Is it monday? Is it art?
These are shoes, but they’re also more than meets the eye. On the one hand, I’ll paraphrase that old saying from Big, “So it’s a sneaker that turns into a robot? Why is that fun?”, on the other hand, it is pretty cool. With the laces all fluttering around like [...]

Categories: apple · breakfast links

So awhile ago there was a lot of crap about all the new CS3 icons being all boxy. As though a feather and an orange flower are so easy to use, I’ll bet you a whole lotta money that if you showed people the feather icon and the flower and then the same people the [...]

Categories: apple · rant

So this whole EU vs iTunes thing is hopefully winding it’s way down. The whole thing though strikes me as a lot of posturing and politics w/out any real caring about the “people.” Ostensibly the EU complains about the lockin that happens when you buy and iPod and iTunes and buy music from the iTunes [...]

Categories: apple · rant

FSJ is almost always ridiculously funny and more often than not somehow right. But when he does Bono, there’s a wee bit of extra funny sauce on it. I just don’t know why. Here, here and here, for example. Jaysus.

Categories: apple

Today we have a followup on three things we’ve talked about before. Good times.
So, we’ll start with more rumors on the Macbook Mini (we talked about that here). This morning we come across this short piece reinforcing our hopes of this long fabled device. It suggests that a solid state notebook (i.e. flash technology instead [...]

Categories: apple · breakfast links · solid state

Just ran across this BusinessWeek article (courtesy TUAW) that suggests that Apple should take a little slice of it’s $12billion and use it to start a little venture capital arm to invest in Apple development startups. Apple’s definitely not a big acquisition company - they buy small innovative companies that they can easily incorporate into [...]

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Steve Jobs and Bill Gates on stage at once? All technical snobbery aside, I just don’t see Bill faring well up there, they are at opposite ends of the spectrum in terms of charisma and presence. Steve is all good posture and strong voice and Gates is all, umming and wild gesticulation. And with [...]

Categories: apple · art · breakfast links · microsoft · t-shirts

My new section, GeekFindr, tagline “I had an itch and found something to scratch it” … hm.. but less gross than that sounded. Reviews or just pointers to follow.
So my first find. I’ve long railed against iTunes’ inability to calculate beats per minute (BPM) for my library - I mean, why can’t it just know [...]

Categories: apple · geekfindr · music · review

So, I found the AppleInsider piece on the macbook mini rumor (courtesy of kirkunit). I really have no historical love for any of Apple’s laptops (apparently I’m alone in this lack) - there’s very few laptops I really feel attached to and those are probably the Thinkpad 701 (the butterfly which I coveted but never [...]

Categories: apple · laptops · solid state

So I just read an article about how the UK ads are backfiring. Which is to say, they are apparently lowering their “buzz factor” - which used to be a +14 to a +8, being an olde school D&D player, I didn’t even realize you could get up to +14! Ahem, anyway, I’m not sure [...]

Categories: apple · commercials