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Apple featured in a Jeopardy! category
I’ll take “Apple of my Eye” for $200, Alex.
In a sign of Apple’s growing place in pop culture, Apple was featured on the US game show Jeopardy. An entire Jeopardy! category named “Apple of my Eye” was dedicated to the company in the episode aired on December 13. The items featured were the following (paraphrased):
-An Asian feline that shares a name with the latest Mac OS X version: What is Tiger?
-The type of computers the iBook and PowerBook are: What are laptops?
-This man has a salary of $1: Who is Steve Jobs?
-This product shares its name with a place where aircraft take flight: What is Airport?
-A “speedy” product that works on the Mac or PC: What is QuickTime?
It’s interesting to note that the iPod is nowhere to be found. I guess given all the press coverage about the iPod it would be too obvious?
Did anyone else see it?
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The Press Pass Predicament [UPDATED]
What counts as "media" anymore?
I’m sure by now you’ve heard the chorus of voices commenting on IDG’s policies regarding press access to Macworld Expo next month. There have been a number of theories as to why IDG is limiting press access this year. The official IDG stance is that demand for press passes is high this year, so stronger limitations have been put in place. Others theorize that Apple’s culture is changing and that they are less community-oriented than they have been. Some see it as Apple and IDG getting back at the Mac Web for live text feeds of previous events. Still others see it as a way to keep your average Joe from starting a blog, posting about Apple, and getting press passes (i.e. to restrict it to professional journalists). However, this does seem to be the latest episode in a series of issues that have brought up the question, what counts as “media” anymore?
Before I get started here, I want to make a couple of notes. First of all, I am not bitter about Deep Thought not getting press access to MWSF, mainly because, well, I never fully expected to get press access anyway! We do not meet all of…
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Quick update…
wild
The last week has been wild. Try being sick, working on final papers, finishing up reading, and trying to do a little work on DT sound to you?
The next few days is going to be more fun. I have one more paper to churn out and two exams later this week, so don’t expect too much from me this week.
It should be fun--yeah, right. 
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An Apology to Apple
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
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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more stuff
- Apple featured in a Jeopardy! category
- The Press Pass Predicament [UPDATED]
- Quick update…
- An Apology to Apple
- Google Earth for Mac leaked
- I hate power outages
- Wikipedia gets slightly more stringent
- Apple adds more shows to the Music Store
- News of the Weird: Steve wants to keep his cube
- Rhapsody is Mac-accessable, kinda
- OmniOutliner 3.5
- Rockingwith a Community HotSpot, Airport Express, AirTunes and browserTunes
- RIP Macromedia
- A quick guide to cleaning out a Windows install
- LyX RoX
- Now available: Comments on features
- Rumor Mill: Mac mini to Morph into Mega Media Machine?
- DT community update: 28 November 2005
- What’s Wrong With View Options, and How To Fix It
- My Windows User Experience
- The Front Row Set Top Box
- Updates!
- The Top Eight Products of the Past Year
- Deep Thought: A year inside the minds of geeks
- Xbox 360 to be released at 12:01 AM
- 10.4.3 Makes its Way Into Retail Boxes
- The realism continues…
- Toys
- SonyBMG apologizes for DRM brouhaha
- A way out of the music mess
- SGS International releases DeskBrowse beta
- The Search For The Long Lost Software
- Sony pulls DRM technology [UPDATED]
- Featured Discussions for November 9
- News of the Weird: SunnComm releases press release to counter satire
- Mac mini+Front Row+Ford F150=Awesome
- iOnMac holding logo contest, giving away iPod nano
- Intel Macs coming early?
- A quick three-question survey
- It will take more than just whining to FTFF
- The Clone Wars (with apologies to George Lucas)
- Apple asked to pull iPod ad
- Masses laud release of WeatherBug Lite for Mac
- Make it Great
- Forum Features: Some of the top discussions for Nov 3, 2005
- iList Studio 3.0 Released
- Apple Releases Mac OS 10.4.3 Update
- HIV Resistance May Be Caused by Ancient Plague
- Blocked Emails and Messed Up Computers
- New iPod ad draws fire from Lugz
- Ubuntu 5.10: The Breezy Badger
- The Mobile King of Cool
- New Apple Hardware
- Apple US Market Share Sees Impressive Annual Gains
- Yet Another Apple Media Event; New Pro Macs?
- Why I don’t like the iPod
- Is Apple Killing Off eMac?
- New Stuff, But I’m Still Unimpressed…Why?
- Is Apple Killing Off Firewire?
- New iPods, New apps, New iMacs
- What we can piece together…
- Unsanity Celebrates Fifth Birthday, Has 50% off Sale
- Media Event: Where to find news [UPDATED]
- Apple Conference Call Highlights
- Why Computers Are Good For Schools
- $.99 Movie Scenes
- What’s wrong with the Mac part 1
- “I was writing paper…”
- Back on Track With Mac
- Apple Holding London Event October 12?
- The Lumberjacks of Design
- NewsGator Acquires NetNewsWire
- Apple to Announce “One More Thing” at Media Event [UPDATED x2]
- Apple Responds Part 1
- Do the Customer Service Limbo
- Wow, that was easy!
- Rumor Roundup: iTunes for Windows Mobile; New Mac minis?
- First on DT: iBook G4 Logic Board Petition Started
- Ten Suggestions for Leopard
- Three days later, I’m underwhelmed by Tiger.
- iPod Nano design flaw
- Why does Apple force you to register your operating system?
- The 80/20 Rule and Apple
- Trolls: Friend or Foe
- Pudding
- Is Apple Prepared for Vista?
- Apple Expo: .mac gets additional storage, groups, new Backup
- Microsoft Codename Max
- When Zealots Attack
- ^H^H^H^H?
- Nintendo reveals Revolution controller
- Addendum. . .
- First on DT: Apple quietly kills single-button mouse
- Geek Of All Trades
- Oh what a Tangled Web they Weave
- Next eBay Purchase: Skype
- Dazed, Confused, and Quite GUI
- The Good, the Bad and the Not So Ugly Interface
- iTunes 5.0: First Impressions
- Lakewood Studios Releases iList Data 3.0
