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2009

November

Early Thoughts on Logitech’s Very Cool New Squeezebox Radio (Updated)

Heads Up For Loyal Readers: The 2010 Buyers’ Guide Is Here

October

As If the Magic Mouse Wasn’t Cool Enough… Look At The Box

A Few Thoughts On The New Apple TV 3.0 Interface

On the New Late 2009 Mac Lineup

On The Wisdom of Buying a Mac In Light of Windows 7 and Snow Leopard

Two Proposed Solutions to Snow Leopard Crash Problems on Macs

Aluminum Mtable Offers MacBook Monitor Users An Alternative to Stands

Great News: The FTC Finally Requires Payment-For-Review Disclosures

September

Ten New Details on the Apple Tablet

The Growing iPod + iPhone Family, in Pictures (2009)

iPod classic 160GB: Yes, FireWire Chargers Still Work

The Yellow iPod nano 5G Saga, Part 2: Click Wheel Gaps Worth Looking For

The First Dead (And Not Abused) Fifth-Generation iPod nano

iPod Pricing: Will 2009 Be The $199 Year For iPod touch?

Congratulations, Jesse: Welcome Victoria Grace Hollington!

Problems With Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: Join The (Sizable?) Minority

August

Apple’s It’s Only Rock and Roll Event: The Beatles? The Stones? Or…?

Augmented Reality, or, An Ultra-Cool iPhone 3GS Feature, Yelping For Your Help

Praise for In-App Purchasing Done (Mostly) Right: Ramp Champ

On MacBook Mini, Or, What A $400 Hackintosh Netbook Really Gets You, And Leaves Out

Eye-Fi Geo: Add iPhone-Style Geotagging, Wi-Fi Uploading to (Virtually) Any SD Card Camera

Galcon As Object Lesson in iPhone App Development and Refreshing

Your Thoughts on Albums: Will More Interactive Content Increase Their Appeal, or Not?

iPhone 3G Refurbs, or, More Fun With AT&T

Meta: On Submitting Apps & Games to iLounge For Possible Coverage

Thermaltake’s Luxa2 M1-Pro, M2 + M3-Air Cooling Stands for Apple’s MacBooks

July

Yeah, About That iPhone 3GS Headphone Port Thing…

How Apple Might Win Over (Some) Hesitant Click Wheel iPod Users to Touch Devices

The Full Game + Expansion Pack Model, or, Why Wipeout HD Fury = The Future of Downloadable Games

On iPhone App And Accessory Bundles - Pricing, Distribution + Related Issues

App Store Updates: The Gift That (Sometimes) Keeps on Giving

iPhone 3GS Compass Flakiness: Blame The Hardware, Or The OS?

Is the iPhone a Dud for Serious Business Users?

Time Capsule Postscript: Wow, Even iPhone Synchronization is Slow

Time Capsule, Part III: Parting Thoughts on Slow Transfers and Wireless Interruptions

Graphic: Micro-Projectors in iPods or iPhones, Or, Don’t Hold Your Breath

Apple’s Time Capsule Gets a Second Chance, But Really Needs An iTunes + iPhoto Server

June

Chicago, the iPhone 3GS, and iPods: Your Thoughts?

On Signing 2-Year Contracts To Use Hand-Me-Down iPhone 3Gs

Postscript: Notes on iLounge’s Comprehensive iPhone 3GS Review

By Request, a Preview of iLounge’s Comprehensive iPhone 3GS Review (Updated)

Lightning Review: What Happened to Gizmodo’s iPhone 3GS Hands-On? (Updated)

Flip UltraHD: $200, Apple-style Simple HD Video Recording, With Small Caveats

Why’s My Mac Slower & Running Its Fans After Updating iTunes?

On Lessons Learned, or Why iPhone OS 3.0 Will Hit Before Next-Gen iPhones

May

On “Zune HD,” or, Why “iPhone/iPod HD” Might Sound Great, But Suck

iPod nano 5G, Next-Gen iPhone Design Changes Revealed?

Could Plants vs. Zombies Be PopCap’s Next Big iPhone Game?

Geeking Out Right Now, or, the iPod/iPhone Mini Home Theater

April

On Bringing TiVo to Needy iPod and iPhone Users (Including Us)

On EyeTV, or, How Buggy Software Is Ruining Good Apple Hardware

Time-Lapse Photographs and the iPhone

March

What App Store Gamers Are Missing, and How to Get It Back

Stylish and Simple, Just Mobile’s Cooling Bar Macks Up the MacBook

Technical + Business Details On iPod Shuffle 3G’s Remote Chip

One More Thing: Apple’s New Approach to iPod “Generations”

So Last Year’s iPod shuffle Rumor Was True (Partially): iPod shuffle 3G

Twenty-Four Hours Without My iPhone

LaCie’s iamaKey: An Almost Completely Sensible Pocket Storage Solution

Peggle Nights: An Addiction, Temporarily Sated

On Alternator Whine, A Noise That Messes Up In-Car AUX Ports

Briefly, On Apple’s March 2009 Mac Desktop Lineup

February

Finally, a Mac Version of Peggle Nights!

Parting Thoughts on Street Fighter IV

Concluding Thoughts on Speck’s CorePack and Vaja’s iVolution Shell for MacBook

Why, Apple, Why? POTUSA’s App With Obscenities OK, South Park App Not OK

Three Paragraphs on Street Fighter IV

On Mobile World Congress and the iPhone

A Smarter Premium Leather MacBook Case? Vaja’s New iVolution Shell

A Brief Note on the Nearby Clarence, NY Plane Crash

Making Good Pictures From That iPhone Camera

Buffalo Chow, or, My Shout Out to Buffalo, Niagara Falls, and Western New York

On Amazon’s Kindle 2, or, It’s Apple Circa 1999, Mr. Bezos, Not an iPhone 3G

Tell Us Your Thoughts on iPhone Fart and Boob Apps

On iPhone 3G Lawsuits: Why They Happen, and How Apple Can Stop Them

On 7” iPod Video Screens, or, Why We’re Buying Discontinued Accessories

New Mac Gear: Blue’s Eyeball + ThermaPAK’s HeatShift Cooling Pad

January

Thanks For The Enthusiastic Response To The CES 2010 Pavilion!

The Case of the Mysterious Missing Burrito App: iPhone as Food Tool

CorePack, or, How Speck Brought Classy Fabrics to MacBook Bags

Matte Your Aluminum MacBook 13” Screen + A Matching MacBook Stand (Updated)

2008

December

Thoughts on NLU’s BodyGuardz Film Covers for MacBook and Pro

Early Words on NLU’s BodyGuardz for MacBook + Pro

A Follow-Up on Speck’s SeeThru Satin

On Altec Lansing’s Expressionist Bass + Classic

The Times, They Are A-changin’ (Goodbye, Macworld Expo?)

New for Mac, Expressionist Classic + SeeThru Satin

Post-Vacation Changes, or, The Koi Pond

November

Protecting the Metal MacBook: InvisibleShield, Part 2

Protecting the Metal MacBook: InvisibleShield, Part 1

On the Election

October

On Pricing and the App Store

Shhhh… We’ve Soft-Launched the 2009 Buyers’ Guide!

In the Labs: Altec Lansing’s Expressionist BASS

The MacBook That Apple Got So, So Right

Apple + AT&T’s iPhone Antitrust Class Action Smackdown

Apple’s Gold, Yellow, and Orange iPods Compared

September

Notes and Pictures: The 4GB Fourth-Generation iPod nano

Wipeout HD, or, What a Sony $20 Digital Download Buys in 2008

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