Every now and then, but typically daily, my monitor looks like it is going to break in half. It only happens when I have my laptop hooked up to my Apple Cinema Display. But I don't think it is a hardware issue. I am convinced it is a graphics card issue, associated with a software OS update.

When I use programs and they overlap, and my computer runs slow. Sometimes the windows skid on each other causing parts of the screen to look like they are tearing apart, or sometimes even a white TV screen fuzz look. Here is a picture of the weirdness:

Honestly, it doesn't bother me that much. It goes away as soon as I move another window on top of it.

Posted at 3:34 PM | Permalink | Category: Apple Macs | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

If so, I am so on that. Yes, The Boy Genius Report has an internal email to AT&T employees that implies that Apple will be releasing the 3G iPhone on June 15th.

In short, the emails tells AT&T employees to not take vacation between June 15th and July 12th in anticipation for "an exciting product launch." Everyone and his dog are buzzing that this "exciting product launch" has to do with the 3G iPhone coming out.

Will I get it? I certainly will, unless something comes up where I can't. I did buy my iPhone on July 11th, so it would be just under a year from when I first got it. It honestly feels like I got my iPhone a few months ago, but not, it has almost been a year. I've written about the iPhone dozens and dozens of times. I honestly have no regrets in the iPhone purchase. I will also likely be one of the first to order the 3G iPhone, pending on my schedule of availability.

Note, the Apple Developer Conference ends on June 13th, two days prior to the June 15th announcement. Now, I fully expect the SDK to go live then, but everyone else thinks it will also be the 3G iPhone.

Posted at 9:48 AM | Permalink | Category: Apple Macs | Comments (1) | TrackBacks (0)

I found this to be hysterical. Someone unboxing his Apple MacBook for the first time. Watch this video (it may not be appropriate for children). :)

Via Valleywag.

Posted at 2:04 PM | Permalink | Category: Apple Macs | Comments (2) | TrackBacks (0)

Spotted via MacWorld, you can open a new tab in Safari 3.1 by simply double clicking in an open space in the Safari window. Let me demonstrate:

See the arrow in my picture of the open space near a tab? Double click and you got a new tab. So if you are out of a keyboard, then that is how to do it.

I was hoping for this feature for a while. I know saft plugin did it, but I didn't want to add saft to Safari.

Posted at 2:48 PM | Permalink | Category: Apple Macs | Comments (3) | TrackBacks (0)

Should Mac Users Run Antivirus Software? by security expert, Rich Mogull at Tidbits.com basically says, if you got a Mac, no need for virus software at this point.

I'll blockquote his conclusion:

In short, at this point in time, I don't recommend desktop antivirus for the average Mac user. You only need to deploy it if you engage in risky behavior, need to protect friends on Windows, or comply with corporate policies. It's quite probable this will change in time, so it makes sense to take some reasonable precautions today and stay aware of the world around you. Better yet, let's continue to pressure Apple for stronger security so we can completely avoid resource leaching desktop antivirus in the long term.

Are Apple machines immune? No way! The deal is, there are hundreds of thousands of viruses designed for Windows operating systems, but "less than 200 are known to target the Mac," said Rich Mogull. So, yes, it is possible you get hit by one of the 200, but at this point, it is not very likely.

Just be a savvy Internet user and hopefully you can avoid viruses.

Oh, if you run Windows on your Mac, yes, you need anti-virus software for the Windows portion.

Posted at 1:23 PM | Permalink | Category: Apple Macs | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

I trust the content in my videos are fairly okay but I never really put in any detail into the movie part. I think I bore people when they watch, so this time I put in about an hour of time to adding captions, pictures, screen captures, music and other tidbits - besides for me speaking.

So here is the latest Weekly Search Buzz Roundup video:

Would seriously love your feedback on ways to improve it. Things I got so far include:

- Your head looks like it's getting cut off
- Make sure not to right align the text in the captions (YouTube logo cuts it off)
- Move picture behind me
- Move more (hard to do with built in iSight so maybe ill get a video camera)

That is what I got so far...

Posted at 2:14 PM | Permalink | Category: Apple Macs , SEO Tips | Comments (2) | TrackBacks (0)

Since last night, I keep getting the "invalid stream name" when I visit Google Reader on my iPhone. Going directly to Google Reader works fine, it is when I click on the "Tags" tab, when I get this error. I closed it out and tried again, but still doesn't work. Here is a screen shot:

Matt Cutts, did you notice this as well? I am a huge Google Reader mobile user and this is painful. I don't see anything reported on Google Groups yet, so I posted my own.

Posted at 10:18 AM | Permalink | Category: Apple Macs | Comments (4) | TrackBacks (0)

So today, Apple held their iPhone developer thing...

I watched several blogs live blog the event, but for you, I think Engadget does a great job if you are just catching up now (they use the oldest to newest format, so it reads the right way for you guys not watching live.

In short, the SDK seems to rock. Rock so much that if you have an idea for a cool iPhone application, let me know and I will try to build it.

So leave your suggestions for the iPhone application you think would be cool and we may just build it for you.

Some ideas I had include:

- Prayer book for Jews (current one I use only works when you are online)
- QuickBooks application to look up customer balances, invoices, etc.

Any other thoughts? It is hard for me to think of desktop based applications. I am more about web based apps...

More info can be found at iPhone Developer Connection and iPhone Enterprise (which I didn't mention here).

Posted at 3:05 PM | Permalink | Category: Apple Macs | Comments (9) | TrackBacks (0)

Apple, I know your not listening, cause I know you want to offer as many movies as possible, but hurry it up.

I fly to Yahoo next week, and I wanted to rent a movie for the trip there (I am preparing for a bad movie selection offered by Continental). So I went into iTunes, and sorted the Movie Rentals category by new releases. I counted 19 movies released in the year of 2007 and 2008.

19 movies. I don't want to watch cartoons, so that eliminates about 7 movies. Down to 12. Now I already flew twice, and watched three movies - down to 9 movies. I don't want to watch something that I might watch with my wife.

So I downloaded "War."

I have no movie for the way back, but that is a good thing - I hope to sleep on the red eye.

Apple, need more movies fast!

Posted at 12:37 PM | Permalink | Category: Apple Macs | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Now that more and more people are buying Macs, there are more and more hard core Apple fans.

Now, if you are extremely hard core, you might create an iWipe out of an old Mac.

Give an old Mac new life by turning it into an iWipe from Shawn Morton demonstrates how you can build an iWipe out of an Macintosh SE case and about $15.

The perfect bathroom accessory.

Hat tip goes to bro-in-law.

Posted at 2:00 PM | Permalink | Category: Apple Macs , Just Funny | Comments (3) | TrackBacks (0)

I love this. These kids document what happens when the iPhone stop watch goes beyond 1,000 hours. They kept it going for 1,000 hours! And I thought I was geeky, these kids rule.

Watch it, watch it and then keep watching it. Shall we try 10,000 hours?

Posted at 11:48 AM | Permalink | Category: Apple Macs | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

If there was one non-search trend I saw at the SMX West conference it would have to be Apple Macs. It seemed like almost everyone had Apple MacBooks or Powerbooks at the event.

I remember the days when I was doing live blogging in 2003 and I was like the only one with a Mac. In fact, the paid wireless didn't even work on my Mac cause it wasn't supported. Those days are long over. It really seemed like the majority of those in the conference were using Macs.

The Search Engine Land team had a meeting and three of the six of us had MacBooks on the table. Vanessa Fox, Rob Kerry and myself all had Macs. Tamar just purchased a 17" MacBook Pro. Danny Sullivan just told me he caved and purchased a MacBook Pro. What has the world come to?!

Heck, even Louis Monier (the man behind Alta Vista) took out his iPhone during his keynote at SMX.

Now, get this. Last night, my brother-in-law called me to tell me he is also going to cave. He said he is going to buy a 17" MacBook Pro tomorrow (today), fully loaded. He plans on doing the dual boot and run Windows mostly and mess with Mac OS X for fun. It won't be long until he switched to Mac as the primary, imo.

My main concern -- are you guys all really ready? ;-)

If you need any support, you know who to call... Not me, by Apple Care ;-).

I am afraid I can't say, "Buy a Mac" anymore when people have computer issues. Now they will buy a mac and call me for help!

Update: Danny blogged about hell freezing over just a few minutes ago.

Posted at 8:45 AM | Permalink | Category: Apple Macs | Comments (6) | TrackBacks (0)

Apple's Mac OS X operating system is a flavor of Linux. So us Mac users have the privilege of rarely experiencing what are called "kernel panics." A kernel panic is as described by Apple "a type of error that occurs when the core (kernel) of an operating system receives an instruction in an unexpected format, or that it fails to handle properly."

Yesterday, I received my new external travel hard drive to solve my SuperDuper backup issue. I plugged it in and my screen was hit with this huge message:

Tip to Apple. First time I saw this, I almost fainted - well maybe not but... Imagine this message coming on your screen by the screen slowly being overwritten from top down with this message. At first, it looks like someone is hacking your computer. But this is the Apple kernel panic warning.

Apple users get this message in a couple situations:

1. The operating system receives an instruction in an unexpected format, or that it fails to handle properly.
2. The operating system is not able to recover from a different type of error.
3. Damaged or incompatible software or, more rarely, damaged or incompatible hardware was detected by the OS.

I guess the way the "Western Digital Passport 160GB USB 2.0 Portable 2.5" External Hard Drive - WDXMS1600TN" was formatted, when I plugged it in, I got this message. Thing is Western Digital says the hard drive is Mac OS X compatible. So I restarted with the hard drive plugged in and then used Disk Utility to reformat it to the Mac format. Everything was smooth sailing after that.

I ran the first back up last night on the drive. It took about 3 hours and 20 minutes to make the bootable copy. From now on, I suspect it will only take 30 minutes or so to do copies. SuperDuper has this "SmartUpdate" feature that makes complete bootable copies by just updating the changes. Saves me about 3 hours.

I will give the SmartUpdate a try tonight.

I am so glad to have two backup solutions, in two different locations, doing two different solutions. Time Machine does incremental backups and SuperDuper does mirrored bootable copies.

Posted at 2:10 PM | Permalink | Category: Apple Macs | Comments (2) | TrackBacks (0)

While I was in Israel, SuperDuper announced the release of their Leopard compatible backup solution.

I have been obsessively awaiting the release of this backup solution for a long long time. Yes, I do have use Time Machine to backup but Time Machine is not a bootable copy (or exact clone), it is great for restoring files but not for when a hard drive crashes and you need to get going on a new bootable version.

I have been using SuperDuper as a backup program since August 2006. I am so glad it is back.

I ran my first update Sunday, a full backup. It worked well. But now when I try running the "Smart Update" feature that only copies changes, it tells me that I have run out of space. My Super Duper hard drive is the same exact size as my Mac hard drive. If it is a clone, it should not run out of space. I am not sure what is up with that, especially since I have about 15GB of space on my Mac hard drive.

I may just have to buy a larger hard drive, something I am not looking forward to doing. But I will do it, if that is the only solution.

Posted at 2:25 PM | Permalink | Category: Apple Macs | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Something I didn't know until now. But now, I go... Oh, I hear the Israeli accent a bit....

This MacBook Air commercial:

Has a song by an Israeli artist named Yael Naim:

Now, do you hear the Israeli accent? A little?

Posted at 3:46 PM | Permalink | Category: Apple Macs , Music | Comments (12) | TrackBacks (0)

I told you I ordered Office 2008, well - yesterday afternoon I installed it. After the install, Safari, my browser, starting displaying weird fonts and characters. So I rebooted and everything seemed fine.

Well, not everything...

The fonts for the post titles at Search Engine Land seemed to have become more of a rounded font from what I remember seeing. I just wish I had a picture of how the fonts looked at Search Engine Land before installing Office 2008. But I don't.

Here is what it looks like now:

Much more rounded then I remember.

Outside of that. Microsoft Word and PowerPoint were both tested and seem to work fine. Excel does also.

Posted at 9:12 AM | Permalink | Category: Apple Macs | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

I recently ordered Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac. I should be getting it early next week. I will be using two of the five applications on there. And I will be using only one of those applications daily.

I use Word every day for proofing some things and reading Word attachments. Word is still a really powerful application. Of course, nothing comes close to Excel - so that is a must have. I hear 2008 has no issue with those .docx files, so that is a good thing.

I no longer use Entourage, the email program that comes with 2008. I also recently stopped using PowerPoint, and I am now using Apple Keynote for my presentations. It exports to everything, but when you export to certain formats, it loses some of the special effects. So for my Israel presentation, if I have problems connecting my Mac to the system at the university, I will have a fully functional QuickTime version as a backup. The QuickTime version runs perfectly and should run on 90% of PCs.

In any event, I should be getting Office 2008 on Monday. Looking forward to testing it out. Leopard compatible, so it should speed up Word and Excel. I hope!

Posted at 9:10 AM | Permalink | Category: Apple Macs | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Remember how upset I was that I was about to reach my iPhone text limit of 1,000 text messages? I actually had to delete a bunch of those text messages, and they are now forever gone.

Then the Missing Sync for iPhone came out, and enabled me to save all my text messages to my computer. This way, I can delete stuff from my iPhone and still have it on my desktop. Great!

Now, with the latest iPhone update, 1.1.3, Apple has allowed up to 75,000 text messages to be stored on your iPhone. That is 74,000 more than we had with version 1.1.2. I wonder how long it will take me to fill that up. :)

Posted at 8:56 AM | Permalink | Category: Apple Macs | Comments (4) | TrackBacks (0)

I keep talking about taking my iPhone to Israel.

On one hand, I want to be able to check emails throughout the day when I am roaming the streets and doing tourist-like things. On the other hand, I don't want to be hit with a huge bill when I get home. Since AT&T has yet to support an international plan designed for Israel and the iPhone (they have for the Treo and Israel), I don't plan on making calls from my phone or using data.

But what about the wifi option? Can I get away with using just that?

The iPhone Tips for International Roamers describes how you can use Wifi to get data on your iPhone while traveling internationally. But what scares me is the language is not very encouraging...

When I go ahead and look at Keep Data Roaming "OFF" section under Settings > General > Network > Data Roaming, it reads:

When abroad, turning off data roaming may avoid roaming charges when using email, web browsing, and other data services.

The word "may" is what concerns me. Here is a picture:

If I was in Israel today, I bet I would follow the instructions, and try to just use Wifi only and make sure the data roaming is off. But I know I would check my AT&T account the day after to see if I was being billed.

Posted at 9:57 AM | Permalink | Category: Apple Macs , Travels | Comments (3) | TrackBacks (0)

Every single other workstation in my office has two displays, except for me. I do have a sweet 23" monitor, as you can see here, I have the Apple Cinema Display, but due to using a laptop, I was never able to easily hookup an additional monitor. Or at least, I don't think I can pop in a second video card in this laptop to hook up a second monitor.

Electronista reports that Kingston's sd200v Notebook Docking Station with Video now supports Macs. That means, technically, if I buy this for $130 and then get the Dual Monitor Adapter for a $100, I can then buy a second monitor for $1,000 or so and be like everyone else.

Yea, kind of steep in price and I doubt I will do that. But it is good to know I now can.

So, I am an AFF at Buy.com, which actually happens to have the product for $95 after rebates, plus new Google Checkout customers can get it for $10 less. Here is the product from Buy.com with my AFF:

Not a bad deal... Anyway, its good to know you can now do this...

Posted at 9:36 AM | Permalink | Category: Apple Macs | Comments (2) | TrackBacks (0)

Yesterday, I showed you how to add bookmark icons on your iPhone's home screen. Today, I am going to show you how I added support for custom icons on Search Engine Roundtable and RustyBrick.

As per the iPhone Developer Center, it is very simple.

Step 1: Create custom icons that are 57x57 and save them as PNG files. They can be larger, but Apple will scale them for you.

Step 2: Rename the file to apple-touch-icon.png

Step 3: Upload them to your root directory on your server.

STOP - what if you don't have access to your root directory? Well, you can add a <link> element similar to <link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="/customIcon.png"/> within the <head> element of the page.

Then you go to your site and follow my directions on how to add bookmark icons on your iPhone.

Here are the three I added:

Here is what it looks like on my iPhone:

Pretty slick, don't you think?

OK, I am obsessed this week with the iPhone - sorry.

Posted at 5:12 PM | Permalink | Category: Apple Macs | Comments (1) | TrackBacks (0)

Along with the iPhone Google Maps Triangularization, there is this new feature that let's you customize your home screen.

You basically hold press down one of the icons for a second and then the icons or buttons on the screen begin to dance and shake. Here is a video...

Gotta love how those icons shake...

So I set up a new page on my iPhone home screen just for certain web bookmarks I use very often. In the past, I left about 5 bookmarked pages open in my iPhone's Safari tabs. I believe this solution may be a tad quicker. Here is that screen devoted to just web bookmarks, at least for now...

FYI, I got to give myself credit for taking such a great picture of my iPhone. Normally, these pictures come out all shaky and hard to read. I got so lucky with this one...

Posted at 5:35 PM | Permalink | Category: Apple Macs | Comments (3) | TrackBacks (0)

I installed the latest iPhone update, which was released just a few hours ago. The first thing I tested out was the Triangularization technique for the iPhone to figure out your location and then plot it on Google Maps, within your iPhone.

This is a video of the first time I tried it:

Measuring from one side of the circle to the next, is about 1 mile long. Now, the pin, which represents my real location, is probably a few hundred off the center of the circle. But at the same time, I have horrible reception in my office with AT&T.

I tried it a second time and the pin was smack in the middle of the circle, which is what you want to see.

I know this feature will be useful when I am out and about and not in my car (i.e. without a GPS).

Update: I ran this at home and the radius was maybe 300 feet and the center of the circle was dead on!

Posted at 4:49 PM | Permalink | Category: Apple Macs | Comments (2) | TrackBacks (0)

Well, the Apple MacWorld Expo Keynote is now over. I am a bit disappointed with it.

Let's go through my predictions even thought I normally don't do predictions...

(1) The "Tablet MacBooks" I predicted is actually a MacBook Air. Although you can't touch the screen, the touch pad, is a "multi-touch." That means "you can pinch, swipe, or rotate to zoom in on text, advance through a photo album, or adjust an image." So it is somewhat tablet like, with that feature and it being extremely thin.

(2) Apple Cinema Displays with iSight's built in :: I was dead wrong

(3) Something with an iPhone (bigger space, maybe 3G?) :: They have a new software update out, 1.1.3. It pretty much covers the rumored version. It is free, unlike the iTouch update which is not.

(4) A Mac pet to walk around your house, call it the iApple or something (kidding)... I was joking about this...

They did come out with Time Capsule, Apple's answer to the lack of NAS support for Time Machine. So, you have to buy an Apple storage device to allow other Macs to back up on a single drive. The wireless is cool. They come in two versions, 500GB for $299.00 or 1TB for $499.00. I am happy with my solution and don't plan on buying Time Capsule. Cute name...

Posted at 2:01 PM | Permalink | Category: Apple Macs | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

If you love Apple or even hate them, but want to get live coverage of the MacWorld Expo, where the keynote is happening today, you can get that via Twitter.

One of my favorite Mac blogs announced they will be providing live coverage of the event via Twitter. Their Twitter account is at TUAW, so just follow it and make sure you have a solid Twitter app to be on top of it.

The coverage should start at about 12 EST today.

My predictions or more of a wish list?
- Tablet MacBooks
- Apple Cinema Displays with iSight's built in
- Something with an iPhone (bigger space, maybe 3G?)
- A Mac pet to walk around your house, call it the iApple or something (kidding)

Posted at 10:00 AM | Permalink | Category: Apple Macs | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

I try to be a nut when it comes to backing up my computer and office computers. My office computers are backed up on an NAS device, plus backed up off site on at least one other computer. Our production servers are backed up so often, in so many different ways, you would think I was a nut.

Personally, I use to back up my laptop a few times a week using SuperDuper. SuperDuper does a direct clone of my hard drive, onto an external hard drive. This way, if my hard drive blows up, I can theoretically pop in this other hard drive and get going from my last back up. The thing is, SuperDuper has not yet come out with a Leopard compatible version and it has been stressful to say the least.

So I finally took the plunge and bought a new hard drive so I can run Time Machine on my Leopard OS. Yesterday, I got the drive from Buy.com, a Western Digital My Book Essential 500GB version, and started the backup at about 2pm. It finished the 90GB backup at about 6:30pm. That was my first backup. Now every hour, when this hard drive is connected to my laptop (only when I am in my office), it backs up every hour. It stores hourly back ups for the past 24 hours, daily back ups for the past month and weekly backups until this drive is full. The UI is amazing for restoring lost or old files, simply amazing.

My hope is that when SuperDuper releases a Leopard compatible version, which I am excepting within a week or two, I will run both SuperDuper and Time Machine as backups.

SuperDuper will give me the bootable clone of my hard drive from my last run of that backup. Time Machine will give me the file by file capability to restore files historically. I think I will feel completely at peace once I run my first SuperDuper backup on Leopard.

Posted at 10:00 AM | Permalink | Category: Apple Macs , Computers | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

I feel like I joined this exclusive club for Mac geeks. I am now an Apple ProCare member.

Apple gave me this black card that looks like a credit card, almost like the black AMEX card. But it only costs $99.

What does it get me?
- It guarantees my computer to be fixed within 24 hours
- It got my computer fixed within 2 hours
- I guess because of the Next in Line, First on the Bench policy
- I get Yearly Tune Up that I will never use
- Backup Consultation that I will never use
- Advanced Reservations that I will rarely ever use

But I get cool status as being an Apple ProCare member!

Posted at 11:57 AM | Permalink | Category: Apple Macs | Comments (1) | TrackBacks (0)

I dropped off my laptop with at Apple Store Friday at about 2pm, after getting it back Apple ProCare for $99, I would be guaranteed to have it within 24 hours. So, I signed up.

I came home and I received a call at about 4:15pm, ten minutes before I had to go offline for Shabbos, that the computer was fixed. I told them I would come by Saturday night to pick it up, since I was unable to make it there and back before Shabbos.

I am also very glad they did it before Shabbos actually started. I was hoping they would do it either before or after Shabbos, this way I know a Jewish person did not work for me on Shabbos... So I am relieved about that.

It was weird typing with the keyboard. S, tab, esc, X and cutting text, all worked. I was so not use to it working. Glad to have those keys back!

Posted at 11:45 AM | Permalink | Category: Apple Macs | Comments (3) | TrackBacks (0)

I am no back home, typing thi blog entry on my broken MacBook Pro keyboard. Apple hould of fied it by no, like I mentioned at MacBook Pro Keyboard Issues or did I?

Try to figure out hat I am riting, and hich key are broken from ho I type thi blog pot...

Anyay, I brought my laptop to the Apple tore after convincing one of the Geniue to replace the keyboard on my laptop the ame day. He aid, bring it in no and e ill fi it the ame day. o I brought it in and he did the paper ork and I aked. ill you be here hen it i fied. He aid no, he leave at 5pm. o I aid, are you ure it ill be fied. He promied me, it ould be fied by the end of the day, by 9:30.

By 7pm I a getting nervou. I decided to go back to the Apple tore, ince I had to make a return at Macy' for my ife. I made the return and then ent to the Apple tore on the 1t floor of the mall. I aked for an update on the tatu and the oman aid, you jut brought it in today - thee take a couple day. I then eplained that Keith promied me it ould be done today and one of the geniu guy confirmed hearing that. But it a already 8pm and they didn't have time to finih. o I decided to take my laptop back.

A you can ee, many key imply don't ork. It i incredibly frutrating, incredibly!

Tab key, ec key and the key that are miing in my glaring typo don't ork....

Can you gue hich key don't ork?

An eternal keyboard ork fine, o at ork I am fine. Jut hen I get home and type do I have problem. I.e. on the laptop keyboard.

Tomorro I'll call Keith and ak him hat he can do. I can't be aay from my laptop for a full day, I jut cant.

Good night folk and ih me luck!

Posted at 9:45 PM | Permalink | Category: Apple Macs | Comments (3) | TrackBacks (0)

Remember my problem with maxing out my iPhone text messages limit? It was a huge bummer having to have to delete some of those text messages.

Well, I didn't delete them all and now I have a way of exporting those SMS messages to my Mac, through Missing Sync for iPhone. It not only gives me a way to back up all my text messages and SMS messages, it also allows me to quickly browse them on my Mac and even search for them. Not only that, I can also reply to SMS's via email, if I want to. More on that over here.

Included is also a way to organize and search iPhone notes and search call logs.

So now I can delete more SMS messages off my iPhone and not worry about them being gone forever.

FYI - this isn't a real sync, it just pulls data from the iPhone over to your Mac.

Posted at 1:59 PM | Permalink | Category: Apple Macs | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

For the past month or so, my MacBook Pro's keyword has been acting very funky. The S, W, X, 2, tab, esc and some other keys simply don't always work (they work sometimes but mostly not) when pressed.

Now this only happens when on the laptop's keyboard. It works fine when I use my external Apple keyboard at my office.

I cannot express how annoying it is to type without having those keys functioning. Guess how I am able to type those keys? I surf to a web site, and use the copy and paste function. So if I need an S, I find an S on a web site, highlight it, copy it, and then paste it into the place I need it. Very very very annoying.

At first I thought it was a bug related to Bug ID# 4333743 but Apple released a software update that was supposed to fix the issue. It did not fix my issue.

I called Apple today, and they recommended that I replace the keyboard. I said, I can't be without my computer for a week. So I called the local Apple store and they said they can replace it while I wait. I am not waiting for them to call me back with a time when they will have all the parts and man power on hand for this replacement to happen.

For some reason, I don't think it is a hardware issue. I have a feeling that they will replace the keyboard and it still won't work. I will keep you all updated, like you care.. ;-)

Posted at 11:25 AM | Permalink | Category: Apple Macs | Comments (12) | TrackBacks (0)

Remember my posts on the iPhone popcorn and goldfish on my iPhone? Remember those?

Well, it is time for me to come clean. I really can't make real popcorn on my iPhone. Nor are there any real goldfish swimming around in my iPhone. I am so sorry for lying to you all. I feel ashamed and I feel like I stole from you. So it is time for me to come clean!

These are all tricks. They come from a company named HotTrix. They are basically iPod movies you download to your iPhone and then play. Here is a video demonstrating how to play these videos after you download them to your iPhone.

Steve, the CEO of HotTrix emailed me asking me if I wanted to test more tricks. Why? Well, because my video has way more views than his video. Why do I have more views? A Google search on iphone popcorn returns my video at the top:

He has many more tricks, so check them out at HotTrix today!

Posted at 11:34 AM | Permalink | Category: Apple Macs | Comments (5) | TrackBacks (0)

One of my best presents for the holiday season, a new goldfish. This goldfish lives on my iPhone. Take a look of it playing and eating:

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I was messing around with my browser and I accidently clicked on a tab and pulled it down. The tab opened in a new window. A neat feature, which is useful, that I discovered by accident. Here is how I pop open a tab in my Safari browser, into a new window:

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Not much to say here, let TIME do the talking:

The iPhone changed the way we think about how mobile media devices should look, feel and perform. The design is exceptional inside and out: It's got a slick glass-and-stainless steel case and an elegant touch screen loaded with eye candy. It's an iPod and a 2-megapixel camera. Images and video clips display vertically or horizontally — they reorient themselves depending on how you hold the thing. When the phone detects a wireless network within range — your own home wi-fi set up or somebody else's — it lets you tap once to connect, and then proceed with your Web surfing, Google mapping, emailing and other activities that can otherwise be painfully slow over AT&T's cellular network — the only one, unfortunately, that carries iPhone calls.