Apple & VW Working on iCar?
Cute entry over at ArsTechnica suggesting that Steve Jobs has been in early talks with VW to consider an iCar. The story comes from German Financial Times and is, er, written in German, so I can only make out bits and pieces like “Apple” and “Steve Jobs.” The story also suggestions that VW is working on a sub-$10k car, but why they would jump to the conclusion that Apple would be part of making a cheap car isn’t clear to me at all.
‘My iTunes’ Widgets For Blogs
Now you can advertise for Apple with nearly no benefit to yourself! Whoo-hoo!
Actually, I’m sure some folks will find the ‘My iTunes” widgets appealing — they enable others to peer into your iTunes buying habits and link to the albums and artists you tend to check out the most. (This, of course, would be hideously embarrassing to me, what with my penchant for show tunes and karoake tracks.) The widget uses flash and can be added to your standard issue blog sidebar.
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Apple Quality – Outsourcing = AppleCare
So, one of the reasons I haven’t been blogging much in recent weeks has been my lack of a laptop. All through the spring I was using an HP Pavillion that is now a paperweight on my desk in the office…it just failed to turn on one day. I suspect it’s the video card, as that seems to be a common problem with that model (zt3000), either unseated or in need of a replacement. I’ve downloaded the take-apart guide but haven’t yet had the wherewithall to get in there and check.
In the meantime, I took that failure as a sign and an omen — I needed to get a Mac laptop again. Indeed, there are more reasons than my simple desire for a portable, including the need to give presentations in Keynote instead of Powerpoint, work from home with the same tools I use at work, and the fact that a new laptop for me would free up an InDesign-capable Mac for someone else in our weekly newspaper office.
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