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Mapping a drive

2009-11-03T18:01:37-05:00

A pod-cast or two ago I could swear someone called and offered a tip regarding auto mounting drives. I have my drives auto mounting but finding the opening of the windows annoying. I have re-listened to the past couple of pod-casts but I’m missing the tip. Did anyone catch that or did I just have a bad trip?

Thanks!

Brad

The iPhone and Enterprise Adoption

2009-11-08T00:04:44-05:00

Here’s an interesting article on the prospects of enterprise adoption of the iPhone. Within a year I can see the iPhone surpassing Windows Mobile in the enterprise market as more Android 2.0 devices make it to market further eroding the Windows share and iPhone adoption heats up even more. RIM has a substantial lead and majority presence in the space and may remain unchallenged as the champ for quite some time.

Tablet - OSX or iPhone OS?

2009-11-06T22:40:26-05:00

sleepygeek - 03 November 2009 05:03 AM
[...]Conjecturing - not exactly. 10.6.2 is looking like a major release; so it must be the tablet release in all but name. So the tablet must be a Mac. But it also has to be a superset of iPod Touch OSX. So we are getting the App store for Mac, ARM/Intel universal binaries, and Apple-managed Mac App provenance. But hackintosh / netbook / PPC /Atom will be cut off from the goodies, which seem likely to include a new way to buy magazine/newspaper content. So the tablet’s going to be good enough, and cheap enough, to switch 95% of hackintosh netbook prospects. Meantime Apple has used netbooks to switch large numbers of influential geeks and early mainstream switchers. They will mostly go legal (tablet or Mac) over the next 2 years, and those they influence will mostly go direct to Apple hardware.

Apple is gradually extending the territory of its empire, establishing borders, and shutting down its guerilla incursions into Wintel territory.

Edit: I believe all current Apple Intel CPUs incorporate Intel Trusted Execution. Apple could use this to shut off the rest of hackintoshdom from the iTunes/App store goodies.

Sometimes we lose important catalysts in news thread or the daily thread. I have reread this post a couple of times and have been hoping it might spark further discussion by those who have better understanding of the product pipeline than do I.

Whether or not the tablet will be OSX or iPhone, and whether (or when) the App Store comes to Mac are huge issues that will likely have major investment implications. If the tablet turns out to be a Kindle in color with music and movies, I will be at least somewhat disappointed. If it is full OSX with Mac getting an App Store, I will be one happy cowboy.

What say you, guys and gals?

Line outside Verizon Store at Droid launch

2009-11-07T22:41:39-05:00

Photo and brief article here.

online provider and email

2009-10-31T10:28:02-05:00

I have Verizon as my online provider. I’m having a lot of problems with them right now after moving. I may need to get another email address. I’ve used Seascape for email. I like the fact that I can go from email to online without closing out from one to the other. With Apple they are separate functions—Safari and Mail. In checking Apple’s “Mail” it seems you have to get “.Mac”—for a fee—to get a email address. Right? Worth the money? Are Yahoo and Google online providers that offer email? One better than the other? All suggestions/comments appreciated.

Apple Retail Store Experiences

2009-11-01T20:22:27-05:00

We’re entering the Christmas shopping season so a new Apple Retail Store Experiences topic is a timely one.

I was the the Apple store at the 3rd Street Promenade in Santa Monica yesterday afternoon. The store was active and all of the new 27” iMacs were occupied by store patrons. I didn’t have much time so is spent just a few minutes at one the new 21.5” iMacs on display. It’s an impressive computer that will work well as both a nice piece of home entertainment equipment and as a fully functioning Mac.

AT&T Countering the Droid with a $99 iPhone 3GS?

2009-11-05T16:42:56-05:00

Boy genius are musing that AT&T may be introducing an 8G iPhone 3GS to counter the Droid marketing campaign.

Definitely not confirmed, but rather interesting nonetheless. We’ve heard now from two sources that AT&T, and we guess Apple, are contemplating launching an 8GB iPhone 3GS at the $99 price point before Christmas. One source said this was AT&T’s way of combating the DROID madness.

Article HERE.

Citi-bank

2009-09-18T17:33:35-05:00

Everybody loves Apple but from what I’ve gathered many of us also own banks and in particular Citi-bank. Are there enough of us to keep a separate Citi-bank discussion going?

Citi-bank press release:

New York – Citigroup will issue its third quarter 2009 results via press release at approximately 8:00 AM (EDT) on October 15, 2009. Results will be reviewed via live webcast and teleconference at 11:00 AM (EDT).

The press release, webcast and presentation materials will be available at http://www.citigroup.com/citi/fin. A replay of the webcast will be available at http://www.citigroup.com/citi/fin/pres.htm.

To dial-in to the live teleconference, please call (877) 700-4194 (for U.S. and Canada callers) or (706) 679-8401 (for international callers). Conference code: 28581886. Telephone lines will open at 10:45 AM (EDT).

10.6 Print Button Not Responding

2009-11-07T04:59:34-05:00

Hi my mac is running 10.6 and has developed an issue where the print button no longer responds. i am using a wireless Epson SX600FW and when I print a test page from the utility it works fine. The problem is when I try and print a document or a web page the print button does not respond.

Any ideas about how I might resolve this?

Thanks,

Blair

iLife ‘10 Speculation

2009-11-05T12:08:11-05:00

I have iLife ‘08. It does everything I need. iLife ‘09 has some neat features, facial recognition in iPhoto is interesting, The big thing I use is iWeb and ‘09 didn’t change much to iWeb as far as I could tell. I just don’t use Garge Band and iDVD and because of that I couldn’t justify the $99 (Canadian price) to upgrade. Well I came into a few bucks extra and have been thinking of upgrading. My questions are

Any rumours/speculation/wild guesses about when iLife ‘10 might come out?
Any rumours/speculation/wild guesses about changes in iLife ‘10?