One of the cool things about working at Microsoft is the constant stream of interesting guest speakers. Recently it was Steve Wozniak. It was facinating to listen to him speak about his love for technology. I had my trusty MacBook Pro and took down some notes and fun quotes. On chip design: “I played a […]
This is super funny mix of many of the Apple keynote bloopers. I’m sure it’s been around a long time, but I just discovered it. I’ve helped with behind the scenes for demos and presentations at MacWorld for Microsoft. When you are doing the demo or working to setup things behind stage, it’s amazing how […]
I just read the following email for Apple: From: iTunes Store Support Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2006 2:41 AM To: David Weiss Subject: iTunes: Your recent TV show downloads Dear David, Due to a system error, you were recently charged for downloads that were meant to be free. You were incorrectly charged $11.94 plus tax […]
Joel Spolsky talks about his Mac at home experience: I have a few complaints though: OS X antialiasing, especially, it seems, with the monospaced fonts, just isn’t as good as Windows ClearType. Apple has some room to improve in this area; the fonts were blurry on the edges. Also, I don’t understand all these people […]
So a new website has launched that intends to use the “wisdom of crowds” to identify the best ideas for a new “dream” Mac application. The registered users get to vote on all the ideas to narrow down the field, then judges will decided on 3 winning ideas. The net result will be 3 new […]
Here is a phone from Synaptics. The coolest part about the phone? It has no keys, just one big touch screen canvas. I guess, if you are going to remove stuff in a drive for simplification, removing the key pad is about as far as you can go. On the other hand, this just puts […]
This is kind of a test, since I don’t know what kind of expertise exists with you my faithful reader, but I need some advice, or rather, I need some advice for my Dad. He’s 55+ and looking at getting back into the workforce and one option that has piqued his interest is web development. […]
I’ve been super busy here at WWDC 2006, but it’s that good kind of busy. Lots of new technology to learn and understand. It’s been great! I did take some time yesterday to review some of the feedback online about our announcement to ship the next version of Mac Office without support for VB. This […]
I just got my WWDC 2006 T-shirt and it has just these three words on it: Veni. Vidi. Codi. Does anyone know what they mean? Is this some Latin thing I should understand? It seems like it should mean: I came, I saw, I coded, but I’m not sure. I thought I’d run it through […]
After reading John Siracusa’s hilarious post about WWDC Buzz Word Bingo, I got to thinking about what I’d most like to see at WWDC. Here’s my list: 1. Make it brain dead simple to write multi-threaded applications. How simple? If my application runs fast on a dual core machine, I want it to run twice […]
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