Here’s a video of the opening of Microsoft’s first retail store in Scottsdale, Ariz. As the video proves, Microsoft’s business plan is to shamelessly copy Apple, right down to the whooping and high-five ritual when the store first opens

Filed under: iPhone Reports of trouble for AT&T’s 3G network have done nothing to keep people from the iPhone in the U.S. The nation’s second largest wireless carrier announced third-quarter earnings Thursday morning that were full of iPhone goodness.

Filed under: How-tos , Tips and tricks , iTunes , AppleScript Folders, which have been a feature of iTunes since iTunes 5.0, serve as a means to better organize your music. For example, you could create genre- or artist-based folders with corresponding playlists nested within them. But moving playlists into folders isn’t the most fun thing, and can be especially time consuming if you’re going to be moving a bunch

Filed under: Hardware , iBook , Apple History Out with the old, in with the new. This week’s hardware releases were met with new additions to Apple’s vintage and obsolete hardware lists . The following have been added, and I’m sad to say that I’m still using the Dual Ethernet Airport Base Station: iBook G4 (Early 2004) iBook G4 (14″ Early 2004) eMac (USB 2.0) Apple Cinema Display ADC Apple Studio Display 15″ ADC Apple Studio Display 17″ LCD Apple Studio Display 17″ ADC Power Mac G4 (QuickSilver 2002) Macintosh Server G4 (QuickSilver 2002) PowerBook G4 (DVI) iBook (14.1 LCD 16 VRAM) iBook (16 VRAM) AirPort Base Station (Dual Ethernet) I’ve also got a 20″ G4 iMac and my wife uses at 14″ iBook, both of which were previously added to the list

In case you missed it first time around, here’s our totally unbiased review of Windows 7.

In spite of Apple’s rumblings about duplicating functionality, every so often an app squeezes by that seems remarkably similar to the built-in apps that come installed on every iPhone. MyPlaylists is one of those apps

The iP1 is visually striking, and its digital enhancement of compressed music is helpful with some genres. But there are other speaker docks that produce a more natural sound.

Filed under: Apple Corporate , Odds and ends , iPhone Nokia isn’t happy with the iPhone. In a suit filed today in U.S.

This relatively modest database app for keeping track of your books has a few annoyances. But if a simple, easy-to-use library app is what you seek, iBookshelf isn’t a bad way to go.

Filed under: Hardware , Software , Open Source Anil Dash has described how to run Windows 7 on a Mac running OS 10.6 — as a virtual machine — for free (after you buy Windows 7, of course). It’s not very tricky and, according to Anil, works well

There’s nothing new under the sun – particularly solar chargers. We’ve written about flexible solar chargers, solar chargers built into speakers and solar chargers shaped like trees

Filed under: App Review Volkswagen knows something other car manufacturers don’t: they needn’t spend millions of dollars on commercials, billboards, and product placement to launch a new car. They just need to make an iPhone application, like Volkswagen has for their latest model, the 2010 GTI, and the money will follow

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Hardware , Switchers , Apple , Mac mini , Mac OS X Server Steve Sande actually did a brilliant job of explaining just why the Mac mini is so awesome the other day (and we’ve certainly had our share of mini-love here on the site before), but this is worth a read as well if you’re interested in Apple’s littlest Mac. Macminicolo , the very company that Steve lauds in his piece for colocating mini servers for a while now, has posted a “state of the mini” piece, complete with unboxing of the new mini server , pictures of its guts and how they all work together. If you’ve ever wondered why the mini is such a marvel of desktop OS X-ness, check out their writeup (and drool at the beautiful setup above — so many minis!)