Entries Tagged ‘Apple’

Episode 11: The pause.com Entertainment Podcast

Episode 11 of The pause.com Entertainment Podcast is live! NOTE: To subscribe to the pause.com Entertainment Podcast on iTunes Click here to open iTunes to our podcast, then click the SUBSCRIBE button. In this episode: Lou gives a shout-out to caller Jason, then talks about playing Peggle on the Xbox 360, as well as Operation Anchorage, […]

Episode 10: The pause.com Entertainment Podcast

Episode 10 of The pause.com Entertainment Podcast is live! NOTE: To subscribe to the pause.com Entertainment Podcast on iTunes Click here to open iTunes to our podcast, then click the SUBSCRIBE button. In this episode: Tony gives a shout-out to listener Terry, then talks about playing Peggle on the Xbox 360. Lou talks about iPhone games […]

Tired of Apple’s Disease? Join the Club…

Oh, the irony! It was 25 years ago that Apple showed THAT commercial on TV and got the world excited about the Macintosh computer. And I was one of those excited among the masses. Not that they were necessarily pulling me away from a competitor, mind you…I was a die-hard Apple IIe user who wished he […]

Episode 8: The pause.com Entertainment Podcast

Episode 8 of The pause.com Entertainment Podcast is live! NOTE: To subscribe to the pause.com Entertainment Podcast on iTunes Click here to open iTunes to our podcast, then click the SUBSCRIBE button. In this episode: After answering some listener e-mail Tony talks about Killzone 2 and Lou mentions Puzzle Quest: Galactrix. In TV (~14:30) Lou talks […]

pause.com Deal Alert: Hell Freezes Over, Best Buy Saves You $50 – $100 on iPhone 3G

Well if you thought you’d never see the iPhone go on sale, think again. Best Buy has the iPhone 3G on sale for one week only. All you have to do to get the sale price is be a member of their Reward Zone program, and that’ll save you $50 off of either the 8GB […]

Microsoft to Open Retail Stores: Finally! Some Exposure for Redmond!

Microsoft put out a press release yesterday indicating that they’re going to be opening some retail stores. Heading up the group is former Dreamworks Animation and Wal-mart exec David Porter. Of course many people will see this as Microsoft competing with Apple more directly in the retail space, but I think that Apple is pretty far down […]

Apple Appoints New Head of iPod and iPhone Development

Mark Papermaster will take the reigns of Apple’s all-important group starting April 24th. He was happy to have beaten out Charlie Rockmaster for the position and admitted in a news conference today that he was secretly thrilled that Tony Scissorsmaster had recently been laid off, so as not to have to go up against him […]

Note to Apple: Fire your Backup Programmers, Get New Ones

I would love to report on the greatness of the iPhone 3G’s 2.1 firmware update, but I can’t, because for the last hour-plus, the little status bar showing backup progress has been running. My backup has never taken an hour. I also don’t think that the 9GB of data on my iPhone would even come […]

Apple’s Let’s Rock Event News

So lots of new stuff from Apple today. Hit the clicky thingie to read about new iPods, new iPod accessories, as well as iTunes 8 & iPhone 2.1 updates.

iPhone 2.0.1 Software Out, Seems Faster

iPhone 2.0.1 software was released today, coming in at right around 250MB. The only things listed as changes on the update screen were “Bug fixes” but I can tell you that my iPhone Backup in iTunes went from 20+ minutes down to 1 minute and 1 second after the OS update. Pretty sweet! In addition, […]