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So, after months of sitting in the basement, I decided to bite the bullet and get rid of my computer collection. 12 iMacs, 3 busted laptops and 2 G3 Macs - off to the thrift store.
With a $100 deduction each, they are worth more as a tax deduction.
:(

The unofficial price list:

iMac: $898-$1958
MacBook: $998-$1398
.Mac: $68
iPod Nano (except Reds): $138-$228
iPod: $228-$318
Wireless Mighty Mouse: $58
Shure earphones: $78-$238
Contour iPod Cases: $14-$24
Belkin TuneBase FM: $58
JBL On Stage Micro: $78
JBL Spot Speakers: $108
LaCie Hard Drives: $148-$888
Incase Sling Pack: $48
Xtreme Mac Micro Memo Voice Recorder: $48
Sonic Impact Video-55 Display: $238
Nike+iPod Sport Kit: $24

Holly got one for her birthday…very slick, and for a definite good cause. Some pics over on techpedia.

As seen previously, I had quite a week in regard to some screenshots taken from a DVD I got at WWDC. The DVD was a preview release of Mac OS X ‘Leopard’, and I posted several screenshots on Techpedia.org. The screenshots were, I am proud to say, the first to hit the web.

While the attention and the traffic were cool, the downside is that Apple considers screenshots a iolation of the NDA that we developers agree to when we join the ADC program. Needless to say, I got a cease and desist from Apple via email.

(Bonus points if you get the title reference)

Today one of my sites, Techpedia.org, got it’s digital ass kicked.

Digg.com is a very popular technology news site. Users submit stories of interest (not original content in most cases), and other Digg visitors vote them up/down based on the cool/usability/techy value of the site.

An article I posted on Techpedia a few days ago about Apples new OS, codenamed ‘Leopard’, contained some of the first publicly available screenshots of the new OS. Being at WWDC recently, i was one of the lucky 6000 people in the WORLD to get their hands on a preview release.

Here are some pics of my trip to SF. I’m here for a week (over my b’day) for the Apple World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC). Although I’ve spent some time in California, this is actually my first trip to SF.
It started excitingly enough, with a 5 hour delay in my flight that led to me being so exhausted I didn’t even eat last night. I crashed in my hotel in the same airplane-smelling clothes I had been wearing all day. Ugh.

Anyway, I’ll post more pictures as time allows.

San Fran/WWDC Pictures
(Changed link to my tech site for ease of uploading…)

Somebody stop me.
:(

Looks like everyone I know is getting a Mac for Christmas. Sigh.

PS: Cameraphones still suck.

That’s just awesome…

I had to send a picture to the home office today for inclusion in the corporate newsletter, and all I had handy was the iSight in my MacBook Pro. So, using the bundled app ‘Photo Booth‘, I took a couple of not so bad pictures, then started messing with the bizarr-o effects they offer.

Here are a few of the fine pictures of me that will someday be on Americas Most Wanted and/or Post Office walls nationally!

The dialog above is from Parallels rc2. I was about to delete a duplicate disk image that was slated for a Vista install. However, the Parallels bios doesn’t support the fancy stuff Vista neeeds to run, so no go.

Anyway, I was a click away from hitting ‘Finish’, when my eye caught the bottom checkbox. The virtual machine disk image file was in my primary Documents folder. The box was checked by default.

I was mere millliseconds away from permanently dumping about 30gb of fairly important data. I don’t know what error checking is built into the ‘Finish’ function, and I’m not sure how well it obeys the laws of unix permissions, but that’s just way too close for comfort.