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Portable Hard Drive
That is an IBM 350. It is an IBM hard drive from 1956, and it holds the equivalent of roughly two MP3s. It needed a forklift to move it (weight : over a ton!), and it could be leased - not bought - from IBM for $3,200 per month. In relative terms, that was a middle-class salary for a year at the time. Contrast that with your laptop, iPod, or iPhone, both in terms of cost and storage.
We’ve come a long, long way.
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Google Voice for the US
A little over a year ago, we released an early preview of Google Voice, our web-based platform for managing your communications. We introduced one number to ring all your phones, voicemail that works like email, free calls and text messages to the U.S. and Canada, low-priced international calls and more—the only catch was you had to request and receive an invite to try it out. Today, after lots of testing and tweaking, we’re excited to open up Google Voice to the public, no invitation required.
Ummm... if you are a phone company, this is the part where you go running screaming into the night.
New Mobile Me !
That is a major improvement over the old site. And we have found that when you use the “Display Message or Play Sound” function, there is almost no delay before the message pops up, and the sound plays. Your mileage may vary, of course, depending on your internet connection.
And yes - it is scary accurate.
See that blue dot at the center of the large blue-ish circle? That was precisely where the iPhone was. So long as someone has Mobile Me, stealing an iPhone is a very unwise choice.
Acting Like Adults
From PCMag.com :
The average teenager sends 1,500 text messages each month, but when it comes to texting and driving, adult Americans are more likely than their younger counterparts to send messages from behind the wheel, according to a new study.About 47 percent of adults who use text messages said they have sent or read text messages while driving, the Pew Internet & American Life Project reported. A September 2009 study from the same group found that 34 percent of teenagers aged 16 and 17 reported the same behavior.
Please don’t text and drive. It creates a hazard for yourself and others. We would love to see you as customers for a very long time to come.
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Apple on Guard
“According to antivirus vendor Sophos, Apple this week, in an undocumented move, tweaked its OS X malware defenses.In particular, OS X 10.6.4 now provides better protection against a Trojan application called HellRTS, aka Pinhead-B, which has been turning up in fake iPhoto software being circulated by attackers.”
Now we all know that one shouldn’t be downloading software illegally, right? If one is not downloading software illegally then one shouldn’t normally be troubled by “Pinhead-B”; even so, it is great that Apple is being proactive.
But we were puzzled by this :
"But what's curious to me is why Apple didn't announce they were making this update in the release notes or security advisory that came with Mac OS X 10.6.4. It's almost as if they don't want to acknowledge that there could be a malware threat on Mac OS X."
What is curious is that Cluely doesn’t understand Apple at all, and apparently has some axe to grind here. The reality is that Apple doesn’t have to tell its users; truly, most of the Apple user-base has never heard of “Pinhead-B”. And guess what? Apple and its users like things that way. Apple did the heavy lifting to protect its users - even (ahem) less than honest ones - from not only themselves, but a threat borne exclusively of illicit software.
Swift. Silent. Deadly. Threat eliminated with no muss or fuss. And that is why Apple is Apple.
The New Mac Mini
That is what the new Mac Mini from Apple looks like torn apart. It is an amazing feat of engineering that such a powerful computer could be assembled in such a small space. And don’t forget - Apple has added an HDMI port !
If you wish to know more about the Mac Mini, please stop in sometime and we will be happy to tell you more.
