Archives by Tag: Technology
The Cider Press #002 - Kevin Rose’s Laptop
The return of the column where we crush a hot Apple news story down to the sweet, sweet nectar of a single paragraph.
In a change that we are sure has not escaped the keen vision of his Diggnation audience, Kevin Rose has recently ditched his defaced Macbook (Pro?) for an updated model that is, thusfar, free from adornments. We here at Geek Force Five are happy to see that Mr. Rose has not yet decided to vandalize his new machine, that he has heretofore seen fit to leave untarnished the precision aluminum unibody enclosure that Apple Senior Vice President of Design Jony Ive poured his blood, sweat, and soul into. We hope that Mr. Rose will continue down this path of righteousness, for he must surely understand that applying a bumper sticker to an Apple product is like setting fire to Old Glory herself. Covering over the unfortunate Dell logo on a sad, Windows-powered laptop, as our esteemed leader Mr. Clark once did—that is one thing. But sullying the beautiful aluminum visage of an Apple machine is heresy. If you have any decency Mr. Rose, you will keep your new machine free and clear of the sins of your past. Have you any decency, sir?
Jocosely yours, the Geek Force Five
Geek Force Utterz #027 - Apple Tax
Last week, Apple announced its new line of notebook computers and unveiled the process involved in carving each new Macbook from a solid brick of aluminum. What they didn’t announce, however, was an affordable addition to their line. Steve Jobs seemed to think that’s what he was doing in announcing that the previous-generation white plastic Macbook would stay in production at a reduced $999 price-point, but he’s delusional. $999 is not in any way something that I would call an entry-level price-point. The fabled Apple Tax is still very much intact.
In today’s episode of Geek Force Utterz, I talk about how the Apple Tax prohibits people like me, people with a limited budget, from buying products that are supposedly targeted at consumers like us (let alone from buying the exorbitantly expensive pro-line stuff).
If you can’t see/hear the embed above, you can listen to the call over at Utterli.com. And remember: once you’ve listened, leave your two cents in the comments.
The Cider Press #001 - Ladies Prefer Macs
The first installment in a new column, where we’ll crush a hot Apple news story down to the sweet, sweet nectar of a single paragraph.
The Unofficial Apple Weblog reports that 43% of college women prefer Macintosh computers. Of course, the study they’re quoting involved the surveying of a whopping seven students at a single college in British Columbia, but let’s just ignore that. Because, after all, announcing that any old study has found that women prefer any old thing provides the perfect excuse for featuring a photo of a hot chick (like, say, Gisele) posing with said thing. And pictures of hot chicks certainly don’t hurt us when it comes to Google-based referrals, now do they? Ugh.
Geek Force Utterz #022 - TVs by Apple
At the conclusion of yesterday’s NH Media Makers meeting, the last few stragglers got around to talking about this week’s Apple notebook event. One of the rumors that came up was one that I hadn’t heard in a long time (the Apple rumor mill is cyclical, and you’ve almost always heard a rumor before; it’s just a matter of whether or not you’ve heard it lately). And that rumor was the rumor that Apple might soon be releasing a TV set with a built-in Apple TV. Today’s episode of Geek Force Utterz is about my reaction to that discussion.
If you can’t see/hear the embed above (which includes an amusing mumbling of my standard introduction), remember that you can always listen to this call directly on Utterli.com.
Geek Force Utterz #006 - Organizing RSS
Today’s episode of Geek Force Utterz focuses on how to use Google Reader (or a similar RSS reader) to get more news out of the Web on a daily basis, and how to better organize how you take in the news and information you’re consuming.
If you can’t see/hear the embed above, you can always listen to the call on Utterz.
