Whether you’re embracing your decluttering OCD, or simply looking for a way to prevent electrical shock hazards under your desk, the setups shown in this post provide several useful examples for tackling the mess that lies under your desk.
Hit the link for some crazy photos. The one with the Mac Pro and Mac minis strapped under the desk is a stunning work of engineering.
[via @zacattac.]
A joke used to refer to persons claiming to be experts in the field of social media. The punch-line being that those with enough expertise in the field know it’s an impossible field to be an expert of.
A self proclaimed title by carpetbaggers and snakeoil salesman to mesmerize unsuspecting people with their recipes of easy “1,2,3” success in Social Media.
And some examples:
That guy with hardly any social media experience will call himself an expert.
Given all these issues, I became pretty jaded about my netbook — hence my lack of mentioning it here at Wired.com in recent months. I ended up selling my MacBook Pro and buying the latest unibody model refurbished, and now I rarely use my netbook. So unfortunately, I have to agree with Dave “MacSparky” Sparks and The Unofficial Apple Weblog’s Steven Sande, who both grew frustrated with their Dell Mini 9 Hackintoshes. It’s a fun hacking project, but it’s like the fixed-gear bicycle you built but left sitting in the garage, because over time you realized it was too impractical.
As someone who has put OS X on two netbooks - a HP Mini 1000 and a Dell Mini 9, I feel pretty comfortable with the ramifications (and frustrations) of taking Apple’s software (and EULA) into my own hands.
As I discussed in the posts those links point to, the HP Mini 1000 is just about the perfect netbook, but Dell Mini 9 is just about the perfect netbook for OS X. That said, both units (and the other dozens and dozens of netbooks on the market) all suffer the same issues: cramped keyboards, little screens, and oddball hardware. Of course, those issues define machines as netbooks, so I’ll keep from calling these characteristics problems.
Since the introduction of the Apple TV, users have wondered if the extra price of a Mac mini would be justified when used as a media server. Macworld:
Easy-to-use as the Apple TV may be, it’s designed almost entirely as an adjunct to iTunes and the iTunes Store—bringing the contents of each to your television.
And that’s fine, but it’s also limiting. Unless you hack your Apple TV to allow Boxee and XBMC to run on it, you get only the content Apple wants you to have—no Netflix, no Hulu, no Comedy Central, no PBS, no Pandora, no Radio Time… you get the idea. In a time when people are increasingly interested in streaming Web-based media, the Apple TV is deaf to this desire. And, in a way, that reflects Apple’s approach to the iTunes Store: “People want to own their media.”
Apple’s 10-Q form filed with the SEC noted that the company had 14,000 full-time retail employees as of the end of the past quarter. That number stands in sharp contrast to the 15,600 employees the company reported in the same document filed at the end of the December 2008 quarter.
Most full-time employees at Apple Stores are Trainers or Geniuses - the core services of the retail stores. Cutting back in these departments will not be good for Apple’s growing number of customers.
I recently re-setup my iPhone, but my Gmail account was acting wonky. It wasn’t syncing Drafts, Sent, and Trashed messages correctly with my Macs. This article set me straight.
Apple has reported their second quarter results:
The Company posted revenue of $8.16 billion and a net quarterly profit of $1.21 billion, or $1.33 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $7.51 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.05 billion, or $1.16 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 36.4 percent, up from 32.9 percent in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 46 percent of the quarter’s revenue.
In the 1970’s, every self-respecting music fan had a basement or bedroom that contained big, big speakers and crates of vinyl. In the 1980’s, the CD player became popular, and the shiny plastic discs were still mostly played through larger home stereo units. In 2009, a large amount of music listening is done through little white earbuds, or a single laptop speaker.
Riva Richmond, in the New York Times’ “Gadgetwise Blog:”
But just how relaxed (or smug) should Mac users be? It’s true that very few viruses have been written for Macs — and none are spreading actively right now. Similarly, hacker programs distributed by malicious Web sites typically run only on PCs.
Yet Macs’ relative safety is primarily due to their still-slim market share. They’re simply a waste of time for today’s attackers, who are trying to accomplish crime on a large scale by infiltrating millions of computers. And there’s nothing inherently more secure about a Mac. Researchers found 26 vulnerabilities in OS X in 2008, about the same as in Windows Vista (27), according to the security software maker Symantec. If its market share rises enough, the Mac will become a target and attacks will succeed.
Flickr user sonnyhung has posted some screenshots of eWorld’s last moments. Here’s some background on eWorld:
Apple’s marketing and promotion efforts were at best indifferent. The service was only available on the Macintosh, along with e-mail only support on the Newton handheld. Apple was in a challenging financial position at the time and CEO Michael Spindler told the Online Services Group that significant marketing for the service could not be provided so eWorld shipped on new Macs with only an icon on the desktop and a brochure in the box. There was also little if anything in the way of media marketing for the service. The promised Windows version of eWorld was not launched following a decision by Apple’s senior management to position eWorld as a unique service for Macintosh owners.
TUAW on SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone:
So, here we are, more than three weeks after SlingPlayer Mobile was submitted to the app store, and there’s still nothing. Nada. Bupkis. Zlich. In the meantime, Sling Media has alienated many Slingbox owners by intimating that a lot of their older gear won’t work with the iPhone app when (or if) it is released.
Disappointed with the slow rate of progress and the constant stream of rumors, I checked with Sling Media today to get the official word on what was up. Cathy Cook, a spokesperson for the company, says the app was submitted, and that Sling Media and Apple are in regular touch with each other. She says anything else people hear is rumor and conjecture. She added that Sling Media thinks the app is ‘solid and a great experience’ and they’d like nothing better than to have it in the App Store.