You’ll be hard pressed to find a bigger Apple advocate than me. I know they’re out there, but they don’t get out much. So, when I dog Apple, you can bet I feel strongly about it.

In a conversation with Teresa Boardman, a Realtor® from St Paul, Minnesota, she stated very strongly, “unless the iPhone will let me access the internet via my computer, like my phone does, I’m never going to switch.” I know this is anecdotal, but when she said it my brain said, “She’s right. The iPhone should enable this.” At the time, only days after the iPhone launch, I figured someone would write an app and that would be that. And someone did.

Apparently that is not that. Apple and AT&T continue to march toward taking more and more control over the applications and services that are allowed on the iPhone. Some of that control is certainly necessary to prevent malware and other “bad stuff” from happening. But preventing truly beneficial apps from making their way onto the iPhone, while allowing dozens of ridiculous “tip calculators” to thrive, is further indication that Apple still doesn’t want to understand the needs of the business user.

It’s not like they couldn’t make money from it. I, for example, would gladly pay a bit more on the data plan to not have to have tote around the wireless card for my laptop. I can’t be alone.

My bet is that this controlling trend will continue. And that should further the Jailbreaking movement. But with iPhone production ramped to 800,000 units per week, the number of users who will opt out as a result of these shortcomings won’t even amount to a speed bump in their sales chart.

This makes no sense to me. But hey, what do I know, I think having a Flash plugin for Safari on the iPhone is a good idea too. Clearly I’m wrong.

This is why DropCopy from 10-base-T Interactive is such a cool program. Not only does it simplify the setup of copying files between computers (at this point I should say Macs because it is a Mac only program) but it has about the simplest interface I have seen in a long time – it’s a translucent circle placed in on your desktop that is basically a portal to your destination machine.

Setup simply involves installing the program on each Mac (drag the program to your Applications folder or anywhere for that matter). For the most part, you won’t need to configure anything since it uses Apple’s Bonjour protocol to identify itself to other DropCopy clients. At the same time, if you want to get fancy, you can transfer files between remote machines if you set up the right forwarding rules on your router and local firewall. Hint: open port 5052 and know your public IP address.

To copy a file to the remote Mac, just drag it onto your portal and hover over the destination name you want, then let it go. Your file appears on the destination Mac in the designated folder or Desktop. Programs like this just make me smile because it really should be this simple.

This program is for Mac OS only and is free for personal use (up to three machines on a network).

I know some of you reading this will be saying, “Seriously? How could someone who doesn’t know how to copay and paste even be surfing the web?” Well, over the past few weeks I have been reminded not to assume anything. Several times over the past couple of weeks I’ve said, “just copy and paste,” only to hear the following: “How do you copy and paste? I don’t understand.” But it’s like anything else. If you’ve never done it, you can’t be expected to know how to do it. Can you?

So, if you don’t know how to copy and paste, don’t be ashamed.

Just click on this link… How To Copy And Paste

Have you ever wanted to put some information in a post, but you didn’t want it to knock your current post off your blog’s home page?

That’s what I wanted here.

So, I am just setting the Post Timestamp back to a time before the previous post about Lorem Ipsum. Now this post will be in exactly the order I want it to be.