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Apple’s financial results conference call today was littered with references to future products coming from Apple. While some degree of optimism (”very excited about future”) is the norm during these financial results calls, there was more discussio…

Apple just announced its best June quarter ever for revenue and earnings in Apple’s history. Highlights include:. Almost 2.5 million Macs shipped — 41 percent growth; 11 million iPods sold — 12 percent growth; $7.46 billion revenue …

Apple reported record Mac sales and one of its best third quarters ever, but its usual conservative guidance should set off the usual Wall Street craziness. For the company’s third fiscal quarter, which ended June 28, Apple reported …

Strong Mac sales lift Apple above Wall Street’s expectations for its third quarter, and the company follows its usual practice of guiding well below analyst forecasts.

Apple announced their 3rd Quarter 2008 Financial Results today. Apple posted revenue of $7.46 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.07 billion (or $1.19 per diluted share). This compares favorably to revenue of $5.41 billion and net quarterly prof…

Good news for Apple investors: Last-minute data from retail research firm NPD Group suggest possible upside for Apple’s main growth driver — Mac computers. Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster analyzed NPD’s Mac and iPod data and estimates: …

CNN Money reports that some MobileMe customers are still without email service.

The Cupertino, Calif., company has been migrating its .Mac pay email service to an upgraded version, called MobileMe. But in doing so, it has run into pro…

With AIM available in the iPhone’s App Store, you can now send and receive SMS messages without paying for a plan or individual messages. Also, this will be even better when the notification service works on applications sometimes this fall.

First, download AIM onto your iPhone, then start it up. If you want to send a text message to (617) 555-1212, just send a new IM to +16175551212. You should receive a confirmation message from AOL saying your message has been sent, and the user can reply and you’ll receive it on your phone as an IM. Hope this hint saves some people a few bucks.

[robg adds: We covered this technique for SMS via iChat a few years back, but I felt it worth mentioning again in the context of the iPhone.]

If you’re anything like me, then you probably access files within folders within folders on removable media (i.e. external hard drives, Flash drives). It can become quite a hassle (with a trackpad, anyway) to open the the media device, select the folder, navigate, select another folder, navigate, and then select the desired file or folder.

I tried adding my commonly-accessed (but time consuming to reach) external hard drive folder to the Finder’s sidebar, but whenever I took my MacBook somewhere and the folder wasn’t present, the sidebar alias disappeared.

So my solution was to make a local alias of the removable folder, put it in my Documents (or any other local) folder, then drag the alias to the sidebar. Now I can eject removable media without losing my sidebar shortcut.

[robg adds: I thought we had run something similar in the past, but I can’t find it now — so if this is a duplicate, please let me know. Also, if you use this hint, you should be awa…