Apple looks towards flash-enabled notebooks

"People familiar with the Mac maker say it has been working closely with Intel engineers to implement NAND flash into a future-generation of its MacBook notebook lines. Apple is amongst the best positioned in the PC industry to adopt the technology broadly due, in part, to itssupplier arrangements with the world's five-largest NAND suppliers"

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TechCrunch: Why the new .Mac webmail is important

"I agree that .mac is Apple's most difficult to use product and needs a lot of work. However, I think that the changes are important for one reason: There are very few Ajax webmail services today that allow users to access multiple email accounts. .Mac will be one of them."

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Sony Macbook? Shame on you, Sony!

Sony rips off MacBook design by ZDNet's Jason D. O'Grady -- Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but Sony may have taken this one a little too far. The consumer electronic giant's latest notebook looks like a blatant ripoff of Apple's wildly popular MacBook.

Microsofts redesign of the ipod (well its packaging atleast)

Fun-neeee!

Apple + Google = .Mac^2

The Tao of Mac apparently explored further the possibility of a new .Mac services in this post (http://the.taoofmac.com/space/blog/2006-08-30). Funny enough that the title of the post is similar with my previous post with added twist of "^2". I think the post has comprehensive analysis - much better than speculative approach I had.
Anyway, I am glad that this idea still floating around and followed up.

Cool things you can do on a Mac

I am posting this as my own reference on shortcuts and tricks that I think allow me to be more productive/effective using my Macs.

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China - World's Largest Internet Market By '07

The number of broadband subscribers in China is growing at a staggering 79 per cent annually, and will reach 79 million in 2007, consulting firm Ovum predicted in research released today. Recent estimates from Leichtman Research suggest that the number of broadband connections in the US, currently the world's largest market, is around 51 million."

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Why Did Apple Introduce New Products Before September 12th?

This morning, Apple unveiled its most powerful iMac and Mac mini lineup ever, without an announcement. In previous post, it was said 23" iMac but they came out with 1" larger.
With a keynote planned next week, the obvious question is this: why did these new computers drop onto the radar screen before the event? Will there be something exciting in the keynote next week?

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Why Did Apple Introduce New Products Before September 12th?

This morning, Apple unveiled its most powerful iMac and Mac mini lineup ever, without an announcement. In previous post, it was said 23" iMac but they came out with 1" larger.
With a keynote planned next week, the obvious question is this: why did these new computers drop onto the radar screen before the event? Will there be something exciting in the keynote next week?

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PS3 delay in OZ - March 2007?

That is ridiculous. I am not planning of getting one as I already hooked with Wii. I hope Nintendo is not planning to delay Wii just for kicking PS3 in OZ.

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Letterman - I Don't Want a Computer

David Letterman explains why he doesn't have a computer, and no intention to get one.

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Transformers Are in The Near Future

Transformer - video powered by Metacafe

They nailed the mechanism in the RC size. I wonder, once they build the lifesize, where the driver will be once it turns into robot?

Apple's Secret Ingredient

If you look at what Apple's done over the last few years, there's an almost absurd amount of fresh thinking and major leaps forward. At some points along the timeline, things just seem to magically click together at the right places.

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Did Apple Ditch BootCamp?

What happened with BootCamp? In Apple's Get A Mac section. it was said that to run windows, parallel and windows OS required. Does Apple think that BootCamp is not a good idea? Parallel still have issue in performing Windows in the hardware's full capacity - which BootCamp can. Although it is a pain to reboot the hardware to change the OS.

Will Parallel will be the app of choice to run windows rather than BootCamp? But I remembered in the Keynote that BootCamp will be bundled in Leopard...

============From Apple Site===================

Which means, of course, that the Mac may very well be the only computer you’ll ever need. In fact, the Mac’s flexibility — its ability to run both Mac and Windows* — has both customers and columnists very excited.

As Computerworld’s Scot Finnie points out, now you can forget about about having “to choose either the Mac for its superior design or Windows for its wealth of available software.” That’s because “you can have both operating systems on the same computer — the best of both worlds.” Mac OS X and Windows XP side by side. One great computer. Two operating systems. Many, many programs to run.

Talk about a win-win situation. Now you can take advantage of all the benefits of owning a Mac but still enjoy the convenience of starting up your Mac in Windows XP and running a Windows-only game or productivity application when needed. Third-party software solutions such as Parallels Desktop for Mac help make it possible.

That’s a prospect that has the Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg very excited. “You can run any combination of Mac and Windows programs at the same time, on the same screen.” For example, you could “simultaneously download your corporate email in Outlook using Windows while editing a home video in iMovie using the Mac OS.” Or how about this multi-tasking example from Mossberg: “I was able to do email in Apple’s Mail program while simultaneously watching a baseball game in Internet Explorer.”

And the latitude Parallels Desktop for Mac lends New York Times tech columnist David Pogue has him raving: “I just can’t tell you how handy it is to be able to live in Mac OS X but have the flexibility to duck into the occasional Windows program without having to restart the Mac.” How’s that for opening up a whole new world of possibilities?

If you’ve ever wished you could enjoy the best of both worlds, now you can. With a Mac.

*Purchase of Windows and Parallels software required.

Play Simcity for free - If you are using Windows

Play original simcity online - but only works in Windows environment....

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Is It Possible to Surpass World of Warcraft?

A new report from analyst group DFC Intelligence's David Cole looks at the unique path that gave rise to Blizzard's groundbreakingly-populated MMORPG World of Warcraft, including the myths behind its international impact, and the forecast for competitors hoping to break off a chunk of Blizzard's success.

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Apple to release 23-inch Merom-based iMac

Apple Computer in September plans to unveil a new line of iMac computers with faster processors and a little surprise to boot: a stunning 23-inch model.

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Time for an Apple/Google Mash-up

Wow! BusinessWeek Online's writer apparently had the same idea. I wonder who got the idea first?

Time for an Apple/Google Mash-up The two titans are drawing closer together. If they would just combine their offerings, they'd pose a real threat to Microsoft