Anith Gopal

Going through the day-to-day realities of web crawling I find myself using the Favorites or Bookmarks feature of browsers less and less.

There are many aspects of the iPhone that I wish were more developed. Better usability.

So Verizon is finally acting like they “get it,” specifically asking people who leave their service if “the iPhone” has anything to do with it. The problem with this is that by saying “the iPhone” they imply having the device just like it exists on AT&T’s network

So Apple updated the Mac mini today.

The Airport Extreme and Time Capsule were updated today with some new features that, while they don’t change the basic capabilities of the devices, do make them more flexible. Both devices now offer “guest networking” and simultaneous dual-band networks.

Since first appearing in Tiger, Automator has brought programming to the masses in a simple drag and drop interface. An entire ecosystem has sprung up around Automator, using its ability to create and distribute complex workflows and actions, and the ability for developers to provide Automator with actions specific to their application.

Nine out of ten iPhone owners would probably agree that this article, containing the freshest picks from the App Store, is a nutritious and delicious source of information. Before we kick things off with this week’s picks, let’s take a quick look at happenings in the world of Apple this week.

Once upon a time, anyone who wanted to could post a review of any app available in Apple’s App Store. You could just drop in on the top paid apps list, prepare a number of scathing single-star reviews based on the outrageous prices of each app, and possibly make a significant dent in their overall rating (especially if you were looking at some of the international stores, where there aren’t nearly as many ratings as there are in the U.S.).

Sometime between last night and this morning, Apple released a minor update to the Apple TV.

I have tried just about every blogging platform out there and the one I finally stuck with was Tumblr . I like many of the more advanced functions in WordPress , but Tumblr is where it’s at for me. I’ve notice over the past couple of months I have started mobile blogging a lot more, and what better way to do this than with the Swiss Army Knife of a gadget that is the iPhone.

The App Review Summary Card I’m exceedingly happy to tell you all about a brand-new series of articles we’re launching here at TheAppleBlog, entitled: The App Review. Every other weekday, I’ll be sticking my big hands deep into the gaping jaws of the App Store and pulling out a fresh app for a top-down examination. In each review, I’ll take the app for a serious spin and tell you if it’s worth your time or your money

Mark Sigal at GigaOM wrote a nice article that questions if, essentially, “open” is all it’s cracked up to be. I’ve written about this before, and agree with Sigal’s take. He sums up one aspect of it especially well when he says: The reality is that openness is just an attribute -– it’s not an outcome, and customers buy outcomes