Apple To Ban iPhone Screen Protectors From Online & Retail Stores From May 2010

News coming from iLounge.com is that Apple have decided to ban iPhone screen protective film from their online and retail stores from May this year. This came as a surprise to the masses but apparently some manufacturers may have been aware, Apple giving the hint that they have been talking about this for some time.

Exact reason as to why the popular iPhone screen protection film is to be banned is as yet unknown, iLounge have asked Apple for a comment and will update their blog when and if it comes.

For me I believe the ban is to do with the perception that an iPhone screen protector is needed, when in reality it isn't. They serve to tarnish a brand built on quality.

Unusual, Amusing, Stylish iPad Cases

Our mission to track down cool stuff for Australian owners of Apple iPhone, iPod, iPad and Macs continues but with the imminent release of the iPad in the US on April 3rd and later that month in Australia we on the hunt for some out of the ordinary iPad cases.

Our latest blog post looks at three unusual iPad cases. A case from longlivebooks.com which has an iPad case that looks like a book. A wooden case from Vers. The iMaxi from Hip Handmaids and we highlight Sydney iPhone and MacBook niche case maker Foof.

I Have Pre Pre-Ordered My iPad Thanks To MacTalk Australia

Anthony Agius from MacTalk is off to New York. With him he will be taking large amounts of cash and the hopes and dreams of a select few, desperate, Mac types who are keen to get their hands on a WiFi iPad soon after they are released on 3rd April in the US.

I have ordered a 32Gb WiFi for iPlease Australia - just to make sure the latest iPad cases we will be stocking fit ok ;-)

Will The WiFi iPad Be Able To Tether To iPhone, The Answer Is No

A question many have been asking since the Steve Jobs iPad demo is will the iPad be able to tether to the iPhone. I had a good look through the iPad details on the Apple website and found no mention of this.

Today though I noticed an article on 9to5Mac.com where that question has been answered by Steve Jobs himself and the answer is No.

A guy in Sweden sent Steve a short email asking the question and got a simple one work answer back from an email sent from Jobs' iPhone.

Using The Data Robotics Drobo In A Mixed Windows & Mac Office For Data File Storage and Sharing

Like most small businesses we have gone through our share of data loss over the years so we had put into place a cheap solution. We bought some single disk networked storage disks, we bought four all up. Some disks were used by one person, some were shared. Very quickly, within two years of buying them, three of the four disks had given up. We were left with one single backup disk which we replicated onto a dedicated Windows XP PC which in turn had a dedicated USB backup drive.

It was our crude attempt at dual disk redundancy. Then we discovered the data robotics Drobo. We had heard about the Drobo for some time through the MacBreak Weekly podcast out of the US where they often referred to the Drobo and how great it is.

A Drobo is a range of data storage robots. A big black box to you and me that you slide 3.5 inch disks into. Using the supplied Drobo Dashboard software you can format the disks for FAT32 for Windows only use or HFS+ if you plan to use the Drobo with a Mac and even shared with Windows if you run it through disk sharing on an Airport Extreme or Time Capsule.

We implemented a Drobo S to replace the network single disk, dedicated Windows XP backup and its USB backup disk. We share the Drobo in the office with Windows and Mac users.

Click here to read the full blog on how we did it.