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Thursday, 18 July 2002 |
New York street and large camera photographer Joel Meyerowitz has been one of my biggest inspirations since I discovered his work some years after I began making photographs.
When I was working in advertising at The Leagas Delaney Partnership in London I often tried to get Joel assignments for Adidas, but it never quite came off. Here is a new feature on his work, at the Photo District News website.
10:50:33 AM
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Geeks and Jaguar aside, Apple’s new iMac with its 17-inch LCD widescreen monitor—viewing area equivalent to a 19-inch CRT monitor—is the perfect computer for designers of all kinds.
The one reservation I had about the 15-inch LCD iMac was that its monitor was on the small side for a designer. Everything else about the machine was terrific. Now I have no hesitation whatsoever in recommending that any designer, artist or anyone else who needs a bigger screen gets themselves the 17-inch SuperDrive iMac and makes it their prime working computer.
This option is so much cheaper than a minitower plus LCD display combination, although a minitower is still terrific if you want to add more internal hard drives, more PCI cards and other hardware options.
10:39:39 AM
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Web services have been all the talk of the high tech industry for ages, and Microsoft’s .NET was supposed to be the Web services platform. But .NET is still vapourware—wind, hot air and empty speculation with nothing to show for it yet.
Of course UserLand Radio did it all before anyone else. Apple released its Web services lat night, named .Mac. And now Amazon has got into the Web services game.
Here is an example of using Amazon’s Web services—a light version of Amazon.com search, by an independent developer.
10:07:02 AM
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It has been a long, long time since Windows-using geeks could slag off Macs as “only good enough for those arty types” with any degree of justification, however slight. Back then, hard-core programmers stuck to their Windows machines like flies.
Then Linux came along and the real geeks flocked to it instead of an operating system that was a toy by comparison. When Mac OS X appeared, and showed that Apple had outdone the Linux geeks by making a Unix far better than their Unix, the more aware real geeks began migrating to the Mac.
Now, with Jaguar (Mac OS X 10.2), and all the new software tools that come with it that are dead easy to use but that have been created with some incredibly cutting-edge programming underneath, the Mac has proven that it really is the computer for the geeks and normal people too.
Here is a quote from a Wired story on this subject:
“There’s an interesting thing happening at Macworld this year. Apple is visibly morphing into a ‘geekier than Microsoft’ computer company.
Apple is now the biggest supplier of Unix-based operating systems in the world—‘bigger than Sun, bigger than Linux’—Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced during his Macworld keynote speech on Wednesday.”
Now it is crystal clear—If you want to be a real geek, forget about Windows and Linux. Get a Mac.
9:35:24 AM
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The only programs that crash on my Macintosh are made by Microsoft—Internet Explorer, Entourage, Outlook Express. Why is that, do you think? Other programmers manage to make software that behaves correctly.
8:26:54 AM
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A 20GB iPod portable music player joins Apple’s 5GB and 10GB models, as the price drops for the two older models.
iTunes, Apple’s free music player software has been updated to version 3 for Mac OS X. There are more new features in it and the software that the iPod runs. iPods for Windows will also be available soon.
12:08:37 AM
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Jaguar, or Mac OS X 10.2 to use its more formal name, is due out on 24th August for US$129.00. US$19.95 upgrade price for anyone buying a new Mac with Mac OS X 10.1.5 already installed on it. Try paying those kinds of prices for Windows upgrades or new out of the box.
There is a truckload of new features and vast improvements in Jaguar, the only real mass market Unix available. Click on this article’s subheader to read more about what is in store in Jaguar.
12:02:22 AM
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© Copyright 2002 Karl-Peter Gottschalk.
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