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Nerd News Today; 4/16

Monday, April 16th, 2007

Maybe I should call it NAB News Today.

Early peek into Apple keynote at NAB 2007. It’s the National Association of Broadcasters 2007 trade show, and of course Apple is one of the keynoters. This is an early peek at what’s coming during that speech. My predictions–or maybe just my fervent hope? Some pointed words on […]

Aaah…THERE’s Where Leopard Went: The iPhone

Thursday, April 12th, 2007

I fucking KNEW it. TUAW’s broke it earlier today. Leopard’s delayed. But not because they’re trying to squeegee it into the iPhone. Because they’re just trying to get the iPhone out as soon as possible. Means they did what MS did when they had that glitch during Vista development. Move a bunch of programmers from […]

The Myth of Apple’s Insecurities

Monday, April 9th, 2007

In case you missed it, there’s a virus for the iPod. Yep, that’s right, your MP3 player is a veritable hotbed of virus activity — but only if you’re running the iPod Linux distribution, and only if you take great pains to make the virus function, since it doesn’t really work. We can argue about […]

Ummm…Where the fuck is Leopard?

Friday, April 6th, 2007

Those Clearasil-needing Orchard geeks said ’spring 2007′. It may be snowing up here in the great nerd north, but it’s still spring. But total silence from Apple’s much-to-desired PR department on Leopard’s arrival. In between I’m-God’s-gift sound bytes at Macworld Expo, we all expected to hear something about the new feline’s arrival from Mr. Stevie. […]

Nerd News Today; 4/5

Thursday, April 5th, 2007

Kiss that VGA port buh-bye. The VESA org just gave official blessing to the DisplayPort 1.1 spec. Gonna replace VGA and DVI ports for flat panel displays. Faster, supports all those hi-def bits, and has a smaller physical plug, too. Also integrates that Blu-Ray DRM stuff, unfortunately. (Source: BetaNews)

Wikipedia founder dissing…Wikipedia? One of the co-founders […]

Rant on MOAB

Monday, March 26th, 2007

Sorry, I have to do this.
The FUD surrounding security issues with the Mac has recently gone plaid. It was MOAB (Month of Apple Bugs) in January, followed by a seemingly constant stream of Windows folks pointing  at that site and screaming “SEE?!”.
Sorry. It’s mostly bullshit.
First, the MOAB project should have been named “Month of Bugs […]