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Windows Dev: iPad beginning of the end for Windows dominance?

By Rene Ritchie, Monday, May 24, 2010 a 2:43 pm

Brad Wardell is CEO of Stardock and a well known Windows developer who has just spent 3 weeks with the iPad and been impressed with its instant-on capabilities for email, rss, web browsing, video watching, social networking, and otherwise consuming content to the extent he thinks it may spell the beginning of the end for desktop Windows dominance.

Former Microsoft ClearType Lead: iPad will Kill Kindle, TabletPC

By Rene Ritchie, Sunday, Feb 14, 2010 a 10:18 am

Windows Weekly co-host Paul Thurrott, who was initially nonplussed about Apple's iPad but is slightly warming to the device, has linked to a blog post from Bill Hill, former head of ClearType at Microsoft, who offers:

Ninja Tip: How to Use an Apple Multi-touch Magic Mouse with Windows

By Rene Ritchie, Saturday, Nov 21, 2009 a 7:16 pm

If you're an iPhone user running Windows and Apple's new Magic Mouse made you ache for a little taste of that multi-touch goodness on the desktop as well, you're in luck! No, Apple didn't provide support themselves, but the enterprising folks over at UneasySilence showed -- there's a hack for that!

Blackra1n RC2 iPhone Jailbreak Tool Released and Unlock Update

By Jeremy, Monday, Oct 26, 2009 a 10:47 am

iPhone hacker, geohot, has released blackra1n RC2 for your enjoyment. It corrects a few small bugs from the first release and can be downloaded here.

Apple Releases MobileMe Control Panel for Windows 1.5 with Improved Calendar and Bookmark Sync, Windows 7 Support

By Rene Ritchie, Wednesday, Sep 9, 2009 a 4:33 pm

Attention iPhone users on Microsoft Windows, Apple's MobileMe News "blog" has announced an update to the MobileMe Control Panel:

With the new MobileMe Control Panel for Windows version 1.5 you can assign your primary MobileMe calendar to sync with the default calendar in Microsoft Outlook. Any other MobileMe calendars you have will continue to sync with Outlook and appear as separate calendars. The new control panel also delivers improvements for syncing bookmarks between Internet Explorer and Safari, and provides compatibility with Windows 7.

Tuesday Fright Video: Windows 95 Ported to iPhone

By Rene Ritchie, Monday, Jul 13, 2009 a 11:10 pm

I forget if this brings us 4 minutes to midnight or only 5 on the official app-ocalypse clock, but duck and cover because Windows 95 has been ported to run on an iPhone.

Ish. Gizmodo, via GoodiPhone, has the deets:

How to: Jailbreak/Unlock iPhone 3.0 - Windows PC redsn0w Edition

By Jeremy, Thursday, Jun 25, 2009 a 2:47 pm

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Disclaimer - Neither TiPb nor I take any responsibility for any problems/issues/bricking/etc. that may occur while using this software to modify your iPhone. Please be aware of what you are doing. This will NOT work with iPhone 3GS.

There has been a lot of buzz going on in the forums regarding jailbreaking the iPhone 3.0 software lately, and a lot of questions to go along with it!. Today we’re going to take a deeper look at the exact steps you have to take to get your iPhone 3G with the 3.0 software, jailbroken on your Windows PC machine. We used Windows XP in this example, but Windows Vista shoul

Let’s get started, after the jump!

MobileMe Control Panel for Windows Updated

By Rene Ritchie, Monday, Jun 1, 2009 a 9:27 pm

We're not sure how many pure Windows users are running MobileMe. For those who run Mac OS X, especially multiple Mac OS X machines, the computer sync, Back to my Mac, and other functions make it a far, far better value for the money than a strict Windows environment. However, if you run both platforms, or even if you just love your MobileMe on Windows, Apple has given you a little bit of love today as well. The MobileMe News blog says:

How to Guides Galore: Jailbreaking iPhone 2.2.1

By Jeremy, Monday, Feb 16, 2009 a 9:00 am

With all of this Jailbreak talk going on lately, what better time to let all of you wanna-be Jailbreakers know that all of our how to guides are completely up to date for firmware 2.2.1. For some people, getting into the world of Jailbreaking can be confusing and that is completely understandable. TiPb wants to make it as cut and dry as humanly possible for you. So here we go.

Citrix Strikes Again: Windows Receiver on iPhone a Go!

By Rene Ritchie, Friday, Dec 26, 2008 a 1:04 pm

Citrix has been warning... er... teasing Windows for the iPhone for a while now, but their blog (via Gizmodo) was recently updated to reflect some updates: