Harry Reid, to the New York Times:
I am relieved to say that leaders from both parties have come together for the sake of our economy to reach a historic, bipartisan compromise that ends this dangerous standoff.
If the state of Ohio re-elects John Boehner, we should bomb it.
While SSDs are all the rage — for good reason — MacBook Pro users looking for the maximum amount of storage possible should be rejoicing tonight, as WD has launched a 1TB drive that will fit into Apple’s notebooks.
This little app seems pretty neat, if you’re into huge icons flying back and forth on your Mac.
Since yesterday’s post by Kevin Lipe about the Performa 578, I’ve gotten several emails from you fine-looking readers wanting to write guests posts about old Macs you’re passionate about.
By all means, I would love to post your stories about old Macs!
So, get in touch. In your initial email, please indicate which Mac model you are planning to write about, so I don’t have systems covered more than once.
After we talk, please submit your work in Markdown or HTML. I will be editing posts to conform to AP style, and will link to your site or Twitter account in the Editor’s Note at the top of the post.
Editor’s Note: I’m starting a new series named “Old Mac of the Month.” To help get things started, my buddy Kevin Lipe wrote up this piece about the Performa 578.
Back in the bad old days of Apple, there were a lot of bad decisions being made about the Apple product line. What had in 1990 been the Macintosh SE, the Macintosh Plus, the Macintosh Portable, and the Macintosh II had ballooned into all kinds of different Macs for every price range. The “low cost” series were still the LC’s, the LC 550 and the LC 575. The powerhouse multimedia machines were the Quadras, the Centris series were the “business” machines, the Newton was a weird handheld thing that sort-of recognized handwriting, and PowerPC was on the horizon but not yet public. These were the days of System 7.5, when extensions were extensions and men were men.
Apple has shed some light on these new features in Lion.
This version adds a plethora of new features, including better MultiMarkdown 3 support, Simplenote tag sync (and a fix for Lion syncing), the ability to lock a note to the preview window while editing another, auto-pairing and wrapping and quite a few bug fixes.
So glad to be able to put this back in my Dock.
As Republicans and Democrats continue to work towards a compromise to the country’s debt ceiling crisis, the U.S. Treasury Department said on Thursday that Washington now has a total operating balance of only US$73.768-billion.
Meanwhile, Apple currently boasts a cash reserve of US$75.876-billion, as of its most recent quarterly earnings report at the end of June.
Of course, the numbers aren’t directly comparable; the government’s number represents how much financial headroom it has before bumping up against an arbitrary debt ceiling, while Apple’s cash reserve represents the pile of money the Cupterino, California-based company has available on its balance sheet.
While recording this week’s Bro Show, I had a thought about the iPhone 5.
I have been wondering for weeks now what Apple could add to the iPhone at this point, from a hardware perspective. Clearly, things like a faster processor and better camera are on tap for future models, but I really can’t think of a single “it” feature that would knock things out of the park.
Then, I had it.
I was fortunate to once again join Myke and Terry on the always-great Bro Show podcast. This week, we talked about Lion, iPhone 5 rumors and the 13” MacBook Pro.
Be sure to stick around to the end. We included some bonus material this week.