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New MacBook at MacWorld 2008!

Monday, January 14th, 2008

My MacBook Pro is messed up; something happened with the HDD and I got an invalid/missing b-tree node-something, and long-story short, it appears to be a fatal disk problem and I need to bring it to the Apple Store, send it out and get a new HDD installed. Oh well, likely my fault. But here’s some good news for me and other Mac fans!

Apple will unveil a new MacBook at MacWorld!


It has officially been 100% confirmed that Apple will indeed by announcing a new laptop at MacWorld and the new MacBook “will go on sale a week after MacWorld.”

In terms of details surrounding the new notebook, they’re a little more difficult to come by. Steve Jobs and the rest of the Cupertino crew are staying pretty tight-lipped, but I’m sure industry pundits will have plenty of predictions for us to consider over the course of the next few days and weeks. It’s very possible that January 2008 could see an ultra-portable MacBook of some kind, possibly competing against the Apple-esque Asus Eee PC.

Nintendo Wii and multi-input.

Saturday, January 5th, 2008

Alrighty… here’s the thing. I can’t find a Wii. Nintendo Wii. Can’t buy one without a “bundle” from Fry’s—with three games I don’t want and some other jank for $499.9~ screw that.

I really wanted to discuss the Sprint $10.5M phone/island offer, but life is keeping me busy and making things too-hard at the moment. Shit ain’t safe, and it’s hard to want to blog when you’re in personal-danger, right? But I’m tough… right? (*(joke))

Here. If you want something cool, if you are a tech-junkie, hell—if you want to be a show-off: Go here to see THE MOST INCREDIBLE USE OF A WIIMOTE! This is just some-guy’s college-project, code available for anyone. I’m sure others will adapt this technology and make actual “products” to accompany this new tech. Seriously, get out that Wiimotemadness and make sum’thn-happen!

Before I pull a David Copperfield and vanish for quite some-time again: if you’ve been living in a cave and haven’t followed the insane web-press coverage, check out Google’s Android. It was “hyped” as a “G-phone,” but IMO, it’s one-better. It’s a complete indy-OS, able to install and function on basically “any” modern phone with certain features. The possibilities are endless: imagine the iPhone with more financial-backing than most countries, open-source, and with free SDKs for programmers to come up with anything they want. We’ll have some friggin’ badass apps, and it’s all happening really soon.

Things are kinda “junky” at the moment. I haven’t been able to post as much as I’ve wanted to, and no one seems to want to contribute to this blog, so progress and updates are slow-to-come. I’m going to leave Oakland. Where am I going? Well, that’s for me to know and for you to… um… not know. Smile, and enjoy life.

And please check out TMC (toomanycopies.com) if you haven’t already; LMK what you think. I’m not sure whether to continue writing on those “topics” or if it’s just a relative pipe-dream. I only have so many hours in the day; I could certainly use extra time to work-out some other problems, like say… my shoulder problem. Some actual “working out” would be wonderful if I could manage it. Oh well, enough about me. Back to other things—almost!

I’m looking into new mobile devices for me and K; my cousins both have Sidekicks and swear by them, Helio offers something interesting with Sprint-backbone, Sprint has some fast stuff, T-Mobile has myFaves… thoughts, anyone? If you love your phone and think that it’s the greatest ever, please share that with me! I’m interested in people’s passions—and to be as near-perfectly honest as possible, I don’t “trust” phone websites and I have a hard time trusting “review sites” (CNET, anyone?) when they’re ratings feel connected to their advertisers.

And I really hope that Sony brings Skype to the Playstation Portable (PSP).