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Apple Updates Today

August 7, 2007

Apple released a bunch of new and updated products today:
* “New iMacs”:http://www.apple.com/imac/. I would buy one today if I had the slightest use for it. It looks absolutely gorgeous.
* “Updated Mac minis”:http://www.apple.com/macmini/. Yay! We can still get cheap Mac servers.
* “New wired and wireless keyboards”:http://www.apple.com/keyboard/. I love the wireless without the numeric keypad. This way you can have your mouse closer to the keyboard, and I never use the keypad anyway (now if they could just get rid of the silly caps lock key as well). I’ve been wanting a keyboard like this ever since getting a Mac, so I ordered one immediately–the English (Int’l) version of course, the Danish layout is completely useless for writing code.
* “iLife ’08”:http://www.apple.com/ilife/. iMovie seems to be worth the upgrade alone. I ordered a family pack.
* “iWork ’08”:http://www.apple.com/iwork/. I love Keynote, so upgrading was an easy choice. The new spreadsheet, Numbers, looks like a nice addition. One more family pack in the shopping basket.
* “Updated .Mac”:http://www.apple.com/dotmac/. The new web gallery with photo and movie sharing looks like it’s worth the price alone, but I’ll wait for the reviews before deciding whether I’m going to be a .Mac user. I’d also like to see if they are going to support photo sharing from “Aperture”:http://www.apple.com/aperture/.
* “Updated AirPort Extreme”:http://www.apple.com/airportextreme/. Looks like it gained gigabit ethernet, so there’s one less reason not to buy one now.

p=. !http://productive.dk/pub/uploads/2007/08/apple-updates.jpg(Shopping spree)!
_Todays shopping spree comes out at just DKK 2097,-. That’s five copies a lot of software for very little money if you ask me–and a new keyboard too._

*Update*: There’s a “30-day trial of iWork ’08”:http://www.apple.com/iwork/trial/ available and a bunch of “tutorials”:http://www.apple.com/iwork/tutorials/ (via “MacUser”:http://www.macuser.com/software/comprehensive_overview_and_imp.php).

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On Macs and Viruses

December 12, 2006

Reading “In Praise of the Zune?”:http://www.macuser.com/ipod/in_praise_of_the_zune.php over at “MacUser”:http://www.macuser.com, the last paragraph really cracked me up:

bq. That’s right, the Cult of Mac is advocating a product that Mac users can’t even use. I hear next week they’re doing a special on anti-virus apps. I hear that OS X version of Norton AntiVirus is really the pits. It never finds _anything_.

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My Journey to Macland

April 7, 2006

My new “MacBook Pro”:http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/ finally arrived last Friday. Here are my first experiences from life on the other side:

* *Last Friday*: Unpacking, installing essential software. Everything just works?!
* *Saturday and Sunday*: Installing more software, moving all my work-related files over. Had some great laughs with the famliy while playing with “iSight and Photo Booth”:http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/isight.html. “Front Row”:http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/frontrow.html rocks. No troubles yet — it just freakin’ works! I’m slowly realizing how much I’ve gotten used to software _not_ working.
* *Monday*: First day working with the MBP. Had the old Windows laptop in the bag, just in case. Didn’t need it, though. “OS X”:http://www.apple.com/macosx/ found the office network-printer all by itself, it just showed in the list of printers. Way to go!
* *Tuesday*: Left the Windows laptop at home. The co-workers might be a little tired by now of me showing something oh-so-cool, every 10 minutes. Frederik mentioned the MBP looks awfully nice together with the Fritz Hansen table and the Arne Jacobsen chairs in the conference room.
* *Wednesday*: I decided to retire my almost new and very buggy Windows Mobile powered “Qtek phone”:http://www.qtek.nu/europe/products/8310.aspx, and replace it with a Sony Ericsson from Apple’s list of “supported Bluetooth phones”:http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/isync/devices.html. Need I mention that Bluetooth syncing just works perfectly? Also today Apple released “Boot Camp”:http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/. I installed Windows XP and in an odd way it feelt like I did something terribly wrong, so I decided to only set aside 5 gigs of diskspace for Windows. I’d still prefer “VMware”:http://www.vmware.com/ or something “similar”:http://www.parallels.com/, over dual booting.
* *Thursday*: I “migrated over my Outlook calendar and contacts”:http://www.littlemachines.com/ in preparations for completely retiring the Windows laptop. Finally figured out that there’s a “prerelease build of Firefox 1.5.0.2”:http://wiki.mozilla.org/Mac:intel available as a universal binary know as “Deer Park”:http://www.mozilla.org/projects/deerpark/ and it’s way faster than the PPC build of Firefox 1.5.0.1. I was actually a bit disappointed by the speed of the MBP, as I spend a great deal of time in Firefox, but not after installing Deer Park, yay!
* *This Friday*: Blogging about the past week…

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