Expert Blogs
Miami business-user and Petaluma, CA end-user Apple events
By Hal Goldstein, August 21, 2010
If you are in the Miami or Bay area, check out these events and pick up a copy of iPhone LIfe magazine.
The first ever Apple Business Expo & iPad/iPhone Zone will take place in Miami Florida on Wednesday September 29, 2010 at the Hilton Downtown Miami Conference Center. This event is free with lunch included for all business owners that use Apple Mac’s, iPhones, & iPads for their day to day business. Over 50 manufacturers & developers from all over the world will showcase their business solutions to the Apple industry. Door Prizes All Day – Free Gifts, Software, Printers & Gift Cards !
Really enjoy reading on iPhone 4
By Hal Goldstein, June 24, 2010
I actually got an iPhone 4, yesterday, a day early due to some lucky mail fluke. Today I tried FaceTime with blogger Todd Bernhard. Todd will probably write about it here and/or in our next issue. I also used the flash in the camera. I liked both features, although both have a ways to go. However, what I was most impressed with based on what I will get the most use of is the ebook reading experience.
iOS 4 For iPhone Expected today
By Hal Goldstein, June 21, 2010
It is likely that Apple will release iOS4 for the iPhone today, perhaps around 10 PST. iTunes will update you automatically on the date listed in Summary. To proactively update your iPhone, in iTunes click on your iPhone (under Devices on left column). Then in Summary screen click "Check for Update".
The feature I am most looking for is folders. That will allow me to place icons for all my iPhone Apps on the iPhone . The other feature I look forward to, multi-tasking, will evolve in its usefulness overtime, as developers conform to iOS4 API.
Nokia vs. Apple
By Hal Goldstein, May 10, 2010
No, this is not about Nokia’s suits against Apple for patent infringement. (I think the end user is the loser in most such legal battles.) Rather this brief essay is about Apple and Nokia’s approach to innovation.
Apple iAd lucky day: FTC blocks Google + AdMob
By Hal Goldstein, April 9, 2010
Wow. Less than 24 hours after Apple announced what looks like a very innovative Mobile Advertising program, iAd, the FTC. blocked the Google AdMobe merger! Here are details. This certainly is Apple's golden time.
Microsoft prototype of 2-panel tablet rivals iPad
By Hal Goldstein, April 6, 2010
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I am REALLY liking my Apple iPad. In fact owning an iPad made my mouth water for the Microsoft Courier. You can see some great demos of a prototype or the 2-panel Microsoft Courier at Engadget. The Courrier is more business oriented rather than for the consumer.
iPhone Life on iPad and iPhone! Free for subscribers!
By Hal Goldstein, March 31, 2010
You heard it hear first. (We probably won't publicize until late April). All subscribers (past, present and future) will receive the Zinio digital version of iPhone Life free starting with the Summer issue (at least through Spring '11.) You can download the Zinio app and read recent issue of iPhone Life free on the iPhone and the iPad. Check out the Zinio site to see some of titles for the iPhone and iPad.
Seattle iPhone Dev Conf - Only $395 w/ March 12 Signup
By Hal Goldstein, March 3, 2010
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There is still time to get an incredible deal for registering for the The Voices that Matter iPhone Developers Conference, April 24-25 in Seattle. Leading experts authors and experts share their knowledge and answer question about developing for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
Topics include user interface, core animation, game programming, audio and openAL, core data, memory management and Xcode. The cost is $695. Register by
March 12, you receive $200 off. Use code
PHPLIFE
and receive another $100 off, so your fee becomes only $395!
Say Hello at Macworld #567
By Hal Goldstein, February 8, 2010
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iPhone Life magazine will be exhibiting at the Macworld expo in San Francisco's Moscone center later this week. Sessions begin, tomorrow, Feb 9, and the exhibition hall opens at 12:00 PM, Thursday, Feb 11. Visit us at booth 567, and meet Managing Editor, Rich Hall, tweeter, Gary Abel, bloggers Tracy Sebastian and Todd Bernhard, along with Marge Enright and Don Kimenker from our ad sales team. I'll be at booth almost all the time, as the rest of the team blogs and comes and goes.
Been waiting 25 years for the iPad
By Hal Goldstein, January 29, 2010
We started our company in 1985 with a print newsletter about the new 9 pound HP 110 Portable PC. It was the first clamshell DOS laptop. It featured solid state memory, storage, and built-in software (no mechanical hard drive). It was instant on, had long battery life, and at the time light-weight (if you remember the Compaq luggable).
In the 1990's HP produced the HP 200LX Palmtop, about which we published a magazine. It was the first and only DOS clamshell palmtop. It had a niche but incredibly loyal following -- so much so that we still buy, sell and repair them. A number of us wanted HP to “blow it up” – make it bigger in order to have a functional, light-weight, long lasting laptop on the road.
