Category: General Tech

Engadget posted a story today about Circuit City possibly closing 155 stores. From seeing ours, that would not be a bad idea. In their post, they quote an employee who sent in a tip:

“I’m an employee @ Circuit City and today there was a mandatory store meeting for the holiday season and to welcome all the seasonal employees. There was also some tension as rumors were rampant the days before that we were all going to find out we were out of a job today. Luckily, but still somehow unfortunately, I’m still an employee of Circuit City. The same can’t be said for the employees of the 155 stores that are closing, possibly even before black Friday…”

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I’ve never been a fan of e-books or electronic readers. But with the launch of the Amazon Kindle last year, the electronic book has never been more popular.

With the advent of the App Store for iPhone (and iPod Touch) users, I figured it would only be a matter of time before an e-book reader application was available. Today on Ars Technica, the applicaion Classic ( iTunes Link) was discussed:

“…as if Classics literally stuffed a paperback just below the iPhone’s 3.5-inch glass display, and its pages were somehow responding to the capacitive feedback from my finger… they (the program’s customer interface elements) come the closest to recreating the familiar analog experience of flipping through a real book in a digital age, and the simple act of swiping a finger to turn a page feels comforting and natural in both new and old contexts.”

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CNET has posted some comments on their MacBook/MacBook Pro reviews:

“No FireWire – No Thanks.” “The loss of FireWire is a deal killer for anyone wanting to edit video or audio or anyone needing to use Target Disk mode.” “Even glossier display than before.” “No FireWire. Bad move. Bottom line.” “Due to the glass reflections it has to be at maximum brightness all the time to over-power the glare.” “The new glassy screen is a glare nightmare.” “Like everything, except lack of FireWire and glossy screen.” “Glossy screen with sometimes annoying glare.” “The highly reflective glass screen is a deal breaker.” “They look and feel great…except for the glossy screen”

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The Times’ John Markoff:

That would seem to confirm findings that a search engine company shared with me on condition that I not reveal its name: The company spotted Web visits from an unannounced Apple product with a display somewhere between an iPhone and a MacBook. Is it the iPhone 3.0 or the NetMac 1.0?

You can surf the web with a Newton. But still.

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I love Macs. I make my living working on, around, and with them. I use a late-model iMac at home as my main machine, and even though I have a MacBook from work, my main laptop is the Asus Eee PC. It’s portable (8.9 inches across), runs Ubuntu, and is very handy to take places, especially if I ride my bike.

But I would drop it in a heartbeat if Apple released a netbook.

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Something like this:

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A friend sent me an email this week:

Sometimes I like to kill time by trying to find obscure, obsolete, and completely random articles in the Apple Knowledge Base that should’ve been taken out a long time ago. Here’s a good example: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=790. Now, here’s the duel I challenge you to: find a more obscure/obsolete one.

An interesting challenge, but an easy one at the end of the day. I found article 116 which explains how “to use Apple Writer with the Paymar Lower Case Adapter.” The oldest article I found was number 3, which reads:

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