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MacWorld 2008 – Day Three

Posted by Don Kruse on Jan 17, 2008 in Apple, Commentary | 0 comments

Some time ago I decided the best thing for the firm I support and its Knowledge Management would be to kill it’s legacy network share. The way we they use their network share is like a free for all library. Imagine if your local library changed the way it organized the books – everyday! Or the librarian du jour moved everything based on what he/she felt like at that moment. That is what they have now. Imagine instead if they had a system that was easy to use, completely searchable, and organized like a proper library (think Dewey Decimal System). I hope that sounds as good to you as it does to me. So your challenge for this week is to learn what a Wiki is because that is what I am going to use to correct these issues. All the tools to create a wiki that is integrated with the Directory in Mac OS X Server is included in the latest version so this is a very cost effective implementation for any business that is less than Enterprise or Fortune 500 size.

And now more pictures:

Very cool skins for your MacBook, iPod, iPhone, iTouch and whatever else you have that is Mac or i something.

The show is in two separate buildings at the SF Moscone Center so you have to walk between the two frequently. All the people on the sidewalks in the photo are making that walk. Sometimes it is so thick with people you can’t see the sidewalk or the crosswalks.

This is the Apple Store in SF. It is about five blocks from the MacWorld show. It was mobbed on Tuesday as nearby financial district workers flocked to the store to see the new MacBook Air.

Speaking of the new Macbook Air it is about as thick as my iPhone, it weighs seemingly nothing, and the screen is seriously bright due to the LED backlighting. Also the Apple ads are telling the truth when they say the screen comes to life immediately when the lid is flipped open. It really does and that is seriously cool to a geek like me.

A reporter from Peru interviews a spanish speaking MacBook Air expert.

MacWorld 2008 – Day Two

Posted by Don Kruse on Jan 16, 2008 in Apple, Commentary | 0 comments

My favorite quote heard from the show floor:

I think being Steve Jobs is just like a license to print money

So if you’re wondering why I didn’t post more stuff from the show yesterday or why there aren’t more photos here’s my quote:

Think of a seething mass of frenzied zombies all moving without any idea of where they are going but when they see the next shiny box they’ll all lung for it at the same time

It’s like Times Square on New Year’s Eve. I have no idea how many people attending the show yesterday but there was no elbow room at all. My left elbow in fact has a bruise from all the people who kept bumping into me.

The new MacBook Air laptops are cool, and I mean that in the sense of they are as cool as cool can get. There are many other products I will spend time looking at as some of them could save us money in the future or they are just really cool.

And last but not least the two trailers that held all of the stuff used for Steve Job’s keynote. That’s all the stuff one man needs to make a speech. Nuts.