Apple New Year!

Those guys over at Apple certainly know a thing or two about marketing ;-) Can't wait!

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Which SuperHero am I?

In case you were wondering...... Your results:
You are Superman

Superman 80% Spider-Man 75% Iron Man 60% Hulk 50% Green Lantern 50% Supergirl 40% The Flash 40% Robin 37% Batman 30% Catwoman 25% Wonder Woman 20%

You are mild-mannered, good, strong and you love to help others.

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OMG - It's Gonna Blow!

My 17" MacBook Pro has been behaving very strangely over the last few weeks but only when on battery power. It just seemed to shut itself down with no warning! Using it tonight, I heard a very strange pop and then 20 minutes later it shut itself down. When picking it up, I noticed something very strange underneath the MBP. Instead of the usual sleek, perfectly flat surface there was a weird bump. OMG - The battery had suddenly expanded and started the first stages of transforming itself into the Sydney Opera House. OK - perhaps not that dramatic but still quite a shock! I thought it was only the 15" batteries that had issues! Ah well, onto AppleCare tomorrow and hopefully they can ship me a new battery without sending the whole laptop off. Update - Well I got my MacBook Pro back today (5/1/2007) after it going into my local repair centre under Applecare. Took them a week including the New Year Break so not too bad. I didn't realise how much I'd miss it! Ah well, just in time for MacWorld!

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iPhone No Show?

So, curb your disappointment folks, an iPhone at MacWorld isn't going to happen. Now I'm not saying I'll ride through the streets of Melbourne buck-naked on the back of a horse if I'm wrong (my only commonality with Godiva is my liking of so-named chocolates), but on the basis of past performances, I'd rate my chances of being correct well-beyond 50-50.Waddya think?

Why the iPhone won't make its first official appearance in two weeks at Macworld

Gotta agree with you Les! (You need to read the full post). I think as a service to the Mac community, we need to start preparing people to set their expectations realistically and be ready for the possible deflation following MacWorld as the rumour sites go into meltdown over the next week. It will all be good people, but there's no way Apple can meet expectations once the hype machine gets into overdrive!

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Back to Work - Sort Of!

Well it's Boxing Day here in the Uk and I've laid off the Mac for a couple of days. Had a backlog of 20 or so emails to clear so I did that. Had a few thoughts over the break as to how to help switchers or new Mac users to find the right screencasts to help them transition to the Mac. The screencasts are there but as they are in published order, it's not always apparent which is most appropriate and in which order to view them. So I'll put some links together over the next day or so to "steer" new users through. Of course, it's never that simple so in prep, I've just redone the full show list (available to Extra! members) from a simple list of shows, to a nice table with a single entry for each show with the different resolutions on each line. A couple of hours work which might go un-noticed but I feel better for doing it as it's been something I've been meaning to do for a while. 12:50am so I figure I'd best hit the sack but I fire up Google Reader and what do I find but a post by Robert Scoble following the recent publication of the interview I did with him:

While other people are talking about helping content producers quit their day jobs to do more online content, Don McAllister, publisher of ScreenCasts Online just did it. Hear his business model on my show and how he’s helping lots of people learn how to use Macs. Lots of other videos are up on ScobleShow too from our London trip, more coming. Oh, he has a TON of loyal customers based on my referer logs.

Don quit his day job to Screencast Online « Scobleizer - Tech Geek Blogger

Cool! Especially the bit about the loyal customers! I flick over to the original post and lo and behold, there's 13 really nice comments about me and ScreenCastsOnline completely unsolicited. I'd just like to say thanks to all those who posted a comment and those people who emailed me directly. And you know what, that couple of hours I just spent reformating a page of shows just to make it easier to use probably will get noticed. Even if it doesn't, with comments like that I'm just happy to keep improving the service!

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