AppGeek.com, from iEntry Inc., doesn’t play favorites – as they feature apps from Apple, Android, and Blackberry (with Windows 7 apps coming soon!).

Each app featured on AppGeek allows you to share it socially via Twitter, Facebook, Buzz and StumbleUpon. They also include screenshots, videos, app recommendations, price… etc. Everything is right there for you, making it very easy for the user to see if that app is right for them.

Well, why are you still reading this? Go over to AppGeek now and start finding new apps.

Corporate users have been enjoying the iPhone as a communication device, allowing them to stay in touch with their company’s home base both via E-mail and voice. But employers are liking the device as well, since IT costs have been significantly lower than expected. The 12-page report examines three large companies with significant iPhone use ” Kraft Foods, Oracle, and Amylin Pharmaceuticals. According to Tim Shadler, the reports author, the iPhone helped create a happier, more productive workforce.

There’s nothing in particular about the iPhone’s hardware or software features that helped create this surge in employee satisfaction. Rather, employees’ happiness came from the ability to use the tool they chose. After all, the iPhone is one of the most lusted-after phones on the market right now.

The report does note some downsides: ActiveSync and calendar support on the iPhone are still not up to snuff when compared with the competition, and the device can’t top BlackBerry Enterprise Server when it comes to reliability. Still, with new features like expanded push notifications and copy and paste expected this summer, corporate iPhone use is sure to continue to expand.

It all starts when Springfield Mall gets a new Mapple store, shaped like a giant cube. “It’s so sterile”, is the first thing Lisa excitedly says upon entering. She goes from display to display looking at the MiPods and MiPhones.

Steve Mobs’, the self-proclaimed “insanely great leader”, makes a live announcement from the Mapple headquarters deep below the sea. Some geeky spectators comment, “he’s a genius” and “he’s like a god who knows what we want” before Mobs even says anything.

Mobs’ says he has something that will “completely change the way you look at everything”. Everyone in the audience now has cash in hand waiting to buy whatever it he says.

Of course, Bart sees this as an opportune moment to hook up a microphone and dub over the lisping Mobs’. “You think you’re cool because you buy a $500 phone with a picture of a fruit on it. Well guess what? They cost 8 bucks to make and I pee on every one!” The hilarity doesn’t stop there, as Bart continues, “I have made of fortune off you chumps and I’ve invested it all in Microsoft. Now my boyfriend Bill Gates and I kiss each other on a pile of your money!”

People are offended and outraged, one employee states “Who dares question the boss we fired 10 years ago and the brought back!” Comic Book Guy is so offended he does his best to recreate the classic 1984 Macintosh commercial (you can see it below), by throwing a sledge hammer which breaks the giant screen.

After getting her Mapple bill in the mail, Lisa travels to Mapple headquarters under the sea in a USB thumbdrive (I’m not making this stuff up). She finds the vein Mobs searching his own name, he geekily rejoices the findings. She’s there to discuss setting up a reduced payment plan for her $1,200 MiPod bill. Mobs then fill Lisa in on the true Mapple slogan “I know our posters say Think Differently, but our real slogan is No Refunds”.

I’m not sure if Steve Jobs did something to piss Matt Groening off, but I’ll be the first to admit… it was very funny. If anyone is interested in viewing the full episode you can check out Hulu (US Only) or MegaVideo.

We have no way of knowing what it is that the inhabitants of the Death Star want, or even if they are friendly. But one thing is for certain. On the fateful day when we must finally engage our enemy in combat, the greatest weapon available to us will be Jeff Goldblum and his Macintosh of Doom.

Technorati Tags: Jeff Goldblum, Star Wars, Independence Day, Macintosh, Death Star, San Francisco, video

If you wish to choose 100d6, you may.  In fact, I had to do the obligitory test of 100d100 just to see how it worked – the app did fine as my iPod Touch screen filled up with 100 sided dice.  For those curious, I rolled a 4788.

You can also set up multiple dice to roll.  Say you want to roll 2d6 and 1d4 at the same time?  No worries.

You can also roll physically impossible dice, like a 13 sided die.

The rolling is pretty nice and the app features a neat tilt/view, where if you hold your device at an angle, the dice seem to tilt appropriately.  Not bad MachWerx, not bad. You can see an example of multiple dice rolled and the tilt effect below.

The only downside, if you can consider it one, is the cost.  At $0.99 it isn’t going to break your bank (and if you think of it this way, it’s less than a cent per die) but it isn’t free.  Personally, I think it’s well worth it, if for no other reason than to support the devs who worked on this little app.  The graphics could use a bit of an update as well but all in all it’s a great app.

Technorati Tags: dice, die roller, iphone, ipod touch, mach dice, rpg, role players, reviews, software, apple, apps, app store

The Daily Mail reports word from a trusted industry source that Apple, Inc. will be releasing the iPhone Nano in time for the 2008 holiday season.  The slimmer, cheaper version of the hugely succesful iPhone will not have internet access and will be limited to the 3G network.

The iPhone Nano will probably be announced later this year, possibly at the Apple Expo taking place in Paris in mid-September.

Technorati Tags: iPhone, iPhone Nano, Apple

1. My fingerprints are ugly.
2. I Don’t have to blog about my new iPhone.
3. I enjoy dragging out my laptop on the train.
4. Steve Jobs won’t get another turtleneck out of me!
5. I know I’d just drop the damned thing.
6. Google’s Dream phone will be available any second.  Really.
7. I’m sexy enough.
8. I don’t want to purchase Spore fore the PC and iPhone.
9. Multi-touch on photos feels to much like squishing my loved one’s faces.
10. Mimes can’t use it, neither will I.

Neener Neener Apple.

Technorati Tags: iphone, non-iphone, no-iphone, someone buy me an iphone, apple, phones, top 10, geek, neener neener

APC has a great article up on the top 10 reasons to hate the new iPhone 3g.  As much as I kind of want to, I really don’t hate the new iPhone.  In fact, I’d love to have one.

My favorite reason cited: No Adobe Flash support. Ugh.

Undeniably, the iPhone has the best web browser of any phone on the market. But when you hit a web page with Adobe Flash in it, you’ll just get an empty space with a ‘missing plugin’ icon. Apple says Flash would run too slowly on the iPhone, but in reality, it’s probably more to do with Apple wanting to promote its competing web app development technology, Sproutcore.

Apple realises the ‘mobile web’ is at a tipping point… if it can get enough momentum behind developers coding sites specifically for the iPhone, it will help sales of the iPhone along in the long term. (That said, unlike Flash, Sproutcore is an open standard that theoretically works in any web browser that supports Javascript, so it could be widely supported by all handset makers if their phone web browsers got better.)

Who the hell uses Sproutcore?

Technorati Tags: iphone, hating, hate, 3g, apple, technology, gadgets

Time to dump Windows?
Can it be done? Is it the right time? Find out what it’ll take to finally switch to desktop Mac OS X or Linux

By Galen Gruman at InfoWorld

InfoWorld’s “Save XP” petition asking Microsoft to keep Windows XP available indefinitely, not end most sales on June 30 as currently planned, has prompted many readers to suggest that maybe the best answer for those who don’t like Vista is to switch to another operating system completely.

“Don’t be afraid. Just switch to Linux and become a member of a really free society,” wrote Carlos Raul Gutierrez.

[ Find out the deployment secrets of early Vista adopters ]

“Windows Vista was the reason I bought a Mac mini. I didn’t want my only choices to be an operating system that would soon be obsolete (XP) or one that was buggy and would break much existing hardware (Vista), and I’m not enough of a geek to use Linux (do things from the command line? Puhleeze…),” wrote “Jack.”

How realistic is a switch to Linux or Apple’s Mac OS X? For some users — often technically savvy people such as engineers, consultants, designers and CTOs — it is clearly an option that already works quite well. In the past year, running Mac OS X or Linux as your default OS has been made easier by the capability to run Windows in a virtual machine, giving you access to both Windows-only applications and Web sites that rely on Microsoft’s Internet Explorer-only ActiveX technology. But in a business environment, switching to a Mac or Linux PC may not be quite as easy.

The Mac OS X option
Of the plausible alternatives to Windows, Apple’s Mac OS X has the largest market share and history. InfoWorld chief technologist Tom Yager has written that the latest version of the Mac OS, Leopard (10.5), is simply the best operating system available. And Macs are indeed popping up more frequently even within IT circles — I’ve seen more MacBook Pros in the hands of CTOs and IT execs at conferences in the past year more than I’ve seen Mac notebooks in such venues ever. Although there are no real numbers on just the business adoption of Macs, it’s clear that Apple is in growth mode, gaining an increasing proportion of all new computer sales for more than a year now.

InfoWorld’s Yager has chronicled the adventures of one PC user who switched to the Mac OS, showing that for an individual, the conversion was ultimately a rewarding one. The TechWeb site has also provided a good guide on how to make the switch to Mac OS X.

A key tool for any Mac OS X switcher is a virtual machine to run Windows for those apps and Web sites that require it. Both Parallels Desktop 3.0 and EMC VMware’s Fusion software will do the trick, as InfoWorld’s comparative review has shown.

Although Macs are compatible with most typical hardware, such as monitors and drives, fitting a Mac into an enterprise’s management systems and ERP applications can be a different story. Yager’s Mac Enterprise blog and the Mac Enterprise user group both provide advice on managing Macs in a traditional IT environment.

The Linux option
The more technically inclined may be attracted to Linux, the most popular form of desktop Unix. Linux desktops typically are challenged by limited hardware compatibility (due to lack of drivers), limited application options, and user interfaces that require active participation to get work done, which tends to keep Linux away from the general user population. But those who work with a Linux server all day may find that using it on the desktop as well actually makes their lives easier.

Just as Mac users need occasional access to Windows, so do Linux users. Because Linux distributions run on Windows-compatible hardware, it’s straightforward to use desktop virtualization software, such as Parallels Workstation, Sun’s (formerly Innotek’s) VirtualBox, and EMC VMware’s Workstation software, to provide access to both environments.

Although some enterprises have committed to wide Linux deployment — such as automaker Peugeot Citroën’s plans to install 20,000 Novell Suse Linux desktops — most have left Linux to the engineering and development staff.

InfoWorld Enterprise Desktop blogger Randall Kennedy argues that desktop Linux is doomed to remain a tiny niche OS, given the Linux community’s lack of interest in providing a UI that regular people could use. Kennedy tried to spend a week working on nothing but the Ubuntu distribution of Linux but gave up on the fifth day.

But Kennedy’s take isn’t the last word on desktop Linux. Frequent InfoWorld contributor Neil McAllister put together a special report on how to move from Windows to Linux, concluding that the effort was not as hard as you might think.

Who’s right? As with any platform choice, they both may be. A one-size-fits-all approach may be unrealistic. And that likely explains why many businesses will have a mix, dominated by Windows XP today (and perhaps Vista in a few years) but not exclusively tied to Microsoft’s OS.

Phil DeVoss: “I have no rule-book for this situation. They tell me we’re about to lose 972 million dollars. I am ill-equipped in the philosophies of failure.

How do I make the concept of 972 million dollars more real to you? Well. It’s the operating budget of a mid-sized country. A small civilization. It’s big. It’s so big that you could round it off to… a billion dollars.

I cry a lot lately.”

Where’s the iPhone?

“Where are Apple’s missing iPhones?

Discrepancy in Apple’s iPhone sales figures could indicate a ‘significant’ number of unlocked devices

By Jonny Evans, Macworld.co.uk
January 25, 2008 
Apple claims slightly over 3.7 million iPhones were sold in 2007 — yet AT&T this week revealed it ended the year with “just at or sightly under 2 million iPhone customers.”

That 2 million has been boosted somewhat by an estimated 300,000 to 400,000 sales in Europe, analysts believe.

The discrepancy is that the 3.7 million iPhones Apple says it has sold and the estimated 2.4 million sold by its network partners still leaves 1.3 million of the devices unaccounted for.”

Fret not! Mystery is solved.

“Half A Million “Missing” iPhones? Found! (AAPL)
Dan Frommer | January 25, 2008 2:10 PM
Don’t get caught up in the hype around hundreds of thousands of “missing” iPhones. We know where they are: They’ve been purchased by AT&T and Apple’s European carrier partners, who will resell them to customers.

How’d we figure it out? By listening to AT&T’s Q4 earnings call, where the company explained that it has phones it bought from Apple but had yet to sell itself in its inventory.

Also, we just read Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster’s new note, which walks through the math on the “missing phones”: At the end of 2007, Apple said it had sold 3.7 million iPhones. AT&T said yesterday it had activated about 2 million during that same period, leaving 1.7 million iPhones unaccounted for. Munster estimates 350,000 phones were sold in Europe, and that 25% of Apple’s U.S. iPhone sales — 838,000 — were to people who bought the devices to “unlock” them, either to use on T-Mobile, on foreign carriers, or as $400 iPods. That leaves 512,000 “missing” phones — retail inventory.”

Phew, now I can *finally* fall asleep and put my sleuth kit away.

Macworld. Blah blah blah. MacBook Air – hmmm kinda cool but not the UMPC touch screen gem I was hoping for. Here’s a couple of pics right from the Macworld site.  Oh and the Apple Store is back online, but just went down due to load.
$1,799 for the cheap one. 3 lbs., 0.16″-.76″ thickness, 13.3″ fullsize display, full size keyboard (backlit), multi-touch gestures, iSight camera (“for horsing around with Photo Booth”), 1.6GHz Core 2 Duo, 2GB of memory, 80GB hard drive (64GB SSD optional), 802.11n, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, and Magsafe connector.

Technorati Tags: mac, apple, airbook, MacBook air, steve jobs, macworld, hallelujah

 Let’s see, Tiger crashed—oh yeah, NEVER. Ten months and I’m installing everything from production-level Office for the Mac 2004 to 0.x releases of VLC, Seashore, and Ecto—even betas of Firefox and Parallels. Whatever my nerdy little heart desires. I’ve had those early apps crash, but Tiger never faltered.

A month of using Leopard with the same software I had under Tiger and the OS has dumped six times. That’s six cold reboots for Oliver. Apple isn’t even honest enough to admit that Leopard is crashing: The OS just grays out my desktop and pops up a dialog box telling me I’ve got to reboot. Like the whole thing is my fault. I even snapped a picture of it. After all, I HAD PLENTY OF CHANCES! And all my complaints, mirrored by online forum traffic, are the same complaints I heard about Vista when it first reared its unbaked head.

Ouch!  Click here for the rest of the article.

Technorati Tags: osx , leopard, leoptard, mac, apple, vista, should be using linux

Here’s their FAQ:

1.. Could this brick my iPhone/iPood touch?

No, worst case you will have to restore in iTunes.

2. Why do I have a blue question mark?

This means you already ran AppSnapp once. Since we patch the TIFF bug, you’ll have to restore to run it again.

3. Can I do the SIM unlock my phone wih this?

AppSnapp does not unlock the phone. You will have to use anySIM to do so after you install AppSnapp.

4. My phone is still at the “Activate now” screen, why?

If your phone doesn’t show up as activated after you run AppSnapp, please reboot your phone.

5. I’m an AT&T customer, do I need this since it activates?

AppSnapp is smart, if knows if you are an AT&T customer and doesn’t try to activate if you already are activated.

Technorati Tags: iphone, jailbreak, easy

An iPod docking station/toilet paper holder. “Dad’s playing Iron Butterfly- better use the downstairs toilet, indefinitely.” Ghic Chic

iCarta

Stereo Dock for iPod® with Bath Tissue Holder

Features:

• 4 Integrated high performance moisture-free speakers deliver exceptional
clarity and high quality sound
• Charges your iPod while playing music
• Audio selector allows you to play iPod shuffle or other Audio device
• Integrated Bath tissue holder that can be easily folded as a stereo dock
• Requires AC Power (AC Adapter included)
• Easy to remove from Wall Mount

Specifications:

Dimension (W x H x D):
8.25in x 3.68in x 7.12in
210mm x 93mm x 181mm

Power Requirements:
12V, 1.5A AC adapter

Speakers:
2 x tweeters for highs
2 x woofers for lows

Technorati Tags: iCarta, iPod dock, Stereo, Toilet Paper Holder

read more | digg story

You can grab the PDF online and see what they’re up too.

If you’re in the Syracuse NY area and enjoy Macs, be sure to check them out.

Cnet is reporting that Apple has plugged a number of security holes in Quicktime.

Read more here or after the jump.

By Joris Evers

Staff Writer, CNET News.com

Published: March 5, 2007, 2:47 PM PST

Apple on Monday released updates to its QuickTime media player software to repair eight serious security vulnerabilities.

The vulnerabilities expose both Macs and Windows PCs to cyberattack, Apple said in a security alert. In all cases, an attacker could craft a malicious file which, when opened with QuickTime, could give the miscreant full control over a computer running the software, Apple said.

The problems lie in the way QuickTime handles a number of formats. The security updates repair problems in the way the software handles QuickTime, MIDI, 3GP, PICT and QTIF files, according to the Apple alert.

The fixed version of QuickTime is release 7.1.5. Along with the fixes, the latest version also includes some functionality improvements, Apple said. The update is available for download from Apple’s Web site or through the Apple update feature, the company said.

Apple regularly issues patches for QuickTime. In January, the Mac maker put out a fix for a zero-day flaw that was released as part of the “Month of the Apple Bugs” project.

Security researchers have increasingly been targeting applications such as QuickTime in recent months. With operating systems becoming more secure, widely used programs such as media players, instant-message tools and antivirus shields have become popular hacker targets, pundits have said.

Technorati Tags: quicktime, apple, apple security, quicktime security, patches