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Apple Store launched 3 exciting new products today. For more details and creative, please see below.
Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac.
New Mac Pro featuring 8-core processing power in the standard configuration.
New Xserve with 8-core processing. Important: Next week is Macworld! Historically, this has been a very exciting time for Apple – the iPhone was announced last year. The keynote given by Steve Jobs will be Tuesday, January 15th, so stay tuned for possible exciting announcements.
Critics Wallop Wikia – these are the headlines we are reading….
I have been to Wikia and tried it out. It appears to need some work, but it does look promising.
I will hold out judgment on the search engine, as I know the team behind the project is more than capable of pulling off an putting together a great product. Specialized niche search results are a thing more and more people are going to be looking for.
Have you tried to print a document and not been able to? Perhaps there is a job in the print que holding things up.
Try this…
Turn off the Print Spooler in Services under Administrative Tools.
Use Windows Explorer to go to System32SpoolPrinters to delete the offending jobs. Stopping the Print Spooler service Turn on the Fax Service, so turn it back on after Starting the Print Spooler again.
If this fails remove and reinstall the printer driver.
Watch the live video for Faith Hill’s new single “Red Umbrella [Live]” here: https://streamos.wbr.com/qtime/wbr/nashville/faithhill/redumbrella/v_fl_faith_hill_red_umbrella_live_video_700.mov
While CES is going on in Las Vegas, Apple is having their conference in San Francisco.
At Moscone center you will find the latest gadgets and announcements from Apple.
New Mac Pro – A new Mac Pro. I’m going to buy one of these (assuming they contain 45nm CPUs), so they damn well better be introduced.
New displays – New Apple external displays. I have grave doubts about this one (see later square), but the existing line desperately needs updating.
HD video somewhere – High-definition video appears on some piece of Apple hardware or software. It must be explicitly described as “HD” or “high-definition.” HD video for sale in the iTunes store counts.
MacBook Thin – A new subnotebook from Apple, regardless of its actual branding or product name. What’s a subnotebook? Use your own judgement. The only restriction I’ll add is that it must have a hardware keyboard.
New MacBook Pro – Any revision to the MacBook Pro product line.
Multi-touch Mac – Any Mac that includes a feature described as “multi-touch” or even just “touch.” It can be a screen, trackpad, whatever.
“Wouldn’t it be great…?” – Steve Jobs begins his favorite rhetorical question.
MacBook Thin has flash – The subnotebook (described in the “MacBook Thin” square above) contains some nontrivial amount of flash RAM.
“One more thing…” – Steve Jobs says there’s “one more thing.” A slide containing the phrase is also acceptable, even if Jobs does not actually say it.
New Apple TV – The moribund Apple TV is revised or replaced with a new product that does the same sort of things.
Movie Rentals – Apple rents downloadable movies from the iTunes store.
“Boom” – Steve Jobs says the word “boom” while demonstrating something.
Existence of Xserve acknowledged – The Xserve or Xserve RAID is mentioned by a presenter, listed on a slide, or even just appears in a photo, illustration, or screenshot.
Blu-ray – Sony’s Blu-ray disc format is mentioned by a presenter. (Text or a logo on a slide does not count.)
iPhone SDK details – Significant new information about the iPhone SDK.
New displays have cameras – New Apple displays with built-in or otherwise attached cameras.
New iPhone – New iPhone hardware. Even minor revisions count.
Mac market share touted – Good news about the market share of Macintosh computers is presented.
Optical drive sold separately – An Apple-branded external optical drive is introduced and is available for individual sale.
Schiller – Phil Schiller appears on stage or in live video. (Pre-recorded segments do not count.)
Leopard vs. Vista – Mac OS X 10.5 is compared to Vista in some way. Showing one of the Mac/PC TV ads does not count. The comparison must be part of the live presentation.
Dockable Mac – Some hardware product that runs Mac OS X docks to some other piece of hardware.
Native third-party iPhone app demo – A demonstration of an OS X application written by a third-party, or written by Apple as an example of what could be written using the new iPhone SDK.
No new displays – No new Apple external display products are introduced. (Rioting optional.)
Starting today, any publisher can make “widgets” that plug into Yahoo! Go! Showing some icons on screen of eBay (EBAY), News Corp.’s (NWS) MySpace, and Viacoms (VIA.B) MTV. Been working in partnership with eBay, Viacom and News for past few months, have some widgets developed with them.
A “widget” is a fully fledged mobile app, Boris is insisting — “Everything I do on my PC I can now do on my mobile phone.” Showing off MySpace, friend requests. Yang: “We have the potential for many, many developers to join this.”
Yahoo! Go! available on over 300 devices. Yahoo! Go 3.0 will be offered on over 30 devices when it goes live. As part of the developer strategy, also manage to runs the widgets on any phone with a Web browser, which means a phone doesn’t have to have the Yahoo! Go! code on it. Able to call up one’s personalized list of widgets from any phone.
Working with LG Electronics and other phone vendors to make widgets run natively on phones.
Yang points adds are running on the user interface of the phone, segueing into mobile advertising. Taking technology for widget developers and giving it to advertisers to make “rich ads.” In the demo, clicking on the “stores” link for an advertisor leads to a scrollable map of store locations.
You’ll be able to check out a beta version of 3.0 later today by directing your phone’s browser to https://beta.m.yahoo.com
CES is off! Lots of new stuff coming out of Vegas.
I’ll try to bring you some of the interesting announcements.
A rep from S&W called me this morning. Very concerned about the condition of the cans of diced tomatoes. She offered to refund the purchase price.
Kudos to S&W for they way they handled themselves.
I will continue to purchase their products.
Thanks to Steve Bass for this:
I’m at the Consumer Electronics Show, finding the products that you
(and I) can use. I spent three hours at CES Unveiled last night —
along with 40, 000 other journalists crammed a too-small banquet room.
(Oh, what I do for you…)
I spotted the Invisible Shield, a super thin transparent film that
protects electronic devices — the ubiquitous iPod, iPhone, cell
phones, digital cameras… you get the idea.
It has a lifetime warranty and purported to be scratch-proof. I
watched as a company rep used a ballpoint pen and tried scratching
the Invisible Shield. From the short demo, it worked.
The invisible shield is cheap — anywhere between $10 and $25,
depending on the device. You can buy one on their site and get a
50-percent discount one week after the CES show closes.