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How Many iPhone Apps Do You Use?

I admit it — I'm a cell phone whore. And as much as I love my HTC G1, I hate, hate, HATE the T-Mobile network. The problem is made worse by the fact that I had switched over to T-Mobile from Verizon (the best network in the U.S.) for the G1. I refuse to switch over to the iPhone. I hate that it is a closed platform, and that it forces developers to jump through hoops and wait unreasonable lengths of time for an app to get approved. (Case in point: the Squarespace iPhone App was finally released this week. Apple's approval process had taken so long that the Squarespace team is already well into the next version of the application. As...

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iPhone Numberpad App

As much as I *heart* my LG Voyager (especially its rockin' Navigation system), I do get tempted to by the lusciousness that is the iPhone. In particular, the Safari browser. Although LG and Verizon like to tout the Voyager's browser as a fully functioning HTML decoder, the fact remains that it doesn't work too well with anything other than HTML. CSS rendering is unreliable and JavaScript is a hit or a miss. My phone has also developed a nasty habit of automatically shutting off whenever it encounters a page heavy with JavaScript/AJAX. *Throws tantrum* So whenever I see yet another cool app for the iPhone, like the Numberkey, I end up emotionally cheating on my Voyager. Can you tell I have a weakness for simple solutions...

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Big Apple Tuesday

In case you live in a cave, I am happy to tell you that Apple made some big announcements today. (I followed the live blog at Engadget, which seemed to have some good pictures of the event. As such, the following pictures come courtesy of Mr. Topolsky at Engadget, unless otherwise noted.) The new MacBook Pros and MacBooks are cut from solid blocks of aluminum like the MacBook Air: That chunk of aluminum in the picture above is cut with (frickin) laser beams to form this: In my opinion, the biggest announcement of the day came when Steve Jobs spoke of the integration of the new NVIDIA GeForce 9400M chip with the laptop lineup: It is a chipset and GPU in one! It is capable...

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