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WWDC: San Francisco was a success
Jacuqi and I just got back from a whirlwind trip to San Francisco to cover Apple's WWDC (World Wide Developers Conference) for Ars Technica! We spent most of our time talking to iPhone and Mac programmers, covering Steve Jobs' keynote address to the attendees and press, and going to the cool parties that are thrown. Just like we did in January at MacWorld, we threw a party at Harlot on 54 Minna. We had an open bar and teamed up with Gizmodo again to throw a really awesome party. In my opinion, it was one of the best of all ...
Posted on: 2008 June 12
Filed under: Ars Technica, Partying
Wired magazine covers, then and now
So I've had a mint copy of one of my favorite Wired magazine issues (5.06 from June 1997) laying around forever. Just recently, Wired released an updated version (16.04 from April 2008) which I thought was super clever:
Posted on: 2008 May 17
Brightkite, easy to use, location based "Twitter" and photos
Long title, huh? I was going to write out a thoughtful post about Brightkite and why I'm kind of warming up to it, but Herschell's vertigo-addled brain did all the work for me: My first text to the brightkite servers was relatively painless and took the same amount of time as it would to tweet it (on Twitter). All I did was send “? LOCATION” to BrightKite’s SMS # and in seconds, BKite (see what I did there? heheh) asked me to verify WHICH LOCATION, in which I replied “1? and PRESTO CHANGE-O! Internets! YAY. Bonus points for the seamless ...
Posted on: 2008 April 20
Filed under: Internet, Life, Social Networking, Technology
apple, brightkite, champagne, chicago, fireeagle, geospatial, iphone, locationservices, sdk, sms
Bought another Macbook Air today
Too bad I had to promptly overnight it to Boston :)
Posted on: 2008 March 03
Filed under: Apple, Ars Technica
Incompatible
I really, really like this photo I took this afternoon of that MacBook's 60W adapter plugged into the MacBook Air. I was attempting to show why it wouldn't work too well. This picture doesn't illustrate that very well, but the photo is really nice!
Revolutionary iPhone ideas: Apple take note
Let me stream internet radio to my iPhone over WiFi. I can't tell you how awesome this would be. I don't want to have to capture Groove Salad over night to a big ol' MP3 and listen to it throughout the day. I want live radio! NPR, cool college stations, it would be extremely cool. When my iPhone is attached to my computer, I should be able to send and receive text messages (SMS) via some method. Address book used to do this (I think) with phones connected via Bluetooth. Why not build this functionality into iChat? Or expose it ...
Posted on: 2008 January 29
Filed under: Apple, Technology
Ditched T-Mobile, got an iPhone
As you may have already heard, Jacqui lost her phone during perhaps the most important week of her professional career. As a journalist covering Apple stuff, you need to be in nearly constant communication during the Macworld Expo! After asking all over Moscone in various lost and found stations, we gave up and used this as a catalyst to finally dump T-Mobile and make the jump to AT&T. And of course we couldn't go to AT&T without buying some iPhones, right? With the updates made during the conference itself, multiple SMS' for one, many of the barriers that had been ...
Macworld 2008 Predictions, how did I do?
You might remember that a few weeks ago, I made some predictions about the Macworld 2008 conference & expo we covered last week, here are the results: Movie Rentals: +1, this was the most likely to happen, everyone got this one right New Macbook: +1, also very likely, but the specific details were not pinned down until a day or two immediately prior to the keynote. Of course, we got the MacBook Air. More information about the iPhone SDK: +0, technically, this came true. Steve mentioned it on stage, confirmed the February ship date, but didn't really give us and ...
Posted on: 2008 January 20
Filed under: Apple, Ars Technica
Goodbye San Francisco!
It was a great, if not busy & tiring, week in my second favorite city in the world. Here's the week by the numbers: Parties thrown: 1 Number of minutes it took to suck down $1300 worth of booze: 30 Number of people who attended: 500+ Number of times someone made a joke about being a PC in reference to my wearing a tie: 10+ Number of parties attended: 2 or 3, depending on what you consider a party Number of announcements from Steve: There were 4 things, not 5 Dollars it costs to buy two people lunch at Moscone: ...
Posted on: 2008 January 20
Filed under: Apple, Ars Technica, Life, Partying
apple, ars, arstechnica, bythenumbers, eff, eyefi, iphone, macworld, macworld2008
Day three of Macworld, whole week, almost done
At this point, I would like nothing more than to go home! This full week conference stuff really drags on a person. Here's a link to the roundup of our second day's coverage, if you're interested. I also donated some buckage to the EFF and got this cool shirt and hat. Looking forward to chilling with the cats by Saturday!
by Clint Ecker
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