In the US, at least.
I received an email last week that the Apple’s famous revolutinary phone is now available at *half the price. The iPhone 3G has fast 3G wireless technology, GPS mapping, support for enterprise features like Microsoft Exchange, and the new App Store. And just in case you forgot, just like its original counterpart, this phone has rich HTML email and a desktop-class web browser.
Before you can purchase and activate iPhone 3G, you need the following:*
Credit card
Social security number
Valid government-issued photo ID
Current wireless account number and password or PIN (if you’re new to AT&T)
If you already own an iPhone, remember to sync it with iTunes one last time before you get your new iPhone 3G.
Click this link to find where you can purchase one and please, don’t forget to send one for me. 
iPhone 3G will be sold on a first-served basis only starting today at 8AM.
Have any of you had a bad experience with refurbished Apple products? A friend will be coming home this May so I want to take advantage of the free shipping.
Here is what I’m eyeing:
Refurbished MacBook Pro 2.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
15.4-inch widescreen display
2GB memory
120GB hard drive
8x SuperDrive (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT with 128MB of GDDR3 memory
Built-in iSight Camera
Imagine, you can have a Macbook Pro for only $1499? I wonder how good (or bad) refurbished products are?
I can also go for something cheaper.
Refurbished MacBook 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo - White
13.3-inch glossy widescreen display
1GB memory
80GB hard drive
Combo drive (DVD-ROM/CD-RW)
Built-in iSight camera
This one is for only $799.
They are both certified Apple refurbished products and covered by Apple’s one year limited warranty.
Apple Certified Refurbished Products are pre-owned Apple products that undergo Apple’s stringent refurbishment process prior to being offered for sale. These products have been returned under Apple’s Return and Refund Policies. While only some units are returned due to technical issues, all units undergo Apple’s stringent quality refurbishment process
It’s not that I don’t trust Apple. In fact, I love them to bits. I just need to research on what other customers say about refurbished products because even if we’re talking about $800 here, it’s still a huge amount of money.
Exactly June 12, 2007 when I received an email from my boss telling me that Safari is now available on Windows. Since I don’t have a mac, (see previous posts), I immediately downloaded the beta version with the hopes of being able to test my designs on Safari. To my disappointment, the browser crashed and won’t load anything else aside from apple.com. After that incident, I’ve totally forgotten about Safari.
After writing my post on how I want a MAC, I realized two things. One, there’s no possibility that I can get one in a couple of months and two, I can just search the net to see if there’s a tool that allows you to remotely browse on a mac platform. While searching for that tool, I came across the keywords ‘Safari on Windows‘. So I was like, WTF? Could this be true? I clicked the link and voila! I got a nice page with the headline Safari 3 Public Beta - The world’s best browser. Now on Windows too. Don’t you just love their taglines, btw?
I realized at that exact moment that I’ve already tried to download Safari before and it didn’t work. Still, with the needs of a poor designer who can’t afford a MAC just yet, I downloaded it again to see if something has changed.
Tons have changed. It’s fast, it’s wicked. The interface is very apple-ish, simple but full of punch. Even the starter page is amazing, full of javascripts and div coding to show you how efficient the browser is. I checked all my website designs and surpise, surprise, (well, not really) most of them are not working as it should. I’m not exactly pissed, I’m just bummed because I know I’d have to re-do and fix all of them. I mean, how great can you be if your coding will not work on the world’s best browser? Not very much, I’m afraid.
Don’t you just love that tagline? I just saw it from Apple’s Macbook Air website. Their creative people must be getting paid a lot of money.
Anyway, Macbook Air is the latest and may I say coolest notebook by Apple. It’s the world’s thinnest notebook with 13.3-inch widescreen LED display, full-size keyboard, and large multi-touch trackpad. It weighs 3lbs and would you believe, can fit into a large envelope? I’m not kidding. I saw the demo on TV. The Intel Core Duo 2 chip has been customized to fit the Macboook Air so you don’t have to worry about sacrificing performance. It’s also built for the wireless life whether you’re video blogging, renting movies or backing up files into an external drive.
The best thing is, I CAN afford it! LOL. Only because the dollar to peso conversion is so low.
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Oh, yes, I am crazy about anything that has to do with Apple. I blame my boss for this recent addiction of mine. Not that I own any Apple product except for an iPod, but still, it won’t stop me from checking out what’s new, hoping that I can get hold one of them soon. Plus, Apple.com is my top favorite website design of all time. Everything is so web 2.0 - lots of white spaces, huge boxes, fonts, gradient surfaces, shiny graphics and icons. It’s worth taking a daily trip just to inspire myself.
So now, on to the latest news - Apple TV.
What Apple TV does is let you rent movie directly from your TV. It has an interface that allows you to browse, rent, and watch movies from every major movie studio such as Touchstone Pictures, Walt Disney, Universal, Paramount and more. The movie rentals are $2.99 for library titles, $3.99 for new releases and $1 for HD titles with Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound. Movies are downloaded instantly and the faster your Internet connection, the better! And for TV show addicts like myself, you can also buy your favorite TV show for only $1.99 each. Still not enough? How about access to free content like YouTube, podcasts, photos, music videos? Yes, they have those too!
Yummy! My husband will definitely drool over this.
I need to design a web site and a logo for our new hosting web site.
This is the theme.
Sweet!
