First day of Apprenticeship March 15, 2007
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Hyped? Mad? Zoned? Fired? Hired? Well, kinda rambling off now, if I slow down I’ll crash and have to take a nap. But it is 6.30PM already… Phew. Tired.
Wednesday March 7 2007 Apple, Inc. March 7, 2007
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I’m modelling three areas at the moment:
(A) Adobe CS3 Universal Binary will be out full shipping by end of April, in full swing May. This is to run on 10.4.8 or 10.4.9. It will run on 10.5.0 but most studios will *not* want to have two aspects to play with: a new early-adopted CS3 AND debugging Leopard for Apple.
(B) Leopard 10.5.0 announced at WWDC with all the special features. Full shipping by end of June.
(C) New Macs either at mid-April NAB announcement, or anytime between end of March and WWDC June [March, April, May, June] — following on from B above, there may be a 90-day window for free/minimum fee upgrade to Leopard so as to ease confusion and not dampen sales of new Macs because of people second- or third-guessing on Leopard release and trying to time that with their Mac purchases.
Of course, Apple has about 4 months (just under that, really) to clean up the Mac pro/prosumer/enthusiast/Leopard + consumer/Leopard space before they throw in everything in the 2nd half of 2007 for iPhone + iPod.
The next 3 weeks will be very busy at Apple (when is it not :-0) to plan, strategise and prep for the “Synergy Program” to go from end of March through WWDC June and into the iPhone major launches.
Sunday March 4 2007 Apple, Inc. March 4, 2007
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Anytime from March-April-May-June:
Small bumps to models eg. MacMini Core2Duo.
March: AppleTV shipping, continue Airport Extreme 802.11N rollout.
April:
Mid-April NAB FinalCutPro, Motion, DVDStudioPro, possible 8 core MacPro announced. Early April, AAPL Jan-March 2007 (FY07 Q2) results.
May:
Maybe some iPod updates, no Video Touchscreen iPod until iPhone more in play for a few months. Adobe Universal CS3 release and shipping in full swing.*
June:
WWDC full demo and shipping release announced for Leopard Mac OS X 10.5. Some new Mac models to sweeten the Leopard release. Steve Jobs: “All new Macs are now shipping with Leopard. Those who purchased a Mac within the last 60 days, small ($25?) upgrade fee”.
*This suggests that mid-April announcement is a prep for Pro machine updates for mass sales in the pro creative [graphic/ web design] scene, on top of broadcast market. For those waiting in the wings. No Leopard release here because the pros want to jump on 10.4.8/ 10.4.9 real stable platform when upgrading. So pro Mac updates will be for MacPro Quad, MacPro 8Core, MacBookPro bumps, maybe MacBook 15.4 inch.
A conservative view, with space for surprises. I guess that’s what makes Apple fandom so fun???
TV Shows tracking now March 2, 2007
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Wow. Heroes Episode 17. Cinematic. So up next, awaiting: Heroes Episode 18, Lost Episode 10, Battlestar Galactica Episode 17, Jericho Episode 13. Damn, that’s a lot of TV to manage (since I don’t watch random episodes, I need to follow the storyline and stuff).
Switching to low-profile on AppleInsider March 2, 2007
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After building up a lot of posts and a divisive user response, I decided to take the heat and pressure out of the equation and go anonymous on AppleInsider. Web reputation and skillz and 1337 and what not aside, time to set things aside. Wherein to the real world would I go? I don’t know. The intellectual stimulation is still there, some social stuff starting, but still, seeing what is going on. As far as AppleInsider is concerned though, 2004 to 2006 was some interesting times and made some friends. There’ll always be some people that like you, some that don’t, and some that couldn’t care either way, or are in their own way doing their own things. Some people will just be as they are. Anyways, was getting really sensitive with such a high profile on Ai. And Ai being a big site nowadays, I’ll switch out. Online chats seem to be okay but forum posts that are off-topic, hard to generate rapport. Fun at times, annoying at times, and sometimes, just a write-off. F8CK those losers anyway. Confidence issues aside, hmm, time to move on and let things be. Popularity is a funny, funny thing. Sometimes you feel like you’re getting away with murder.
Great stock widget March 2, 2007
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Highly recommended. Thanks to Martin’s iStock Widget. And Apple, of course. Excellence. Note that the Blue colour skin can be restored. Built a mod to have the blue table background looking a tad bit slicker (greyish). New Icon.png (purple) can be used, for example. And grey-ish stuff for the non-chart folded-in mode of the widget. The skin-mod set is available at Flickr.
Flickr – Giving it a second chance March 1, 2007
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I hate that it is owned by Yahoo, but what the hell, it seems to have kept its original spirit. So running off the Flickr thingy now for my photo posts. Still flying under the radar now, deprecating previously very personal, visible identities.
Adium and new Dock icons February 28, 2007
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So I’m getting into customising Adium. Some nice Dock icons and Status icons. Cool.
Nokia N73 and how to make it work with iSync February 27, 2007
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Just some links for now:
http://popagandhi.com/395/more-on-isync-and-the-n73/
http://thenokiablog.com/2006/11/05/how-to-use-nokia-pc-suite-on-a-mac/
http://www.mactomster.de/isync/nokia/
Games in the mix February 26, 2007
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FEAR: Extraction Point, NeedForSpeed: Most Wanted. Stuff to do when not on MacBook.
