Just a couple new links to share with you this time around:
- Apple TV gains hard disk capacity, loses weighty price @TUAW
- AT&T poised to roll out 3G MicroCell service @TUAW (Dad wants to know A) why they’re charging a service fee on this and B) why you need a separate box, is 802.11n not good enough?)
- AT&T Says MMS for iPhone Coming Friday Mid-day @Gizmodo
- A walk through iTunes history @TUAW
- Bose SoundDock 10 weighs in with $599 of iPod amplification @Engadget (I’m wanting to upgrade my current Bose SoundDock since it doesn’t charge 3g iPhones, I’m wondering if this one is worth it’s hefty price tag.)
- Do You Unplug at 100% Battery? @Unplggd (In the past I haven’t but maybe that’s why my battery only had a 1.5 year useful life. I’m starting now.)
- Do You Use an Email Signature? What Does It Say? @GeekSugar
- Five Best Time-Tracking Applications @Lifehacker
- Free MP3 Madness!! Harry Connick Jr, Gary Go, Brett Dennen, The Cool Kids, Jars of Clay, and more! @Devastate Boredom
- Intuit (Quicken) Buys Financial Site Mint @Lifehacker
- Music Industry Wants Royalties From iTunes 30 Second Samples @Gizmodo
- Nano vs. the Flip: Who wins? @The Apple Blog
- Operating Systems @GraphJam
- Pantone offers color libraries for iPhone, mostly @TUAW (I have a drawer full of Pantone books at work but put something I already love on my iPhone and it’s always better.)
- Pay for Your Grande Latte at Starbucks With Your iPhone @The Apple Blog (One step closer to my dream of having my ID, credit card, and car keys integrated with my iPhone so that I don’t need a purse anymore. And the best part is the Starbucks by my office is one of the test stores so I can actually try it out.)
- ‘The Lost Symbol’ by Dan Brown for Kindle outselling hardback edition @Download Squad (I’m not surprised, I’m infatuated with Kindle books right now myself and the Kindle edition is the cheaper than the hardback.)
- This Is What It Would Take to Print the Entire Internet @Gizmodo
- Volkswagen E-Up! concept rolls into Frankfurt, hits the road in 2013 @Engadget
- Volkswagen L1 concept is crazy efficient, could ship in 2013 @Engadget
Busy week loaded with new info thanks to that Apple event. Here’s what I’m finding useful or interesting right now.
While discussing our computer uses the other day, my brother said, “You can learn a lot about somebody by looking at what’s in their dock.”
Let’s take a look at mine:

My interests span media, the internet, graphic design, and gaming (strictly when those games are well designed with the Mac in mind) and that is clearly reflected in my dock.
I’m currently running Snow Leopard and I make good use of several of the programs that come on all Macs:
- iTunes
- iCal
- Address Book
- iChat
- Text Edit
- iPhoto
I also frequently use some free software including:
- Firefox
- TweetDeck
- Amazon MP3 Downloader
My software picks in terms of what I needed to buy to are:
- Microsoft Office
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Illustrator (I’m still using Adobe CS2 since that’s what I bought with the educational discount while in college and haven’t needed to upgrade badly enough to pay full price yet)
- World of Warcraft (geeky as it is, this is the best designed game for Mac)
- Spore
- The Sims 3
- Turbo Tax (this doesn’t actually make it into the dock since I only need it for a few days each tax season but I buy it every year)
So tell me, what’s in your dock?
I have tons and tons of awesome links to share with you this week. If this sort of great content keeps up, I’m going to have to be posting link love more often.
