I went in for a haircut [1] and overhead one stylist talking to her client about that stereotypical salon discussion topic: the iPhone.

1. Unfortunately, due to a scheduling mishap, my stylist had the haircut down for another time. Blegh.

Apparently, a MacBook or MacBook Pro battery may refuse to charge after being fully discharged. [Via Daring Fireball]

After having various failures with my Netgear 802.11 B wireless, largely related to dying whenever room temperature got above 70 degrees or so, Robin and I bought one of the new AirPort Extreme base stations. Since it was also time to purchase a new HDD, I bought another LaCie mini form factor drive to sit underneath the base station. Having the ( Read more... )

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I would like you much better if you didn't forget that I like my artists ordered alphabetically in ascending order, not decending. Also, that I like the file browser open, not closed.

I really don't like having to keep specifying this, since you were such a good listener until last Tues.

So, here I am, twiddling my thumbs, waiting for iTunes 7.0.

• McSweeney's ideas for new Mac ads (via Daring Fireball)
• Possible return of the Mac Cube.
• Crazy Apple Rumors Site thinks about a "Very Special Apple Event", Sept. 12.
• Re: Sept. 12, I like Cringley's idea of a Video Express.

Or, so Think Secret claims in an anonymously sourced story. I'm skeptical, but it wouldn't surprise me either. [Via Digg]

Quad core desktop... Drool. Although, it's probably not the system I'll get. Instead, I'm thinking a year or so down the road to a MacBook Pro/Mac Mini Core Duo set-up. Mobility's too hard to give up.

Other cool stuff I'm happy to see announced:

• Virtual desktops in Leopard. I mean, honestly. CDE had this. I was sold on multiple desktops in ( Read more... )

Aside from the cyclists involved in the Tour de France, there are two names cycling fans know. One is legendary commentator Phil Liggett. The other is photographer Graham Watson, whom Apple is profiling as part of the what I think is new Apple@Work section of Apple.com.

Watson has a gallery that's being updated for every stage of the tour.