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    App Profile: Twitter for iPhone

    by  • May 21, 2010 • Apple, Reviews • 6 Comments

    Twitter for iPhone Category: Social Networking Last Updated: May 18th, 2010 Current Version: 3.0 (Previously Tweetie 2) Size: 2.4 MB Price: Free Once upon a time there was a @Twitter client for the iPhone named Tweetie. Although it was not a free client like some of it’s stiffer competition (Read: @Twitterrific), Tweetie was generally...

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    White Entry-Level MacBook Receives Speed Bump

    by  • May 18, 2010 • Apple, Mish-Mosh • 6 Comments

    As of first thing this morning, Apple has rather quietly announced an update to it’s entry-level White MacBook. Keeping its price of $999, the laptop now offers a faster 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo processor as well as the NVIDIA 320M graphics chip used in the latest revision of the 13″ MacBook Pro. It also...

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    TAV's New Social Media Toolbar

    by  • May 17, 2010 • Apple, Mish-Mosh • 0 Comments

    See that shiny new toolbar at the bottom of your screen? That’s our new social media toolbar here at The Apple Vine, courtesy of Wibiya. What does this mean for you, our loyal reader? Easy access to your preferred social media outlets, that’s what! You can now easily keep track of us on Facebook...

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    Android Overtakes Apple in US Smartphone Usage

    by  • May 11, 2010 • Apple, Mish-Mosh • 9 Comments

    According to the NPD Group, a market research firm, Android has usurped Apple for the #2 spot in the US smartphone market. RIM still leads the pack with it’s Blackberrys (-ies?) commanding a 36% market share, with Google’s Android OS now at 28% and Apple’s iPhone at 21%. AT&T, amazingly still the only company...

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    Steve Jobs' Thoughts On Flash

    by  • April 29, 2010 • Apple, Mish-Mosh • 4 Comments

    It is not news to anyone who has an iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad, that it does not support Flash. Apple has received a lot of flak about not including it and Adobe has certainly heard its share for not working with Apple to make it happen. The following posting is taken from Apple’s...

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    TAV Comments Are Now Do-Follow

    by  • April 28, 2010 • Apple, Mish-Mosh • 9 Comments

    This likely won’t matter to most of you reading this, but to any webmasters reading this out there who are familiar with the ongoing argument about the merits of dofollow vs. nofollow linking, I just wanted to let you know that The Apple Vine’s comments have turned off the rel=”nofollow” attribute for the comment...

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    Hard Drive Information & Maintenance

    by  • April 19, 2010 • Apple, Mish-Mosh • 1 Comment

    Your hard drive is arguably one of the most important parts of your system, as it stores all of your data. Here are a few quick and easy tips for how to keep track of the health and capacity of your drive. See The Total Count of Files & Folders Sure, this is a...

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