Tag Archives: Mac

Is Sophie really Diana Princess of Wales?

This probably isn’t that funny to anyone else. But this morning I was mucking round with iPhoto’s face recognition function and trying to identify my good lady Sophie in a bunch of photos. As I was paging through them, iPhoto threw up this. It made me do big LOLs.

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It’s Time For An Adaptor Amnesty…

I honestly don’t know how I’ve accumulated so many. I really don’t.

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Get a Mac UK

Peepshow is one of my favourite comedies of the last few years, and Mitchell and Webb are inspired choices to play Mac and PC in the UK version of the Get a Mac ads.

Apple (UK and Ireland) – Get a Mac – Watch The New Ads

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How lovely are these icons..?

I’d say very lovely.
That picture shows really how these beautiful (free) Mac icons look inside my computer. Imagine how cool I’d look if only I could be bothered to change all my file and folder icons. Damn! My inner cool is beaten by my inner sloth, again.
http://www.pixelpressicons.com/

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Top 10 Presentations

Great list of the Top 10 Best Presentations Ever, a pretty tough list to compile and they’ve done a nice job. There’s a few in here that I’ve seen before, and a few that I haven’t.
For Apple geeks of particular note is Steve Jobs launch of the first Mac in 1984, funny to see him [...]

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Digital Creativity Revisited

Yesterday I posted this: Tony Davidson on Digital Creativity
I got into a bit of a rant about it. You’ll find it’s easy to bait anyone who works in digital in this way. In fact there’s probably a good sport in there somewhere. It’d be interesting to go blog-baiting and see just how much noise and [...]

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Free AppZapper

One digital life reports on a really neat promotion run by MacZot.
They reduced the price of the Appzapper application by 5 cents for every blog that linked to the site. Mac bloggers went nuts for it and the price went down to completely free. Sensibly it didn’t stay free forever; just for a limited period [...]

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Original iPod announcement

37 Signals pull out some highlights from the original iPod announcement thread at MacRumors. You can normally judge the reaction of Mac fanatics to Steve’s announcements by dipping your toes into these forums. This snapshot from 2001 show people’s reactions to the iPod.
My favourite:
I still can’t believe this! All this hype for something so ridiculous! [...]

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1984 – The Mac Story

A really interesting look at the legenary Mac 1984 launch advert. I knew bits and pieces of the story, but not some of the finer points. And it doesn’t get much finer than (of the boardmembers it says):
“The others just looked at each other, dazed expressions on their faces…Most of them felt it was the [...]

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