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An Apology to Apple

By moreApple, December 10, 2005

Dear Apple Co., Patrick Ekstrand and Steve Jobs,

Thank you for addressing my concerns about my broken PowerBook with personal attention and speedy AppleCare service.  I have concluded, after a lot of reflection, that it was my responsibility the fan has gone haywire and will therefore no longer pursue any more service requests. 

Apple attempted to repair the computer which I most likely harmed in an accident.  Your best was what any company could do.  I’m especially regretful of lashing out verbally against Corporate Relations and Mr. Patrick Ekstrand who was patient and followed the right protocols, albeit strictly. 

I only wish I had owned up to my part in this sooner.  I have purchased an amazingly quiet Cube, donated my PowerBook 12” to a younger brother who can respect it, and am curious Apple mobile computers once again.  I want to be a part of everything you create as you revolutionize how digital media is accessed, created, and shared along with much more. 

Thank you for your time.
Bryan Bernstein
Switcher since 2003


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Google Earth for Mac leaked

By Nick, December 9, 2005

Google Earth for Mac isn’t vaporware after all, apparently. The blog UNEASYsilence had posted a download link to a leaked copy of Google Earth--Google’s wickedly cool time-waster-- for Mac OS X. Yup, that’s right; Google wasn’t lying when they said that they’ve been working on the Mac version of Google Earth.

AppleInsider reported yesterday that a Mac version was indeed coming soon.


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I hate power outages

By Arden, December 8, 2005

Give me the lights, precious lights, give me light

Just a brief rant on how much I hate power outages.  They completely destroy your productivity and interrupt your workflow, and there’s nothing you can do to prevent them.  The only measure of prevention against them is a UPS (which honestly, I can’t really justify buying right now).

It’s especially insulting when the power’s only off for a few seconds or a couple minutes.  That way, everything I’m doing is interrupted, but there’s not a big wander-around-in-the-dark-for-4-hours situation.  Gyaaaahhh.


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Wikipedia gets slightly more stringent

By Arden, December 7, 2005

After controversy surrounding the online biography of John Seigenthaler Sr., Wikipedia has altered its rules for creating new articles.

Seigenthaler discovered, while reading his own biography on Wikipedia, that it contained several factual errors about him, including an implication in both of the Kennedy assassinations.  Naturally he did what anyone would do and complained:

Upon discovery of the falsehoods, Mr. Seigenthaler contacted Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales in October 2005, who undertook the unusual step of requesting that the false information be deleted from the article’s version logs—as a result, the unredacted versions of the article can only be viewed by Wikipedia administrators. The false statements had been present in Wikipedia since May 2005—a period of over 4 months. Several Wikipedia “mirror” sites (which are outside the editorial control of Wikipedia itself) continued to reflect the incorrect versions of the article in question for several weeks after. —Wk

Jimmy Wales, the site’s founder, enacted a publishing permissions change whereby users must register and login to create new articles.  However, users may still edit existing articles anonymously, including any acts of vandalism from inserting inane gibberish to blanking entire articles.  The hope is to cut down on the number of new articles so the volunteer editing staff has less to sift through:

While it would not prevent people from posting false information, the new process will make it easier, said Wales, for the site’s 600 active volunteers to review and remove factual errors, defaming statements and other material that runs afoul of Wikipedia…
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Apple adds more shows to the Music Store

By Arden, December 6, 2005

Just in time for New Music Tuesday, Apple has added several new NBC shows to the iTunes Music Store.  They are now offering the “best” of primetime and late night TV, as well as vintage shows from the 50’s through the 80’s.  The new lineup includes Law & Order, The Office, The Tonight Show, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Dragnet and Knight Rider.

Before long, they’re going to have to call it the iTunes Media Store, since it now offers music, podcasts and TV shows.  If they don’t change it by the time they add cinematic movies, I’m bouncin’.


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