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 [...]
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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 [...]
Posted in Apple, Mish-Mosh 
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 »Trimming The Fat
May 7th, 2010 Evan Just a quick update to let any regular readers out there know that I’ve uninstalled a whole host of WordPress extensions from this site that weren’t really needed and cleaned up the sidebar. All this means is that page loading should be noticeably faster. Enjoy, and thanks for reading!
The Best DVD Cover Ever?
May 5th, 2010 Evan As you may or may not be aware, The Princess Bride is one of my favorite movies. A few years ago they released the 20th Anniversary Edition on DVD. Although I did not see this then, as I already own a copy of the movie, this edition of the DVD has what could possibly be [...]
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 [...]
TAV Comments Are Now Do-Follow
April 28th, 2010 TAV 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 author’s [...]
Hard Drive Information & Maintenance
April 19th, 2010 TAV 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 relatively [...]
Posted in Apple, Mish-Mosh Tags: Disk Space, Disk Utility, Diskspace, Hard Disk, Hard Drive, Maintenence, S.M.A.R.T. 1 Comment »
