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Got New MacBook Pro With Thunderbolt

It is coming up on three years since my last new MacBook Pro, so when the new MacBook Pros were announced, I decided to get one. Especially since my current MacBook Pro’s display is flickering. I have Apple Care, so I plan on fixing my old MacBook and then selling it on eBay. Yesterday, I

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Weird: A Verizon iPhone

So one of the guys at RustyBrick was crazy enough to wait ~3 years for the iPhone to come to Verizon. And he got his last night. He showed it to me and it was really weird to see “Verizon” at the top left of the phone. So weird. I’ve travelled with the iPhone and

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iPhone User Gives Android Two Weeks

Cross post on the RustyBrick Blog. As some of you may know, I was in Israel for the past 10 days or so. It was a family vacation and hosting the SphinnCon Israel SEM conference. For this trip, I decided to not go with the AT&T International plan for my iPhone and instead use an

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Apple To Fix My Display

As some of you know, the inside of my Apple Display is bent somehow. Yesterday, my wife, kid and I all went to the Apple Store (my kid’s first time being in an Apple Store) to show the Apple Geniuses the issue. Yes, I scheduled an appointment before going. The genius guy looked at it

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My Apple Cinema Display Is Bending Internally

While I was away at the SMX East event, Jimmy was sitting at my desk using my stuff. He was there because construction was happening in our office expansion plans. While he was using my computer, he noticed something that I never noticed… My new Apple Display was bending from within. I am not kidding.

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Addicted To Airline Miles

The more I fly, the more I become a slave to those airline miles. The programs the airlines design to keep their most important customers, loyal customers is working on me. I fly Continental and I keep flying them and only them just so I can retain my Elite Status, which I earned in 2008.

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Active iPhone Siddur Users Spike To Almost 1,000

I was checking out the Siddur Map on the iPhone Siddur today and noticed that it was steadily climbing. During the time Israel was using it for Maariv tonight, Tisha B’av, there was close to 1,000 users using it at the same time. I wonder if it will spike up to well beyond that number

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Vintage Apple Logo Skin For My iPhone 4

Today is an exciting day. Not as exciting as getting the iPhone 4, then dropping it and getting a second one but still exciting. I got my iPhone black bumper today, so I am less concerned about breaking it. But more importantly, I got a skin that turns the back of my iPhone 4 white