Apple - Bryan Fullerton's Blog

Built-in Google apps leaving Apple devices - whose choice?

I'm reading lots of interesting articles these days about how Google services are being pulled out of the base Apple iOS system and packaged as separate apps (YouTube), or being replaced by Apple's own apps (Maps). Most of these articles are expressing the opinion that these changes are coming at

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Music in the Cloud

Now that Apple has announced their iCloud service, I thought I'd jot down some thoughts on music storage in the cloud -- that is, on some company's central server instead of on your PC, MP3 player, and other devices you own. tl;dr - It's a great shortcut for the

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Weirdness with Apple's movie trailers site iTunes links

I'm trying to download movie trailers from Apple.com, and it's behaving oddly. I've tried four different browsers (Chrome Beta 2.0.x, Firefox 3.0, Firefox 3.1b3, and IE8), and they all do the same, so I'm thinking it's the Apple.com trailers site that's busted. This did

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Forget the iPhone...

... I want a Nokia N800. Here's the MobileCrunch review. Ok, ok, it's not a phone. I'm fine with that, I like cheapo phones that have no features except.. you know.. phoning people. The N800 has a 800x480 screen and runs Linux! [drool] Now it just has to come to Canada.

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Road to iPhone

People have been talking about the iPhone for years. Now it's been announced, but isn't yet available. It won't ship in the US until June/July of this year, and who knows when in other areas - I read online that it may not be in Europe until next year.

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iTunes CPU usage while downloading

So, what's with iTunes 7 using craploads of CPU while downloading on my Mac? Last night iTunes was downloading two video podcasts on my G4/733 running latest 10.3.x. iTunes alone was using 30-40% of CPU. At the same time I was transcoding a 170Mb video to view