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Wednesday, July 1, 2009
MobileMe gets a new look (can you find it?)

Apple is now into making changes and not telling anyone. It’s part of their new campaign of Under Promise, Over Deliver. If no one tells you it’s there, is it really a change?

Megan Lavey:

When I logged into MobileMe this morning, I noticed that my iDisk icon looked a bit different ... it now resembles the one representing the forthcoming iDisk app for the iPhone.

Other changes include new Mail options, sync options, Help menu in the toolbar, MobileMe messages can be searched from your iPhone or iPod touch, and others.



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Thursday, January 14, 2010
Verizon: ‘bandwidth hogs’ should pay more » 

The shape of things to come for AT&T and iPhone users. MarketWatch on Verizon:

Chief Technology Officer Dick Lynch said current data plans, which allow unlimited Internet access for a flat monthly fee, encourage overuse of wireless networks, mainly by a small number of “bandwidth hogs,” or individuals who send and receive lots of large files.

I’m sure AT&T’s executives would agree that the all you can eat for one price causes problems. How did we get to this problem?

Phone companies introduced flat-rate data plans earlier this decade to entice customers who mainly used wireless phones for voice calls to spend more money. Demand for data service began to explode in 2007 after AT&T Inc. launched the Apple iPhone and other handset makers released a slew of Internet-capable smartphones.

I’m in favor of some form of tiered pricing or metered bandwidth. But what’s fair value?

Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Whither art thou, GDrive? » 

You remember GDrive, right? It’s that long-awaited, highly fictional, very-much-a-rumor cloud storage service from Google. Thomas Claburn in InfoWeek:

In a few weeks, Google plans to allow Google Docs users to upload and store any type of file, up to 250 MB in size.

Google Docs gives users 1 GB of online storage (and more, for a price). Google’s Vijay Bangaru:

No, this is not GDrive.

Wednesday, December 16, 2009
How To Add More Magic To Your Magic Mouse » 

Yours truly on MouseWizard, the perfect companion to Apple’s new Magic Mouse:

Frankly, some of these are functions that come from Apple’s Mac trackpads in the notebook line. Others are functions that just plain should be in Magic Mouse in the first place. Hey, we’re talking innovation and Apple. Why leave it up to others to figure out what Apple probably already knows how to do?

Updated to include links to free utilities with similar functions.

Saturday, June 13, 2009
Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics on Safari Stats » 

Amid the hype over Safari 4’s download stats, John Paczkowski of AllThingsD notes that of the 11 million Safari downloads, 6 million were for Windows users:

That means that Safari 4, at least at the outset, is more popular on Windows than on the Mac.

The problem with that lunacy, of course, is that 150-million Windows users have iTunes, QuickTime, and Apple’s Software Update installed on their PCs. PC users didn’t so much select Safari to download as Safari selected them. But Paczkowski gets it:

Apple’s 2007 decision to suggest Safari to Windows users via the iTunes software update has done great things to boost usage on that platform.

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