Steve Jobs spoke yesterday at length about 99-cent TV show rentals on iPhones and iPod touches running iOS 4.1. Given that the new iteration of the mobile operating system doesn’t ship until next week, everyone assumed that’s when the rentals would start, as well. For Mac and PC owners, however, …

The music business clung and continues to cling to their antiquated business model. Textbook makers on the other hand appear to be grasping the digital bull by the horns and are embracing the new iPad-driven textbook paradigm with gusto. That said, there probably isn’t another industry more amenable to the …

Although neither the Delicious Monster website nor blog have any hint that an update’s been posted, a fresh version of the popular media cataloging software is available. I know it’s out there because MacUpdate says so (and I downloaded a copy).
Anyway, Delicious Library 2.5 is available and comes to market …

Will that be hard, soft or factory, sir? If you need to reset the password and/or settings on an Airport Express base station — brilliant device — then there are three methods available to you and which one you choose depends on what you need to do.
Before beginning any of …

Apple’s popular Buy a Mac for college and get a free 8GB iPod touch back-to-school promotion is coming to an end next Monday. And, although the boilerplate says “college,” the offer is open to students, teachers and their families in the K through 12 segment, as well. Whether public, charter …

Maybe it’s just me, but directly combining beer consumption and an expensive electronic with a known sensitivity to moisture let alone actual liquids doesn’t seem too bright to me. By all appearances, the dude in the video is a few bottles short of a full case (or will soon be). …

Really, I’m posing this as a question. I’m about to start with a video podcast (more on that later) and I need to buy a microphone, and these two microphones seem to come most often. So, I put it to you faithful FairerPlatform readers, which is better — the Blue …

Here’s the deal. You need to log into your Facebook account and then navigate to this webpage. If you haven’t already “liked” Apple’s iTunes Facebook page, you will need to do that whereafter you’ll be given a redeemable iTunes code that will entitle you to free copies of Deadliest Catch, …

Watch Steve Jobs introduce and then roll the company’s then new Think Different marketing campaign. It was 1997, Apple’s CEO was decidedly chunkier than now and the world still didn’t know the words iPod, iTunes or iPhone, though even then his message was remarkably consistent with what he’s saying now.
Thereupon, …

Regular readers know that I’m a big fan — it’s loaded on my Mac, iPad and iPod touch. With 48-million users, obviously, I’m not alone in my love for this free streaming service and August 29th marks the day In 2005 that Pandora left private beta and went live to …