The incredible, amazing, awesome Apple
See the incredible, amazing and awesome super-cut of Apple’s September special event keynote address. Not every subtle are they.
loving the Apple (in a Beta'ish way)
See the incredible, amazing and awesome super-cut of Apple’s September special event keynote address. Not every subtle are they.
Just a filler before we get back to hopefully more-regular postings…
This was self-written and recorded live in the NYC Apple Store by Ray William Johnson of Fatty Spins. Not the first and definitely not the last to record stuff in those funky Apple Stores in the US. Have a look at the raw footage if you thought it was green-screened.
Doubt you can try it here in town as most only provide restricted access to the Macs on display in Apple resellers.
I’m looking for any readers here who are in the midst of looking for a new phone but not the iPhone. I’m proposing a pretty straight swap of new phones (top up if necessary) from me (any model from Starhub) and you (iPhone 3GS 32Gb from SingTel). Drop me a comment if you are interested!
Apple recently released four new Get a Mac ads that again pokes fun at Microsoft. The four ads – Biohazard Suit, Legal Copy, Stacks and Time Traveler – puts a funny twist to the age old Mac vs PC rivalry.
Go take a look and see why most people prefer these ads than those from Microsoft.
Interested to cuddle Steve Jobs to sleep? The cool peeps at PodBrix hand-crafted 500 pieces of this plush toy version of Steve Jobs for your collection. Standing at 43cm, Plush Jobs does stand quite tall amongst your other soft toy.
Plush Jobs loves you. Cuddle up with him and pretend he’s whispering corporate secrets in your ear. Jobs enjoys hanging out with your other stuffed animals… also he adores Barbie. But please keep him away from computers running Windows, he hates those.
Still available at US$27.99 (with International shipping it will cost US$44.69) – you will be the first 500 people to manhandle Plush Jobs. (somehow it reminds me of Mr Mackey from South Park)
This viral video shot for Microsoft Office for Mac is done by Dennis Liu, who did this video on his Mac which became quite a hit on the Web.
Liu says he got interest pretty high up the Apple corporate ladder from that video, but “Microsoft actually took my music video video very seriously, and we decided to collaborate on a viral video for Microsoft Office for Mac.” (via Cult of Mac)
The video shows you various “techniques” you can do while in office to pretend to work, all the time using various apps from the Microsoft Office suit.
Just for the fun of it, here’s the video “Again & Again” by the Bird & the Bee done by Dennis Liu.
Man I am amazed by his enthusiasm and energy doing that dance, and at all times with that smile on his face. Go Woz!
… is something not for the faint hearted, especially when your iPhone is minty fresh from the box.
Flunky Carter filmed his iPhone through night vision, probably hoping to recreate a bit of Blair Witch Project and probably gave himself a fright with all the unsighted cracks and stress fractures on his iPhone.
This is what my iPhone looks like underneath the Night Vision. I was surprised to see all the stress and cracks around the edges, especially around the lens, since none of those are visible under regular light. You can see right through the case to the skeleton of the iPhone… kreepiez
Kreepiez indeed – see for yourself below.
iPhone under Night Vision from Flunky Carter on Vimeo.
RT from @guykawasaki – If you have money and power, you choose Macintosh If you’re oppressed, you use Windows.
Just gonna make one – no new Mac mini, but a MacTV – putting the Mac into the AppleTV.
It will have at least 1 TB harddisk, with an option for an optical drive or a second harddisk, with mini Display Port, HDMI port, component video port and a mini DVI port. There will also be Firewire 800 and USB 2.0 support and 802.11n WIFI and BlueTooth built-in.
There will be a new Media Server software that will replace Front Row that can manage and edit media – a part iLife, part Front Row hybrid application.
There will also be an update to the Remote software for the iPhone that can control the new Media Server software, but also comes with a remote Touch Pad to serve as a mouse, and a full-screen keyboard so that you don’t need to BYOKAM.
Lastly, when you press Comd+Ctrl+SpaceBar+Z, a rainbow will form just on top of the Mac TV to give it a nice glow.
That’s my last minute Macworld 2009 prediction.
Harry McCracken from Technologizer dig through the patent office and gives a historical view of Apple’s 31 year product history.
Some of the major products that shaped Apple’s history is there – the original Mac, original iMac, the iPod disguised as just a Media Player, Multi-Touch Surface Controller that’s in all iPhone to name a few.
But there are some whimsical patents like this Media Player System that showed a skier sharing music from his iPod to other skiers around him – maybe Microsoft get their Zune squirting from this.
One thing for sure – these drawings are probably done by some eight-year old kid so that they are as inaccurate as possible without giving too much away. Thankfully the products that come out in the market aren’t designed that way.
(via Gizmodo)
Got this warning page when I surfed to Facebook’s Request page on my Safari. This is a warning from Google’s Safe Browsing API that helps to prevent phishing from links you clicked.
The Safe Browsing API is an experimental API that enables client applications to check URLs against Google’s constantly updated blacklists of suspected phishing and malware pages. Your client application can use the API to download an encrypted table for local, client-side lookups of URLs that you would like to check.
On closer inspection, the problem arises when the FaceBook request page, who’s URL is http://www.facebook.com/reqs.php#friend, contains numerous instances of this URL http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/ which seems to be where images, stylesheets and other files that are called up by the Request page. When you click Report an Error button, you’ll find the offending URL http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/common/redirectiframe.html that triggered the warning.
Anyone knows why Google deems that as suspicious?
To have Google’s Safe Browsing when you’re on Safari, go get the latest version of Saft – one of the must have Safari plugin – and you’ll be protected.