3G, GPS, MobileMe, Oh My

After all of the rumours (what else is new) the 3G iPhone is finally here. Hits the shelves on July 11th (in Canada too!) $199 for 8GB, $299 for 16GB Black, with a white 16GB model GPS In a clear action of trying to play catch up to Google, Apple also announced a suite of [...]

iTunes Movies Come To Canada

Looks like American and UK iTunes users won’t be the only ones who have access to purchase or rent movies from iTunes, Canadians have also joined the bunch. The Canadian iTunes store now have over 1,200 movies to buy, 200 of which you can purchase. With a 48 hour viewing window available for people who [...]

Apple TV Take 2 Is Finally Here

After drooling for weeks, Macheads can now get their hands on the new firmware for the Apple TV dubbed, Take 2. It features and updated UI as well as: HD/Standard Def movie rentals The ability to purchase items from the iTunes Store directly from the Apple TV Flickr/.Mac photo browsing Browse the iTunes Podcast directory [...]

Macworld Keynote

Just like was expected the blog-o-sphere went crazy over the Macworld keynote by Steve Jobs. Almost every blog was live-blogging the event, live-blogging the live blogs, and live blogging the live blogging of the live blogging (you get the idea). This is why I wanted to wait until all of the mass hysteria over the [...]

Best of the week – Sept 10 – 16

iTunes Movie Rentals? (Frank) iPhone: User racks a $4,800 bill (Frank) How To: Add RAW support to low end Canon camera (Frank) Mouse Danger in Vista (Frank) Hacking an Alarm Clock (Frank) Un-Portable Nintendo DS (Frank) Urine Powered Batteries (Frank) DS gets VOIP (Frank) iPhone firmware 1.1.1 may break soft unlocks (Frank)

iTunes Movie Rentals?

Many readers of the site have sent me this one. Someone stumbled across this tid bit, after trying to report a problem to Apple within the iTunes store he stumbled across evidence that there will be movie rentals available in the near future. Some of the Apple-created menus include “DidNotReceiveMovie-RentalMovie,” “AccidentalPurchase-RentalMovie,” “ContentQuality-RentalMovie,” “DuplicatePurchase-RentalMovie,” “WrongVErsion-RentalMovie,” “BadMetadata-RentalMovie” [...]