Let’s assume you already know Apple is releasing the next generation of Mac OS X, product name “Snow Leopard” this coming friday. You probably already know most of the new stuff, right?
I’ve been running the betas for a while now, here’s some tips and solutions for problems I’ve encountered along the way that might make the transition even smoother.
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Here’s a small overview of the various news pages that will (probably) be providing coverage of Steve Jobs’ keynote of Mac World San Francisco 2006 later today.
- Macspecialist – AJAXy update feed
- Mac Daily news – AJAXy update feed
- Macrumors Live – AJAXy feed from Macrumors
- Apple Insider
- Think Secret
- Engadget
After the keynote, the video will probably be posted on the Quicktime guide and/or on the Apple Stream page.
Previous Stevenote streams:
- MWSF 2004
- MWSF 2005 – Announcing the Mac Mini, iPod Shuffle
- WWDC 2004 – Announcing Tiger
- WWDC 2005 – Announcing the switch from PowerPC to Intel
- Stanford Commencement Speech (
Toen Apple iTunes voor Windows aankondigde was de headline op apple.com “Hell froze over”. Ik verwacht ongeveer hetzelfde vandaag. Apple Goes Intel.
Coverage:
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De stream van de keynote zelf komt later deze dag op deze pagina te staan.
Coming soon: een Apple-muis met twee knoppen?
I’m now officially a switcher. My Powerbook G4 arrived, Tiger pre-installed and all, and I love it.
My first experiences/remarks/questions:
- The design and engineering is truly fabulous. Little details like the ‘breathing’ power led when the machine is suspended, the contrast and backlight which automatically adjust themselves to the lighting of the room and the led in the power adapter connector which shows the battery status really show the tought put into details.
- I miss my right-mouse button though.
- The keyboard is big enough for a laptop, but I find the enter key a bit on the small side. Also, where are the tilde (~) and [square brackets]?
- The double-finger scrolling with the trackpad is very handy, but I still miss my trackpoint.
- Battery life and Airport reception are good enough on their own. Compared to my sister’s Centrino laptop they suck.
- What’s it with the green button? I know that Apple doesn’t want me to maximise my windows, but when I am scrolling trough my music collection I like to use my screen as optimal as possible. So when I click the maximise button (it shows a PLUS for Christ’s sake!) I want my window to become bigger, instead of growing to some ridiculous small window mode nobody uses. Are there perhaps tools that fix this so called ‘usability feature’? It’s driving me absolutely crazy…
- Other then that, great machine…
My next exam is in two days, so that should explain the lack of updates. After that I’ve got one to go, but that won’t be until somewhere mid-june.
Some things have happened in the past few weeks, though
- I went to the offices of a certain search company (not Yahoo!, Msn or Ask Jeeves) to do yet another job interview, this time in person. There’s one small caveat: the place of work is 300 km from where I live, meaning I’d have to relocate. (The work location was not mentioned in the job posting, and I knew they had offices much closer to where I live, so that’s why I applied.)The interview went great, but I don’t really want to relocate that far.
- Meanwhile, a friend of mine who had recently switched jobs called me for some help configuring the Cisco router for their SDSL line. (As they want to host several servers in house.)
I went there on a saturday afternoon, and after fixing the problem I jokingly said “don’t forget to recommend me to your bosses, I’m available in july”.
One week later I get a call from the same friend. “My bosses asked if I knew someone with Linux skills etc, who would fit in here. I recommended you. Here’s my bosses number, give him a call sometime.”
The next day I call, and we agree for me to send the moments on which I’m available for meeting them (as the boss was not near his agenda at that moment.)
One day later, we had a chat, and he made me a nice offer.
Another two days later my contract is signed and I’m a “Linux System Engineer” for a nice IBM Business Partner whose offices are 10 minutes from my home. Who said that finding a job in 2005 was difficult? - I got myself a QTek S100 (or a MDA Compact as T-Mobile likes to call it). It came with a German version of Windows Mobile, but thanks to the xda-developers forum I’m now happily running the English version. If only I could find a Dutch dictionary for it (for sending messages using T9 or the on screen keyboard) that’d be great. Overall it’s a wonderful toy.
- Even more gadgets are on the way: my Powerbook (with Tiger) should be arriving somewhere next week.
- It’s my sister’s birthday today. No party tough, as she’s currently thousands of km away from home. In two weeks she’ll be back tough, so we’ll have a catch-up party then.
- And now I urgently need to go back to my books…