In what may be the most pretentiously titled session yet, I joined a great panel of Mac and technology pundits for the latest installment of Chuck Joiner’s MacJury podcast. We discussed Apple’s financials for a bit, then launched into our thoughts on what should be next on the feature list of the iPhone. (Voice dialing [...]

I use a VoIP service from AT&T called CallVantage for my home phone. One of the services features is that it sends voicemail as a .wav attachment to my email address. Unfortunately, my iPhone could never play the type of .wav the service creates, meaning I could see that I had a voice message, but [...]

MobileMe customers are getting a note from Apple regarding the shaky transition to MobileMe services. As an apology for the transition trouble, the company is extending all MobileMe subscriptions by one month. I love the straightforwardness of this line, the second sentence in the letter: “Unfortunately, it was a lot rockier than we expected.” The [...]

Back when this was a full-fledged journalistic endeavor — a real news site, if you will — things like re-designs and the development of additional features took place on a development server — behind the curtain, if you will. Now that we’re “just” a blog, though, I have no hesitation to do these things right out [...]

After finally getting my iPhone re-activated (thanks to the free WiFi at the Livingston, NJ public library), I spent much of yesterday examining the new features of iPhone 2.0 and happily downloading apps from the App Store. The new iPhone OS is impressive, full of wonderfully polished touches and new features. One that I didn’t know [...]

I was too busy patting myself on the back for realizing I could update my iPhone’s firmware from my company Mac (rather than my home machine, where the iPhone is “registered,”) that I completely missed the possibility that my corporate firewall might block access to the Apple servers necessary to re-activate the phone. (It did.) Until [...]

It's starting out as a day of fits and starts for Apple's new mobile computing-related releases. The company's Mac.com service went down last night, as scheduled and it's replacement, MobileMe, has poked its virtual head up a few times, but was not up as of this writing. Also out: iTunes 7.7, which enables the Apps Store, and the iPhone 2.0 updater -- but not officially. (Don't worry, we'll tell you where you can find it.)

In a post for TUAW, Erica Sadun focuses mostly on the unlocking prospects of the iPhone 3G, but comes to the same conclusion I did. "The 3G iPhone that goes on sale Friday, represents nothing more than last year's iPhone--that finally got delivered a year late." Shawn King also nails it in a post on Twitter: "I think 3G is for those who don't already own one. Next model for those of us who own the original." Amen to both.

I get quite a bit of comment spam on the postings here. Because of the way the site is set up, not much of it gets through. I’m frequently amused, though, at some of the tactics the spammers use to try to get their posts on the site. A lot have taken to pulling words [...]

Spot on analysis by Macworld’s Peter Cohen about what’s likely to happen to iPhone developers who think just putting their software on the iApps store will magically make everyone flock to it.