Category Archives: Reality Distortion Field

Apple and Mac related stuff.

Marcos 3G

iPhone vs iPhone 3G: See the difference? See it? It’s huge!
The day after I was finally liberated from the shackles of a 2-year contract with one cell phone operator, I signed my cellular freedom away for another two years of shackles, this time under a different cell phone operator… which is ok with me because [...]

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Psychedelic iPhone

The photo below was taken with my iPhone:

Photo Booth for iPhone? Marcos as seen through Steve Jobs’ famous RDF?
No.
Sometime during my recent trip, my iPhone decided to play some games on me. First, it decided that a stripe near the top of the screen will not be sensitive to touch anymore. While this didn’t make [...]

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T-2

The Apple Store is down… Steve Job’s keynote at WWDC starts in two hours… Look like someone’s getting a new iPhone soon.
Update 10:26 PM: Yep, I’m getting a new iPhone. How much would you pay for a used, 8 GB iPhone?

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WebKit passes Acid 3, world rejoices

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As of tonight’s nightly build, WebKit (Safari’s Open Source rendering engine) gets a perfect score on the Acid 3 web standards test, making it the first publicly available web browser to achieve 100/100. This means it’s fully standards compliant, or at least as far as the Acid 1, Acid 2 and Acid 3 [...]

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From my iPhone

First post ever in this blog from an iPhone.
Total pain in the butt, but cool nonetheless.

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To Air or not to Air?

I had it all planned.
Then, George walks over to my desk. George and I have this interesting thing going on: I talk him into buying Apple stuff (rather successfully) and he talks me out of buying Apple stuff.
He explained to me why I shouldn’t get a MacBook Air. Unfortunately, he’s right in all accounts.
After a [...]

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Thinnovation

There’s a small chance that the effects of the Reality Distortion Field will subside just enough to steer me towards the cheaper, more featured and yet comparativey huge MacBook between now and the time when I can order it through Amazon… but it’s a safe assumption that the wait was worth it. Meet my new [...]

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Computer Detox

 

It’s been almost three years since I bought my trusty 12″ Powerbook G4. It still is the best Mac laptop ever released in such a small form factor. That’s why they are still selling for decent prices on eBay.
With both Macworld and the end of my AppleCare extended warranty fast approaching, I decided to [...]

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Leopard launch

Today at 6:00 P.M. Leopard went for sale. Luckily, there is an Apple Store right accross from work, and they were giving away t-shirts. Here are a few photos.

Apple Store line for Leopard

 

Leopard t-shirt front

 

Leopard t-shirt closeup

 

Leopard t-shirt back

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Skitch beta

A while ago I signed up to beta test this new little application being developed by the folks at plasq called Skitch.
They are the same guys that make Comic Life, and like Comic Life, Skitch has a really nice, really innovative user interface. It’s hard to describe, so you should watch their short intro video.
In [...]

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