Category: 705: Mac Treat #143, Mac App Store Now Open, Pandora Plays Nice, 2011 Predictions

Some things that happen in Las Vegas don’t stay there and I will try to recap our experiences next week. We are there to both buy and sell and have a strong crew out for this show. Meanwhile, the teams in Vermont and New Hampshire will continue to push the window on providing the very…

__Editor’s note: Due to an error on my part, a photo was omitted from Don’s 2010 Predictions Recap last week… to view the issue with image included, check it out in the Kibbles & Bytes Archives here! Don’t say I didn’t warn you… -KH__ Yes, it is that time of the year where tradition demands…

In a “*press release*”:http://www.att.com/gen/press-room?pid=18889&cdvn=news&newsarticleid=31481 yesterday, AT&T announced plans to reduce the subsidized price of the “*8GB iPhone 3GS*”:http://www.apple.com/iphone/iphone-3gs/ from $99 to $49. The offer, which goes into effect today, extends to both new and existing AT&T customers who are eligible for upgrade. Though this may mark the lowest commercially available iPhone price, it does require…

Perhaps the best aspect of the second generation Apple TV is its ability to instantly stream Netflix content. This feature was highly requested leading up to the device’s release last year, and while its inclusion temporarily placated the demand for greater 3rd party support, users still yearn for a greater selection of apps. As the…

As of yesterday, the Mac App Store has officially opened its “doors” for business. Launching with over 1,000 apps in a wide range of categories, the new store is available as part of the Mac OS X v10.6.6 software update. The lone new feature of the update–beyond typical bug fixes and stability enhancements–is that the…

This past week Kali and I had to swap a number of emails with very large attachments–up to 19MB. That’s at the upper limit of what our mail server can handle. If the attachments were much larger, we’d use our public iDisk folder, included with MobileMe, or “Dropbox”:https://www.dropbox.com to exchange the files. However, time was…

_Dear Friends,_ Happy New Year! New Year’s weekend was so mild here in Vermont that Prickly Mountain Road and our notorious “Cold Road” were turned to mud. This was a thick, gooey mud that reminded me of the “gumbo coolie” of the midwest. I cringed as I gunned my car and drove through it; slow…