Mike Davidson has started a really good contest on his blog. It’s quite simple and self-explanatory: Design a Steve Jobs Movie Poster. Get the link on my ZDNet Blog: The Apple Core.
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The Apple Core: PC Card = Obsolete
With Apple’s announcement of the MacBook Pro they also obsoleted a popular notebook technology – the PC Card slot (formerly PCMCIA). ExpressCard/34 is a blazing fast replacement for the venerable PC Card slot found on many notebooks, including several generations of PowerBook. ExpressCard is a serial interface delivering between 480 Mbytes/sec and 2.5 Gbit/sec/direction of […]
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The Apple Core: iTunes Phones Home
Apple used the Macworld Expo in San Francisco last week to announce a new version of iTunes, version 6.0.2, that “includes stability and performance improvements over iTunes 6.0.1.” One of the “improvements” is the iTunes MiniStore which an interesting little piece of code that looks at what you’re listening to and suggests artists and songs […]
One of the most surprising things about the announcement of the the new MacBook Pro at Macworld Expo this week was Apple’s dropping the 8x burning double-layer SuperDrive in favor of an inferior 4x single-layer mechanism. I was puzzled during his keynote address when Steve Jobs listed the specs of the new MacBook Pro with […]
Back in July 2005 I suggested that it was time for Apple to retire the name PowerBook in favor something that would depart from its “Power”PC heritage (even though the original PowerBook predates the PowerPC) and move into the 21st century and reflect Apple’s commitment to use silicon from Intel. Yesterday’s announcement of the MacBook […]