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How an IT Pro Retired His MacBook For An iPad

In just a few weeks of iPad ownership, I've all but retired my MacBook. I thought I needed a laptop for work, but really, I don't. I have not looked back since.
I own an Apple consulting company here in Florida, Max Your Macs. As members of the Apple Consultants Network, we support a wide range of [...:]

MyWi Tethering App Is Ultimate Reason to Jailbreak [Review]

Can't decide whether to get the iPad with or without 3G? It looks like AT&T will soon be adding tethering, but you can already share your iPhone's 3G data connection using a $10 app called MyWi.
All you need to do is jailbreak you iPhone — a painless, two-minute process that unlocks the iPhone's full potential, including turning it into a [...:]

Totally Reasonable Person's Request Convinces Apple to Take Cash for iPads

Until the iPad has wide availability outside the U.S., Apple's taking even more paranoid precautions than typical. Notably, everyone is still limited to buying no more than two of the devices, and, until today, no one was allowed to buy an iPad with cash. That policy was allegedly in place to prevent exporting by creating [...:]

Daily Deals: $99 PowerMac G4/450MHz, App Store Freebies, Wood Grain iPhone Case

We start with a walk down memory lane with a deal on used Macs, including a PowerMac G4/450Mhz for $99. Next is the latest batch of App Store freebies, including "Crossword Pro." Wrapping up our top deals is a wood grain case for your iPhone 3G or 3Gs.
As always, details on these and many more [...:]

Friends and Music – Like Lady Gaga and Elton John!

Ever since the master strategists in Cupertino bought and (predictably) killed off the only genuine competitor to ever rise against iTunes, the question has hung like a pall over the online digital music marketplace: what will replace Lala?
Perhaps Jobsian worker bees are buzzing about as we speak, crafting an iTunes portal to allow users access [...:]

Porn Coming to iPad After All

Just days after crowing about giving people "Freedom from porn," Steve Jobs must be cursing the gods of prurience with the news that YouPorn (NSFW) is busily encoding its entire library of films into HTML5 format.
Soon iPad owners the world over will be able to view vids of hairless young things in flagrante delicto [...:]

Sent By Steve: All Steve Jobs' Customer Emails in One Place

If you're interested in keeping abreast of Steve Job's new hobby of personally answering customer emails (though some of us here at Cult of Mac still maintain it's a Robin-type assistant or robo-prototype), check out sent by Steve.
It's a growing, searchable collection of emails Steve sends with just the copy of the exchange, plus links [...:]

UK Survey: iPhone Better than Sliced Bread

The next time you try to explain how your invention is the greatest thing since sliced bread, you may want to use the iPhone as comparison, instead. Turns out the iPhone ranks No. 8 in a UK consumer survey of the 100 most important inventions, far outdistancing sliced bread at No. 70.
The iPhone, which has [...:]

Teen Beats Rap for iPod Drive-Thru Order

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kY46zm98Ng
The iPod is a multi-function device and using it to rap your order at McDonalds is not a crime.
A Salt Lake City judge cleared Spenser Dauwalder, 18, of disorderly conduct for ordering at a McDonald's by singing along to a rap song playing on his iPod. Dauwalder and his three 17-year-old friends in the car [...:]

AT&T: Difficultly Switching iPhone Carriers Will Protect Us from Verizon

As we count down to Apple possibly announcing Verizon as a U.S. iPhone carrier and debate what such a move might mean to the current exclusive iPhone carrier AT&T, the head of that carrier weighed in on why a Verizon iPhone deal isn't keeping him awake at night. CEO Ralph de la Vega told analysts [...:]