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MacWorld, The new rules for buying a Mac. We bust the most common Mac shopping myths:

“(…) For years, we have unquestioningly followed numerous unwritten rules when buying a Mac. Like many customs, these rules were once based on a foundation of facts and reason. But in the past few years, many longstanding Mac truths have been upended. All Macs run on multiple-core Intel processors now. iMacs are no longer hobbled by crippling feature limitations. And speedy external peripherals have drastically lessened the need for add-on cards.

In other words, the old rules no longer apply. If you’re planning on buying a new Mac, you need facts about the modern lineup—so you can choose the computer that’s right for you.”

Wired, The Untold Story: How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry:

“It was a late morning in the fall of 2006. Almost a year earlier, Steve Jobs had tasked about 200 of Apple’s top engineers with creating the iPhone. Yet here, in Apple’s boardroom, it was clear that the prototype was still a disaster. It wasn’t just buggy, it flat-out didn’t work. The phone dropped calls constantly, the battery stopped charging before it was full, data and applications routinely became corrupted and unusable. The list of problems seemed endless. At the end of the demo, Jobs fixed the dozen or so people in the room with a level stare and said, “We don’t have a product yet.”

The effect was even more terrifying than one of Jobs’ trademark tantrums. When the Apple chief screamed at his staff, it was scary but familiar. This time, his relative calm was unnerving. “It was one of the few times at Apple when I got a chill,” says someone who was in the meeting.”

John Siracusa:

“I started this review talking about expectations. As I’ve learned more about Leopard, it’s become increasingly clear where, exactly, those two-and-a-half years of development time went. Leopard is absolutely packed with improvements. It seems that not a corner of the OS has gone untouched.

Perhaps that’s not as clear to the casual user who just sees the surface changes and the major new features in Leopard. But even in that case, there’s more than enough to recommend it. if you’re wondering whether you should upgrade to Leopard, the answer, as it’s been for every major revision of Mac OS X, is yes.”

Mac OS X Leopard

Dave Winer:

“There isn’t much you can do, after the Mac has been around for 23 years, that hasn’t already been done.”

John Gruber:

‘The most significant new feature in Leopard is Time Machine.’

Jason Snell:

“As with every OS X update since version 10.1, there’s no single feature in Leopard that will force Mac users to upgrade immediately. Instead, it’s the sheer deluge of new features that’s likely to persuade most active Mac users to upgrade, especially since this is the longest gap between OS X upgrades — two and a half years — since the product was introduced.”

Leo Laporte:

“Leopard is not a revolutionary release – I wouldn’t expect it to be, it’s a mature operating system – but it is easily the best OS X ever, the culmination of a decade of UI research and OS refinement.”

Andy Ihnatko:

“No matter how you work the numbers, though, it’s pretty clear that Apple has yet again crammed way more than $129 worth of value into its latest OS update.”

Mark Pilgrim: If wishes were iPhones, then beggars would call

“I don’t understand this continuing obsession with buying things that you need to break before they do what you want. (…) My current theory is that it’s some twisted form of wish fulfillment.”

John Heilemann: “Yet the most common descriptor applied to him, by friends and foes and even Jobs himself, is “asshole.” (Running neck-and-neck for second are “genius” and “sociopath.”)”

Om Malik: “It took only seven minutes for Apple to fall to its intraday low of $103.42 from $108.83. Apple was trading below $105 for only two minutes, but in those two minutes more than 2.2 million shares were traded.”

Steve Jobs: “With the stunning global success of Apple’s iPod music player and iTunes online music store, some have called for Apple to “open” the digital rights management (DRM) system that Apple uses to protect its music against theft, so that music purchased from iTunes can be played on digital devices purchased from other companies, and protected music purchased from other online music stores can play on iPods. Let’s examine the current situation and how we got here, then look at three possible alternatives for the future.”

De langverwachte Apple iPhone is zojuist tijdens een fameuze Steve Jobs keynote eindelijk gepresenteerd. De iPhone is een mobiele telefoon, een widescreen video-ipod en een heuse computer in één apparaat. Het lijkt een prachtig, revolutionair apparaat te zijn.

Vergelijk nu het aandeel Apple versus de aandelen van handheldmakers Palm en RIM (Blackberry) ten tijde van Jobs keynote. (Live quote.)

De iPhone is helaas pas in het vierde kwartaal van 2007 in Europa verkrijgbaar. De eveneens vandaag gepresenteerde Apple Tv is gelukkig al in februari te koop, bestellingen worden vanaf heden geaccepteerd.

Steve Jobs’ keynote is hier te bekijken.

‘He is the quintessential designer. He knows more than anyone what we will have in our hands in five years’, The Guardian.

• Netkwesties: De glascoupe van Dick Wessels
  “Met Volker Wessels voor aanleg en Reggefiber voor exploitatie doet Wessels wat de Rijksoverheid nalaat: Nederland de toekomst van ICT bezorgen.”
  (tags: nl fiber)
• SHRIIIMP – GRAFFITI ON GIRLS
  BODY ART > GRAFFITI ON GIRLS
  (tags: graffiti art)
• Why Paris Hilton Is Famous (Or Understanding Value In A Post-Madonna World) « chartreuse (BETA)
  “Whenever she tries to promote herself, it falls flat. Books, records, movies, etc. don’t work for Paris. Because she’s actually a platform. Like Digg and YouTube.”
  (tags: parishilton totem)
• Who Is Jonathan Ive?
  “An in-depth look at the man behind Apple’s design magic “
  (tags: apple mac design)
• Pizza Recipe
  “This pizza is modeled after Patsy’s on 117th street in NYC. I have been working on this for SIX years, but FINALLY I can report that I have achieved my goal.”
  (tags: food reverse reverse_enginering)
• BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | New recruit joins Terracotta Army
  “A German art student briefly fooled police by posing as one of China’s terracotta warriors at the heritage site in the ancient capital, Xian.”
  (tags: art china)
• War on Terror, the board game TM – a satirical board game from TerrorBull Games
  “It’s got suicide bombers, political kidnaps and intercontinental war. It’s got filthy propaganda, rampant paranoia and secret treaties …”
  (tags: game terrorism)
• moo | we love to print
  Flickr minicards, 10 cards delivered to your door for free!
  (tags: flickr free cards businesscards)
• RTV Noord-Holland Laatste nieuws – Plan voor woningbouw op Afsluitdijk
  “Het is nog onduidelijk of er interesse van het publiek is voor wonen op de Afluitdijk. De eerste reacties op de plannen zijn niet zo enthousiast. Voor veel mensen is de afsluitdijk een winderige en desolate plek.”
  (tags: nl architecture afsluitdijk living cool!)

• Arstechnica: Apple MacBook : Page 1
  Macbook review
  (tags: apple mac review macbook)
• Macworld: Review: 17-inch MacBook Pro
  “The 17-inch MacBook Pro is a fabulous machine for people who can afford it—and who conclude that its high performance, huge screen, and impressive versatility justify its size and weight.”
  (tags: review mac apple macbookpro)

• Friendster lost steam. Is MySpace just a fad?
  “”What went wrong with Friendster? Why is MySpace any different?”"
  (tags: socialnetworks myspace friendster)
• Wired: How France Is Saving Civilization
  “New legislation in France would force Apple Computer to open the iPod and iTunes to competitors — and that’s a good thing for consumers, in the long run.”
  (tags: apple itms france drm)
• Is that a ticking crocodile?
  “Apple, whose Macintosh design team once famously flew the pirate flag above its Silicon Valley hideout, immediately branded France’s move “state-sponsored piracy.”"
  (tags: apple itms drm stevejobs france)
• Second Life (The Show On 10)
  “Laura visits Linden Labs, the folks behind Second Life, and learns about this new virtual world.”
  (tags: LindenLabs secondlife)
• ongoing · Atom as a Case Study
  “(…) That leaves Why we built it, How we built it, and what Lessons you might want take away from the experience.”
  (tags: atom rss)
• Checklist nieuwe media
  “Waar moet een omroep die toekomstbestendig wil zijn rekening mee houden? De ontwikkelingen op rij. Afvinken maar! Klaar voor de strijd? “
  (tags: web media omroep vpro)
• Getting Real: The smarter, faster, easier way to build a successful web application
  “Getting Real details the business, design, programming, and marketing principles of 37signals. The book is packed with keep-it-simple insights, contrarian points of view, and unconventional approaches to software design. “
  (tags: 37signals book pdf business design programming marketing)
• The real threat of blogging
  “They (blogs – hvi) are threatening because they unequivocally demonstrate that commercial publishing does not necessarily represent the best writing that is available.”
  (tags: weblogs media publishing)
• The Institute of Internet History – www.ioih.org
  “As many people know, today’s Internet has its roots in the huge silk and cotton mills which grew up in the 19th century during the Industrial Revolution.”
  (tags: Internet history funny mockup)

• http://hacks.oreilly.com/ Bouw je eigen Firefox Searchplugin.
• http://writersblocklive.com/ Mike Evangelist schrijft Jobs I’ve Known. De ‘Jobs’ uit de titel verwijst naar Apple’s Steve Jobs. Work in progress.