∞ 14 guitarists that influenced me

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I have very wide ranging musical tastes — from classical to heavy metal. Over the years, there have been many guitarists that have influenced my playing, some to the point that I wanted to know their secrets and be able … Continued

∞ RIM is the Boston Red Sox of technology

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I was reading an article this morning by industry analyst Ross Rubin about how RIM needs something with the impact of Apple’s voice assistant technology, Siri. Of course, Ross is correct, RIM definitely needs a big win like Siri. However, … Continued

∞ 70Decibels Podcast Network

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A new network from Myke Hurley that encapsulates all of his podcasting work, including The Bro Show. Other hosts include Terry Lucy, Patrick Rhone, Dave Caolo, Joshua Schnell and Stephen M. Hackett.

∞ Boogeyman

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“Light, shadows, depth — all perfect!” Such an impressive photo. [Via Veerie’s blog]

∞ Ben Brooks reviews Instapaper 4.0

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In my book Instapaper is certainly a “ridiculously good deal” and that may sum up Instapaper 4 perfectly. I’m a proud paying member of Instapaper and I’m really impressed with what Marco did with version 4.0.

∞ PDFpen from Smile [Sponsor]

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PDFpen is a great application for editing your PDFs. You can add signatures to PDFs and email them back, instead of resorting to printing and faxing. You can even make corrections and edit images. There’s also OCR for scanned documents … Continued

∞ Advertise with tact

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When The Loop relaunched on September 1, it was a completely different site that focused on the content, not advertising or pageviews. It was a major change for Peter and me to stray from the traditional advertising model, but with … Continued

∞ Apple's largest box

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James Stewart writing for the New York Times about Steve Jobs’ accomplishments in retail architecture: In many ways, the retail architecture is simply the largest box in which an Apple product is wrapped, and Mr. Jobs was famously attentive to … Continued

∞ iPhone 4S sales top four million

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Apple today announced it has sold over four million of its new iPhone 4S, just three days after its launch on October 14. In addition, more than 25 million customers are already using iOS 5, the world’s most advanced mobile … Continued

∞ Google's money

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Dan Frommer: About 85% of Google’s net revenue comes from ads running on Google sites. About 10% comes from ads running on other sites. And about 5% comes from “other”…

∞ Okay, you were wrong

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Phil Hornshaw: Like just about everyone else in the tech world, I didn’t expect the iPhone 4S to be nearly as popular as it is… No, only people that believed the rumors thought it would be a disappointment. Like me, … Continued

∞ Daylite for Mac, iPhone, & iPad

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Many thanks to Marketcircle’s Daylite for sponsoring this week’s RSS feed on The Loop. Daylite helps you manage your business and your team. Daylite helps you manage your company’s projects, sales opportunities, contacts, tasks, appointments, meetings, notes, and email — … Continued

∞ Record iPhone activations

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BGR.com: “AT&T had already activated a record number of iPhones on our network — and is on-track to double our previous record for activations on a single day.” Looks like the naysayers were right, the iPhone 4S is clearly a … Continued

∞ RIM has no idea

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Macworld: At a service update conference held on Thursday afternoon, RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaridis said, “We don’t know why the switch failed and why service never failed over to another alternative switch.” Asked why the company couldn’t avoid network traffic … Continued

∞ Djay updated for iOS 5

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With this update, djay Apps now feature professional audio FX, integrated iCloud capabilities, enhanced music library features and the ability to include sounds from other music apps using the audio cut and paste feature.

∞ Scott Forstall described as mini-Steve

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Businessweek: In many ways, Forstall is a mini-Steve. He’s a hard-driving manager who obsesses over every detail. He has Jobs’s knack for translating technical, feature-set jargon into plain English. He’s known to have a taste for the Mercedes-Benz SL55 AMG, … Continued

∞ Samsung tablets infringe Apple patents in US

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Reuters: A U.S. judge said Samsung’s Galaxy tablets infringe Apple’s iPad patents, but also that Apple might have a problem establishing the validity of its patents. Australia and now the US.

∞ Dell: Android disappoints

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Khidr Suleman reporting on Michael Dell speaking at Dell World: We are very aligned with Microsoft around Windows 8. You’ll hear more about Windows 8 from us and see a wide range of products released,” Dell told journalists during a … Continued

∞ 'Up close' and 'All about' iOS 5 and iCloud

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As usual Macworld has done an incredibly thorough job of looking at each aspect of Apple’s latest offerings. They have two series running today — one called “All About iCloud” and another called “Up Close with iOS 5.”

∞ RIM: Mac users not wanted

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BlackBerry App World: This web page uses ActiveX controls that work only in Microsoft Internet Explorer. To ensure that BlackBerry App World is correctly downloaded to your BlackBerry, this site is not designed to work with any other Internet browsers. … Continued

∞ Adobe Creative Developer Tour 2011

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The Adobe Creative Suite provides many opportunities for partners to provide not only software and solutions based on Adobe technology but also consulting, contract development and integration services. The key themes for the Creative Developer Event are: Extensibility – Efficiently … Continued