Are you interested in a PowerBook G4 Titanium? Would you like to burn CDs with that? In a move that insinuates that Apple is NOT looking into including a built-in slot-loading CDR, they’re now offering a FREE VST Firewire CDRW with purchase of said Powerbook.
A review of an Apple store, via SVN:
The myth that a Mac can’t do what a PC can do is dashed to pieces and you start to realize that quite possibly, it is the other way around. I think destroying the PC/Mac myth is the most important factor in the success of the Apple Store. Profitable or not, setting the record straight is what will win new users. Analysts shouldn’t view the stores solely as a profit/loss balance sheet, but instead see it as a marketing program to change public perception.
This is a list of the words added to the Oxford English Dictionary in the Month of June 2001… notice at the bottom left the word ‘doh’… apparently Homer has some influence in this country.
You might not care but the Apple Cube has been end of lifed… thats according to Mac News Network.
I was thinking maybe they are merely planning an update with a few changes in the manfacturing methods.
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The Simpsons are finally coming to DVD. I have been waiting for this for a looong time. As much as I love the first couple of years, I can’t wait for seasons 3-9, but I’m happy with what I can get. Plus, it gives us all a chance to reflect on how much this damn show has permeated our lives. For most people I know, Sunday night is a decade old ritual. And it reminds you how hard it is to deal with people who don’t enjoy the Simpsons. They are seriously different people. Also, rumor has it that Futurama is coming to DVD in November.
Supoib.
A great graphic from The Onion on the popularity of energy drinks such as Red Bull.
This is what Tool’s website should look like. Like to a ‘t.’ Via Linkdup
Gah. I’m getting so frustrated with life in the ‘real’ business world. It’s no wonder that corporate America takes forever to get anything done.. Here I am, a designer, working on a project with a company that was/is a client. I did their website (they’re web consultants), and now I’m on their ‘team’ for one of their projects. Basically what they’ve told me: “Attend meetings with our clients, some of which will be 5 hours or longer… Take notes on stuff that will help develop a brand and website/application… Okay, so now that you’ve taken all these notes and gone through all your discovery excercises… do NOTHING… Write a ‘creative brief’ but don’t design any logos or any sites yet… We’ve got another company to do the logo, despite the fact that a) you’re better and b) the amount of time we’ve allotted in the budget for you is nowhere near the amount it would take to write 1 document… So you’ve got 45 hours left in the next 3 weeks, but just don’t do anything ‘creative’ with that time, even though you’re our ‘creative’ team member.” GAGH. And the real end-client WANTS me to work on the logo. THEY want me to, but this jerk who thinks he’s a project manager is telling me not to, because the company that did their shitty logo is doing the logo for the client… so my time has been budgeted, but not for logo work, so therefore, I cannot do work on the logo even though I know that the people actually doing it won’t do anything that the client will like. SO frustrating. All of a sudden, working at a cool Lower-Downtown office with rad people seems like something I was CRAZY to leave. -Sigh-
I can’t even begin to describe my joy at the machine which will reach my doorstep in an estimated 6 days: Dual 533 G4 with nVIDIA Geforce 2. Nice.
For those interested in how MacOS X came about, check out this image of what is believed to be a 4 release of the NeXTStep OS. Notice a few things: 1) Mail.app 2)Terminal.app 3) Grab.app 4) Preview.app 5) Clock.app… Applications that haven’t even changed in name. Very interesting, and it makes me happy that this stuff didn’t fall by the wayside, like BeOS. Which makes me wonder… if NeXT hadn’t been puchased by Apple, 1) Would Apple still even be around, and would we be looking at 7500s like we look at these NeXT Stations? 2) If Be had been purchased, would NeXTStep still be around in one form or another?
My guesses would be ‘yes’ to the first question, and ‘no’ to the second.
