iPhone 4 shipping early

I got an email with tracking number showing that my iPhone 4 has shipped TODAY.

I placed my order early evening on June 15th with Apple and my confirmation stated that my iPhone 4 would ship by July 2nd with an arrival between the 6th to 8th. I had read that some iPhones had shipped [...]

iOS4 upgrade

I upgraded 2 products to the new OS, my 2G iPod Touch 32G and 3G iPhone 8G.

First was my iPod Touch. I synced it with iTunes 9.2 and initially iTunes stated that the OS was up-to-date. After pressing the check for update button I was then asked if I wanted to upgrade to iOS4. [...]

iPhone 4 upgrade experience

Since I was awake at 1:30 AM June 15th, I decided to checkout the Apple Store website. At first I was not thinking about pre-ordering an iPhone 4, I was actually checking if there were any iPod classics available on the refurbished site. Well, the Apple Store was down for maintenance.

After that I thought [...]

First Apple Genius appointment

I had my first real talk with an Apple Genius today about my failing 20” iMac. It went very well compared to my last drop-in visit. I described my problem and got the answers I expected. I was told that Apple will only replace the internal hard drive with the same size it already has. [...]

Bought a 27″ iMac i7

Well, I finally got around to replacing my old 20” iMac 2.4 GHz (mid 2007). I have been living on borrowed time since the internal 320 GB hard drive in my 20” iMac is failing SMART. It could totally fail anytime. I do have multiple backups, so I am not worried when the time comes.

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Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8 update

Update went smooth and quick.

I have learned from the past two Mac OS X updates to NOT use ‘Software Update’. Instead I just download the Combo update. Then after first repairing permissions, I install the update. There was no major noticeable difference after restart in performance or appearance.

Get the Combo update from Apple’s [...]

iPhone 3.0 software

Well, It took awhile to get access to download the 3.0 software. This was not completely unexpected. All done as of 6 p.m. PST.

I searched last night to find out when the 3.0 software will be available. The only time mentioned on a few sites was 6 a.m. Cupertino time. At 6 a.m. PST [...]

Mac OS 10.5.7 upgrade

After another hang up when upgrading to the current Mac OS X using ‘Software Upgrade’. In the future, I will download the Combo update from Apple and install manually. This procedure work with the 10.5.6 upgrade that actually froze unfinished when using ‘Software Upgrade’.

After downloading the Combo update (729 MB), everything went smoothly. Additionally [...]

Bought an iPhone

I finally bought an iPhone. I got the 8GB, since I already own a 32GB iPod Touch and numerous other iPods, I don’t need the larger 16GB iPhone with the higher price.

I have been reviewing the Apple iPhone and the ATT iPhone pages recently to refresh my knowledge on the purchase and activation procedures. [...]

Macworld 2009 news

This morning I saw a link on a Yahoo news section of my home page that stated that Steve Jobs would not be going to Macworld this year. And Apple will not attend Macworld in 2010 even if there is one.

According to my own Macworld info, my Expo pass states that Macworld 2010 will [...]

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