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Archive for April, 2007

HAHA! Microsoft slams Apple iPhone as ‘irrelevant’

Friday, April 20th, 2007

I didn’t even bother to read this, it’s so ridiculous. Microsoft must have hired some wonks from the Bush administration for planning. Did you realize that the iPhone doesn’t support OFFIC? Oh my, ya’ll had better wait for the Zune phone then.
The word “clueless comes to mind. Fuck you Bill!

Microsoft slams Apple iPhone as ‘irrelevant’
Apple’s […]

It’s a wonderful day in teh neoghborhood

Friday, April 20th, 2007

Apple grew faster than any other PC maker
Apple… picked up market share in the United States, growing to 5 percent, from 4 percent, as its shipments increased 30 percent, according to Gartner. Apple grew faster than any other PC maker in the United States, Gartner said.
Apple Pugs Security Holes
Apple Inc. on Thursday plugged over two […]

Genuine Windows Vista sold only 244 copies in whole of China

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

Whilst Microsoft was bragging about the sales number of their latest OS Windows Vista, few would actually know that they have only managed to sell 244 copies in the whole of China in the first 2 weeks. You heard that right, and that’s the number quoted from the headquarters of the Windows Vista chief (90% […]

The AppleTV is one slick toy - the purpose of which evades me.

Friday, April 13th, 2007

Tuesday the president of the Maui Apple Users Society (MAUS) asked me to stand in for him at this weeks meeting. The subject of this meeting was to be the new AppleTV, so my part was to take his new one home, figure out how it worked, then present it to the understandably impressed inmates. […]

Windows Vista pisses on users again

Thursday, April 12th, 2007

Not that I would ever want to gloat about what a deviant piece of crap Windows is but it appears that some of the most important dentures, such as the ability to actually recover your files from their backup app are not available unless you buy the much more expensive version.
What’s that word… oh yeah: […]

Fark nails it again

Monday, April 9th, 2007

Apple has sold its 100 millionth iPod. Microsoft announces Zune is rapidly approaching fifteen units sold

President Bush almost blows up something else!

Saturday, April 7th, 2007

Plug it in, fire it up, Mr. President
The Detroit News
Credit Ford Motor Co. CEO Alan Mulally with saving the leader of the free world from self-immolation.
Mulally told journalists at the New York auto show that he intervened to prevent President Bush from plugging an electrical cord into the hydrogen tank of Ford’s hydrogen-electric plug-in hybrid […]

Fark nails it

Saturday, April 7th, 2007

“Microsoft says DRM-free music soon to be available to all 14 Zune owners. Steve Jobs to announce Microsoft’s next move shortly.”

Rebirthing a Pismo

Saturday, April 7th, 2007

I’ve just successfully performed a brain transplant on my five-year old Pismo PowerBook - moving it’s hard-drive and a few other bits into the chassis that previously housed one gone to meet it’s Philippino maker.

Over the last couple of years, I’ve keep my eyes open and carefully collected a stack of PIsmo parts and two mordant chassis. So, […]

MacHelp Podcast #91 Rumor Milling

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007

Should you get a new Mac now or wait until the heat death of the universe?
Why are some many people waiting for Leopard? So what if you don’t have the newest Mac on the block. So what if your friends all think you’re a raw newbie? We attempt to peer past the noise of the […]

Back on the mics

Monday, April 2nd, 2007

Carmen and I took a “mental health” break from the podcast last week - I hope someone noticed! Apple didn’t seem to be doing anything and the spring weather finally arrived so we went off to smell some flowers.
We’ll be back at the board later today though and if the creek don’t rise there will […]

Apple architecture leaked and Scribd!

Monday, April 2nd, 2007

Description: Internal Apple information on the iPhone OSX architecture.Apple’s iPhone architecture exposed! For those of you who are into such things, here’s a little geek porn - the first known diagram of how the hardware and software of the iPhone work. You can see how they assigned priorities and dependencies to the code and chip […]