Tagged: Apple

Review: iWood 4 Wooden iPhone Case By Miniot

Stained Wood is classy. It’s practically the universal symbol of classy, which is why I tracked down a wooden case for my iPhone, and the case I found was Miniot’s iWood 4, carved out of a whole block of cherry (mine was- other woods are available), and made in Holland. It’s certainly not a cheap case though, ringing in at $107 plus international shipping,...

a comparison of the galaxy note, iphone 4, blackberry bold, and LG Chocolate

Big Phone Vs Small Phone? Why I Switched From the iPhone to the Samsung Galaxy Note And Back

As Huawei unveiled the ginormous 6.1 inch Ascend Mate smartphone at CES last week, the debate over how big is too big raged on, and I decided to add my two cents as someone who has months of experience using a phablet, and years using an iPhone and smaller (think LG Chocolate). But… Check out the graphic we built on this before we get into it...

How Macs are Made [Video Factory Tour]

There once was a time when the Macintosh was manufactured in the USA, in Fremont, California. At the time, Apple was a more transparent company, and they made a video showcasing the process by which the mac was made and tested in that factory. This factory was Steve Jobs’s pride and joy. He built it from the ground up to look good, instead of...

Unexpected By Design Part 2: Steve Jobs and the iPod

Yesterday we showed you how differently the founders of Snapchat, Facebook, Youtube, and others envisioned their websites being used. Well here’s another example of what I’m beginning to call “the founder’s phenomina”. When Steve Jobs first got onto the stage of Walt Mossberg’s first annual D Tech conference in 2003, he was fresh off of the success of the iPod and the redesigned iMac....

I’m on Myspace (Again)

Deja vu. I logged into Myspace yesterday for the first time in seven years. But this isn’t standard myspace. This is the invite-only closed beta of “new myspace”. And it’s radically different. The new myspace is more of a music discovery and sharing service than a social network. Whereas the old Myspace was comparable to facebook, the new myspace is based on the same...