quote of Steve Jobs: .55 percent of iPhone4G users complained….