This number, 10%, is not unrealistic, despite what others are claiming. In fact, this “analysis” by Apple Insider is consistent with claims by third-party iPhone software developers, who claim that they’ve had over 100,000 downloads of their respective software packages. This was back when Apple was purporting sales of just over 1,000,000 iPhones, which my [...]
It wasn’t that long ago that real “tech words” never entered Average Joe’s vernacular. These days, the dumb media, and in turn, Average Joe himself, misuses geek terminology like they’re reinventing a word from scratch. Case in point: the recent Apple-upgrades-iPhone-firmware fiasco, in which thousands of stupid iPhone users hacked their phones and didn’t think [...]
Those following my Twitter status know that I finally broke down and purchased an iPhone, with the obvious intent to unlock it for use on T-Mobile. After arguing with Maxator about the iPhone’s merits versus the upcoming iPod Touch, I sat down with what turned out to be a three-hour hack session that is now [...]
Synergy is an open-source, cross-platform application which allows one to control multiple computers with a single mouse and keyboard. It is among a handful of applications commonly used by multiboxers for online computer games, as mentioned in my own foray into multiboxing. One key feature that the basic Synergy distribution does not include, however, is [...]
With iPhones already out in the wild, albeit in small numbers, I am positively amazed that no reports have drifted through major Apple blogs about attempts to use the iPhone on T-Mobile’s network. Apparently, the horribly locked phone requires activation with its included SIM card to work even on AT&T’s network, so it’s quite evident [...]