Straight Saturday – DJ, Play That Song One More Time..
Jan
What Blogs You?
Welcome back readers/viewers. Yes – another writing post. I actually started to film the video for today’s episode, but it just wasn’t going as planned. You know when attempt to do something – but every time you attempt do it, it just doesn’t feel right? Well, that’s how I felt when I started filming. That is when I got the idea - lets try do writing blogs for almost a week and write at least 1,000 words per day. IT would be a pretty interesting thing because I’ve never been the writing type. I mean – I can do it, but I do not formulate words very well. This doesn’t mean that I never do videos again, but Life At (Up To) 3G Speeds, will be going on a one week break. Don’t fear the change, embrace it. So with that in mind, theses post will be a little more personal than usual – so if that doesn’t float your boat, you can go to Google News for all your latest news and notes.
The Letter
So to start – this week was a pretty shorten week. Well not really, only because I came home on Thursday because I had to work from the local office on Friday. This was a change of pace for me considering that I had not worked from the host office in almost 3 months. Once I arrived at home – I had a letter waiting for me. Over the Christmas Holiday , I had purchased a Lactose Sweater for my father. When I was the the Lactose store with my mother – we ran into a very friendly woman named Marina, who was helped us find the size we need. After we purchased the sweater, he mother was just talking to Marina about what country she was from (Ukraine) and where she got the shirt that she was wearing as she wanted to get it for my sister. And that was that. Nothing else occurred during this transaction – no promises, just like any other transaction at a retail store. After Christmas, my father returned the gift because he didn’t like it – which got put back onto my Credit Card. He talked with the same lady as I did because he gave me the receipt and it showed Marina as the cashier. Then on Monday, I received a letter in the mail from Marina. It address to my full name and handwritten. I thought it was strange to receive a letter from Lactose as I returned their product and it was weeks and weeks after Christmas. I also thought it was odd that was hand-written. I mean – if you are going to pay people to write Thank You cards, you are probably going to mass produce them and not hand write them. So what does it all mean? Well being the conspiracy theorist that I am, I have a a conclusion. The economy. How does that tie into the equation? Marina was probably very slow at work, considering that Lactose is a very luxury brand and expensive, and due to the economy people don’t have the spare cash to spend money. So – to pass the time – she probably started sending out Thank You cards to the customer for their purchases during the Christmas season. She probably only had a list of people who had made purchases during a selection of dates, and did not look at the return of the product I originally purchased. This does explain the generic message on the letter. Knowing of her Ukraine nationality, her English was very good, but not excellent. That would explain the informal, “Hello” at the start of the letter. Anyways – if this letter was a potato, it just mashed it into tiny pieces. But hey – it was fun.
Really?
Last night, after work I went out with some friends in Savin Hill. Now – everyone that lives in MA knows that Savin Hill, isn’t the best of areas around Boston. It’s commonly knows to many as “Stab’n'Kill”. However – I pleasantly surprised when I arrived at my friend’s Condo which was full of rich decor and a 52 inch LCD TV. I mean – it was like watching a iMax movie in the living room. The picture quality was so crisp it was like biting in a Papa Ginos pizza for the first time in a long time. Speaking of Papa Ginos, I went against the grain last night after ordering Pizza because Papa Ginos did not deliver to the area that we were so we had to get Papa Johns. I ate it, because I was hungry, but it tastes like a eating a rubbery meat stick. Yes – a meat stick. Anyways back to the story on why there is a iPhone Text Message embeded to this screen. So, consider the weather was so very cold yesterday – I wore a sweater to work. When we got the the apartment, I took it off as I was draining Beruit cups like it was my job. Anyways – as I was leaving and taking the Red Line back home, I put the sweater around my computer back, because I did not want to wear it. When I transfered back to the Green Line, I was on the phone with a friend and it must have fallen off my computer back and on the floor. I did not even notice this as I was – 1. tired 2. I was on the phone. Anyways, my good old friend Erik and the people that were hanging out with, were taking the Green Line as well, and they were about 15 minutes behind me. He actually found the sweater lying on the ground on the stairs to the green line. I mean – what are the odds of that? All the people who take a sweater or just throw it out, it turns out to be a friend of yours and grabs it for you. The only reason why he knew it was mine because we had a 2 minute conversation about he had the same sweater as I did. Pretty hilarous, I would have to say so.
Pirates VS RIAA
Latest, this wouldn’t be a iGreggor post – if I didn’t talk about something tech related. In a new study about downloaded Music, it appears that over 95% of music downloaded is pirated. According to AFPI, the music business made about $3.7 billion on digital downloads – and that was only 5% of what people acutally paid for. I mean – that is a pretty crappy number. If they made 3.7 billion off of 5% of the market cap, imagine what the other 95% would be worth? If all things were equal, and 5% represented 3.7 billion, then the other 95% would equal about 70.3 billion dollars of lost assets. That is equivlant of getting approx. 235 Wii’s stole from you. I mean I would be pretty pissed wouldn’t you? But then there is the other side – they made about 3.7 billion on music downloads – isn’t that enough? I guess that decision is yours to decide.
So I have gone over the 1,000 word mark for the Word Write Off Challenge. Actually I just made up that name now. I urge you comment about this challenge. Blogs are not only just a means of trying to gain fame or promise, its a mean of getting your words across. There is no difference between Dateline and a blog. Dateline is reporting on stories that are important, and so are you in your blog. Talking about today’s stories and events in your own vision and likeness, gives the news and stories and your spin and flavor. Some people have a nack for writing, and some people think blogs are stupid. You don’t have to be a aristical talent to provide commentary on your life and the people you meet. So the only question left is – “What blogs you?”
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-iGreggor
What?!?! Wednesday – Surprise, Surprise
Jan
NO VIDEO?!?!?
Hello everyone. Yes – I can actually type. You are probably very suprised to see my typing more than 40 words per post. The first thing you are probably thinking is, “Where is the video?” and that is valid question. The answer is pretty simple – I felt like writing today. Making a video becomes time consuming, and as much as I love it, I was overcame by writing cancer and decided to do my daily “Life At (Up To) 3G Speeds” episode – through the magic of my short list of vocabulary. While we might not touch all of your favorite topics – you will get a break from watching my horrible acting and verbal skills. But you will have to deal with my horrible spelling and all the grammar mistakes – so it might be a trade off.
Google New Favicon
First things first – I want to talk about something that you probably have never noticed. It’s about a favcion. Yes – I said a favicon. It’s the thing you see in you browser when you visit the site in your web browser. I think these things are pretty cool – they give the site an indentity: something you remember. But on January 6th, Google introduced their brand new favicon, as you can see in the picture before this paragraph. I’m just not sure what is going on now. It’s just a mixture of colors and looks like nothing I really would associate Google with. Sure – it’s got the green, the yellow, the blue. But it’s just ugly. The reason why I switched from Yahoo! to Google in late 2004, was the simplicity – the plain Google Search screen. It had nothing I didn’t need. And that’s what the old favicon provided to me. It showed the simplicity of Google. This one shows me what Google has started to become – complicated and complex.
Coffee Sucks.
In other news – are you a coffee drinker? Do you “run on dunkin“? Then you could be in for a treat later on the day. A new study has been released saying that if you drink more than three cups of coffee a day, the you will more likely the hallucinate. Yes – see shit that isn’t real. According to the article, Durham University inquired of 200 non-smokers, and found that more than half of them heard voices and/or saw dead people. That’s pretty messed up. I mean, I don’t drink coffee – but I can tell you that I hear coffee, but I can tell you that some people that I know – go crazy when they have had their coffee for the morning. I wouldn’t doubt that they saw things that go “bump” in the night. I think it’s pretty crazy that 3 cups of coffee is about 315 milligrams of caffeine, and that increases the chance of your hallucinating, up to three times. So – if you want to have fun weekend, head over to DD and “get crunked“.
ex. Fire on a Man.
While browsing some stuff at work, I found a great story that took the icing on te “Interesting Thing of the Day”. A woman in Minnesota (of all places), attempted to set her boyfriend on fire. Police said the St. Cloud native attempted to light her boyfriend on fire using a lighter and air freshener. Really? Yes – really. She poured nail polish over the her boyfriend and tried to light him up like the 4th of July. I mean – there is is only one thing to say to say to that – bitches be crazy. I just don’t understand the logic behind this move. If you want to kill someone – just shoot them – why go through the trouble of burning them? I mean you are missing a few screws up there if you try to burn someone to death. But then again, you might be able to get away with it, I mean – it’s pretty easy to dispose of a body when there is no body right? Anyways – shes in the lock-up awaiting trial. Again, bitches be crazy.
Jobs is sick.
Finally, let’s talk about the tech news that everyone is talking about. Today – CNBC reported that Steve Jobs will be taking a medical leave of absense, until July. CNBC is reporting that Steve’s medical condition has gotten worse, and he “is neglecting it”. It a letter the Apple Community, Jobs sent a email to everyone that he will be out until July, and COO Tim Cook will take over the day-to-day responsibilies from Steve Jobs. This is a shocking blow to the message that he released before MacWorld, stating that he had a hormone imbalance that stopped his protein intake. I hope that Steve gets better soon and can get back to Apple. I mean after all – he did bring Apple from the ground to the top. With his oversight he has been involved in many revolutionary products that changed the way we think, act, and interact as consumers. OK – maybe not that far, but he still introduced the iPhone – and that conquered the world. People all around he world are complaining that Apple will not be same without Jobs at the helm. I personally think that Apple will rebound if Jobs decided to leave or retire – but its just not going to be the same. I watched the opening of this year’s MacWorld speech by Phil Schiller, and it just wasn’t the same. The energy that he bring to the consumers, the excitement that the employees of Apple gain off of him – that isn’t something that you can replace. Of course – Apple will create new products and life will go on – but will be in the limelight as it was when Jobs was there? Only time will tell.
Well that’s about it today guys – I hope enjoyed this nice change of pace, and as typing this – I remember why I started this blog – to write. After all, isn’t that what a blog is?
Have a good day now,
-iGreggor
Sunday Conversation: Apple Store Experience
Nov
Picture/Annotated by iGreggor
Good afternoon readers. What a cold and bitter day here in New England, the leaves are turning, the scarfs are returning, and stores are getting ready for the holiday season. I recently stopped in to Best Buy and they ALREADY have the “Happy Holidays” signs up all over the place. It’s quite shocking that every year these signs go up earlier and earlier every year. I mean seriously – Halloween just ended – now people are going to have worry about the Holiday season? Give me a break. So in my shopping trip today – I stopped by my good old’ retail Apple store. Before I became a Machead, I always though the people who worked at Apple Stores were like all Mac fans who knew their shit. My experiences with the Apple store, they really are just like every employee who worked at Best Buy/Circuit City. To get the kind of service I want from these places, I have to play dumb to get them to get interact with me. I can’t go around picking out the items I want, and then try to find a salesperson. You have to aimlessly walk around, touching things, and looking like a complete idiot for one of them to help you. For me – I went into pick up a brand new, slim-style, aluminum apple keyboard. I knew where they were in the store, so I picked it up. Then I couldn’t find the iPhone 3G Screen protectors, so I tried to find one of those Apple people with blue shirts. Guess What? None were available – just like last time. So I had to find a orange shirt person to help me – he showed me where the screen protectors were – and directly me to a blue shirt person to purchase the the items. What i found very strange – is the the portable-registers that Apple Retail stores are Pocket PC. I mean after everything the company has done – it uses PC for their billing and checkout. I just had a good laugh at that. After I got home – I found out that the orange shirt kid had given me wrong iPhone screen protector and the MiniDisplay port that I had bought doesn’t support HD screens. Oh Apple – charging me 100 bucks for all this shit and not even giving me the time of day when I want to buy them. Have you even been to the Apple Store and had a good experience? Sound off in the comments.
Picture by Google Maps, annotated by iGreggor
Taking a step away from technology – sometimes when I’m bored or drunk, I start to think about really crazy ideas. Yesterday when I was attending a halloween “slutville” I was talking to my friend’s boyfriend about living in Connecticut and other stuff like that. He turns out to a cop and were starting shooting the shit about State Police and bullshit like that. I started to think – what if you lived on into two states, like your house was split – your kitchen was in Massachusetts while your Bedroom was in Connecticut? Would you have two different license plates? What state does your vote count for? I mean – this is serious stuff here. What if you house was on the border of another country – i.e (Canada), could you get free health care, and social security at the same time? That would be sweet. I’m sure that there is some legal documentation specifying that you have to pick one of the other country to be a legal resident in – but that would be a pain in the ass if you had to cross the border like 50 times a day just to do errands. I mean the real issue would be different state laws that in place. For example in Connecticut you cannot sell achohol on Sundays. If your store was on the border – which law would you follow? It would be very difficult to tell. I don’t know – it’s just a random ass thought – but I’m sure you’ve thought it before. What do you think about this issue? Sound off in the comments below.
Picture by Wordle (C), annotated by iGreggor
So I was browsing the Internet yesterday looking for some cool things to talk about – and I ran into the really intersting site called Wordle. Wordle is a site that takes words from RSS feeds, and creates work art out of them. You can see the picture on the right was taken from this blog’s RSS feed. It’s a really interesting and a new Web 2.0 tool that will connect the art world to the technology world. All the art is open source, but you have to give credit to the Wordle for the image, as I have done here. You can use screencapping to snip the picture – or you can add as a public picture and embed the picture in your blog. I urge you to check it out – it’s a pretty cool thing. Even if you don’t have a RSS feed of some sort, you can insert your History paper into the textbox, and it shows you which words you use the most (the bigger words signfy this). Speaking of cool technology – it has been leaked the HP has annouced that they will soon be starting producing of $99 Netbooks. These small low-powered computers will not be available to everyone if this price is true. This will help HP increase it’s profit margin and remain popular in the computer world. One computer that isn’t going to be able to sell these Netbooks, is the famed Circuit City, which is rumored to be closing 155 stores nationally this Monday. Recently Circuit City was asked to leave the NYSE after the price of their stock dipped below a dollar on Friday. Currently the stock price is about 26 cents. I mean – either shut this place down, or have someone buy it out. Best Buy is just doing the same thing that it did to CompUSA back in the day.
Yeah - They are real.
Well readers, it been a really fun week, and we are almost at our goal. We are currently at 230 viewers for this week, only needing 20 more to win the jackpot in the Subscribe To Me Contest. Alot of people been question if I am going to give the prize out or this just a marketing hoax. First – I am not being funded by other-side source for this, its purely for fun. Secondly – the prizes are real. I got really frustrated that people were accusing me of this so I increase the amount of the iTunes Giftcards to $15. There will be 3 prizes if we get 20 more viewers to the site. First prize, will choose between any iGreggor T-Shirt from the Merchandise Store or $15 iTunes Gift Card, Second prize, will be a $15 iTunes Gift Card, and Third Prize will be an $15 iTunes Gift-card. I only have 2 gift-cards so if the first prize person decides they want the Gift Card, the Third place winner will get the T-Shirt. I really want to thank of you for catching in for me this week. Remember – all comments posting before 5:00PM EST enter you into the drawing. Good luck – and I’ll see you guys next week!
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Super Saturday: The Yard Work
Nov
Picture by Internet, annotated by iGreggor
Good afternoon readers. You may or not have notice a few different things this trip to my blog. First – you see a new banner with a new logo. Very snazzy – but your probably wondering what happened to the “wordpress.com” in my URL. Secondly – starting today, the new home of my blog is located at igreggor.com. I have become the proud of owner of this Domain – Thanks to the people at GoDaddy.com, so instead of typing in the full address – you can just point your browser to igreggor.com. Very exciting stuff right? Speaking of exciting, everyone know the weekend for professional in a montage of Bed Bath and Beyond, and getting stuff “done” around the house. For me – the weekend involves me getting to stay up late and watch TV and do absolute nothing. As I’m writing this – I’m basically in my the same clothes that I woke up in and I still have not showered. It’s an amazing feeling. The fact remains that after working long hours during the weekend – the weekend is still the same that it was in college – do nothing during the day, and drink at night. When your in the professional world, during the week night-caps don’t exists. You work long hours, and by the time to get home you are too tired to even watch 20/20. So my point? Stay in school as long as you can. Go for your PhD. Van Wilder should be your guide to life – if you want to enjoy your late twenties – stay in school. But don’t get me wrong – getting a nice paycheck every 2 weeks is like the carrot in front of your face. For a college kid who didn’t make alot of money during college – seeing a salary check in front of your eyes makes the pain go away. Of course – if you don’t have a family, and other expenses – that roughly relates into a nice trip to Newegg.com or the Apple Store every two weeks to blow your..paycheck..on a techy stuff. I’d much rather be poor with a whole lot of tech things than me rich with nothing techy. I mean – its a personal choice. If Bill Gates can waste 2.5 million on his cube at his new company, I sure as hell don’t see a problem is spending $80 on a MiniDVI Port and a Apple Keyboard at the Apple Store.
Picture by JoeyPeter, annonated by iGreggor
On to the techyness, there is not alot of news that is surrounding the tech world today. It must be like the great depression. Although one company that is trying to fight aganist it’s demise by Apple is RIM, where they have showing quick 10 second commericals of their new “iPhone Killer”, the Blackberry Storm. The Storm’s User Guide has been leaked on the internet. Many blogging sites have already had time to play around the test product, but this user’s guide is like the blowjob before sex for most geeks. For those you that have been living under a rock for the last 2 months, The Blackberry Storm is the first blackberry that is completely touch-screen. The keyboard, the screen, even RIM’s own version of the App Store. The phone is going to be on the Verizon network, and its rumored to only start at $99 with a new-two year activation. That would definitely bring some iPhone haters to the Blackberry. For me the choice is clear – the Blackberry isn’t fun to me. It’s all business. It’s like the girl that you date because her family is loaded and you get lots of perks because of it. The girl herself is as lifeless as the excitement you get from watching British porn (nope don’t got a link for that one, go search your self). On the on hand, the iPhone, is like the hot red dress girl you see at the bar, you know that you never have a chance one. It’s that girl that you know that you want to take out everyday and show off to your friends. For me – I’ll take the hot girl, because I enjoy excitement. You see – RIM has to figure out to reposition their product to appeal to a younger crowd. Everyone knows that Blackberries are for work, but RIM needs to show that their phones are fun. On the other side Apple needs to do the same – create an work environment for the iPhone for professionals. The 2.0 patch helped with the introduction of Exchange Push, but it still leaps behind RIM even though it dominated them in the Q4 results. If Apple could step it up – it would be able to leap int the top phone cell phone manufacturers. That’s pretty crazy considering Apple is a computer computer, not a cell phone company.
Picture by EA, annonated by iGreggor
Speaking of computers, I really have not been into video games, since I cancelled my World of Warcraft before I started my full-time job – I recently got a chance to try our EA new game, Commander and Conquer: Red Alert 3. Red Alert was on the classic games of all time, which was one my first Real Time Strategy game I’ve played almost 10 years ago. The funny thing with this game – sort of likely it’s other games – is the same game is pretty much an interactive movie. With none other than, get ready for this, Jenny McCarthy as the lead role. The cast of actors that in this movie ranges from characters from Lost, Burn After Reading, Prison Break, and my favorite The O.C. The ladies of Red Alert 3 – are outstanding, and not with their acting skills. It’s the first time, since Tomb Raider, that a company has decided to incorporate the two things that video gamers love into one product – video games and pornography. I found this image inside the game folder on my hard-drive. Literally – as I was playing the game, I really couldn’t concentrate on the mission – since I was starring at the cleavage of that Soviet bitch. I mean – its really smart of EA to do this – as they will sell lots of games with this imagine. It’s the first game I’ve played that been interactive – like I’ve been watching a movie, and then get a chance to control the outcome. The more important part of it – is the actors. I mean Jenny McCarthy as the “hero” for the Allies? That’s fucking hilarious.
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So in closing – I want to thank you for reading, and hopefully you enjoy all the chances we’ve made here. For an update to the Subscribe to Me contest , we are at 202 viewers for this week, 48 lonely viewers away from reaching our goal. If you can push extra hard to help me promote, so can I to raise the stakes. I’ve open a new iGreggor Merchandise store, with t-shirts. If we reach the 250 viewers by the end of the day today – I will give a lucky commenter a free-tshirt from that site. I wil give the second place prize of $10 iTunes Giftcard to the next, and another to the third place commenter. Remember, all you have to enter is comment on any on of my posting. If we reach the goal – you are automatically entered! So check out the Merchandise store, comment, and rememember to send me your question for next week’s Wednesday Tech Day. Thanks for reading, and remember to comment!
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Freaky Friday: Boo! I’m an Apple
Oct
Picture by Internet, annotated by iGreggor
Happy (late) Halloween readers. If your reading this you just pranced around saying “Trick or Treat“, and forcing the economy to shell out more money for candy – or you just woke up after a long night out getting drunk. Either way – hopefully this blog will give you some fresh air. I – myself – don’t really believe in this Halloween thing. Personally – the only thing good about it, give me a chance to watch all the girls turn into sluts. Yes – I said it. I mean girls can find any excuse to make a costume slutty these days. You literally go to a Halloween party and you see a girl dressed with nothing – and your like “What are you?” They respond – “I’m a Birthday Suit”. I mean – personally just because it’s Halloween doesn’t mean your not a slut because your wearing nothing. What my good old friend David Chappelle said once – “You dress the part, you better ready to play the act”. Girls love this day because, they get to act slutty and it’s socially acceptable. Kinda makes me think – do all girls, deep down, want to be slutty 365 days? I mean – don’t get mad when guys start to hit on you if you wearing slutty clothes. Because that guy is probably me. I would cry. Then get kicked out of the bar.
Picture by Cottington, annotated by iGreggor
So onto the technology, today the Apple MacBook Air shipped, and our friends over at Engadget have all the pictures to make you go from 6 to Midnight in 2 seconds. The MacBook Air looks very sharp, but orginally users will not want to trade in their old version for the new – because lets face it – you already blew your allowance on the first one. The graphic enhancements are great – but no one really uses the MacBook Air for gaming. If you so, you might as well trying to your luck eating a Vermonster by yourself. Everyone knows the real use of the MacBook Air is showing your friends that you can fit your notebook in a Manila envelope. The MacBook Air is really meant to be Apple’s Netbook – but one that cost almost $2,000. It’s good for browsing the web, checking your email, on the go. Playing World of Warcraft at Starbucks? Not for the MacBook Air. Try to look like macboy at a Starbucks and pick up chicks? Now that’s what it’s good for. Speaking of Apple-love, a woman tried to give her husband the best birthday present. A MacBook…CAKE! The women baked a full MacBook cake, a perfect replica of the Apple logo and MacBook size. The flavor? Chocolate. Personally, I hate Chocolate – so I would have been pissed for 2 reasons. 1 – It’s Chocolate. 2 – It’s a MacBook Cake! If I wanted a sweet Birthday present I would have just bought Candy Bars. This is like a slap in the face for the husband. Hopefully he already has Mac or I would be signing on to Match.com very soon.
Sucker City - it true.
In other interesting news – in case you have not early – Black Friday is going to be huge this year. With the economy so bad, retailers are starting the let the lid of their HUGE price drops during this shopping day mania. One retailer, however, isn’t going to stocked properly, after a source leaked that Sony told all trucks with loads of Sony products heading to Circuit City, to promptly return the warehouse. The reason is that the struggling electronic store owns lots of money to Sony – and Sony will not sell anymore products to them until they have re-established their line of credit. For god sake, Blockbuster just buy this company out. This reminds me of the MAD PR Fiasco. They suck. One time I went to Circuit City to some DVDRs. A lady came up to me trying to up sell me the DVDRWs because they were $20 more. She kept telling me that I would be able to re-record stuff whenever I wanted with these discs. The funny thing – I told her time and time again, that I knew what the fuck I was doing – and I didn’t care about being about to re-write data. Just let me buy my cheap-ass DVDRs and go bother someone who knows the difference between USB 2.0 and USB 1.0. This is reason why I don’t shop at this electronic stores. The people working there try to up sell sell everything. Geek Squad/Firedog is the worst deal every. I mean seriously – Best Buy was trying sell Bluetooth Pairing for $10. For people that don’t know to pair your Blutetooth device – ask the 10 year old kid on your street and give him a free ice cream. Geek Squad charges you almost $150 bucks to set up a wireless internet, and an absorbent amount of money just to diagnosis a simple problem. Again – just ask the nerd kid in your class to help you. If your a girl – he’ll so happy, he will do it for free. If your a guy – just buy him a pack of Dungeons and Dragons card, that will work the same.
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So, we have an update with the Subscribe to Me contest. We are currently at 174 unique page views for the week – about 80 away from the goal. Way to go guys – you are on your way to downloading some free music/tv shows and movies (legally). Remember to keep commenting to enter. Starting next week – I will be doing a new segment on Wednesday, called Tech Wednesday. Every week, the readers can send me their tech questions (Mac OS X, Linux or Windows) and I’ll answer them. Send your questions to gregory.avola@gmail.com with the subject title of “Wednesday Tech Question”, and look for question on Wednesday. I will take the best question and discuss it in the blog. Once again – I will be giving a prize to that user, so send away! Perhaps a iGreggor T-Shirt? It’s in the works – or is it?
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Terrific Thursday: Freedom!
Oct
Hello readers! Your probably wonder why I entitled this blog freedom. Could it be that I am going talk about politics and the upcoming elections hoopla? Could I be talking about going home a day early to celebrate the most overrated holiday of the year? Well sort of – I’m talking about going to my “fake” home. Yes – the Marriott hotel. Now last night, as you read, I slept in the Holiday Inn. It was the worst sleeping arrangements, since sleeping on the couch at my girlfriend’s house. First off – the curtains did not close all the way, and all they had was this see-throw white curtains – i wouldnt even call them curtains – covering the window. Let’s talk about why this is problem. When your window is facing the BRIGHT LIGHTED Holiday Inn sign that blinks because its broken – yeah thats a problem. I was orginally supposed to be there 2 night – but this morning I logged into my Travel Agent and quickly checked to see if my Hotel was available. I quickly booked the room, and felt so much better – because I was out of this shit hole. I mean – the internet was so bad – it actually crashed Safari on MacBook. It was basically like “Damn – this shit is horibble, I’m just going to shut down”. So as I got back to Marriott today, I was like a middle school boy watching Britney Spears – …Baby One More Time Video for the first time. The desk person knew who I was, Greg the Bartender had my dinner ready, and I got to work out next a pretty attractive girl. I would push the elevator button, and instantly the elevator would arrive. It’s like the Marriott gods knew that I was coming back home. Great fantasticness. Yes – I just made up that word.
Picture by Internet, annotated by iGreggor
Transition to technology, after all thats my blog is about, we move to the iPhone 3G. You’ve read all my blog about it being so popular and that everyone has it, but this number really shocked me. Even though the iPhone is pretty pricey, and there is no rebate on the phone cost like most Blackberries – the phone still holds a very high percentage in the market, and it is even scoring at the low income level. According to reports most of the sales in the iPhone have come from families who’s income is lower than median. I guess this satisfies Job’s goal to have more people buy the iPhone. Analyst has rumored that the iPhone might drop around $99, to try to gain a bigger market share by next year. Speaking of the iPhone, AT&T annouced via a text message that iPhone users can now access Starbucks and AT&T Hotspot wireless zones. So now you can look extra “Appleish” drinking that Carmel Crapness with your iPhone browsing for Arygle Sweaters. Can you imagine if everyone had an iPhone? Apple might as well be called Motorola. Well, maybe not. Motorola annouced that they had a 300 million dollar profit loss in Q3 and cut a whole bunch of division and employees. The have also announced that are going to start programming phones with the new google phone operating system, Andriod. It’s an open source OS that is fueled around the new phone G1 from T-Mobile. This should lower cost for Motorola, and hopefully bring them back to cell phone promise. G1 on the other hand – is rumored the be the next iPhone killer, but reviews have been leaving them dry. The mobile interface and browsing of the iPhone seems to trump the G1 in all tests. If you could pick (if money wasn’t a issue), which phone would you buy, the iPhone 3G or G1? Sound off in the comments, and you could win. No! Not win an iPhone or G1 – a iTunes gift card idiot!
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So it turns out that I have just hit about 150 unique page views for the week. We are about 100 away from our goal. It turns out people are been actually viewing this blog – which I never thought is happening. It’s pretty crazy how you guys end up clicking the via Facebook or Twitter, and read this – I just wanted to say thank you, it means a lot. Make sure you leave a comment for your chance to win! Now that we got that emotional shit out of the way – let’s talk about tomorrow. Yes – you know what day it is – National Slut Day. For me – I’m going to attend a party on 11/1, which really is not Halloween, and I’m going to dress up as Steve Jobs. Yes – I said Steve Jobs. It’s a pretty easy constume. I’ve got the glasses, the beard, and the jeans already. Now I just need to buy a nice black turtle neck. Should be an easy find considering the winter is among us. I really don’t think in Halloween – its pretty much the most overhyped holiday, if you even consider it that, of all time. I like President’s Day is a better holiday that then – at least you can get some sweet deals on a car. What does Halloween give you? Good deals on candy? Speaking of scary – Sony just recalled 100,000 of the Batteries in their HP, Toshiba, and Dell laptop, because they could explode. Yes – that’s kind of a big deal. The batteries claim to cause the laptop to overheat and blow up. Good thing I didn’t purchase a PC – I’m happy with my Mac. I’ve move up in the computer underworld. I used to be a Windoze guy, but now I’m multi-platform. I’m elite.
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Wacky Wednesday: Technology is Cool!
Oct
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Welcome back readers. As you can see by the layout – a few things have changed. I am testing this new theme for the blog, to spice some things up. You might also notice that the name of the blog as changed from “Life with the iPhone 3G”, to “Life At (Up To) 3G Speeds”. It gives a better representation of what my blog is about. I have to give credit for the name to my good old buddy Vinny, who gave me the idea, and promoted me in his Blogroll. He described my blog as “a (possibly accidental) social commentary on the ubiquity of technology in modern society.” It’s pretty much true. I have to admit. You’ll also notice a new banner for my blog – designed by my good old buddy at alteredlines.com. He does some great deisgned, and can work with you to make your own, so check it out if your interested. One thing that I found great is the they can mix the image of technology into art. Being able to combine two things that don’t really depend on each-other, is something amazing. This is why I love technology. Living about 10 years ago, being able to communicate back and forth with people required you to constantly pick up the phone. While on the phone you lost something – the mood of the person. When you communicate over the internet – you can reach a larger audience of people. People who want to use Twitter – to commuicate what they are doing over text messages can complete that task. No longer is the phone converstation about “How was your day”, it has evolved into, “Tell about the trip you made to Hartford, CT today?”. People are able to tap into your mood, experiences, and comment about it. It creates a whole world of technology among people. The issue with this is that it goes to people heads, and makes them loose their social skills. I saw a article today, about a company which is starting to develop “TwitterPlants“. Now, the idea behind this project is that there is a stick that you put in the soil of the plant, that has a small circuit board in the middle, and at the end it has a ethernet jack. You plug your internet connection in, and the plant will survey the soil and decide if it needs to be watered. If it does – it sends you a Twitter message, yes a INTERNET MESSAGE, telling you to “Water me”. If you water it too much, it sends a mesage back, basically saying your an idiot. This is crazy invention – as I read more into the article, you can actual buy this product for $99. No longer do you have to suffer because you have a “non-green thumb” – use technology to increase your chance of not killing a plant. The idea is out there, but I think it serves a purpose – when will technology override human judgement? When we will depend solely on technology, and nothing else? I feel that its only time before we figure out what time of monster we have build. First gave the RFID Toll Booth Collectors, then the Supermarket Self-Check out, what’s next? Automated doctors doing by-pass surgery? It could happen. What do you think? Sound off in the comment section below.
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The funny thing about technology is that its making its way into mainstream culture. Before, if you knew what Linux was, you were considered a geek. But now – mainstream entertainment has captialized on this boom in technology interest. If you look at the TV Show, Chuck, which is about a guy named…Chuck, who works a Best Buy “look-a-like” on the “Herd Squad”. The show a mixture of “techyness”, action and drama. I mean, Chuck is this regular guy who has “uploaded” a huge database of criminal information and doesn’t know how to use. The whole shows takes pokes at jabs at techy humor, including this one which I was though was really funny. Microsoft has become brunt of many jokes – too bad they are never good for the company. The thing here is that not only does the “techies” get it now – but the whole world seems to get it now. A little while ago a study found that 43% of college women prefer Macs to PC. At first, MS probally didn’t care about the Get A Mac ads, but now they have are way to deep in shit to pull themselves up. It’s like seeing your leg is broken in 5 places, and ignoring it, until one day it falls off, and your like “OMFG WTF?!?”
Picture by Holiday Inn, annotated by iGreggor
So today I checked into a new hotel, not the typical one that I always stay at because it was booked solid for the next 2 nights. It was booked literally like 2 months in advance, so I have to stay at another major chain hotel – the Holiday Inn. When I checked in – this creepy guy was like hovering over me like a crazy guy on acid, asking me if I was “Reward Member”, telling me about free coffee in the lobby. I don’t give a shit crazy guy, which what I wanted to say. This is a hotel is not as a nice as my previous hotel, as the rooms look like your living in a mental institution - with bright white walls and grandmother’s bed spread. Kinda makes me want to try to find another place. The only thing good about this hotel is the large KING size bed. I can spread out in that shit. The internet here sucks as much as the other one. As long as I don’t run into that crazy guy – I’ll be all set, good thing I’m only staying here two days.
So in closing, I hope you guys like the new layout, new blog name, and new banner. I really tried to make this easier to read and enjoy. Going back to the Subscribe to Me Contest, it appears the we are 121 views for week, and we need to get to 250 views by Sunday to reach the goal, and promote a lucky commentator with a $10 iTunes Gift Card. Keep on promoting iGreggor! Put me in your Facebook status. Write on my wall, send me a video. I’d love to hear from you readers. You can smell yourself downloading the new Britney Spears song. Although she does look pretty hot in that video. Keep leaving me comments, and tell me what you think about the new layout!
Magnetic Monday: The Simple Things
Oct
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Hello readers. So – first I want to thank everyone for leaving comments in my last post – it was pretty cool to get a career high of 4 comments. Yes – 4. It doesn’t look good for Subscribe to me Contest, as the counter is still at 1. You may think that your suscribition to me, means nothing – but to me, it means whole bunch of internet love. You see – I don’t blog for money, I don’t blog for fan-fare, I blog for fun. It’s the simple things for me, you see. Speaking of simple things – living in the 21st century we unconsciously take a lot of things for granted. For starters, we take the most used technology in the world – the internet – for granted all the time. I’ve never met anyone who didn’t have internet since I was in middle school when my soon to girlfriend, currently my ex-girlfriend, didn’t have internet. I got internet when I was in 7th grade, which was 1998. I was connecting a screaming rate of 56.6Kbps per second, browsing this thing called the World Wide Web, searching stuff on this site called Yahoo! The images, the information, was at my fingertips, and I was gone. Like a crack-addict, one sniff, brought me to high heaven. Now 10 years later, we have speeds up to 50Mbps (yes that’s MEGAbits per second), which 100 times better than it was 8 years ago. In 8 short years- the internet has opened up and almost everyone has used it at least once. Even my grandparents recently got a computer and started sending email. They are almost 80 years old for god sake. Almost everything has upgraded. The Newspaper became CNN.com, the Town Drunk became YouTube.com, the Peepin’ Tom became MySpace.com/Facebook.com, and speed dating became Match.com. The World Wide Web is starting to blur virtually reality into reality. You, literally, can become best friends with someone without evening seeing them in person on the Internet. You can meet your future husband on the internet. The real question – what can’t you do on the internet. With that in mind – talking to someone who did not have the internet for last 5 years – is like finding a stripper at church. At work today – I met a co-worker that bought her FIRST Desktop computer. I would imagine that she is in her early 30s. She bought a new desktop computer with a 22′ inch monitor – which she stated what bigger than her current TV. Then she dropped the bomb – she didn’t have internet. She was using dial-up for the past 6 months, because she didn’t think she needed. I was shocked – I currently own about 2 Servers, 1 Desktop, and 2 Laptops (and I’m broke), and this women didn’t even have the internet. Imagine the world today without Google. Information would would be gold. Knowing what the capital of Ohio without using Wikipedia, would be like owning a small european island. Back to this woman – so today, she was taking the big steps forward to getting high-speed internet, to complement this brand new computer. She was pretty calm about the transition, which reminded me of the day I transfered from Dial-Up to Cable Broadband. I couldn’t even sleep – the suspense of downloading what I wanted at 50x the speed of Dial-Up, was like meeting Kristen Bell. The day when I moved from Cable Broadband to FiOS Internet – was like waking up next to Kristen Bell. It’s crazy how the little things in technology brings the geek out of me. This women probally she I was crazy, as going from Dial-Up to DSL to me was like upgrading your Bicycle to a Porsche overnight.
Another simple thing that we all take for granted, that isn’t related to technology, is Ice Cream. Now Ice Cream is my favorite treat and it’s fucking delicious. Back in the day, this treat wasn’t the way it way today. 10 years ago, jimmies (or sprinkles) was the topping of the future. Now you can pretty much get any thing you want. Even at Ben & Jerrys, you can get your own bucket of ice cream. It’s called the Vermonster. Now they didn’t have this thing 10 years ago. This bucket has 20 scoops of ice-cream, 4 different flavors, with 4 different toppings, and whip cream and fudge to the high heaven. You are probally saying to yourself – “Wow that is a good treat for a party of 25 small children.” Well – I would tell you that your wrong. Well, actually you’d be right, because I bet those kids would love it, but my point is this can be accomplished by one man. No – not Kobayashi. The next great eating challenger. But the way, this is why America is fat by the way.
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No – I am not the one eating this, it’s my friend. But I’m the one filming at the end. It was a great feat, and you would be pleased to know that he did not throw up after all that ice cream.
Picture by Wayne Sutton, annotated by iGreggor
Back to technology, I was browsing the internet today at my favorite tech sites, I noticed something that made conscious of the little things of technology that excite us all. Since the introduction of Web 2.0, with YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook, you can share your life experience with everyone in the world. For geeks, the simple act of “unboxing” of a new technology toy brings all the geeks the yard. When the iPhone 3G came out, there were a million unboxing videos posted on YouTube within in hours. Literally, any product has an unboxing video. Not only do geeks, including myself, drool at this, is because it’s sharing an experience without having the hit in the wallet. Sure – there really isn’t anything special about opening a box, and showing the world that it has Styrofoam in – but the fact that you can get to see what’s inside the box before you buy it amazing. It’s also a marketing scheme – it increases your chances your gonna buy it. Apple is one main companies out there that focuses a whole lot of appearance. They design to pay attention to every last detail, is the reason for their great success. Making a box that looks really cool, attract not only Macboys, to your product, but people who like to get a great looking product. With technology, you can judge a book by it’s cover. Again – it’s the simple things that we always forget about. The fact that I can share my thoughts with everyone on the internet, is a great tool, but often overlooked. If you did this without the internet by going down to your center of town, grabbed a soap box, and starting speaking, you’d end up in a insane asylum.
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So back to the Subscribe to Me Contest – I’ve gotten a few emails from people saying that they have suscribed to my feed, and are excited for the contest – but I think people are not clicking the last step. After your click Subscribe to Me, you must choose your RSS program of choice from the right, otherwise the counter will not go up – and no one will get the iTunes Gift Card. So – with that in mind, I challenge you readers to step up. If you step up – I will step up as well. I am offering ANOTHER $10 iTunes Gift Card if we able to beat 250 viewers this week. Currently, we are 48 for the week, so we just need another 200 people view the site, and I’ll give away another $10 iTunes Gift Card to a random person who writes in the comments. So – what are you going to do this week? Help me spread the word about iGreggor. If you are a girl, tell all your hot friends about this – and if your a guy, tell all your hot girlfriends, because if you do – you can win $10 of iTunes Goodness. So remember, tell all your friends, and sound off in the comments!
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Sunday Conversation: When Words Can’t Explain….
Oct
Picture by silverskey (Flickr), annotated by iGreggor
Good afternoon everyone. It’s a beautiful Sunday – at least where I sit, which is rare for a fall day in New England. Sunday usually consists of people in this great land turning on their TV sets to watch the Patriots, having a few beers, and relaxing. I didn’t have quite the same experience, due to a mishap that late last night/early this morning. But before I go into that – I want to talk a little Apple into ya. The big debate goes on – and no one I’m not talking about McCain versus Obama, I’m talking about Mac VS PC. Now everyone has heard the debates, and saw the commercials – and as you know, I’ve recently purchased a MacBook – so it’s really hard to see what side I am on. I mean – PC have alot of software available while Macs have stability, which is alot more important than a software-heaven. I mean, it is a constant battle between the two computer giants. Who really – would of thought in 2000s that Microsoft’s biggest competitor was going to Apple. For a computer who had not turned a profit since he was started, the iPod, turned into the fire that lit the flame for Apple. My favorite thing is when people who don’t know technology or Apple, receive a iPod for a gift, and then see a commercial about “Get a Mac”, and turn to their friend and say “I didn’t know they sold computers?” The market is starting to turn on it’s head and people realize that things that look and work better, and better than things that cost less and break more often. It’s pretty fun how in today’s economy – even though Apple releases a new MacBook almsot 200 dollars more than the original model, it can sell. I guess the bottom line – people will pay for something that has durability, longevity, and appeal. What is Bill Gates going to do? Oh yeah, I forgot – he retired from Microsoft, and started a new company. With Bill gone, Microsoft has left to spent mounds and mounds of cash on pointless adversting schemes, and leave consumers confused, irritated, and to stop buying seasons of Steinfield on DVD. I have watched almost every Vista commercial – seeing their adversting scheme change from “Windows without Walls“, to “I’d a PC, and I have been made into a stereotype“, but their new one that is currently airing in Australia, is just horrible. I mean – only really get this one if you have used a Mac – which a good start. Check it out below:
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Yes – bouncing beachballs, which is equivalent to the hourglass in Windows XP/Vista, is the reason why you should switch over to Vista. Talk about going backwards – this idea is horrible. When people know your OS sucks, you don’t want to try to re-enforce the fact you both have issues. It’s basically saying “You don’t like bouncing beachballs? Come over to Vista – we have an hourglass. It looks cooler, but you might wait longer”. Just another MS failure.
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So speaking of failures, my weekend was full of suprises, unexpected laughs, and lots of despair, shock, and horror. First – I went with a few friend up to Salem, MA to few the Halloween spectacular. In case you didn’t know – in Salem, they burned witches, so it’s basically call Halloween Town in New England. The issue, the people. Everyone and their Jokers were there. It was impossible to go into the museums or haunted houses due to the lines. We walked around a bit – waited to order lunch, waited to get the food, waited to sit down, and waiting while we ate the food. We love to wait, NOT. So after that we drove back to a friends house, drank, and played some Guitar Hero on a HUGE 63′ Plasma TV. It was pretty awesome – then the night too an unexpected turn. I drove one of my friends back to my house, who was pretty sick, since it was time to get going. Needless to say – I was kinda nervous of my friend getting sick in the car. The drive was about 30 minutes, and as went drive home – my friend passed out for a while, and I thought I was in the clear. With about 3 miles to my house – my friend opened the glove box, and looks around for a bit – then, left me nice present. At that point – there wasn’t much I could do. It was pouring raining outside, and I’m a nice guy, so we just sat there and and soaked it all in, and got home. We I got home – I quickly got my friend inside, and had my friend go to bed. After that – I had to quickly remove the evidence, in the monsoon weather. Now – first I want to say that it wasn’t my friend’s fault – it was a common mistake, that happens to everyone, and I’m sorry to my friend for mentioning this here (as my friend told me not to 
), but I thought it was a funny, but not at the same time, to leave some left-overs in the GLOVE compartment. I mean, it’s like when you cat, kills a mouse, and leaves at your door like its present. What a night – to say the least. The next morning – I had to air out my car, and clean the inside of box to make sure the smell was gone. Another funny thing is that one thing that got ruined was my car registration. I can’t imagine being pulled over this week – and hand him that document. Maybe one whiff – and I bet he’ll let me go without a ticket. I could use this mishap to my advantage.
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So, on the administrative side – over the past few weeks you might of notice the increasing side-bar widgets, with Facebook and Twitter RSS feeds, and other interesting and bored items. You might also notice the RSS Logo in top right – which says “Subscribe to this Blog“. I am trying two new things this week. I have received 3, $10 iTunes Gift cards, that I am going to give away in a big’o'fun contest. Sure you might think $10 is nothing, and probably just illegally download your music anyways – but you can now buy TV Shows and Movies as well. It’s 10 bucks – and it’s free – so why don’t you help a brother out? Here is the contest – my goal is increase my RSS Subscribers, to 30 people for this week. That means, I would like 25 different people to click the Suscribe to this Blog link on the top right. You can even subscribe for your Google Reader as well – it’s the best web application to view RSS feeds. Why would you want to do this? Well – you can now view my blog postings whenever you want – on your iPhone, in your Browser, anytime. When a new gets posted – you’ll be updated as soon it goes live. Now sure what RSS is? Find out what the buzz is here. So, if I reach 35 – I will select 3 people, at random, who leave comments. So to be eligible, you need to post a comment in an one of my blog postings. You can comment as much as you like to increase your chances, but remember only one prize per person. Remember to leave your email in the comments, so I can contact you. If you spam comments, you will be removed from the prize consideration. Let’s make this fun! Everyone who has already left comments, will be eligible. Remember, you can only win the $10 Gift Card, if I reach 30 Subscribers – which you can follow by look at widgit on the right side of the page. The contest will end on November 2nd – 5:30 PM EST. Good luck!
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Thundering Thursday: The Macintosh Effect
Oct
Show me the Money!
Hello, reader. I have not written a blog since Monday, so it’s good to be back to the pen and paper. After look at the stats of Wednesday’s posting – it seems I got a good amount of views, but no one watched the view. I think the video was at 6 views with 56 people visiting the site. Either people don’t like to watch videos on a blogging site (which is probably true), or something is seriously wrong. Anyways, in the economy today, most companies and wondering what they have done seriously wrong, but not Apple. Yesterday posted it’s Fourth Quarter results in at their an online webcast press conference. The thing that continues to amaze me, is the interest in everything Apple does. Literally – if Apple annouced yesterday that their janitor had won a large fry at McDonald’s, it would make news, and millions of Apple bloggers (myself included) would talk about it. It’s pretty crazy how this company is viewed when comparing it any other company. Microsoft wishes they could the same effect - especially. Speaking of companies that are spiteful toward Apple, Blackberry – or RIM – , just found out that they got bumped from top 3 because of the iPhone in sales. In this quarter, Apple sold 6.8 million iPhone, which is almost 10 million iPhone sold in this year alone. This past quarter, RIM sold 6.7 million Blackberries. The Macintosh Effect – the year isn’t even over yet. Christmas is around the corner, can you imagine how many phone they will sell by the end of the year? Crazy. Also announced – Apple reported a 1.14 billion profit. Yes, I said billion. Can you imagine what profit they would have reported if the economy was actually good? Other hightlights of the event – iPhone sales represented about 39% of the companies profit, which is a company high for any single product. Also Apple shipped about 2.1 million Macs to its customers. Apple Retail store reports that half of the Macs that they sold were sold to people who were buying their first Mac computer. I guess those Get a Mac Ads are working (it worked for me). With all these great numbers, Apple is just getting started. With the introducing of the new MacBooks, iPods, and iPhone enhancements, sure the Christmas season will yield great profits for the company. With all this money coming in, you think Apple would do something good with it, like a charity. After all – Jobs is a cancer surviver, you would think that he would donate it to charity or something. No – instead he is turning Apple into a college. He is creating a university within Apple, for employees to increase their growth potentinal. Why don’t you give some of that money back to the people who made you who are? Perhaps put into a new product, or some iPhone fixes?
iTablet Mockup. Picture by Gizmodo.com
Speaking of new products of Apple, a story was circulatating around the Internet this morning, about a New York Times journalist that found information through the web logs about Apple possibly designing the iTablet. The iTablet would be another revoultionary product that would spark the Apple Fanboys, to go crazy. Imagine – being in New York City, and pulling out a iTablet to check the weather, hookup to 3G Network on the fly, and be able to get what you want with a bigger screen than the iPhone. It would make some Apple fan’s cry. The Macintosh Effect – you make a product, no matter how bad it is, it sells. The only time this doesn’t hold true – is when Apple first the MacMini. It just didnt sell, and now it’s getting the axe. According to many sources, the MacMini will be soon be discontinued – so sell your MacMini now, so you can get the best price before they begin to plummet. What Apple fans really want to see if the low-cost MacBook, commonly referred around the geek world as the NetBook, which is just a low cost laptop, that is basically used for one purpose – the connect to the internet. Steve Jobs is no idiot – after just beating RIM to become the #3 mobile phone company in the world (behind Samsung and Nokia), he is trying to capture the market is new ways. Perhaps the iTablet is the beginning? With all rumors about Apple – we need to take it with a grain of salt. The next big Apple event MacWorld is January of 2009. I swear Jobs just says this to get people excited about Apple. In a few weeks, he will leak to the press that he developing iEverything. It’s a gadget that will transform your life. What it does? Everything. Even though it sounds crazy – it would drive Macboys to their wallet, shelling out their credit cards for a chance to get iEverything. Apple products have been the next Beanie Babies.
MacBook crashing?! This isn't Windows..
So as we step back from Apple Mania for a second – I would like to report to all my readers (looks like i’ve got 4 people subscribed to my RSS feed, you all get a free cookie) that my MacBook, only 10 days old, has crashed for the first time. I was actually writing this blog – when the crashing began. I’m quite suprised, as everything froze up, including the internet. It almost seemed like someone was sending DOS attack toward my computer. The internet went first, then followed by Finder. I couldn’t force quit or anything, so I had to power it down normally. I’m quite surpirsed that it happened so quickly, I figure once I corrupted this thing with World of Warcraft, COD, and other stuff it would crazy – but it seemed all it takes is Wordpress.
In closing – living a hotel gives you a lot of time to thing about random shit (hence this blog). Basically, you have a lot of free time at night. When I was taking the elevator yesterday, I noticed that there was no 13th floor. I called my friend and we were talking about it, and it seems that there is never a 13th floor in a hotel. I can’t imagine a hotel being that supersitious to not put a 13th floor in their hotel. I’d love to meet someone who lived on the 13th floor and maybe they have met my good friend Casper the friendly ghost. As superstious as I am – I don’t believe in any of the Ghost crap. I was listening to the radio this morning, and some “Ghost Whisper” was on – telling people about their dead past relatives and what they are saying to them. It was HOAX to the Extreme power. This was like one of the conversation:
Ghost Whispers: I am sensing that you lost someone in your life
Lady on the Phone: Yeah…
Ghost Whispers: I am hearing the word – “Father, Father”, did your father pass away?
Lady on the Phone: No..
Ghost Whisper: It might be someone related to you that acted as a “Father figure”
Lady on the Phone: I’m not sure…
Ghost Whispers: I am sensing that they died in your lifetime.
Lady on the Phone: This is stupid. *click*
That was a legit transcript. I cannot make that up – well I could – but I didn’t this time. Do you believe in these Ghost Hunters? Have you even gone to a Fortune teller, and actually believed what they said? Punch your ticket in the poll below.
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