1. 16GB vs. 8GB - I only have an 8GB model so double the space is a bonus for me.
2. 3G - Faster data speeds are going to be nice, I use the iPhone for data a lot!
3. GPS - I’m probably going to buy a GPS device for my car within the next year and if the iPhone could take care of this for me, that would be a big bonus.
4. Geek Cred - Come on, admit it. Having the latest and the greatest is cool.

1. New AT&T price plans - I’m okay with paying $30 a month more for 3G data. But the $5 extra you’ll have to pay for the 200 SMS messages that use to come free and the $18 “activation fee” really leave a sour taste in my mouth. At a minimum, I’ll be paying $15 a month more for phone service than I currently am. Now, I do understand that the iPhone is significantly cheaper than the previous model, and that does mean a lot.
2. Exchange Support - This falls into the “unknown” category, there’s lots of speculation out there. My law firm uses Exchange for email and has not enabled IMAP access so I cannot get my work email on my iPhone. In the beginning, this wasn’t that big of an issue, but as I’ve taken on more cases and more responsibility, this will be come a bigger deal. (Now, we’re only talking about 20 - 25 emails a day, but they’re typically fairly important emails.) The guy at the Apple store tells me that in order to get Exchange to work on my iPhone 3G I’ll have to be on a $45 “business plan” from AT&T. Though after some questioning he admitted he was only speculating. If I have to pay for a $45 data plan plus $5 for SMS messages, I’m looking at raising my current bill by over $30 a month or $720 over a two year contract. The only “official” word we have is a blurb on the AT&T website that mentions Exchange being a “business” feature.” So the big question still remains, if all I want is Exchange support for my work email on my iPhone, am I going to have to move over to a more expensive business data plan? Will Exchange work on my current $20 a month data plan with my 1st Gen iPhone and software version 2.0? Will AT&T even know that I’m running exchange? Considering Steve Jobs has touted one of the biggest features of iPhone 2.0 firmware as being Exchange support, my personal guess, is that it will work without a business plan on either the 1st Gen or 3G iPhone. I hope that AT&T will have no way of knowing or caring what type of traffic is coming in and out of the iPhone. But, this is a big enough issue that it makes me want to hold off and see.
3. 16GB Only - I was shocked when the new iPhones came out and there wasn’t a 32GB version. I wouldn’t mind paying $499 for a 32GB model. A 16GB iPhone is better, but I still have to carry around my 60GB iPod to use in my car and to carry all my tunes. If that iPod were to die tomorrow, I’d have to go out and replace it with an iPod Classic. Apple is notorious for having an iPod event in September, so my guess is that we’ll see a 32GB version of the iPhone within 3-4 months.
4. Is 3G That Much Faster?- I’ll admit, I really want faster data, but there is a question really as to how much faster in real world situations 3G will be over EDGE. My guess is it’s not going to be as fast as we think and certainly not as fast as we hope. It might be a good idea to spend an hour or so in my local Apple store playing with an iPhone 3G and comparing it to my current iPhone in terms of speed.
5. Will the GPS Be That Useful- GPS is cool, but I just took a trip up to Atlanta and borrowed my brother’s Garmin Nuvi for the trip. It cost less than $200 on Amazon and had audible turn-by-turn directions and interactive maps. GPS on the iPhone doesn’t look like it’s going to offer near these features and in the car for navigation purposes is probably where I’d want to use the GPS features a majority of the time. Should Garmin or another big brand come out with an iPhone App that turns the 3G iPhone into a full fledged GPS product, I’d be all for that. But based on what I’ve seen of the demos, it just looks like Google Maps with a blinking dot. Again, something probably better to hold off and wait and read the reviews on.
6. Firmware 2.0 Does Most of What I Want- Yes I’m interested in faster data speeds, I’d like the extra storage, and the GPS looks cool. But besides from those hardware improvements, of which I’ve already raised questions/concerns about before, everything else is in the software. Firmware 2.0 is going to be available free on my current iPhone and will probably serve me just fine for the time being. I’m looking forward to the App store and am sure a handful of applications alone will bring a lot more functionality to my iPhone. Assuming Exchange support works as I hope it will, my current iPhone will probably serve me just fine. I absolutely love my current iPhone, it’s changed the way I use a mobile phone and the computer in such a positive way, do the extra hardware features really matter that much? How often is EDGE really “too slow” and how often would true GPS be needed?
7. AT&T- I’ll admit most of my issues with the new iPhone are not Apple issues. I’m less than thrilled with the new AT&T pricing plan and really like the plan and features I already have. I’ve been overall pleased with AT&T as a carrier but my loyalty to AT&T ends at the iPhone. Since the new iPhone will be subsidized through AT&T I have concerns that next year when the next version of the iPhone rolls around we’re going to be “ineligible for upgrade” and end up trowing out a few hundred extra bucks to upgrade. Apple tends to be on a yearly upgrade cycle and AT&T’s contracts run for two years. Now, I love the new lower price of the 3G iPhone and I think they’re going to fly off the shelves. But, I’m not so sure this particular version of the iPhone has significant enough advances from the 1st generation product to make that substantial a difference that I need to run out and upgrade. Sure, we’d all like to have the latest and greatest, but I don’t upgrade my computer every year just because Apple comes out with a new model, why should I upgrade my phone?

1. Use the Parallels Image Tool to expand your virtual disk. This may take a while, so be patient, the rest of the process is fairly easy.
2. From within the Finder, create a duplicate of your hard disk image file. Mine was named winxp.hdd so the duplicate was named winxp copy.hdd
3. Open Parallels, but don't start Windows. You need to make two changes here. First, change the hard disk to the new duplicate image you just created. Second, add a second hard drive, and point that to your original virtual disk. Basically what you're doing is setting the copy to be your primary and boot disk, and adding the original as a secondary hard drive. In order for this procedure to work, you have to be booted from an image that is not the one you seek to change.
4. Boot into Windows and wait a few minutes for it to recognize the new hard drive. Once everything is up, go to the Start Menu and choose Run. Type "DISKPART" (no quotes)
5. Once inside DiskPart type "list volume" (again, no quotes in any of this) and hit return.
6. You should see to volumes. Volume 1 is the copy and Volume 2 is the original drive.
7. Type: "select volume 2" press return Then type "extend" and return. Give it a minute and it should say the process is complete. Once it's finished type "exit" and shut down windows.
8. When back to the Parallels settings screen, go back and remove the secondary hard drive that you added in Step 3 and set your original virtual disk as Hard Disk 1. At this point, we're putting things back the way they were before we started. You can also trash the virtual disk copy that you made in step 2.
9. Now, restart Windows and you should be back to your original virtual machine, though when you look at the disk properties, you should now see the extra free space. You will probably have to restart your windows after it's done recognizing the new hardware. Once that's done, you're back in business with your expanded disk space.

1. Confirm my Mac is healthy and in good working order (I'll perform a verity of maintenance tasks and hardware checks)
2. Print my database of Registration Info and Locate all my Application Installer CDs (this assumes you have such a database, if you don't now might be a good time to put one together)
3. Create a full bootable clone of my machine to an external Hard Drive (I use SuperDuper!)
4. Perform secondary backups of critical files (I backup my entire Home folder to my iPod and burn DVDs of my Documents Folder for later off-site archival)
5. Deauthorize my iTunes account (don't forget to deauthorize any iTunes account you may have running under Windows via BootCamp, Parallels or VMWare, etc.)
6. Deactivate any other software that only allows a limited number of activations, such as the Adobe Creative Suite
7. Sync all devices and .Mac
8. Repair Permissions
9. Unplug all cables except my power cord (I have a laptop- unplug all cables except power, monitor, keyboard and mouse if you have a desktop)
10. Boot from the Installer DVD and use Disk Utility to perform a final repair of the Disk
11. Use the Erase and Install (I choose the advanced options and remove extra printer drivers and foreign languages I won't use to save space and time)
12. Restart computer after install and run Software Update
13. Migrate my User Data only using MIgration Assistant
14. Reinstall Applications from their CDs and Download Shareware Apps from the Web (Check at this time to ensure 10.5 compatability)
15. Re-run Software Update, and run it until no more updates are found (this includes third party utility's software update programs)
16. Repair DIsk Permissions
17. Keep copy of old OS bootable backup for at least a month to ensure all runs well, take Backup DVDs to off-site storage.

iTunes and iTunes Wi-Fi

iPod Lineup Revamped

iPhone Price Drop and New Features

Since Mac OS 10.2 (Jaguar) I have been using the Finder to burn CDs with the data from my drive, just drag and drop and the CDs are cross platform. Its really all I need. What turned me on first about Disco, and what may just get everyone to try it is the user interface. The ooolest feature by far: the animated sequence when you are burning a CD. Disco has the option of displaying animated smoke, fire, goo, icy mist, purple haze, read sea, and steam. My favorites are smoke and fire. This is an amazing effect and just goes to prove even more how cool and creative mac developers are in creating their apps.

Safari 3.0 Beta for Mac and Windows

iPhone to Support 3rd Party Applications using Web 2.0 Standard

The new Xserve is scheduled to be available in October 2006. The base configuration includes two 2.0 GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon processors with 1GB of 667 MHz DDR2 ECC FB-DIMM RAM, a single 80GB 3Gb/s SATA Apple Drive Module, dual Gigabit Ethernet on-board, internal graphics, three FireWire® 800 and two USB 2.0 ports, and an unlimited client license of Mac OS X Server version 10.4 Tiger for a suggested retail price of $2,999. Build to order options and accessories are available.

• full native 64-bit support that allows applications to take complete advantage of 64-bit processing while maintaining full performance and compatibility for existing 32-bit Mac OS X applications and drivers;

• enhancements to Boot Camp, Apple’s innovative technology that was previewed as a public beta in April 2006, making it possible to run Windows natively on Intel-based Macs;

• Front Row™, now available with all new Macs to play back digital content, including video Podcasts using the simple Apple remote*;

• Photo Booth, Apple’s fun-to-use application that lets users take quick snapshots with an iSight™ video camera, add entertaining visual effects with the touch of a button, and share them via email;

• iCal 3 with group calendaring capabilities, event drop box, and standards-based CalDAV support;

• improved Spotlight™ searching that’s even faster, provides richer previews, and lets users search across network mounted folders on other machines;

• a new Movies Dashboard widget for movie times and Web Clip for clipping any part of a web page as a live widget;

• new parental controls including curfews, time limits and remote administration;

• Core Animation, a new graphics technology that makes it easy to create stunning visual effects and animations;

• major enhancements in Universal Access, including improvements in VoiceOver, Apple’s built-in screen reader;

• security enhancements including anti-phishing protection in Mail and Safari™, and an automatic firewall that limits network resources available to an application; and

• new development tools, including Xcode® 3 with full 64-bit support, DashCode™, an easy way to create new Dashboard widgets without writing a line of code, and Xray, for optimizing application performance.

• Virtual Desktops "Spaces" Create different spaces for different clusters of application

• New Features in Mail: Stationary, photo email (html email), Notes and To Do Lists- with a system-wide to-do tracker with iCal Support built in

• iChat now supports multiple logins, visibility, animated icons, video recording, tabbed chats, display sharing and collaboration and "iChat theater" which allows you to show slides that you can talk over. New "green screen" type features allows you to change your background.

• "Time Machine" backup software that automatically backs up and is able to restore all files.