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Today is a very important birthday: the Apple Macintosh is 25. 24 January 2009, is the 25th anniversary of the Macintosh. On that fateful day in 1984 Apple released a little toaster of a personal computer that went on to become the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a graphical user interface. The embedded video above (YouTube) is Apple’s famous “1984? television commercial directed by film maker Ridley Scott.
So lets look back on the 5 best and worst Apple products. Over the short history of personal computing, no machine has inspired so much love and so much loathing, so many fanatical fans and so many frothing detractors. And so many opinions. So very many opinions. No doubt, you have your own. And I have mine. Here, I give you the five best and the five worst Macs of all time.
Vista SP2 has been delayed. It looks like Microsoft has delayed the release of their release candidate and RTM builds by a month. Replacing the original release candidate build is something they call a "release candidate escrow build". An escrow build means that "code development has ceased as developers and beta testers hunt for recall-class bugs. The escrow code is considered the release-to-manufacturing code".
Britannica is copying Wikipedia. The Encyclopaedia Britannica has unveiled a plan to let readers help keep the reference work up to date. Under the plan, readers and contributing experts will help expand and maintain entries online. Experts will also be enrolled in a reward scheme and given help to promote their command of a subject.
Apple could sue iPhone mimics. Mr. Cook responds with a veiled threat, stating, "We don't want to refer to any specific companies, so that was a general statement. We like competition because it makes us better, but we will not stand for companies infringing on our IP." If it weren't for the issues surrounding Palm's new phone, perhaps the comments could be considered ambiguous. However, Palm's new phone features a multi-touch interface eerily similar to the iPhone's, the first smart phone outside the iPhone to implement this.
Why not hold a low-tech LAN party? What do nerds do for fun? A few weeks back, I wrote some tips on how to throw a successful LAN party, a favorite activity for my friends and me. However, in recent months, my get-togethers have taken on a decidedly more old-school focus, and in the process reignited a childhood passion of mine: board gaming.
Today's timewaster is Grill A Bastard. It seems no matter who's in power, they think they can get away with saying one thing then doing another. At Bastardwatch, we're fired up to expose their every backflip. Now you can give the bastards a grilling too.
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