A little bit of everything... and quite a bit of Apple

Verizon's Ad Campaign Against AT&T

Sun Nov 22, 2009 1:12 AM EST

There's been a lot of talk recently about Verizon's newly launched ad campaign against AT&T Wireless that targets the iPhone. Verizon's marketing team has a smart stategy here - they know that the iPhone is great, so they attack its one and only major weak point, the network.

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technology, verizon, at

Interview With Verizon on Social Media

Wed Nov 11, 2009 9:29 PM EST

For a research paper that's worth 30% of my final grade in my Argument and Research course, I interviewed several companies on their use of social media. My most enjoyable interview was the phone interview I conducted with Verizon.

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technology, verizon, interview, social-media

Sorry, iPhone. I Need Something New (Maybe You?)

Wed Nov 4, 2009 3:55 PM EST

I remember back in 2007 when iPhone was first launched. I bought one the day after that. It was the "must-have" device that was unfortunately out of a lot of people's price range. This made it a luxury item.

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technology, sprint, verizon, apple, att, iphone, palm-pre, motorola-droid

Magic Mouse - A Little Too Low Profile?

Tue Nov 3, 2009 9:45 PM EST

Every day this past week on my way home from RMU, I made a call to the Apple Store. "Did you get any Magic Mice in yet?" I was always getting the same response, "Nope, not yet. Sorry sir!" Well, on Friday, the Shadyside store finally got them in.

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technology, apple, magic-mouse

I'm coming back to Newsvine!

Tue Nov 3, 2009 9:42 PM EST

Since I'm becoming an active blogger once again, I decided I'd resurface after a very long hiatus. Thanks everyone! I'm glad to be back!

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technology

Fixing Jailbroken iPod Touch Problems

Seeded on Sat Jan 17, 2009 10:57 PM EST (technoheads.org)

On top of this, it told me there was a problem with the software used to connect my iPod to my computer (it had told me this before, but I hadn't noticed any problems with it). I know there are a lot of people with my problem, so I thought I'd share what I did.

technology, apple, ipod-touch, technoheads

In One Ear: iTunes U Puts iPods to Good Use | Edutopia

Seeded on Thu Oct 9, 2008 8:25 PM EDT (edutopia.org)

Boylan says he's excited to share his Keynote tutorials through iTunes U because experience has taught him that technology makes classrooms more engaging and effective. "I love it," he says of the opportunity to educate teachers in Pennsylvania and beyond.

technology, apple, ipod, itunes-u, edutopia

The 'Brick' is... | 9 to 5 Mac

Seeded on Sun Oct 5, 2008 12:45 PM EDT (9to5mac.com)

Seeded by Uroborus (Clipped by Mike B.)

The MacBook Brick is a block of high-quality, aircraft grade aluminum. It is the beginning. The beginning of what? It is the beginning of the new Apple manufacturing process to make MacBooks. It is totally revolutionary, a game changer. One of the biggest Apple innova …

technology, computers, manufacturing, apple-corp

Apple 'brick' is a manufacturing process | Computerworld Blogs

Seeded on Sat Oct 4, 2008 8:38 PM EDT (Computerworld)

With the brick rumor information out of the way, now we can all speculate what this new Apple manufacturing means.

technology, plant, apple, manufacturing, brick

The New Facebook: People Just Don't Like Change

Sun Sep 28, 2008 3:50 PM EDT

The new Facebook is something that has gotten a lot of press lately, both good and bad. The majority of the articles written by technology blogs, newspapers, etc.

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technology, facebook

Macworld | iPhone Central | First Look: iPhone 2.1

Seeded on Fri Sep 12, 2008 11:28 PM EDT (Macworld)

This is an excellent article that provides some insight into some of the small added features of iPhone 2.1. For me personally, my phone seems snappier and more solid.

technology, apple, update, iphone, 2-0-firmware

SuperGenPass - The Only Safe Password Manager

Tue Sep 2, 2008 10:31 PM EDT

I have a confession to make: I absolutely hate password managers. In fact, I despise password managers. Typical password managers, that is. For example, 1Password is a favorite among Mac users. Personally, I would never use it.

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technology, security, web-services, supergenpass

Thoughts on YouTube

Wed Aug 13, 2008 9:47 PM EDT

Who doesn't love YouTube? Many people probably visit YouTube multiple times daily, whether it's to watch some comedic videos to brighten their day, or perhaps to watch some news footage that was uploaded by a reliable news source.

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technology, advertising, revenue, web-services, youtube

Issues With "Cloud Computing"

Mon Aug 11, 2008 10:40 PM EDT

The theory behind cloud computing is a wonderful one. Imagine an infinitely scalable sever cluster that theoretically has no limits. Need more space or bandwidth? Just pop in an extra server.

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technology, web-2-0, dell, new-media, cloud-computing

Summer Reading: Why It Sucks & Why It Should Be Illegal

Sun Aug 10, 2008 12:59 AM EDT

Summer reading is one of those things that students around the nation look forward to every year to ruin their summer. Everyone knows how it goes.

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education, school, summer-reading

WWDC 2008: Predictions & Thoughts

Sat Jun 7, 2008 10:39 PM EDT

Another year has gone by, and on Monday morning at 10:00 AM PST, Steve Jobs will take the stage at Moscone West in California to kick of Apple's annual Word Wide Developers Conference.

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technology, conference, apple, thoughts, predictions, developer, wwdc

Sound and Vision Magazine - FiOS TV: The Light Fantastic

Seeded on Mon May 19, 2008 7:30 PM EDT (soundandvisionmag.com)

If you've confused some of the recent TV commercials from Verizon, AT&T and the cable companies with ads from Metamucil, that's to be understood. Both, after all, extol the virtues of fiber.

technology, phone, verizon, internet, television, fios, fiber-optic

Daring Fireball: The $64,000 Question [Apple & Adobe]

Seeded on Fri Apr 4, 2008 11:30 PM EDT (Daring Fireball)

A few various observations and comments regarding Adobe's announcement that Photoshop CS4 will be available in a 64-bit version for Windows, but will only be 32-bit for Mac OS X.

technology, apple, adobe, programming, photoshop, cocoa, cs4

Gruber's Macworld Predictions

Seeded on Mon Jan 14, 2008 7:51 PM EST (Daring Fireball)

I think these will prove to be dead-on accurate.

technology, apple, macworld, daring-fireball, john-gruber

Technology and Education: We need to better integrate the two, and fast!

Fri Dec 14, 2007 10:31 PM EST

Technology is something that almost everyone is at least semi-familiar with. Be it something as simple as turning on a television or a computer, or something as complicated as editing a kernel extension in Terminal, we're all familiar with some sort of technology.

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technology, learning

The views from The Pirate Bay

Seeded on Sun Dec 2, 2007 5:58 PM EST (BBC News)

The Pirate Bay is one of the most popular file-sharing websites in the world and much of the content reachable via the site is pirated. Here the founders of the site and those that keep it running talk about what they do, why they do it and how hard it is to stop them.

technology, free, pirating, pirate-bay

Understanding The Digg Algorithm

Seeded on Thu Nov 29, 2007 8:13 PM EST (Search Engine Land)

Have you ever wondered what it really takes for a story submitted to Digg to get to the home page? Or why a certain story—even a really good, social media friendly story—never got to the home page? I'm frequently asked the question, "Hey, my story has [number] of Diggs but it …

technology, digg, front-page, algorithm

Macworld Review: Mac OS X Leopard

Seeded on Tue Oct 30, 2007 8:44 PM EDT (Macworld)

The fifth major update to Mac OS X, Leopard, contains such a mountain of features — more than 300 by Apple's count — that it's difficult to boil this $129 operating system release down to a few easy bullet points.

technology, review, apple, leopard, cnet, macosx

Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard Reviews. Macintosh OS Reviews by CNET

Seeded on Tue Oct 30, 2007 8:43 PM EDT (CNET.com)

CNET reviews Mac OS X Leopard and gives it an amazing 8/10!

technology, review, apple, leopard, cnet, macosx

Apple Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard Review by LAPTOP Magazine

Seeded on Tue Oct 30, 2007 8:37 PM EDT (laptopmag.com)

Part useful, part flash, all beautifully easy: Apple's Mac OS X 10 Leopard bounded into stores Friday, thrilling the Mac faithful with a solid and extremely useful upgrade.

technology, boot-camp, time-machine, cover-flow, mac-osx-apple-review-laptop-mag

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