A blog post by software engineer Adam Connors from the Google mobile team announces a new version of Google Talk for iPhone and iPod touch.In addition to sending your friends Gmail messages from your iPhone, you can now chat with them while you’re on the move, too! In your iPhone browser, just go to [...]

If you’re having people over to your house this weekend to celebrate Independence day (04 July, here in the U.S.) – a few tunes are probably in order. Luckily the Mac is one of the best platforms for creating a great party environment thanks to its vast music playback options, and if there’s one thing [...]

With the launch of the iPhone 3G a little over a week away and new rate plans published many people are wondering what to do with their first generation iPhones.An AppleInsider story lists a bunch of options including handing it down to a family member or friend. AT&T has posted a PDF file outlining how [...]

AT&T today released their rate plan information for the iPhone 3G which goes on sale at 8am on 11 July 2008. As expected the free 200 SMS messages included in the original iPhone rate plans are gone and now cost US$5 per month for 200 messages, US$15 per month for 1,500 messages and US$20 per [...]

As was the case this time last year, Apple has posted a 30 minute Web video demonstrating some of the features of the new iPhone 3G.You’re host is, you guessed it, the same guy that did the first iPhone videos (Bob?). Last time he was a little more mellow, this time he must have been [...]

Apple late Monday releases another update to its Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard operating system. The update includes a raft of security and performance tweaks for iCal, Airport and more.

Our pals over at ZDNet Germany have released an overclocking tool for the Mac Pro and Xserve that raises the speed of the processor, front side bus and memory – all without opening the case. Although tons of overclocking tools are available for Windows, up until now, little if any have been available for the [...]

T-Mobile will introduce the iPhone in The Netherlands. There are three plans, the cheapest being €30 per month. All plans will have unlimited data, 2 Mbit down and 384 Kbps up. You also get free access to 1,500 Wi-Fi hotspots. Not a bad deal, especially compared the the shellacking Canadians are getting. (Tip: Jack)

How’s the AT&T coverage by you?The AT&T wireless coverage in my area (southern New Jersey, close to Atlantic City) is atrocious. This is a problem for me as an iPhone user because I can’t get decent coverage in my house (1 bar tops) and my entire city is pretty much entirely dark (mostly zero bars). [...]

Rogers/Fido just announced their iPhone rate plans today, and our Canadian neighbors to the north are sorta freaking out about them. Just take a look at Digg.We’re kind of spoiled here in the U.S. with our unlimited data plans, but capped data and massive overage fees aren’t the only thing that Canadian iPhone customers are [...]

I was in the my local Apple Store yesterday at The Pier in Atlantic City, New Jersey purchasing an AppleCare Protection Plan for my wife’s iPhone and I asked about a Genius about what time of day iPhones would be going on sale on 11 July. He said that he wasn’t sure if it was [...]

I’ve just confirmed with the folks at Splash Data that they’ll be announcing versions of SplashID, SplashMoney and SplashShopper for iPhone.SplashID is one of my favorite desktop applications and I use it several times a day to retrieve passwords, account numbers and all manor of other important data (we reviewed it on the PowerPage on [...]

Former colleague and PhoneDevCamp founder Raven Zachary recently got whacked with a $837.20 iPhone bill for international data usage. This was despite securing an AT&T World Traveler plan and a 20GB Data Global plan. He offers the following tips for iPhone users traveling abroad this summer:Disable international data roaming altogether (it’s a preference in the [...]

Microsoft just pushed out a 153.3MB update for Office 2008 for Mac that’s labeled “critical.” You will get notified of the updated via Microsoft AutoUpdate the next time it phones home or you can download the patch directly from the MS support knowledgebase.According to Article ID 953822 the Office 12.1.1 update fixes an issue that [...]

An article at Business Week states that the forthcoming iPhone 3G costs Apple approximately US$173 to manufacture.The estimate is based on its Bill of Materials (BOM) according to a preliminary “virtual teardown” conducted by iSuppli Corp.“At a hardware BOM and manufacturing cost of $173, the new iPhone is significantly less expensive to produce than the [...]

In a survey, Adobe asks its developers about scripting support in Creative Suite. But it sure looks as if coders are being asked to choose between AppleScript and something else.

I’ve come to the conclusion that the MacBook Air isn’t the best Mac for me. Everything that I’ve previously written about the MBA still remains true: I love its tiny form factor, light weight and ability to be able to be tucked into almost any bag, but at the end of the day I’m a [...]

VoIP-sol.com has assembled a list of the various VoIP applications and services that are currently available for the iPhone, including iCall, fring, iPhoneGnome, JAHJAH, Talkety, sipgate, Raketu and Ringfree. Some require a jailbroken iPhone and others do not. Have you had succes with VoIP on iPhone? What is your app of choice? (Tip: Andy Boyd)

Remember the Manila Mac AirMail sleeve that was announced just after the MacBook Air in January? It’s the one that looks like the manila envelope featured in the MacBook Air television commercial. I wasn’t too fond of the AirMail when I reviewed it on 21 March 2008.A better alternative has arrived: the iSobre sleeve for [...]

In a previous piece I published information about AT&T’s new iPhone 3G rate plans:Individual voice plans:$39.99 – 450 minutes$59.99 – 900 minutes$79.00 – 1,350 minutes$99.99 – unlimited minutesFamily Talk voice plans:$69.99 – 700 shared minutes$89.99 – 1,400 shared minutes$109.99 – 2,100 shared minutes$149.99 – 3,000 shared minutes$199.99 – unlimited shared minutesAs has been well publicized, [...]

German site Apfeltalk has posted some screen shots of the upcoming Mac OS 10.6 a.k.a. “Snow Leopard.” Since the new version of the OS contains mostly under-the-hood features, there isn’t a bunch to see though. One cool thing is Safari 4.0’s “Save as Web Application” feature which creates a double-clickable run-time application from any Web [...]

Happy Friday! Let’s take a look at some of the latest Apple rumors floating around.A MacRumors reader found references to an unreleased High Definition USB iSight in Apple’s QuickTime system files. The line says “Next Generation USB iSight” in QuickTime’s localizable.strings and also carries a reference of “iSight HD.” Apple sold external FireWire iSight cameras [...]

Macworld has posted an interesting Podcast with three heavyweights in the Mac/iPhone development world.Editorial director, Jason Snell then sits down with three key Mac developers—NewsGator’s Brent Simmons, The OmniGroup’s Greg Titus, and The Icon Factory’s Craig Hockenberry—to talk about their experiences developing for the iPhone.

I recently published lists of my most anticipated iPhone applications and my App Store wishlist. But what about applications that we’ll never see in the App Store?There are certain kinds of applications that Apple will most likely never offer in the App Store because they conflict with their own offerings. Some examples include:Music purchases not [...]

In a previous post I mentioned a few of my most anticipated (announced) iPhone applications, but what about the ones that weren’t announced?There are several iPhone applications that I’d love to see on the App Store that I haven’t seen mentioned. Ideally they’d be free, but I’d definitely be willing to pay for them.iPhone developers [...]

I don’t know about you but I’m counting the days until 11 July so that I can get my mitts on iPhone firmware 2.0 and the App store.Jailbroken iPhones are phone but I can’t wait to go legit. I’ve already got a few favorite iPhone applications based on early descriptions and screen shots that have [...]

Many Mac users were upset with Apple's decision to remove several useful features from Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, including Bluetooth cell phone dialing within Address Book and support for SMS text messages. However, Nova Media on Tuesday announced its inexpensive Phone Plugins utility that restores the functions.

Western Digital has raised the bar on the notebook hard drives with their new “Black” line of Scorpio drives. The new 2.5-inch SATA WD3200BEKT hard drives spin at 7200RPM which is faster than their 5400RPM (WD3200BEVT) Scorpio drives that I reviewed on 16 November 2007.The new 7200RPM WD Scorpio Black 2.5-inch mobile drives are 9.5mm [...]

Mac OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard, was announced last week at Apple's developer conference and there are few details creeping out from under the developer non-disclosure agreements. Mac enthusiast sites are busy posting conjectures that fill in some of the blanks, including which processors that will run it, its performance, or whether it will run on the PowerPC.

After a bit of a bump following CEO Steve Jobs' keynote address at Apple's developer conference, the company's stock has been taking a beating. It was down almost 4 percent on Thursday. On Friday morning, it's still heading lower. What is up?