- Firefix 3 is what Snow Leper is to Apple #
- @bigplrbear more like did FF2 suck ass? 3 is everything and more. But word at the office is it’s cuz all our crappy plugins aren’t ready #
June, 2008
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Jun 08
Twits and Such for 2008-06-17
- doesn’t look like this week will be a walk in the park either #
- I believe that 90% of the Japanese Twitter users with cute and/or female avatars are middle-aged male IT engineers #
- @bigplrbear I was wondering why these Japanese girls were always in touch with the latest IT technology. ‘twas too good to be true #
- @rambn just don’t tell your other wife #
- well maybe the really cute Japanese girls on Twitter are using pictures of tired, balding Japanese businessmen as avatars. Pictures of dad. #
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Jun 08
Twits and Such for 2008-06-16
- Looks like Twinkle is joining the ranks of http://tapulous.com/ Smart move, hope Twinkle crashes less #
- Been getting plenty of sleep #
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Jun 08
Twits and Such for 2008-06-14
- iPhone Twitterific looks killer but I don’t know why they insist on that retarded tiny input box. Same with the mac version. #
- back to sleep. Still recovering from intense work week #
- @jcruz whoa. thanks that really helps! I doubt this trick will work on the iPhone version though… #
- One thing you can’t do in Twitterific is friend a user though… would be glad to be proven wrong #
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Jun 08
Twits and Such for 2008-06-11
- sometimes the hardest part of programming is finding the right words for what you know you can express #
- @zakame I did, but they came across as illiterate. Looked up the api for something more elegant #
- i’m basking in the euphoria of finishing. must really finish it up. #
- More excited by iPhone as a platform than the object itself #
- unreliability you can count on #
- I hope the iPhone Twitterific delivers or at least steals the best from jailbreaks #
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Jun 08
Twits and Such for 2008-06-10
- @SpaceyG sucks to hear that, I’ll probably watch SATC the movie on DVD anyway. The TV ended on such a perfect note so no expectations #
- @blahspam The Singing Office, wow. I’m instantly uninterested. #
- Anywhoo, finished all my SATC episodes. That was a really picture perfect ending. I really, really loved this show. #
- @GregoryHarbin that’s music to my ears. The last season (at least the second half) was pretty good so I’m looking forward to it. still. #
- @intouchva I’m still waiting for it and basking in the TV version a bit more. #
- gmail freezes my WinXP FF. Lately, Google’s AJAX whether gmail or greader is kinda sucky. #
- still miffed with Snow Leopard aka 10.5 SP1, Cupertino, rev up YOUR copy machines #
- @gf3 no doubt. If the price is reasonable or cough free, they I’m all for it. #
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Jun 08
Twits and Such for 2008-06-09
- hard to believe I’ll actually be watching my final episode of SATC tomorrow #
- Snow Leopard LOL!! That’s a great way to say 10.5 Service Pack. Outclassing Microsoft yet again #
- Mel B turned down a role in SATC to focus on music? What music!? Not complaining though not at all. If only they can edit out J Hud… #
- iPhone hits Japan July 11 #
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Jun 08
Snow Leopard? You Have Got to be Kidding Me
This year’s WWDC feels like Apple’s waking up from the coma that was last year to finally kick ass and take names and not the other way around. When you think about it, the only thing they got right was the iphone and ipod touch and those were sold high on promise and potential. Case in point, the 3G iphone finally has a headphone jack opposite of the dock connector (if I saw the photos correctly) where it should have been to start. Mobile Me sounds promising despite the corny name though it’ll take more than a name change and 2GB of capacity to shed its sordid .mac past.
Then the icing on the cake is Snow Leopard. The should just call it OS X 10.5 Service Pack 1 because that’s what it is. Knowing Apple, they’ll probably charge the full price for those of us who endured the past six months faithfully testing their buggy as hell beta ware that they just had to rush out the door so the iphone could play nice with its docking station. Since when did stability, performance and security come as an after thought in an operating system from an established player?
Of course, I can appreciate the fact that forking their main operating system into a mobile branch (that powers the ipod touch and iphone) is a very involving endeavor and that’s where their focus was this past year. Still, Apple will always be about computers to me even with the name change explicitly removing “Computer” from the company name. I guess they weren’t kidding there.
As for buying the iphone when it hits Japan, I’m a little conflicted. I actually don’t use my phone much these days. While I’d love to consolidate my ipod Touch and phone into one device, I’m not motivated enough to ditch my relationship with my current carrier. Not for an iphone with the same capacity as my current ipod (16GB). I’ll think about upgrading when capacity goes somewhere in the 64GB neighborhood for sure.
All in all, I will buy Snow Leopard if they do in fact mean business when they say stability and not the current upgrade scheme of trading in two old bugs for one new one.
Apple posts details about Snow Leopard – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
