Articles by Foo Fighter
Leopard sales are off to a honking strart. According to Apple the company sold a prodigious 2 million copies of the new OS in the first weekend since its official launch at 6:00pm on Friday. Several thousand Mac fanboys (and girls) stood in long lines, similar to those witnessed during iPhone’s launch, eagerly waiting to grope Apple’s new kitty-clad OS. How many copies were sold to Microsoft’s Research lab? Oh, we’ll have to wait for the next version of Windows to see what features Microsoft’s bovine borrows from Apple’s feline.
Astonishingly l was not among the rabble. I’m saving my spare change for the purchase of a MacBook Pro, which will come with Leopard pre-installed. As General Patton once said… “I never pay for the same real estate twice.”
Read the press release after the break.
iNdependence 1.2.5 (Mac only, sorry Winlosers) is out and ready to liberate iPhones running firmware 1.1.1. This release comes complete with full SSH support, as well as anySIM 1.1 pre-installed… for those of you crazy brave enough to brick unlock your iPhone.
Now before you go trotting off to download this app on your Mac, like the slutty iCrack whore that you are, a word of warning: Unlocking, be it through anySIM or other hackery, can be a risky endeavor that may result in damaging your iPhone. The process used by such apps involves monkeying with iPhone’s baseband settings, the all important and tightly guarded driver software that controls phone connectivity, or lack thereof. If something should go wrong during the unlock execution, your iPhone becomes an expensive paperweight. At least until such time as the hacking community can create a fix to reverse the damage. So I do advise caution, and common sense… two qualities that are sorely lacking in me.
Trick or Treat, smell my feet, give me some wallpaper for my iPhone or I’ll Toilet Paper your house.
As a peace offering for being absent for nearly a week due to illness, I’m giving you boys and girls a truckload of Halloween themed wallpaper. Tripling the usual dose of eight. It’s my way of saying I’m sorry, and deterring any of you from leaving burning bags of doo doo on my virtual doorstep. So here you go. Enjoy them, but do be sure to wash your sticky candy-stained fingers before touching my wallpapers. I won’t have it.
Download them after the break.
You wouldn’t think of Paul Otellini as someone who uses “hip” consumer products, given his stodgy corporate background and boardroom persona. But beneath his mild professional demeanor lies a Mac fanboy and iPhone lover. Yes, his secret is out: Intel’s number one man uses a MacBook Pro, and both he and his spouse carry iPhones.
In a recent interview with BusinessWeek, Otellini admits to using Apple products for personal use, though he does preface his confession by saying that he still carries a ThinkPad for work, in the event Steve Ballmer should happen to stop by and catch him with a MacBook sitting in his lap.
By the way, am I the only one who is utterly dumbfounded by the continued success of the antiquated ThinkPad series? The damn things still look the same after nearly a decade… and they were ugly to begin with. If forced to carry a corporate portable (mind you, you’d have to hold a gun to my head) Dell’s Latitude line would be my first choice. Not that I’m enamored with Dell products, but their business portables are well designed, highly configurable, and decently priced.
By now you’re all wondering why I haven’t been posting this week. Well I can dispel the myth of my tragic death in a storm of Judgment day proportions. No, much to my misfortune I was incapacitated by the smallest of all things… a virus. Since Sunday evening I have suffered one of the worst bouts with flu in my young life. This virus comes equipped with all the latest features and options. When not doubled over with excruciating abdominal pains, I’m sitting on a porcelain throne experiencing all the joys of uncontrollable diarrhea. In the few brief moments respite from pain and purging, I suffer delirium as a result of high fever and insatiable fatigue. Needless to say, the past three days have not been fun for this lad.
But the show, or blog as it were, must go on. And on it goes. It is the Captain’s duty to go down with his ship, but the ship should not go down with it’s Captain. I will resume normal posting starting today, which won’t be easy for me since I have a backlog of “my real job” work piled high on my desk. But enough of my whining.
A major storm system is blowing through my area right now, complete with damaging winds, lightening, hail, tornadoes, brimstone… all the splendor and pageantry that accompany the wrath of God. So, in the event of my untimely demise, or a house landing upon me, I present you with this week’s installment of Free Wallpaper Friday.
Don’t ask me why but a friend asked me to create a Star Trek background that emulated the look and feel of ship computer consoles, which I did. He needs to get a life. I’ll share it with you guys since you’re always complaining that my wallpapers are too gay. The black cat image is a teaser of things to come for next week’s All Hallows’ Eve edition. Can you taste it?
We are one step closer to editing word documents on our iPhones today. Google is now offering a mobile format of Google docs, viewable on mobile devices. The bad news - it’s Read-only mode, so no editing capabilities are available… yet. But at least you can access important docs while on the go, right from your iPhone, and that’s something to cheer about. Right?
What do an Airline pilot, Ballet dancer, and Broadway Theater producer all have in common? They all use iPhones and appear in Apple latest iPhone whoring ad campaign. But the tables are turned as the subjects plug their own ventures rather than focus soley on iPhone and how it impacst their lives. A commercial within a commercial?
Kristin Sloan, the sole female user in this trio, is the editor and founder of TheWinger.com - a site devoted to ballet dancing. Several seconds into the commercial she drops off the subject of iPhone and immediately draws attention to her site. Nice touch, very subtle. I thought this was a commercial promoting iPhone, not ballet dancing?
The third spot features Broadway producer Ken Davenport, who pimps his new play “My First Time”, and mentions a fansite which we’re obviously meant to visit. Out of the three the Airline pilot came off most convincing, with his casual flair and real-world usage scenario.
See the ads and judge for yourself.
Ambrosia Software has released an update to its popular custom ringtone software, iToner, now supporing iPhone firmware 1.1.1. If you’re already a user, download the update now. If you’re not, well… download it anyway.
Oh Greenpeace, can’t you idiots just stick to rescuing dolphins or saving single-cell organisms? Today the colorful activist organization made good on its promise to sue Apple over toxic materials found in iPhone, and further seeks an injunction blocking the arrival of iPhone in Europe. If Greenpeace is successful, you boys and girls in Europe won’t be getting an iPhone come November 9. One more at a time.
