Yesterday after shopping with my mother and sister at The Container Store, I wandered into Tekserve, a Mac speciality store on 23rd St., looking ofr The Print Shop for Mac, but found much, much more. I had known about Tekserve for a while, but had never gone to the actual store myself. The place is incredible. When you first walk through teh door, you can see a line of Mac SEs and Mac Classics (the first macintosh computers, though not the first Apple computers, just google “Apple I,” “apple II,” “Apple III,” and “Lisa.) stacked on top of each other, showing the deep Apple roots of the sore and immediatly increasing the geek appeal. The store itself has the look and appeal of an old general store, with with wooden signs hanging from the ceiling marking the different areas of the store and tickets for speaking to someone at the counter (just like B&H Photo at 34th St.), yet also has the geeky mac appeal of the Apple Store. After talking briefly to someone at the support counter there (almost like an old-fasioned, less-crowded version of the Genius bar at Apple Stores), I learned that Tekserve had been open since the very beginning of Apple products. Wow! That’s since the 80s! Also, my dad told me that he bought a non-mac computer there in 1987, before it was a mac specialty store. Now that’s cool. You can see some pics of Tekserve that I took with my mom’s cameraphone (note to slef, take RAZR EVERYWHERE) below.
technorati tags: apple, tekserve, mac, se, classic, flickr, cool, geeky
There appears to be an Apple key on a computer that is used in The Incredibles. I guess Jobs has mastered brain washing after all…
[via TUAW]
technorati tags: apple, mac, incredibles, pixar, tuaw, keyboard
Today I tried out Digg for the very first time. It’s very, very cool. Users submit stories that they find online or that they’ve made themselves, and otehr users "digg" them, which is like a points system. Once a story gets enough "diggs" i gets on the front page. It’s way better than Slashdot, the previous reigning Web 2.0 news site. But you can’t alwyas trust the stories. Some users will "digg" any story that just sounds cool, even if it’s totally false. But still, check it out at digg.com. Anyone can read the stories, and you can register to "digg" them and comment on them for free.
technorati tags: digg, news, cool
This is a pic from a section in the latest edition of MAD Magazine which shows sataires of the classsic iPod silhouette ads. Very funny, and in now way insulting (unless MAYBE your Steve Jobs, or some dude that actually had this stuff happen to him or her (ouch).
technorati tags: silhouette, ipod, ad, MAD, magazine, flickr, iToons, apple
Flock, the new Web 2.0-centric, Mozilla-based web browser has just been officially upgraded to version 0.5.11, featuring a Flickr uploader, support for Shadows.com bookmark sharing, and support for a few Firefox extentions are just a few of the new features that come with version 0.5.11. Personally, the features that I like the most is support for tags (testing if that works with this post) and categories (this one does work) in Wordpress and other MetaWeblog based blogs (like mine!!!!), the Flickr photo uploader, a bookmarks bar that can also show blog posts, maps, the Shelf (a place to store snippets of text and images for blogging later), and much more. It also runs all together much more smoove and faster than before, and and RSS feed made up of several RSS feeds which used to crash Flock now runs seamlessly. You can grab the new version of Flock here.
technorati tags: flock, web, 2.0, new, version, browser, flickr, shadows, blogs, technorati
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I made this hybrid of the Catholic Insider’s God’s Keynote Address and SNL’s iPod skit. One again, the video is still pending for appearence of Google Video, but I will provide a link soon. Until then, you can check it out here or on You tube.
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This is a documentary that my friend Austen and I made togther last year. You can either check it out here, or go to its page on YouTube (Google Video link coming soon! check it out on Google Video here).
Today is a sad day…the first major mac virus is out there. It’s called latestpics.tgz and it’s a Trojan Horse virus that infects your OS X apps and sends itself to your iChat contacts. According to Macrumors.com, the virus executes the followng Unix functions:
_infect:
_infectApps:
_installHooks:
_copySelf:
Ouch. Be careful Mac users. But don’t worry, peecees (mac geek term for PCs) still have at least a billion more viruses than us, and this virus, according to Symantec, has only infected about 50 computers, and does not autmatically install, so don’t worry.
UPDATE: This is also my first post created/edited with Flock! Hooray!
Yes, after a long, warm, virtually snowless winter here in New York, there is finally a snow storm!!!!!! The Weather channel predicts 10-16 inches of snow, which, unfortunatly I cannot play/sled in because I am recovering from a cold. But I do have pictures of the blizzard on my new Flickr Pro Account with the ability to upload 2 gigs of photos every month, have a photostream of every pic on my Flckr account, and have an unlimited number of photosets.
UPDATE: I added pictures yesterday of the Blizard from out on the street and from the Columbia University campus.
Today is big day for me…I have used an Intel Mac. Yes, right now as I am typing I am on an Intel iMac (1.83GHz) at the Apple Store in SoHo, New York. It is AWESOME!!!!!!! All of the Universal apps (runs on PowerPC and Intel) run FAST, and the PowerPC appes seamlessly and invisibly emuleted with Rossetta run slower than the Universal apps, but are fin for me because I’m used to running apps at G4 speeds. One last word of note…INTEL IS THE FUTURE OF APPLE!!!!!
Aaron Freedman is a 16 year old who's very passionate and knowledgeable about technology and journalism. He enjoys working on his two main projects, 
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