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That’s right – unless you too are the proud owner of a Nokia N95, then I can absolutely say that my phone is better than yours. I bought the N95 last week and it’s by far the best phone I’ve ever owned. Check out some of the features: 5MP camera (with Carl Zeiss optics) VGA […]

Steve Jobs no doubt delivered a fine keynote this morning at Macworld – I haven’t seen it yet, but read Engadget’s live blog this morning with huge anticipation. Here’s my summary of the announcement and how it relates to us in NZ. Updated Apple TV This is more-or-less useless to people outside the USA as […]

I bought my fourth iPod this week, completing the family of iPods that we have. This one is a 1GB iPod Shuffle, which joins the classic shaped, 60GB iPod with Video, 4GB iPod Nano (I bought this one for Deb), and the beautiful 8GB iPod Touch. Hopefully I can extend the family again next year […]

This article compares hard-key QWERTY phones such as the Blackberry to the iPhone’s (or iPod Touch) on-screen keyboard and discovers a higher error-rate on the iPhone. I have some opinions on the iPod Touch’s keyboard myself, but I’ll save those for another entry. Link: Direct Comparison of iPhone and Hard-Key QWERTY Phone Owners Indicates Higher […]

With help from a couple of nifty plugins, this site is now optimised for viewing on either the iPhone or iPod Touch. So if you’re reading this in your feed reader and you’re lucky enough to have one of Apple’s beautiful devices handy, head on over and check it out for yourself. Plugins: iWPhone WordPress […]

While I was in England I visited the Apple Store in Bluewater and had the pleasure of playing with an iPod Touch for the first time. It’s just as good in person as it looks in the demos on the web and I’ve ordered one from the NZ Apple Store as they are cheaper over […]

Good to see Microsoft and Apple working together to come up with an update for Vista that corrects some of the compatibility problems that have caused corruption on some iPods. You can download the update from the Microsoft Download Center.

Seems like lots of users had problems with iTunes 7 so it’s good to see Apple release an update so soon. Thanks to Neowin for the heads-up. Buy music, movies, TV shows, and audiobooks, or download free podcasts from the iTunes Store 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Organize and play everything on […]

I love YouTube! You can find some of the most amazing and funny clips on the site. Without YouTube I would never have seen these… Microsft iPod parody Chris Bliss the juggler. (To appreciate this, you should watch this one first.) Natalie Imbruglia – “Torn” being ‘signed’ by a comedian Robot dance

Sad news today… The Ricky Gervais Show just released the last episode in the first series. This extremely popular podcast had been at the number 1 spot on the Apple Podcast directory for the last couple of months boasting over 2 million downloads per month. What’s even more sad is that they are now pulling […]