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My iPad home screen (June 2010)

aj — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 14:54:47 +0000

I <3 my iPad

Statement by Apple’s Board of Directors And a Letter from Steve Jobs

aj — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:41:22 +0000

In case you missed it, here they are:

Statement by Apple’s Board of Directors

It is widely recognized both inside and outside of Apple that Steve Jobs is one of the most talented and effective CEOs in the world.

As we have said before, if there ever comes a day when Steve wants to retire or for other reasons cannot continue to fulfill his duties as Apple’s CEO, you will know it.

Apple is very lucky to have Steve as its leader and CEO, and he deserves our complete and unwavering support during his recuperation. He most certainly has that from Apple and its Board.

Press Contact:
Steve Dowling Apple
dowling@apple.com
(408) 974-1896

Finally, they one from Steve Jobs himself:

Letter from Apple CEO Steve Jobs

Dear Apple Community,

For the first time in a decade, I’m getting to spend the holiday season with my family, rather than intensely preparing for a Macworld keynote.

Unfortunately, my decision to have Phil deliver the Macworld keynote set off another flurry of rumors about my health, with some even publishing stories of me on my deathbed.

I’ve decided to share something very personal with the Apple community so that we can all relax and enjoy the show tomorrow.

As many of you know, I have been losing weight throughout 2008. The reason has been a mystery to me and my doctors. A few weeks ago, I decided that getting to the root cause of this and reversing it needed to become my #1 priority.

Fortunately, after further testing, my doctors think they have found the cause—a hormone imbalance that has been “robbing” me of the proteins my body needs to be healthy. Sophisticated blood tests have confirmed this diagnosis.

The remedy for this nutritional problem is relatively simple and straightforward, and I’ve already begun treatment. But, just like I didn’t lose this much weight and body mass in a week or a month, my doctors expect it will take me until late this Spring to regain it. I will continue as Apple’s CEO during my recovery.

I have given more than my all to Apple for the past 11 years now. I will be the first one to step up and tell our Board of Directors if I can no longer continue to fulfill my duties as Apple’s CEO. I hope the Apple community will support me in my recovery and know that I will always put what is best for Apple first.

So now I’ve said more than I wanted to say, and all that I am going to say, about this.

Steve

Sources: http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2009/01/05sjletter.html and http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2009/01/05bod.html

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New Mac Ads: Bean Counter and V Word

aj — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 02:47:57 +0000

The new Mac ads are hilarious!

Click here to watch!

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New Mac Ad on CNN: Now this is what I call an entertaining ad

aj — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 03:03:53 +0000

Those Seinfeld and Bill Gates ads are driving me nuts. I can’t bare them.

New "Get a Mac" Ads – Pizza Box, Throne and Calming Teas

aj — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:45:23 +0000

Apple has posted three new “Get a Mac” funny ads. Pizza Box, Throne and Calming Teas

I can’t get enough of these ads. Really entertaining!

I Am Rich: An iPhone App That Does Nothing

aj — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 01:38:17 +0000

I Am Rich iPhone App silently (or loudly) made it into the iPhone App Store. What is it? It’s nothing. It’s just an image that allows you to brag to everyone that you can afford such an app that does nothing.

It’s priced at $999.99. Wow, I think, is an understatement.

Here’s the direct link to iTunes (until they pull it out). Don’t Apple check each and every single App that goes into the App Store? Makes you think they don’t.

New "Get a Mac" ad at WSJ

aj — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:54:06 +0000

This is just too good to pass.

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PC really hate his stupid newswire…

Hitler not impressed with Twitter

Woopra is a breath of fresh air for web analytics

aj — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:28:57 +0000

I’m probably one of the first early users to get access to Woopra‘s beta couple of months ago. Quite frankly, I didn’t use it. I felt Woopra wasn’t going to be as good as what we currently use (Google Analytics). I even said to myself, “it’s just gonna be another Google Analytics with the same sets of data. What can they probably offer? What else is new?”

But as soon as I read about Woopra on CenterNetworks this morning, I gave it a whirl. I logged in to my Woopra account, copy/pasted the JS snippet on Mployd. I thought it would take some time for the data to funnel to my dashboard.

And so I tried to download and install the Woopra desktop application. To my surprise, data from the site is already crunching in!

Here’s a screenshot of the Woopra desktop application on my machine after I installed it.

See that? After 10 mins I’m already getting what I need to know from our visitors. That’s really neat!

And one cool thing about it is that it sits on my desktop/system tray for quick access. Woopra integrated a lot of awesome features into the app aside from analytics. There’s just too much to list them down here.

The Woopra desktop application is currently available in beta to Windows, MacOS, and Linux (note that Java is required to run the app).

We know that Google Analytics dominates the free web analytics space. I’d say Woopra can quickly become #2 with the added innovations to the app.

I’ve tried almost every single free web analytics app out there and Woopra is a breath of fresh air. I simply love it.

–aj

Something Really Big Coming in July 11th

aj — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 04:00:35 +0000

Ok… Let’s pretend we all don’t know…

Hmm… I wonder what it is…

Maybe it should be “Something really thin, long battery life, 3G, Maps with GPS, App Store… um what else… MobileMe integration… Push email, push contacts, $199 (MAX), blah bleh blih…”

MobileMe is the new .Mac

aj — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:58:00 +0000

MobileMe is a new service for your iPhone, iPod touch, Mac, and PC.
Featuring Push email, Push contacts, and Push calendar, and more.

MobileMe according to Apple…

You might have a Mac at home, a PC at work, and an iPhone or iPod touch. The challenge is keeping multiple devices always in sync. Enterprises can use a server like Exchange. For everyone else, now there’s MobileMe.

MobileMe works with the applications you know well. Microsoft Outlook on a PC. Mail, Address Book, and iCal on a Mac. And Mail, Contacts, and Calendar on your iPhone or iPod touch.

Access and manage your email, contacts, calendar, photos, and files at me.com. All with amazing applications that are so feature-rich and easy to use, you may end up preferring them to your regular desktop applications.

Check your email, change your calendar, edit your contacts, and more at me.com. Accessible anywhere, me.com is an ad-free suite of web applications — Mail, Contacts, Calendar, Gallery, and iDisk — that are elegant and easy to use. You can drag and drop, click and drag, use keyboard shortcuts, and even switch between applications with a single click. Me.com is such a great web experience, it seems as if you’re using desktop software.

Check it out now!

UPDATE: The keynote video is now up here

–aj

Secret life of Shrek and Fiona [toys]

aj — Thu, 15 May 2008 14:03:32 +0000

Here’s Shrek. The secret Mac zealot.

Inspired with the secret life of toys group at Flickr. There’s more here and here.

–aj

New Get A Mac Ads

aj — Wed, 14 May 2008 00:53:36 +0000

Check out the newly released Get A Mac ads at Apple. Love the song and the dog!

–aj

Asians get iPhones. Nothing, nada, null for Canucks. Argh!

aj — Mon, 12 May 2008 19:44:35 +0000

Via TUAW:

“SingTel confirms iPhone for Singapore, India, the Philippines and Australia.

In a singularly uninformative press release, SingTel, Singapore’s largest telecommunications company, has announced that it is bringing the iPhone to “Singapore, India, the Philippines and Australia later this year” through several subsidiary carrier brands: SingTel, Bharti Airtel, Globe and Optus.

The latter confirms our earlier post that Aussies won’t be limited to Vodafone for their iPhone needs. Unfortunately no dates or pricing have been announced; it seems safe to assume this will cover the forthcoming 3G iPhone. In any case, this is good news for some of our Asia / Pacific iPhone brethren.”

Still nothing for us over here.

Argh!

–aj

Update: And it’s probably 3G!

Pixelmator 1.2 Draftsman Now Available for Download

aj — Mon, 12 May 2008 16:56:31 +0000

Rulers, Guides, Grid, Snap, Curves, Color Balance, Auto Enhance, Polygonal Lasso, New Automator Actions, New Help and much, much more are included in the latest and greatest update of Pixelmator 1.2 Draftsman!

It’s free for you if you already own a license. $59 if you don’t have a licence.

Download now

–aj

Safari on Vista

aj — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 05:13:36 +0000

Nice. Stay away from Vista.

–aj

Vista big blunder in technology – Apple web ad

aj — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 16:14:26 +0000

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There’s a new Apple web ad. Check it out.

–aj

New Apple Macbooks makes me drool (again)

aj — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 20:26:52 +0000

New Macbook Pro and Macbooks with the new processors just got out. Head over to Apple.com now and drool.

–aj

Apple iPhone doubles storage still nothing for canucks

aj — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 03:13:10 +0000

Apple upgraded and rolled out upgraded iPhones and iPod touches. Ok cool! This is good news for US and Europe. But Apple forgot that there is a country called Canada. Hint: it’s very near US.

Sigh!

I guess we won’t have to slash our throat like some poor consumer who just bought an iPhone… like… last week. Being an early adopter sucks sometimes (if not most of the time).

–aj

Super dooper haduken! Street Fighter IV [screenshots]

aj — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 02:37:22 +0000

Street Fighter IV specials has been uncovered at Eurogamer. Some exciting screenshots of a powerful haduken from Ryu kicked Ken’s butt. Oh man, I can’t wait to play it!

Ryu getting ready to do a haduken

Gathers power to a final blow

Haduken!

Boom! Just like the famous expression of Steve Jobs.

I hope Ken is alright after that blow. But I’m pretty much sure he’s going to be in a bad shape after that!

Pretty obvious how much I love games eh?

–aj

Easter Egg: Show more @live.com or @live.ca and more email domains using Safari and Javascript

aj — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 04:34:29 +0000

It was reported long ago that this Javascript trick does not work anymore. Well, just for heck of it, I tried it using Safari 3 and the easter egg for showing more @live email domains still works.

Here’s how:

Open up your Safari 3 browser on your Mac (haven’t tested on Windows)
Visit this link http://get.live.com/getlive/overview
Click the “Sign Up” button
On the Address Bar, enter this Javascript code:

javascript:function r(q){} function s(q){e[q] = new Option(a[q],a[q])}; r(e = document.getElementById(‘idomain’).options);r(d=’live.’);r(a = new Array(d+’com’,d+’com.au’,d+’be’,d+’ca’,d+’co.uk’,d+’de’,d+’fr’,d+’it’,d+’nl’)); for (i=0;i

Press ENTER.

You should now see the confirmation alert that you have successfully added additional domains (see below):

Click OK and off you go. You should now see the available domains for you to choose from.

Currently the available domains are:

Live.com

Live.com.au

Live.be

Live.ca

Live.co.uk

Live.de

Live.fr

Live.it

Live.nl

Pretty cool huh?

Enjoy!

–aj

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