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Apple has announced the release date for the much anticipated, highly acclaimed, shiney new iPhone! Set your calendars for June 29th! Steve Jobs has commented that if your looking to get one one the release date, that you might want to go to your local AT&T store first, as the Apple stores will be very busy.

I would LOVE to have one of these phones, except for the fact that I would have to switch my cellular service to AT&T (Cingular). I know that AT&T service is not very good around where I live, so I’d be getting less than stellar phone service on a (hopefully) fantastic phone. Perhaps AT&T will get enough new contracts that they can start investing more on improving their service. By then the iPhone might have had a revision or two out, until then I’m sticking with Sprint.

Check out the iPhone commercials Apple has released!

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Looks like I’m one of a growing number of Apple Mac surfers as mentioned in this article. About a month ago I had an excellentopportunity to purchase a 24″ Apple iMac. Let me just say it has been so much fun learning how to use Mac OSX. It’s so much nicer than Windows, both XP and especially Vista. It’s a little weird to use at first, as the keyboard is slightly different, and the mouse lacks a physical left and right button, but I’ve gotten used to it. I’m in the process of installing all the applications I need to have the functionality of my Windows system. In case I do need Windows for something, I have it running on the Mac using Parallels.

Eventually I think I’ll replace my Windows Vista machine at home, with the Mac. I’ll probably give that system to Mandie. My laptop has Vista (barely) running on it, but I think I’m going to replace Vista with Ubuntu Linux. The next laptop I buy will be a Mac Book Pro, no doubt!

Now I just need to come up with a way of storing the data I use most to someplace on the web for easy retrieval from all the different system I use. Using web applications is the most logical thing to do since the one thing in common with every system I use on a day to day basis is the web browser. I think as time goes on, it really won’t matter what operating system people are using, as the important tools we use will be web based. Jut look at what Microsoft is doing with Windows Live and Google with Docs and Spreadsheets.