I woke up today and I decided I really wanted an iPod touch. I spent some of last night reading about the hacking community that has emerged around this device, and that as much as the device itself has me really excited. The announcement of Apple releasing an SDK for the iPhone/Touch next January also seems very encouraging. Such dreams will have ( Read more... )

For the first time in more than a decade Steve Jobs (CEO, Co-Founder, Visionary, and Savior of Apple Computer) will sit down with Bill Gates (Co-Founder, Legendary Geek, and Microsoft Chairman) and discuss the future of technological innovation. The discussion will be a glorious unscripted free-for-all mediated by the Wall Street Journal's Walt ( Read more... )

Today has been a mixed day. On the plus side, my sister came into town and we hung out a little bit before she disappeared down to Rhode Island to see a PawSox game and to visit family friends at the Clingstone mansion in Narragansett bay. Despite the heat I got an enormous amount of progress done on getting unpacked into my room and even sold ( Read more... )

Well, I'm officially done with College. I will write more about that at a later time ( Read more... )

Well, life without my Mac has been a bit tricky. I miss it terribly, and while it has the benefit of giving me no reason to really hang out in my room; it has also severed my connection to an aspect of my life that is difficult to live completely without. It is looking increasingly like I am just going to wait to take my computer into an Apple ( Read more... )

Hmmm, an unfortunate sequence of events occurred yesterday which included the seeming death of my trusty iMac G5. I left it alone until this morning when I woke up early to troubleshoot, and upon my first Google search discovered that the symptoms are very common for a particular (and expensive) hardware issue ( Read more... )

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The iPod was talked about, some statistics showing the iPod's continued dominance were tossed out. A few sly jokes about the Zune were also made. No updates were made to the iPod, nor to the Mac. More content on iTunes was mentioned, particularly Paramount putting their movie library on iTunes. Apple showed off the iTV, renamed it Apple TV, and ( Read more... )

Microsoft's much-touted 'iPod Killer' was released into the wild a few days ago. So far the response has been overwhelmingly negative. From the difficulty with installing the software and getting it to work. Clocking in at 60% larger, 17% heavier, and a significantly shorter battery life than the iPod sure make it an inferior product on paper, at ( Read more... )