Mac Posers and PC fanboys

Its time for a new blog post and what are we gonna talk about? I’ll tell you what were gonna talk about. PC fanboys on Youtube. Now don’t get me wrong, I’m a major fanboy of Apple myself, I go to great lengths to show the weakness of Microsoft and the power of Apple. As a matter [...]

Hardware or Software?

Its worth remembering that Apple is a hardware company as well as a software company. Fully half of its R&D dollars (research and development) have to go into hardware related innovation, an expense a pure software company like Microsoft doesn’t have to incur. At the same time APple has to keep upgrading its OS. An expense Dell and the like have [...]

First?

In 2002, Mac guru Scott Kelby came up with an interesting list of Apple Firsts. These include:*The 3.5″ floppy drive*color graphics *Built-in Networking*Built in wireless LAN* Built-in sound*easy access to the guts*The ability to hook more than one display (Winpc machines didnt have this till 98)*the first PDA (The Newton)*First to pick up USB even though [...]

Pure Consistency

With a lot of people a computer is only a tool. It’s something that you use to make a given job easier. If using the computer doesn’t do this, than what’s the point. Your not gonna use it. Apple’s approach over the years has been to make using the computer as easy as possible. The way it [...]

Windows FANATIC

A windows FANATIC from Chicago was asked, one time, why she liked to windows operating system so much. She said she liked the fact that her computer wasn’t full of junk she didn’t need or use. She said she didn’t want 6 million printer drivers on her machine, “clogging things up”. She enjoyed installing just [...]

The Halo – Effect

The Mac OS is an amazing feat of programming. The Os is a bit like a genie in a bottle that comes out when you rub the lamp – AND ONLY when you rub the lamp. Or maybe its like a friendly ghost that haunts your cool summer retreat home in Miami. All pervasive but never intrusive. Aladdin and [...]

January 19,1983

Less than a mile down the road from Apple headquarters on Bandley Drive in Cupertino, California was Flint Center at De Anza College. A formal unveiling of Apple’s new product at the annual company meeting was scheduled to take place here and Apple hope they had things right. The unveiling was for a computer and it was called “Lisa”, [...]

Ustream

Don’t get me wrong, I love Ustream. Hell, I think I was one of the first people to use it of the people in my little youtube group, and I still plan on streaming on weekends, but it seems Ustream overshadowing Youtube. I know a lot of Youtubers that used to commonly post vids. But [...]

Mac Mini Lives ON (Post #5)

Well last Memorial Day Appleinsider quoted sources saying that the Mac Mini was over. Which according to other sites has had limited growth in teh market in teh last 24months. But recently Apple has noticed a resurge in the minis popularity. For the last 2 years the min has been in kind of a limbo state. Not [...]

iPod Glory (post #4)

You have an iPod? I do. My neighbor does. Most of all my co-workers do. I think America is becoming an iPod nation, or even an iPod world. The President of the United States has one as well as the Queen of England and Chanel designer Karl Legerfeld who owns 70 of the little gadgets. One of [...]