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Bio:Josh Pigford, founder and editor of TheAppleBlog, is a writer and interactive designer based out of beautiful Denver, Colorado. In addition to immersing himself in all things Apple, he also designs and develops interactive products for companies both large and small around the globe.

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Recent Posts

John Gruber just made quite an interesting post/find on his site about how Microsoft has straight copied Apple’s Workgroup Manager Icon. Here’s a screenshot of Microsoft’s page with the icon: The page this is on is here (click the Buy Now button). Then check out the… Read More »

12-11-2006: Community Activity

 
 

Clearification: Microsoft does something hip

I rarely can find cool and innovative things that Microsoft pulls off, but geez…huge props on this. One of their new ad campaigns for Vista is Clearification. There’s so much cool content on the site. It’s really just a marvelous execution of an ad campaign. I… Read More »

The Apple Blog Store

Looking for the perfect Christmas gift? Be sure to checkout the new The Apple Blog Store! Killer prices, super fast shipping, and more Apple stuff than you can shake a stick at! Merry Christmas! Read More »

12-5-2006: Community Activity

Shuffle added to the contest!

In the killer contest we’ve got going, we’ve now added one of the new iPod shuffle’s to the contest! That means we’ll be giving away almost 70 prizes to close to 50 people! There are tons of people getting involved so head on over to Read More »

Would Apple Buy Parallels?

Both Paul Stamatiou and Ronald Heft have thrown out solid thoughts on the possibility of Parallels being bought by Apple. Boot Camp is lame, Virtual PC never made it off the starting line, and Parallels really has become a core app that… Read More »

More Must Reads

So as we announced yesterday, we’re having a bit of a contest. We’re giving away all sorts of things like free apps and accessories to people. One of the companies that graciously donated stuff was Griffin Technology. We knew we were getting some cool… Read More »

We’re having a sweetness giveaway here at TAB! We’re giving away over a dozen prizes to people for participating in the new forums! The Prizes AppZapper Disco Overflow On The Job NewsFire Acquisition Griffin Technology Products Be sure to check out the full details and then Read More »

Over the past couple of years of running The Apple Blog, I’ve tried out literally thousands of applications. A lot have been great apps that I still use today, but infinitely more have just been plain bad. I know I’m not the only one who’s experienced… Read More »

Just a quick reminder. Don’t forget about Apple’s special one-day shopping event with tons of killer deals and free shipping for all good boys and girls. I know I won’t even think about stepping foot near any retail store on Friday, but I might make use… Read More »

I do quite a bit of design and development with my company. To keep things streamlined I’ve setup my machine as a local development server to avoid the obvious hassle of having to FTP files every time I make a change that I want to… Read More »

Being in the web development business, I’ve got quite a few domain names to keep up with…over 30 to be a bit more precise. Over the years I’ve slowly been moving them to my registrar of choice, but there are still some floating… Read More »

Apple have posted a snazzy new commercial for the new iPod shuffle. It features Who’s Gonna Sing? by the Prototypes. This particular commercial seems to be a small departure from the usual fast-paced, high-energy feel of previous iPod commercials with nothing more than a… Read More »

It’s that time again. We’re looking for more writers for TAB. If you’re interested, we want to talk to you. A few things before you take the time to contact us: You MUST have either a blog or have previous experience with writing for a publication of some… Read More »

Each day I’m more and more baffled by how stupid big label executives are. I’m really starting to believe they want to go out of business. In a recent news article on Billboard.com there was a blurb about how Microsoft has agreed to share revenue from… Read More »

Review So I’ve never really been much of a fan of the Shuffle. It’s always just seemed like yet another iPod Apple put out. So, while I do think there is a market for it, this second time around for the Shuffle doesn’t change my mind. From… Read More »

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