Sure is 1984 in here today.

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UK: Private firm to guard database of every phone call, e-mail

You’d think they’d ask before just handing out everything you’re doing to some faceless company or do I just expect too much?

New Macbook Pro

Well, this is probably a little late, but I’ve just got my hands on a 15″ MacBook Pro. Specs are 2.4ghz processor, 4gb ram, 500gb (self installed) hard drive and 256Mb of gpu memory.

My New MacBook Pro 

I like the new keyboard, similar to the old macbook, but backlit and the new trackpad is pretty nice to use too.

Is this the new Mac Mini?

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512GB SSD from Toshiba

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Everyone knows solid state is the way of the future, so Toshiba stepped up and made a decently sized drive for people who like their storage space (but not reliability thanks to its reliance on MLC)

Hopefully we’ll see a 512 SLC drive sometime soon too, but I doubt either of these will be affordable, at least for the time being.

Why Macworld Doesn’t Matter

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Having heard that Steve Jobs won’t be doing the keynote this year at IDG’s Macworld show in San Francisco, I think the only reasonable explanation is that Apple is dropping trade shows to make way for new Apple stores. They see the stores as an easier way to get money than to use a trade show to get vendors interested in working with them, as so many will be anyway.

Apple will most likely not launch anything big this year at Macworld, unlike in years previous so Steve is less needed for a product launch (If Shiller had done the product announcement that birthed the iPod Hi-Fi, would anyone have expected much out of it?) Steve Jobs isn’t ill, or at least he hasn’t let on to the fact that he is to anyone very close to him yet so it is very unlikely that the health of the Apple founder is anything to do with his decision not to do a keynote this year.

Macworld rumors this year already include a Mac Mini refresh, an iPhone nano and a Netbook, only a few weeks until we find out what’s actually happening.

First Studio Lighting Shoot.

Farrakh 

Chris 

Tails

Steve

Tweets for 2008-12-02

  • In kilau waiting for julia to get out of work. Oh how the tables have turned. #
  • ordering some Ektar 100 #
  • I hate the kind of people you encounter on the last bus. #
  • So tired this morning, I feel like falling asleep. #
  • Might be buying a Mac SE. #
  • Bowens heads and black backgrounds, a good morning. #
  • Great. Just been sick. #
  • trying to find a 500gb 2.5″ drive for a new macbook pro #
  • just placed an order for 10 xmas cards through jessops http://www.jpics.co.uk/ #
  • Watching Star Wars IV #
  • Okay fuck you Apple. Some decent Black Friday deals would have been nice. #
  • Out of college early today, doing Xmas shopping, got my mums already. #
  • Bed, work tomorrow. #
  • Aberdeen is negative three degrees. So colddd. #

Tweets for 2008-12-01

  • In kilau waiting for julia to get out of work. Oh how the tables have turned. #
  • ordering some Ektar 100 #
  • I hate the kind of people you encounter on the last bus. #
  • So tired this morning, I feel like falling asleep. #
  • Might be buying a Mac SE. #
  • Bowens heads and black backgrounds, a good morning. #
  • Great. Just been sick. #
  • trying to find a 500gb 2.5″ drive for a new macbook pro #
  • just placed an order for 10 xmas cards through jessops http://www.jpics.co.uk/ #
  • Watching Star Wars IV #
  • Okay fuck you Apple. Some decent Black Friday deals would have been nice. #
  • Out of college early today, doing Xmas shopping, got my mums already. #
  • Bed, work tomorrow. #
  • Aberdeen is negative three degrees. So colddd. #

Tweets for 2008-11-30

  • Deleting over 100,000 files, removing all the useless junk from a very cluttered iMac. #
  • Just bought omnifocus for the iPhone #
  • You are no longer following steinhardt. #
  • Morning Twitter. Work is boring and I’m stuck waiting for change at the bank. #
  • Work night out tonight, will try not to get too drunk. #
  • In kilau waiting for julia to get out of work. Oh how the tables have turned. #
  • ordering some Ektar 100 #
  • I hate the kind of people you encounter on the last bus. #
  • So tired this morning, I feel like falling asleep. #
  • Might be buying a Mac SE. #
  • Bowens heads and black backgrounds, a good morning. #
  • Great. Just been sick. #
  • trying to find a 500gb 2.5″ drive for a new macbook pro #
  • just placed an order for 10 xmas cards through jessops http://www.jpics.co.uk/ #
  • Watching Star Wars IV #
  • Okay fuck you Apple. Some decent Black Friday deals would have been nice. #
  • Out of college early today, doing Xmas shopping, got my mums already. #
  • Bed, work tomorrow. #
  • Aberdeen is negative three degrees. So colddd. #

Tweets for 2008-11-24

  • well, no more macbook, oh well. #
  • is the high quality iplayer content louder or is it just me? #
  • You know when you dig a hole and you can’t get out of it? Yeah i’m brilliant at that. #
  • Productive day today, goodnight Twitter. #
  • Powerpoint is the most boring app ever. #
  • Well, two hours later and that’s one of the two powerpoint presentations done, one to go. #
  • UGH, failwhale. #
  • Jessops have new uniforms. I don’t have to wear a shirt any more. It’s now a polo shirt (with a bloody Nikon sponsorship on the sleeve) #
  • iPhone 2.2, i wonder if it’ll fix everything. #
  • Costa coffee: not as good as starbucks. #
  • 2.2 feels like a ram upgrade. #
  • online shopping with julia :] #
  • So cold. Snow all day and not in the nice leopard variety. #