Today is a sad day for me. I have just experienced a pain that all non-rich geeks must endure, having your computer become "obsolete." Today the beloved 15" Powerbook G4, which actually already replaced the original 1.67 GHz PB that I have, has been dicontinued, thanks to the success of the MacBook Pro. Well, it’s ok, I’m getting a laptop from my new high school soon, and I’ll sell this laptop for an Intel PowerMac (Mac Pro)
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After all of the fake invites for a Feb. 22nd Apple event, there is finally a real invite for a real Apple event on February 28th at Apple Headquarters in Cuperino, California. The invitation, which was sent out to a variety of media outlets (of course, none for podcaststers and bloggers like me, as if I could go anyway because even though this is my week off from school, next week isn’t. ARRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!), which consists simply of an iCal icon with the date February 28th on it and the line "Come see some fun new products from Apple." Well, let the guesses begin (personally I’m HOPING for an Intel version of the PowerMac G5, but I think that it WILL be either a) an updated version of Airport Extreme of Express (perhaps video on Express and MIMO on both), b) an Intel Mac Mini with Front Row 2.0 (what was a popular choice for Macworld 2006), or c) Intel iBooks (another popular guess proved false for Macworld 2006)).
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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.
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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…
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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
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!
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!!!!!
I found this story about Woz (Steve Wozniak, co-founder o Apple for you non mac-geeks) on the Cult of Mac blog earlier today. It really is quite hilarious.
I’ve always wondered, now why hasn’t someone ever made a movie about the history of Silicon Valley/Apple/Microsoft? Well now my dream has come true. Pirates of Silicon Valley was a made-for-TV movie made in 1999 on TNT about the history of Apple and Microsoft and their founders Bill Gates (played by Anthony Michael Hall) and Steve Jobs (played by Noah Wyle), respectively. The film even includes their own version of Macworld 1999 (http://www.epicempire.com/computers/steve-jobs-keynote-surprise.html, curtosy of Macuser.com and Digg.com)!!!!!!!! Though I have not seen teh movie yet, I plan and renting a copy in the near future.
As most of you know, Bush gave his annual State of the Union address last night. I have my own adaptation on how it Bush would have liked it to have went (due to his recent adaptation of the iPod)…
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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