Apple gives $100 to pre-price-cut iPhone buyers

Everyone who paid $599 for the 8GB iPhone up to 14 days before the price cut is due a $100 Apple in-store credit.
Apparently Apple received hundreds of emails from iPhone buyers who were upset about the price cut. Nice move of Apple, I would say, tough luck, that’s technology for you and guess what, things [...]

iPhone for Europe

There was no mentioning about it at IFA by either Apple or any of the EU operators present.
Rumor has it that there will be an announcement concerning the iPhone for Europe at the Apple Expo, starting 30 September.
At yesterday’s event, SJ announced that they will stop the 4GB version and lower the price of the [...]

Apple’s 5 September Media Event: The beat goes on. LIVE

Blog post will be updated as the event evolves. Stay tuned, ie. reload this page every few minutes please. Newest at the top.

Fin. Now I’m torn of course between the 8GB iPhone and the 16GB iPod Touch. Hmmm. Sites updated and shops back online an hour after the event ended.
Stevenson asks “the very hot” (that’s [...]

Mac OSX 10.5 Leopard - Timeline Update

Apparently Apple is nearing the Release Candidate stage of their development.
If none of the remaining milestones is missed Leopard will be ready for shipping late October.

Apple 5 September event: The beat goes on.

So far I have not seen much information about this event besides that it will focus on iPod related topics. The main announcement will apparently be about an iTunes feature that allows to make a ringtone for the iPhone out of a selectable part of any song purchased at the iTunes store.
I will make a [...]

Support my Tache Troops - Fund male cancer research!

I have decided to accept the mission (of attempting) to grow a mighty mustache in aid of the Everyman campaign ‘TacheBack 2007′, funding male cancer research.
Please loosen your purse strings and generously fund my moustache boot camp, location somewhere between nose and upper lip. The better the funding => the stronger my Tache Troops => [...]

Synopse is open for beta testing!

Please help a good friend of mine by beta testing his application Synopse which is a major part of his dissertation.
Synopse is a new tagging based search engine and now available in beta.
EMC developed a plugin for Firefox which makes it easy to tag the pages as you surf the interweb.
>> Visit Synopse: http://emcons.net/synopse/

Apple iPhone Updates

First, a little update on the still long anticipated iPhone for the EU. So far we have confirmation that Apple will partner with O2 in the UK, T-Mobile in DE, Orange in France and the latest I have read was TIM in Italy.
All of these will be officially sealed after the IFA Consumer Electronics exhibition [...]

Mac OSX 10.5 Leopard

As many of you I am impatiently awaiting the arrival of Leopard in October. Unfortunately no more specific date is known and I have not found any clues as to the UK pricing of the USD 129 tag in the USA. Furthermore I have not found any information as to the family bundle pricing for [...]