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Posts Tagged ‘All Things Apple’

NOTCOT: iPhone Packaging

By Emile • Jul 2nd, 2007 • Category: General

There are enough blogs, reviews, newspaper articles, press releases, and magazine clippings about the iPhone to satiate any fanatic, but there still is something to be said and Lev Grossman of Time Magazine puts it well:
“… every moment of user interaction has been quietly stage-managed and orchestrated”
And he goes on with flowery language (that is […]



The Death Of Mac OS 9

By editor • Apr 21st, 2006 • Category: Entertainment, General

I remember this conference most especially for Steve Jobs line to the attending developers:
“It’s not dead for them [Mac users], but it is for you.”



Getting back at a scammer: The Powerbook Prank

By Emile • Mar 21st, 2006 • Category: General, Noteworthy, WWW

Masterful… absolutely masterful…



More about XP on a Mac

By Emile • Mar 18th, 2006 • Category: Design, General, Software

For those who are less-enthusiastic or just don’t care about XP on Apple hardware, you may find company with other readers of the TUAW (The Unofficial Apple Weblog). In the poll results pictured above, it a fair number of Mac users are indifferent to the possible presence of XP on Apple. For […]



Windows XP On A Mac is here!!!

By Emile • Mar 16th, 2006 • Category: General

So, it has been done and it looks to be pretty nice (at least from the web videos that are floating around). Perhaps the hazy dream of playing Half-Life 2 on Apple hardware isn’t such a pipe dream after all!
It remains to be seen if Vista will be bootable on a Mac, but since […]



The Microsoft iPod

By Emile • Feb 27th, 2006 • Category: Design, Entertainment, General, WWW

While working on some more serious and less frivolous posts, I came across this post at The Unofficial Apple Weblog - the video is hysterical, but the veracity of the punchline is alarming. Hit play and see for yourself:



Reason #2568 why one should love Apple MacBooks

By Emile • Feb 6th, 2006 • Category: Design, General

I bare a couple of issues with the new Apple MacBook (Pro) but this post isn’t necessarily about those issues, most of which are processor transition & software related, but moreso about Apple.
Apple has been receiving a few uppercuts regarding customer service in the iPod related departments. And just today, in the […]



FileMaker at MacWorld Expo 2006

By Emile • Jan 18th, 2006 • Category: FileMaker, General

FileMaker has posted a few pics of their famous white pavilion booth that was at the MacWorld Expo/Developers Conference 2006.
I would have loved to have been there, and maybe shake a few engineers hands… then maybe exclaim “What took so long for tooltips???”
For your viewing pleasure, see the photos here.



What’s really behind a Steve Jobs keynote

By Emile • Jan 18th, 2006 • Category: Design, Entertainment, General, WWW

I imagine most of us could imagine most of these things, but I’ve never seen it articulated so well. See what I mean…



Way to go Ars!

By Emile • Dec 18th, 2005 • Category: Design, General, Software, WWW

For those not following any of the recent negative buzz surrounding Apple’s Aperture 1.0, you should start by scouring the web for most of the reviews that have labeled it as phenomenal and a ‘must-have’, then read the initial review at Ars Technica. The latter, while having been demonized as an Aperture bash-fest or […]