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How to Turn an iPhone Off

Looks like the best phone ever made has a big usability issue! An iPhone owner went on a cruise, and came home to a $4800 iPhone bill from AT&T. It turns out that he thought he turned the phone off when he hit the power button, but it was actually still on and checking email.
When [...]


Apple TV’s Niche Market

Last year, I predicted that Apple TV was going to fail. While I still may be right, my thoughts on the device have changed dramatically.
This weekend, I was listening to the latest UIE podcast (SpoolCast Crew Episode #6) and the panel was talking about Apple TV’s failure. The group cited the obvious reasons (it’s not [...]


iMovie ‘08 Doesn’t Support Importing QuickTime Files

This really makes me scratch my head.
As a proud MacBook owner, I shelled out the $71 (.edu discount) for iLife ‘08 right after it was announced at the Apple Special Event last week. I really like the new iPhoto. Unfortunately, iMovie ‘08 would crash every time I launched it. I discovered that this was due [...]


Twitter, Twitteroo, Twitterrific!

Twitter is the latest craze on the Internet, from the same people who brought us Odeo. The premise of Twitter is that you are constantly answering one simple question: “What are you doing?” It seems everybody has their own description of what Twitter is. I see it as live blogging; it is somewhere between the [...]


iPhone. I’m not getting one, but it’s a step in the right direction.

I had a 5-day intensive course at Bentley this past week, so this post has been in the works since Steve Jobs’ MacWorld keynote on January 9th. On that day, Apple released the iPhone, Apple TV (formerly known as iTV), and an updated Airport Extreme Base Station.
There are three major problems with the iPhone. Most [...]


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