Posts Tagged Apple
A Better 3G Experience, AT&T vs Verizon
Posted by Matt in Mobile, Straight Up News on November 25, 2009
There's A Map For That
I have to get my hands on this story. It’s too much.
It all started with Verizon issuing AD’s displaying a rich vibrant red 3G coverage map, and AT&T’s “spotty” blue coverage map. Of course, why wouldn’t this make AT&T upset. Turning to legal matters would seem like a sure fire way of taking care of this. But there stands only one problem. AT&T is now suing Verizon for “mis-leading customers”, because as it turns out the 3G Coverage Map Verizon shows is accurate. AT&T has not taken the time to upgrade their 3G coverage.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/03/atandt-sues-verizon-over-theres-a-map-for-that-ads/
Funniest thing is, the judges overruled the idea of Verizon pulling the ads. They are still running and probably will stay that way.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2356122,00.asp
AT&T is trying to say that most people are not able to distinguish the difference of their 3G Coverage Map, and their actual Data map (which includes EDGE, GSM, etc). Granted most people may have difficulty understanding the real difference, we can still tell the best kind of coverage and how much of it there is throughout the states.
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/181379/verizon_lawsuit_makes_atandt_the_villain_again.html
They are also starting their comeback commercials. Check boxes comparing the two differences (how original), with Luke Wilson (who again) comparing.
What I find completely humorous is AT&T has went to saying “The Best 3G Coverage” to “A Better 3G Experience“ Maybe Verizon should file a counter claim that AT&T is just straight up lieing. Once Verizon (if they ever do after this) gets the iPhone, I see AT&T retiring from the mobile wireless market and selling to Verizon. Especially now that Verizon is tied up with Google. (and that’s all I’m saying about that) Who knows what is going to happen next.
http://www.9to5mac.com/AT-T-Verizon-ads-court-judge-misfit-43562
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Mobile post test
Just writing this quick little post to test out the wordpress app for my ipod touch.
Man- this thing is becoming more and more my personal mini computer rather than ipod.
Dammit Apple, quit making such amazing products.
Edit: (12/21/08 7:48 AM) Seems like the WordPress app worked flawlessly, as if I had any doubt that it wouldn’t. Well, time to go mail Christmas cards.
Windows Sharing in Leopard
Posted by Matt in Apple, Leopard, Technology, Windows on October 27, 2008
I had to find this out on my own, so I figured I would post it on my site so maybe I can help out other people with the same problem.
I just recently upgraded to Leopard, so a lot of the things that are different about it (compared to Tiger), I’m just now finding out. One of the things that apple changed was the name and location of Windows Sharing in Preferences. It is now called SMB and here is how you find it:
Start off by opening up “Sharing” in “System Preferences”
Then, after you have “File Sharing” checked and highlighted, click on “Options…”
From the drop down menu that shows up, check the box that is called “Share files and folders using SMB”.
Though I’m not entirely sure why Apple calls Windows Sharing SMB now, this will for sure get the job done.
Your Mac (running Leopard) will now successfully show up on a Windows Computer! Yay!
Google Chrome
Google finally did it. They released a browser. We all knew it would come one day.
Technically, It’s still in Beta, but what has Google released that doesn’t stay in Beta for about two years?
It’s basically the Safari engine, WebKit, with a Google feel.
And I’ll admit.. It’s nice. You need to grab you a copy.
Good things about this browser:
It’s Open Source
It’s Free
It’s Not a Memory Hog
It’s Secure
Has Private Browsing
And many other features, just check it out.
– But: Firefox is still good, but so far Google is bumping up past it.
(I also downloaded IE 8 Beta, but that’s not important)
Psystar Is Done For
Well it seems that the Mac-clone company has finally pissed off Apple to the point of a law suit. I just found out about this company a few weeks ago and 
was surprised that they had lasted this long without any altercations from Apple.
But, when I opened up my email today I had a letter from ZDNet with the subject “Apple files suit against Psystar”. So, I guess Apple had enough and is opening up a “legal” can of woop-ass. Don’t worry, that is the first and last time I’ll be using that phrase.
What I find kind of funny, (and maybe a little sad), is the fact that I had seriously taken this company into consideration. Like buying one of their cheaper products, and just seeing if it really is a Mac clone.
Well, that was before I read up on them. Not only are they big on copyright infringement, they are nothing but low level pirates trying to make a few bucks. Apparently, with their bootleg Macs (that’s what I’m calling it now at least) Software Update fails, iLife won’t install, (though I didn’t read this but I’d say Office 2004 & 2008 won’t install or update!) and I guess Leopard all around just acts funny. (Not the good funny either!)
But yeah, say goodbye to Psystar. You can read about the lawsuit here.
Whether or not this is true – I don’t know –but apparently Apple is even demanding Psystar reclaim all their sold products. Now, I don’t know how many they’ve actually sold (and lets hope not that many) but you can bet a few people have bought them — and they aren’t going to want to give them up. When you buy a computer, you customize it to your liking, and when the company you bought it from tells you that you can’t have it anymore, that does nothing but make you furious. At least, it would to me.
Here is what I think Psystar should do: Pay Apple however much the law suit goes for, and then buy all their customers who got ripped off by them, an authentic top-of-the-line Apple. Comparable to what they already have. Because from what I saw on their website, they were offering 8 GB models for 899 [or somewhere close to that]. That means they are going to have to pay about 3 times as much for a comparable model. I’m going to guess Psystar doesn’t have that kind of money (or at least they definitely won’t after the law suit is over with) — So it looks like either loans are going to have to happen, or its Bankruptcy.
Good job Apple. Bye Bye Psystar.
(SO, by writing this post, I get a free Apple product now…right? — no, I didn’t buy anything from Psystar. But I took time and effort. Come on.. Mac Mini?)
Working still
Posted by Matt in Apple, General Posts on March 29, 2008
Hello Readers!
I’m still working on the site, obviously. You’d be surprised how much stuff you actually have to work on when you go from having a HTML constructed site to a WordPress site. There is a lot of getting used too. But, I can honestly say – I Love It! WordPress is so much more powerful than I used to give it credit. I have a Leopard theme on here now, mocking Mac OS X 10.5 — but… It doesn’t like widgets on my sidebar. SO, it may have to go.
Mainly because a lot of my WordPress plug-ins I have activated need this so called “widget feature”. And yes, I know you can activate them manually with a few PHP tweaks, but why do that when I can just find a theme to do it for me?
To the internet!
