I couldn’t let this little “gem” (hehe) of a story go by without commenting on how warm and fuzzy it made me feel inside, what with my general distrust of Apple products and product purchasers. Apparently I’m not the only one who sees them for the status-symbolitians that they really are (ok, I’m having a little fun at their expense here, but you have to admit there is a certain amount of exclusivity built in to the possession of an iPhone.) German software developer Armin Heinrich was so sure that some iPhone purchasers love overpriced shtuff so much that they’ll buy pretty much anything that he wrote a $1,000 application and sold it through Apple’s app store. What does this $1,000 app do, you might ask? Nothing. It does nothing except display a picture of a ruby (which is really the champaigne of stones).

While I can appreciate the snarkitude of such an undertaking, even I was surprised the L.A.

If you’re not a Crackberry user, disregard this post.

If you ARE a Crackberryholic, you’ll know exactly the feeling you get when you’ve been away from your phone for a while and when you return, you’re SURE you should see that little blinking light telling you there’s a message waiting. That comforting, blinking beacon, reassuring you that someone out there cares. But what happens when it’s not blinking?

If you didn’t catch round one of this heavyweight matchup, check out our first look at the two hot offerings in the smart phone world. After a couple more weeks of using the Centro, I thought it was worth taking a second look at some of the more subtle talking points.

First off, let’s talk email delivery. It’s always been somewhat of a given that Blackberry rules when it comes to email delivery. Their business has basically been built on the groundbreaking email push technology. But on further review, it’s not as much of a home run for BB as has been advertised. AITO (as it turns out), each major carrier now offers their own push technology, in the form of a free downloadable third-party software app. The only issue here is that Sprint’s version is a little glitchy, dawg.

It was March of 1999 when the very first Tivo rolled off the assembly line and changed TV watching forever. It’s hard to qualify just how big of an advance it actually was. In my head, I know it wasn’t as big as the introduction of the color TV set, but my heart of hearts is telling me that it’s the biggest thing to happen to TV since the remote. IRG, it’s certainly the biggest advance during generation Y’s collective lifetime.

For those of you who think Tivo and a plain-jane DVR is the same, you’re missing the boat, as Tivo offers several features not available in most knockoff DVR models, and its incredibly intuitive UI (user interface) makes using another DVR feel like trying to play the latest Chris Brown CD with a 1988 8-track machine.