Turn your iPhone into a wireless keyboard & mouse [Update]

[Update 1] Like a lot of tech-savvy people out there, I’m using a Mac mini as the heart of my home theatre to play music, view photos, watch downloaded TV shows and movies as well as DVDs. I also do the occasional web surfing with it. For most of those uses, the tiny white Apple [...]

A glossary of terms for iPhone hacking newbies

For those not up on the iPhone hacking lingo, here’s a glossary of important technical terms related to hacking and/or using the iPhone. If you’re fairly tech savvy or have already done some research into hacking the iPhone, you probably won’t benefit from reading on. If you are completely new to the iPhone [...]

How Apple killed Microsoft’s music format monopoly dreams

Today’s announcement by Apple & EMI about plans to offer EMI’s music catalogue in higher bitrate, DRM-free versions on the iTunes Store for $1.29 per song is huge. I don’t think it’s quite sunk in yet to the majority of people in the industry, or the web, just how huge it is. It’s [...]

Zune Update

In my previous article about Microsoft’s latest attempt to catch up to the iPod, no pricing, ship date or official dimensions were available. Since then, more concrete details have become available. First off, Microsoft has finalized the price for their 30GB POS device: $249.99 US. That’s just 99¢ more than the equivalent [...]

The Register’s Achilles Heel: Andrew Orlowski?

Last Friday, The Register, one of my regular reads posted an article by frequent contributor Andrew Orlowski titled The iPod’s Achilles Heel? It’s er… Reader’s Digest. I took objection to so many of the points Mr. Orlowski made, that I set out to write a rebuttal here on Art Of Geek.

The article in question [...]

Microsoft releases Zune details, world yawns

Microsoft finally went all official on some Zune details today, confirming many of the rumors that have been floating around the ‘net for a while now. The photos that were leaked weeks ago and confirmed from an FCC filing made by Toshiba were the real deal. As rumored, the first Zune device will [...]