Just like the Atari and Amiga before it, Apple has its fanatics and an hour before the doors open on the event its interesting to see what hype is already springing up on the Internet.
Air
Lots of speculation and fake images of a super-thin laptop. Personally I think its going to be more about wireless everything as with the recent CES show which featured wireless TV’s and suchlike. so my guess is to expect wireless apple displays (except for the PSU)
People are also reporting that the apple store is down which does indicate either a significant technical problem or sizeable product update.
Both Engadget and Gizmodo are running dedicated post categories and have given us…. well nothing more than some images of people queuing, sleeping and ambling around an entrance hall with the obligatory apple "theres something in the air" poster.
Give it an hour or so and I’ll see if im right.
Go fanboys go!
Update
Heres a quick update on the first reactions of Macworld 2008.
Engadget show us just how thin the Macbook Air is compared to Apples previous incarnations. Link
Gizmodo’s hands on gallery and comentary of the MacBook Air. Link
Engadget point out that the MacBook Air doesnt have a replaceable battery and thus either an expensive service fee, or limited lifespan as already discovered with iPods and the iPhone (naughty apple!) Link
Gizmodo’s keynote gallery of the Macbook Air’s launch (anyone noticing wwhat product was Apple’s biggest anouncement yet? Link
Engadget show us something different with coverage of Apple TV 2 and what promises to be some sweet new features Link
Cnet – Crave talks about Apple TV 2’s new features Link
Gizmodo announce Apple Time Capsule Server for Backup Machine – this is something every self respecting Apple fanboy needs because despite what you say about PC’s you know the apple is just as unreliable! Link
Just tried a search, and verified that this is happening all over the place but when I perform a search on Google I now get the following message (403 Forbidden) “We’re sorry… for Anything I search for (originally trying to get to Digg.com by simply typing ‘digg’ into Firefox’s address bar) which is quite worrying and makes me thing “just how much money are Google loosing from this issue”… It might only be a short term problem and local to us but I thought it was worth documenting all the same.
Excuse the post but I really want to get my brothers new domain indexed as quickly as possible as he’s starting a new venture selling and installing solar water heaters. Under the name ‘Solar Agent’ so here goes.
Solar Agent specialising in reducing your heating bill by approximately 40% by installing a solar water heater. Available in three variations, with finance available, installation and servicing by Corgi registered, British Gas approved heating engineers, your solar water heaters works with other environmental appliances to help reduce your carbon emissions.
Ok to save the post call it an SEO tutorial in how to create an impacting and relevant link to your website.
Keyword research determined that although ’solar power’ and solar energy’ are more searched terms ’solar water heater’ is actually what my bro’s selling so to keep on focus this is the primary term we’re going for.
This was validated by going to google.co.uk and searching for “solar water heater” (uk results only) which showed me that A. the results were hit and miss for the UK with no major players… which is good and B. it should be an easy term to dominate.
Bought a domain (all the ideal ones had gone and my bro wanted something brandy so picked ’solar agent’… well it does at least have ’solar’ in the title.
On my blog created a topic titled ’solar water heater’ and wrote some introductory text about my intent making sure to use lots of ‘green’ terms like ’solar energy’ ‘carbom emissions’ and such like.
In the middle of the body text drop in a link to the target website using the target term of ‘solar water heaters‘
And finally… write a spammy SEO tutorial as an excuse to add in more solar power terms and repeat the target term a few times.
I love my O2 XDA II Mini S (wow what a mouth full) and have had it now for over 18 months. My only 3 quibbles are:
Battery Performance sucks – I average 2-3 days before needing to recharge
Camera sucks – 1.3 Mega pixel is blurry, out of focus and useless in low light
Windows Mobile 5 is Slooooow
Well point 3 looks like its going to be remedied pretty soon, and I dont mean Windows Mobile 7 (which probably will be too hungry for my little XDA Mini). What i am talking about is PointIU.
Most people are harping on about how PointUI is a potential iPhone killer and to be honest, I don’t think that’s too much of a challenge what with the XDA’s already having more features than the iPhone can shake a stick at. What is nice is the finger based UI (User Interface) with some nice touch ‘n’ slide menu systems to navigate around… I admit its not as clever as the iPhone (yet) but this is open source and seems to have the support of the community.
What I Like
Finger Friendly (I recently lost my stylus and have been using biros for around 6 months now – Donations anyone?)
Jumps in and out of WM5 quickly
Replaces WM5 task bar and looks much better
Nicer power meter
Nicer volume settings
Easy access to comon apps
What I Dont Like
Touch-slide works back to front (up is down, left is right?)
Cant customise the initial tool options (I dont want email or Media Player)
Some common tools are tucked away
Doesnt auto-start easily
Needs to integrate interface into phone, txt and other standard services (hey I know this is only an early beta but lets look to the future)
Overall PointUI is amazing and deffo a step in the right direction. I’d like to see a development roadmap on the company website to stop people bleeting on about the same old feature requests on the forum.
Heres a Youtube Video (more static images on Flickr).
Anyone remotely interested in social bookmarking, social news or networking will be interested in a new service called SocialPoster.com.
Available as an on-page submission form or as a bookmarklet the service creates links or windows to pre-completed submission forms for social sites including:
With the recent announcement of Google creating Knol, their own ‘open’ encyclopaedia to compete with Wikipedia who are currently dominating the search engine listings for most major terms, The creators of Wikipedia have now announced their intent to develop new search engine technologies and services to compete with Google.
I'm happy to answer any and all SEO, web design, development and Internet Marketing questions you may have (and give you some free exposure for your projects). Just email your questions to markrush@gmail.com and I'll take a look through your site and post the answers here.
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