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MacSurfer's Archive: Saturday, December 6, 2008
 

 

Analysis/Commentary/Editorial/Opinion
  • "Top 50 iPhone Apps in the iTunes App Store" Chris Pirillo 9:01 PM
  • "Who will challenge the hi-tech high-flyers" TheNational 12:19 PM
  • "From BlackBerry, to iPhone, then back to BlackBerry. Why?" Graceful Flavor 10:01 AM
  • "iTunes, other digital music stores explained" Distorted-Loop 9:59 AM
  • "Apple TV" ["I like my Apple TV, though I don?t know anyone else who actually owns one. It has worked flawlessly. Maybe I have to buy it for some people for Christmas?"] The Pastor's Blog 12/5
  • "Economy, opportunity seen leading to $599 Apple netbook: Faced with the perfect storm of a bleak market and a boom in ultra-budget portables, Apple is believed by some to be readying its own take on the netbook for the first half of 2009."  AppleInsider 12/5
  • "iPod Shortage: Just a Marketing Ploy?" PC World 12/5
  • "Apple to announce networked HDTV at MacWord 2009" The Standard 12/5
  • "Developers Continue To Be Sensible; Focus Remains On Mass-Market Razr Over The iPhone: Even though Apple appears to be knocking the ball out of the park after confirming today that it has more than 10,000 applications available on the iPhone, and that to date, there have been about 300 million downloads, here's something to put that into perspective: Developers are still focusing their efforts on creating applications for mass-market phones such as the Razr." paidContent.org 12/5
  • "Debating the MacBook?s merits" Macworld 12/5
  • "OS9 Still Gets Stuff Done For Some" Cult of Mac 12/5
  • "Apple Ain't The Beatles: I ruffled some feathers earlier this week when I pointed out how Apple's arrogance in the face of success reminds me of Iomega circa 1995." MotleyFool 12/5
  • "Editorial - AT&T Crushed by Choice, Learning from Apple" iPod Observer 12/5
  • "iPhone Service Failure Stories and AT&T Support Notes" Idealog 12/5
  • "Reader's Story: I switched to Mac and don?t care about the price difference" ZDNet Blogs 12/5
  • "Apple spreads 300 million iPhone apps" The Register 12/5
  • "Is the Cult of BlackBerry Worse Than the Cult of Mac?" LAPTOP Magazine 12/5
  • "App Store shoppers downloading 2.2 million apps per day" AppleInsider 12/5
  • "CNBC's Jim Goldman falls victim to Oprah Effect in Amazon Kindle article" MacDailyNews 12/5
  • "Where Have All the iTunes Store Movies Gone?"  Kirkville 12/5
  • "Escape: For Big Blue's eyes only.../Surely there must be something big going on at IBM for it to worry about Mark Papermaster spilling the beans to Apple's iPhone arm." MacUser (UK) 12/5
  • "Analysis: Let's wave DRM goodbye/If Apple is to persuade the major record labels to ditch DRM then it should have a consistent policy and consign its DisplayPort Content Protection (DPCP) to the bin." MacUser (UK) 12/5
  • "At the risk of sounding like I've been completely assimilated...: there really isn't a way to adequately describe how different the experience of being a Mac owner is from being a PC owner. I don't mean the operating system, although that is different. I mean the experience of dealing with Apple instead of Dell or any other PC OEM." mosker 12/5
  • "Hey Apple, Buy Boxee! Duh!" aGEEKspot 12/5
  • "MCBA: Taking Macs off my recommended list/For all the griping about Microsoft and its problems with Operating Systems, Apple is rapidly moving into the same class. There is a very annoying problem that arrived with a required update. Now every so often the Mac Book Air stops working while it rescans and reconnects to the WiFi Access Point." Reinke Faces Life 12/5
  • "Apple conspiracy theory: 'Corporations' behind Psystar?"  TG Daily 12/5
  • "Psystar's Cyber Monday" Rixstep 12/5
  • "One of These Headlines Does Not Go With The Other" The Apple Blog 12/5
  • "Axiotron tweaks Modbook for better, stronger, faster performance" Engadget 12/5
  • "Why there isn't an $800 MacBook Air-like product"  TG Daily 12/5
  • "Apple fanboys revolt over Obama rumour" The Inquirer 12/5
  • "Apple copies Microsoft tactics in Itunes row" The Inquirer 12/5
  • "Yes, Apple Should Release a Wal-Mart Phone" eWeek 12/5
  • "$99 WAL-MART iPhone? What are they smoking?" ZDNet Blogs 12/5
  • "Mac Bloggers Dig Up 4-GB iPhone's Grave, Sling Mud Over Virus Baiting" MacNewsWorld 12/5
  • "Towards a 4 GB iPhone 3G?" HardMac 12/5
Non-Apple
  • "Get a Mac: Microsoft's Windows' swiss cheese insecurity costs $100 billion annually" MacDailyNews 2:21 PM
  • "5 Things to Consider Before Buying a Netbook" GigaOM 12/5
  • "Can you ditch Google for a metasearch engine?" Webware 12/5
  • "AT&T Layoffs: The Tip of a Telecom Downturn/Cutbacks in consumer spending will force telecoms to trim staff and spending likely spreading the pain to equipment makers as well" BusinessWeek 12/5
  • "We need a mobile broadband space race: We put a man on the moon. Why can't we have fast, nationwide mobile broadband?" Computerworld 12/5
  • "Is SaaS and the recession killing perpetual software licenses? No, say experts" Computerworld 12/5
  • "Bundled Services: A Great Big Ball of Consumer Angst?" CRM Buyer 12/5
  • "Second Life's Second Wind: Can the virtual world keep growing despite its collapsing hype?" Forbes.com 12/5
  • "Taxing music at the level of the ISP: Good idea or bad?" CNET News.com 12/5
  • "Is this Nokia's next top-secret touchscreen handset?" MobileCrunch 12/5
  • "Isn't it enough that the government thinks they know better than us when it comes to spending our entertainment dollars? In February, they're making our perfectly adequate faux wood-paneled TVs obsolete by cramming free digital TV down our throats." MSNBC 12/5
  • "Reduce Your Electric Bill: Save energy (and cash) with these household products, including a Wi-Fi-enabled programmable thermostat and a real-time energy monitor." PC Magazine 12/5
  • "How to Buy a Cheap Digital Camera: Here's what you need to know to pick the perfect point-and-shoot camera, along with 15 models that balance features with affordability." PC Magazine 12/5
  • "Perfect Gift: Gadgets For Guys" CBS 12/5
  • "Gadget gifts for kids: Stuck for what to get the kids this Christmas? Here are some affordable and not-so-affordable picks." Stuff 12/5
  • "Is the computer revolution dead? Commentary: Technology has evolved far beyond the PC and is thriving" MarketWatch 12/5
  • "The Works: A jolly good Reader/It may be some way off replacing its paper-based counterparts, but Sony's Reader is a giant leap forwards for ebook publishing..." MacUser (UK) 12/5
  • "Coming to grips with the digital TV transition" Macsimum News 12/5
  • "IBM warns of cybercrime perfect storm" DaniWeb 12/5
Humor/Cartoons
  • "'Santa Live' App Gets Run Over By A Reindeer" iPhone Savior 12/5
  • "Obama is an iPod user. Mystery solved." 9 to 5 Mac 12/5