From its purchase of PA Semiconductor to the hiring of over 100 people with expertise in chip design or manufacturing, it is becoming increasingly clear that Apple is serious about creating chips in-house. However, given the company’s past record, I’m not all that excited about the prospect of filling my drawer with even prematurely useless junk from Cupertino.

There are two main ways to move the photos taken with your iPhone onto your computer, one way for Mac OS X users and another for Vista PC users. We’ll look at both below.

Some old rumors got a fresh twist and fresh life in the run up to this Summer’s iPhone 3.0 roll out. This is starting to feel like a real cliff hanger and, whatever the outcome, the next few months are going to be very, very interesting.

An open source effort to work around (hack) Apple’s iTunes + iPod + iPhone lock-ins has been the subject of repeated threats from Apple’s legal team. Now, the company that hosted the forum at the center of the controversy is fighting back and, assuming the case ever gets to court, could make it a defining moment in the fight against digital rights management (DRM) and the more egregious applications of the copyright law.

Yelp is the restaurant review Website that gets the most use and makes the most noise. The iPhone Yelp app makes the site even better by allowing you to review a restaurant while you’re still sitting in it.

You can almost hear the words, ‘Those sluts,’ muttered bitterly from inside the AT&T executive suite as the inevitable rumors about a possible Apple and Verizon hook-up begin to circulate. Still, at the very least, Ma Bell can expect their iPhone honeymoon to last one more year.

As many competitors flounder and the market in general contracts 11 percent, the Cupertino, CA-based computer and widget maker is taking a bigger slice of the general handset market. Still leave it to a troll slumming for pageviews to wonder aloud why the company isn’t growing even faster.

A billion of anything is a lot of things. A billion apps downloaded from the Apple App Store in nine short months is a fascinating figure and one that may well have helped change an industry.

Whereas Apple experienced a decline in Mac sales—down 3 percent in a market that fell 8 percent last quarter—iPhone, iPod and App Store sales picked up the slack, allowing the the Cupertino, CA-based computer and widget maker to once again post stellar quarterly results. That said, perhaps the brightest star in this gumbo of products and services is the iPod touch, which continues to find a warm welcome with users.

For the Macintosh tech on the go, there are few tools quite so useful as Mactracker, which can tell you in moments with 100 percent accuracy exactly what kind of memory the Early 2008 MacBook uses or, for that matter, what upgrades were available for the PowerMac 6400. Now, with the release of this app, you don’t have to boot up to get the info you need—yet another step down the path to having a Star Trek style “tricorder” in your pocket.