October 2008
10 posts
The new MBP is certainly... new.
If anyone is skeptical about the trackpad, I think your fears will melt away as soon as you try it. Surprised that they didn’t wedge it into the new Air bump. The new Macbook’s screen looked kind of washed out, I couldn’t get them side-by-side to compare. It’s sort of remarkable when you compare it to the older Macbooks… looks like a $1800 computer, a Macbook Pro...
Today’s is probably the least ironic Penny Arcade strip ever.
The new Macbook Pros still have 100ppi screens. I didn’t really expect them to catch up with the 130ppi option that the 17” models have had for the past year, but I hoped. I think it’s pretty clear now that Apple won’t upgrade the line until resolution-independence is released, and who the hell knows whether that’ll make the cut for Snow Leopard. It was originally...
Hivelogic: A poor man can afford only the very best.
I’ve been living this philosophy without putting it so eloquently for years. It’s also the reason why I have no rain jacket, and have been in dire need of new shoes for nearly a year.
Last spring I finally got a Tanner:
I have to chuckle every time I get a receipt from the iTunes store for all the free apps I’ve “bought.” Not quite annoying, just silly.
Do as I say, not as one says
The Global Language Monitor analyzes the VP debates. Evidently Palin spoke at an eight-grade level, Biden at a sixth-grade level. It is, as they admit, a bit of a head-scratcher. Also note the criticism of the deadly Passive Voice.
it's tough to concentrate while wearing a ball gag
The goofy thing about the iPhone developer NDA is that all the really awesome stuff came from the iPhone’s OS X roots. This is the “five year advantage” that everyone needs to catch up to, the fact that the iPhone is a Mac in your pocket.
So [competitor name here] wants to lift some kind of feature like multi-touch inputs? They won’t get anything useful from the source...
nickel and dime me to death! please!
I just had an epiphany. Micropayments are here. They arrived and nobody noticed.
There was never anything inherently wrong with the idea; the barrier was that dozens of fifty-cent to two-dollar payments aren’t feasible due to credit card fees (also, who wants a twelve page monthly credit card statement…). The missing key was a common payment system, where a few days worth of payments...
frog blew it
Kindle 2 is a disaster.
So Apple’s threatening to shut down the iTunes music store if publishers don’t absorb the cost of higher royalties to musicians. Funny, a few months ago the buzz was about how the record industry just wanted the iTunes music store to go away. I wonder if any of them will have the stones to call Apple’s bluff.
Just so we’re absolutely clear on this, on a $.99 cent track...