As soon as I heard that there was a forthcoming major revamp of the Apple TV, I had high hopes. I’ve long been frustrated with the lack of innovation and inflated prices over at Time Warner Cable, and the prospects of having an inexpensive box I can plug in to my TV that would allow [...]
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iOS 4 on an iPhone 3G
June 26th, 2010 
Evan All the talk over the last week on the Internets has been focusing on the new iPhone 4 or the fully-enabled iOS 4 on an iPhone 3GS, but not everyone is getting a brand new iPhone 4 or already has a 3GS. This review is for those of you, like myself, who are still saddled [...]
Fare Thee Well, The Apple Vine
May 28th, 2010 Evan As you may or may not be aware, I started a new blog not too long ago called The Apple Vine. It was fun while it lasted, but I simply do not have the time to upkeep that website to the level that it deserves, so I will be retiring The Apple Vine and once [...]
Apple Usurps Microsoft As The World's Biggest Tech Company
May 26th, 2010 TAV Based on market capitalization, Apple has official become the largest tech company in the world, passing Microsoft. Thanks in large part to ridiculously successful sales of the iPhone, iPod, and now the iPad as well as continually growing Mac sales, the company has slowly but steadily chipped a way at a market once entirely dominated [...]
App Profile: Twitter for iPhone
May 21st, 2010 TAV 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 considered [...]
White Entry-Level MacBook Receives Speed Bump
May 18th, 2010 TAV 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 now [...]
TAV's New Social Media Toolbar
May 17th, 2010 TAV 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 and [...]
Beginner's Guide To Setting Up A Mac Mini Media Center
May 12th, 2010 TAV You know you’ve thought about it. Ditching cable and hooking a small computer up to your TV to stream videos, TV shows, movies, music and more is something that every geek would love to do. Well, there isn’t really a better computer on the market for doing this than the Mac Mini from Apple. In [...]
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Tags: Beginners Guide, Boxee, Front Row, HDMI, HTPC, Hulu, Mac Mini, Media Center, Mini DisplayPort 
6 Comments »Android Overtakes Apple in US Smartphone Usage
May 11th, 2010 TAV 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 to [...]
Posted in Apple, Mish-Mosh Tags: Android, Blackberry, Google, iPhone HD, Marketshare, RIM, Smartphone, Verizon 9 Comments »Steve Jobs' Thoughts On Flash
April 29th, 2010 TAV 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 website [...]
