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 it’s very expensive. In fact, the average 30-second commercial that airs [...]

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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 profit of $1.61 billion.
These record profits are driven by the following sales numbers for the quarter, [...]

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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 proved to be a success as we saw that number almost double in merely one [...]

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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 had become a little screwed up and there were all kinds [...]

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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 mention any sort of release date for the jailbreak.
Unless you’ve been living under [...]

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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 Series case, that the 2nd generation case has been improved to address some of the [...]

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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 earlier today.
Now, don’t get this whole thing wrong. Steve isn’t leaving the company permanently. It’s not like that at [...]

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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 excited for an entirely new year of blogging!
On January 14th, 2008, Jody Mitoma (hey, that’s [...]

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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, TP has emerged to become the site you see today. You could [...]

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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 for the iPod touch 1st generation, but the Defender series is also available [...]

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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 that I cannot review products for the iPod Touch 2G, but [...]

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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 an EDGE connection… although you will need time and patience!
For a 9.3MB track, it [...]

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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 reported a 48% decrease in iPhone sales in Q4 of 2008, a sharp decrease [...]

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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 work that way.  The source directories got deleted.
Now, in my defense, something [...]

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