Campfire has finally been released for the iPhone. Campfire is a business chat application that lets you communicate with your project team members and employees in real time online. It includes group chat, file sharing, photo and video sharing capabilities and more.

For those of you who haven’t been questioned by an Apple employee about purchasing extended Applecare for your new Mac (and for those that have), you are faced with the decision most customers generally dread at other stores. The question that runs through your mind is this: is this just a scam for more of my hard-earned money, or is it really worth it and necessary?

Apple likes to have at least a 50% profit margin on most of the hardware it sells but that’s not happening with the company’s AppleTV.  The price on the 40GB model was dropped from $299 to $229 and on the 160GB model from $399 to $329.  There is a greater profit for the company in selling the 160GB model.  Both models still have a lower profit margin than some of its other products.

Though many Apple computers’ graphical units are based on Radeon technology, a rumor is circulating that Nvidia, another well-respected graphical powerhouse, is working on a new GPU for Apple computers. Not only that, the new GPUs, or GPGPUs, will be able to function for both graphical purposes as well as lending a hand to the main CPU.

Apple may have just updated its AppleTV by lowering the price of both the 40GB and 160GB model.  By doing so, it has also forced companies that make competing products to lower their prices as well.  Specifically, the Vudu media box.  How does it stack up against the AppleTV feature wise?  Read on to find out!

The next update to Apple’s Mac OS X Leopard, number 10.5.2, is rumored to have support for World of Warcraft. Anyone who has ever gamed on a Mac knows that this is a big deal. World of Warcraft worked great for us running Tiger on an eMac with some updated hardware, but hasn’t worked well since upgrading to Leopard.

As thin and light as the MacBook Air is, it’s still “slow” (relatively speaking) and users of the laptop will have to make do with one USB port, one headphone jack and one external monitor connection.  It lacks even the most basic of connections which is a severe drawback.  If you can deal with carting a few extra accessories then it’s highly advisable to pick up these five.

This question is being raised time and again by every person who reviews the MacBook Air.  Who is this computer for?  Sentiments that have been echoed the world over.  Ultraportables aren’t known for their power and the MacBook Air is the slowest computer Apple makes.

Apple rolled out iTunes movie rentals recently. They got a lot of initial criticism from their users on the length of time the movies would remain active on a users system. Many movie watchers said that a 24 hour movie viewing period was not enough time to watch a movie and keep up with a hectic schedule.
Apple answered the call of their customers with little fanfare, extending the rental time slightly. What has been happening to users who download rentals now is that the countdown screen will appear as usual, but it now offers the viewer a chance to finish the movie once they’ve hit play.

Since the iPhone was born, there’s been a rift in the user community between those who keep the iPhone the way Apple intended, only updating when Apple releases something new.  On the flip side, there’s the “jailbreak” community, who has been opening up the iPhone to new applications and uses, though admittedly to the detriment of some user’s phones, for the same amount of time.  Whether Apple admits to it or not, the iPhone “hackers” have been responsible for all the recent innovation to the iPhone.