Legend.

The death of Steve Jobs hit me like a stack of lumber to the chest. I knew his health was poor, though naively believed that someone of his importance would receive extraordinary medical care that would cure him. He was just as human as the rest of us, despite his incredible mark he’s left on our lives. For some background, I began my foray into Mac computers relatively late in life, when my sister got her G3 tower. I had regarded Apple as... Read More

iTunes

Good ‘ol Steve Jobs announced a new version of iTunes today, the music software so ubiquitous that using anything else would seem….exotic. With that announcement came the expiration of the old icon, which indeed featured a CD in the background, a product we use less and less these days. Also announced was iTunes Ping, a “social network for your music”.  It allows for ‘followers’, and ways to share opinions on... Read More

Secret 4th Generation iPhone Saga

Wow, talk about soap opera, the leak of the iPhone prototype made waves in the geek/tech community today. Gizmodo has a dramatic retelling of the tale, but the Cliffs Notes would summarize: •Young Apple engineer gets drunk at nearby German bar. •Young Apple engineer leaves hyper-expensive and highly secretive iPhone prototype on bar stool. •’Source’ finds phone, plays with it, only realizes it is special when he opens... Read More

iPad: Will it Blend?

Among all of the chaos, pandemonium, and gratuitous iPad coverage over the last week, it was refreshing to come across a familiar face, testing out the new iPad in its hardcore Blendtec blenders. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAl28d6tbko&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6] Yes, it blends. On a small side note, a colleague got one this weekend and I was playing with it at the office. And it’s sweet.... Read More