Type of Article: MacTech Blog

iPhone/iPod/iPad apps for June 18

Here are the latest iPhone/iPod touch/iPod/iPad apps announced. You can find ’em at the Apple App Store< (http://www.itunes.com/appstore/). Akai Professional has announced the SynthStation music production app for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch in the iTunes App Store.The $9.99 app transforms the Apple device into a portable music production studio.

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Greg’s bite: AT&T — ‘no bars in more places’

By Greg Mills

The Micro Cell technology AT&T recently announced is sort of like a 3G WiFi device. They can be really small and amount to a mini cell tower connected to your Internet connection. The fact that they are needed says a lot about the network holes that bug us all who use iPhones, iPads, and, for that matter, all junk (non Apple) cell phones that use AT&T. 

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Another reason to not dismiss the Mac: money

Here’s another reason why Apple won’t be abandoning the Mac: money. On the heels of an exceptional fourth quarter in 2009, global personal computer shipments followed suit with year-on-year growth of 27.1% in the first quarter of 2010, according to the IDC research group (http://www.idc.com). And we’re just getting started.

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Greg’s bite: Odd couples in the tech world

By Greg Mills

Would you date Scarlett Johansson if she had Roseann Barr attached at the hip as a Siamese twin?  Could you read a fairy tail about Prince Charming who had Quasimoto as a Siamese twin to children?  

I doubt such a horrible image would lull them to sleep. It seems to me Apple/AT&T and Clear/Sprint are also such unlikely corporate dual monstrosities with an attractive partner merged in some way to a stone downer.

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