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I remember watching QVC back in August of 95 when they were showing computers running Windows 95 for the first time. I bought my first copy at the local Target (an upgrade from Windows 3.1). I remember how exciting it was to install something so new and different. Back then, the mac was in sort of a dead zone. Microsoft had the excitement up. I had read about it in some computer magazines, but prior to main stream internet usage, there wasn't much beta testing going on like there is today. I am writing this post from my Windows 7 RC1 machine in my home office. I say this as I was thinking about the upcoming release of Snow Leopard this Friday. I woke up Monday morning and checked all of my common news sites from my iPhone as I do every morning. When I discovered Apple announced the Friday ship date and opened pre-orders, I immediately placed my order. I also got in on the Windows 7 pre-order for $49 and will be expecting the promised Oct...

January 13, 2009 To: sjobs@apple.com Dear Steve, Well now I really hope you get this message because it took me a long time to type it. For some reason my iPhone only works in portrait mode for typing an e-mail. I guess that is not a big deal since I can only connect with Edge on my new 3G iPhone. No biggie, I'll just send this from WiFi as soon as I figure out how to type in the 64 character WPA key in portrait mode. If there was only some way to do that more easily, like if I had a magical way of pulling text from one screen and putting it back on another screen.... oh nevermind, Im in fantasy land. Anyway, how are those push notifications coming along? Beau Sent from my iPhone. Read and post comments | Send to a friend

In repsonse to the Engadget article: http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/16/apple-announces-final-macworld-steve-jobs-wont-deliver-keynote/5#c16152216 I am personally disappointed to see it go. Apple has been ramping up their own special events for a while now and everyone gets excited about those, but for years MacWorld was the one big event other than WWDC that we expect big things. I can't help but think it has to be hard for Apple to knock one out of the park every year in January, but lets not underestimate the power of this event. While its value as a trade show may be limited and the explanations of the online and retail stores trumping the need for a trade show make logical sense, I can't help but think that the nostalgia and nearly un-rivaled coverage they receive from this one event is something that is hard to value. How many companies other than Apple can systematically pull this off every year and get the attention that they...

Ok, so I have updated this for Take 2 and Leopard. This is more of a rought draft, but it worked well for me. Please comment if I have missed any steps since I am writing this after the fact. One big change from the original article us you can let Disk Utility do some of the work for you now. Also, I just skipped the restore partition to keep it simple since that was the source of many problems. Connect your Apple TV drive in Leopard. Remember disk1 may not be the name of your drive. From the terminal: Wipe out and re-create the partition structure sudo diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk1 sudo gpt destroy /dev/disk1 sudo gpt create /dev/disk1 Create the OSBoot Partition sudo gpt add -b 888872 -i 3 -s 1843200 -t hfs /dev/disk1 diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk1 sudo diskutil eraseVolume "Journaled HFS+" OSBoot /dev/disk1s3 diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk1 Create the Media Partition Go to Disk Utility and format the Media partition - Name i...