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Entries from January 2009

Mac turns 25

Date January 23, 2009

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The revolutionary computer that started it all, Macintosh, turns 25 tomorrow. Apple debuted their first Mac back on January 24th, 1984 and aired a commercial during the Superbowl the same year. If you know anything about airing commercials during the Superbowl, you know that [...]

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Apple Reports Best Quarterly Revenue in Apple History

Date January 22, 2009

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Apple has announced their financial results for Q1 of fiscal year 2009, ending December 27, 2008…. how that makes sense, I have no idea…. Anyways, the revenue for the quarter is an Apple record of $10.17 billion, with a [...]

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App Store on Pace to a Billion?

Date January 19, 2009

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Plastered across the front page of Apple’s website is the exciting news that the App Store has reached 500 million downloads. While it took the App Store nearly 6 months to reach the 300 million mark, the holiday shopping season [...]

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Adventures in SQL

Date January 18, 2009

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Well, that was fun.  And by “fun” I mean “kill me now.”
Some of you may have noticed the downtime and the lovely “This account has been disabled” message when you tried to access TouchPodium, Frapstr or WebKit.  Turns out that a couple of databases [...]

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Is next Sunday a Funday?

Date January 16, 2009

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UPDATE: Turns out Sunday wasn’t a Funday after all. But thanks to MuscleNerd’s live demos of the iPod touch 2G jailbreak on the day earlier, at least we got a glimpse at what’s coming. MuscleNerd from the iPhone Dev Team did not [...]

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Otterbox Defender Case Review - An Update

Date January 16, 2009

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Upon reading the review HERE, an Otterbox Rep. got back to me regarding the issues that I had with the screen interactivity. The Rep. wrote;
“ I did want to note, in response to your review of the iPod touch Defender [...]

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Mr. Jobs Leaves Apple Inc…. Well, at Least Until the Summer

Date January 14, 2009

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The Steve has taken a leave of absence from the company he himself founded many, many years ago. This was first announced by an e-mail sent to all of Steve’s own Apple employees, which was sent [...]

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Touch Podium Turns One Year Old Today!

Date January 14, 2009

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Today we have the excitement of celebrating an entire year in writing. Writing and posting about all things iPhone and iPod Touch related, that is. That’s right folks, Touch Podium is turning one year old today, and we’re very [...]

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Who’s the new guy?

Date January 14, 2009

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Shortly after New Years, there’s two things to celebrate right here at Touch Podium. First, and more importantly, Touch Podium is celebrating it’s one-year anniversary. Back on January 14th, 2008, Touch Podium opened it’s doors - and from a once small, free-hosted website, [...]

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Otterbox Defender Series Case Review

Date January 12, 2009

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OtterBox Defender Series for the Apple iPod Touch 1G
 

The fine folks over at Otterbox have provided me with an iPod touch Defender series case to try out, which retails for $29.95. I must note that the case in this review is [...]

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Upcoming Product Reviews

Date January 9, 2009

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Hello All,
I just wanted to let everyone know about our upcoming product reviews.
As you can see further down in the posts on the main page, there is a review of the Otterbox Impact Series case for the 3G. You can read it here.
I apologize [...]

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Download Tracks from iTunes Over EDGE

Date January 8, 2009

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Further to the announcement made by Phil Schiller during the Macworld Expo keynote address regarding the iPhone 3G’s ability to purchase and download music and podcasts over the 3G data network, it has been reported that you can also download using [...]

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iPhone Isn’t Enough To Help Rogers…

Date January 8, 2009

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Based on an article published on Tuesday in the Financial Post, it seems as though Rogers saw an unexpected decline in iPhone activations during the holiday season, which some say could be indicative of a challenging 2009 for Canada’s wireless carriers.
Rogers [...]

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I am a tard

Date January 7, 2009

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Yes I am.
You see, I was doing some work in the directories of our sites, attempting to copy two directories from one place to another.  Such a simple operation, really; select two directories, copy from here to there, done.  Except it didn’t quite [...]

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