Enthusiastically Ambiverted Hopepunk
I’ve been a Mac user since 1991, so it’s inevitable that I’d have this as a category.
Those who surf the Web using a Mac tend to be better educated and make more money than their PC-using counterparts, …tend to be more Web savvy, with more than half having been online for at least five years…are 58 percent more likely than the overall online population to build their own Web page and also slightly more likely to buy goods online, according to the report.
(via MetaFilter)
As if it weren’t bad enough that I’ve been lusting over a 22″ Apple Cinema Display since they came out, yesterday at MacWorld Tokyo they had to go and introduce a 23″ version. Too bad I don’t have a spare $3500 lying around. Also introduced was a new, higher-capacity (10Gb) version of the iPod.
Cool ad from Apple on “…the back page of the Sunday NYT Magazine, which had an ASCII-art sillhouette of Beck’s head made up of the names of all the songs on Beck’s iPod, with some marketing copy explaining that Beck has a ginormous library of MP3s from which he loads 5GB at random onto his iPod every day. Then I opened up Kottke.org and there was a link to a PDF of the ad (minus the marketing copy), which is indeed cool.” The PDF file is here, the quoted text is courtesy of Boing Boing.
Most of the computers in movies for several years have been Macintoshes, maybe because the Mac is the only computer that doesn’t look like every other computer and therefore benefits from product placement. But this is the first movie in which an entire iMac commercial runs on TV in the background of a shot.
How’s that for random trivia? Thanks to Roger Ebert’s review of Showtime for this little tidbit.
Unix Under the Desktop: A penguin’s eye look at Apple’s OS X, from Linux Journal.
Something for Casey — how to hack a half-price Apple Airport base station.
Hey — I’m famous! Or…something like that. See, I stumbled across a link earlier today that I thought might be of interest to my favorite Apple-flavored soap opera, As the Apple Turns — and they used it for one of their stories today! Too cool…check it out: Aqua in the candy dish!
Apple‘s got a great new iMac ad on the airwaves. Too cute!
MacWorld Expo SF is coming up next week, which normally has the various Mac rumor sites all a-tizzy trying to predict what may or may not appear. This time, around, however, Apple — rather than staying their characteristically silent self — is doing the online equivalent of tossing a goldfish into a pirahna tank, through the posting of oh-so-subtle headlines like ‘Beyond the rumor sites. Way beyond.’ to their website. Now, now, shouldn’t tease the animals….
— AtAT’s take on Apple‘s apparent plans to make their most rabidly loyal followers’ heads implode.