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evil jimi - Jan 11, 2005 12:59:11 am PST #1050 of 10003
Lurching from one disaster to the next.

Foxit PDF Reader is a free reader for PDF (eBook) documents. You can view and print PDF documents with it.

Best of all, it's only an 870kb zip file and you just unzip to a directory and run it.


tommyrot - Jan 11, 2005 6:02:18 am PST #1051 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Coolest RAM evah! [link]

RAM that has an LED display for various messages....


Tom Scola - Jan 11, 2005 7:44:34 am PST #1052 of 10003
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500

It looks like Jobs isn't saying when Tiger will ship, except that it's due in the first half of the year.


tommyrot - Jan 11, 2005 7:59:45 am PST #1053 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Thanks, Tom.

Maybe I'll buy Panther (10.3) now for my iBook. I've just discovered (on my Cube) that The Gimp will run on a Mac with 10.3 (with Apple's X11 installed).


tommyrot - Jan 11, 2005 8:43:51 am PST #1054 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

What Steve Jobs is up to:

Apple introduces Mac mini. New member of Mac family Slot-load Combo optical drive. Play DVDs, burn CDs. Quiet. Tiny, FireWire, ethernet, USB 2.0, both DVI/VGA output. Very tine. Height is half the size of an iPod mini. BYODKM. Bring Your Own Display, Keyboard, Mouse. First one is $499: 1.25GHz 256MB/40GB More memory and larger hard drive for $599. Will ship on January 22. Ships in a box smaller than the regular iPod box.

eta:

A picture: [link]

Oh my god it is so fucking cute!

eta²: everything else (from Slashdot):

A number of announcements from the Mac World keynote this afternoon. The iPod Shuffle is pack-of-gum sized, no screen, weighs less than an ounce... and no screen. Ships today, $99 for the half gig, $149 for a gig. The Mac Mini is the headless iMac... 6x6x2.5 with all the expected plugs, starting at $499. Lot's of tiger bits, spotlight, virtual folders in Mail.app. iLife '05 will ship Jan 22. iPhoto gets folders and video support. iMovie supports HD. Garageband gets 8 channel recording. iWork includes Keynote 2, and 'Pages' the new word processor and ships the same day as iLife.


Jessica - Jan 11, 2005 9:02:37 am PST #1055 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

It's on the front page of apple.com, too. It's the most adorable computer I've ever seen!


§ ita § - Jan 11, 2005 9:06:50 am PST #1056 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Oh, god, that shuffle is ... something I don't need, but want quite a bit.


Tom Scola - Jan 11, 2005 9:07:19 am PST #1057 of 10003
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500

It's cheap, but they're selling it without a monitor, keyboard and mouse. Buyers are going to feel like they're being nickeled and dimed, which is something I often feel when I'm dealing with Apple.


amych - Jan 11, 2005 9:07:36 am PST #1058 of 10003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

So cute!


tommyrot - Jan 11, 2005 9:09:21 am PST #1059 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

I totally want one... except I just bought my Cube for about the same $. The Cube, while not as cute, looks cooler IMHO. Mine has far more RAM and HD space, but a much slower G4 processor (450 Mhz as opposed to 1.42GHz).