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Steve Jobs inspired the world

The first news in the morning is Steve Jobs has passed away at the age of 56. That’s sadden my whole day.

I’ve been fascinated by the colorful Apple logo since I was very very young. Back then computer means either IBM or Apple, but Apple computer is what I ever wanted. It’s different. It’s stylish & fun. Well at least that what I perceived when I was 7, looking at the colorful logo comparing to IBM’s. However, getting a computer was way expensive than most families can afford in 80’s.

My first computer lesson was with the Apple ][e doing some basic programming. I was 11. It was fun to know that one can create something with BASIC. That was so interesting. Since then I was hooked on computers, and Apple. That moment, I wanna do programming when I grow up.

Fast forward to 90’s. I finally had my real computer, a Mac Iici. It was an amazing computer. It can do things that you can’t imagine with an IBM clone!

Typing stuff with Microsoft Word, drawing stuff with Adobe Illustrator for my father, and playing with Hypercard, the former life of the web, on System 6. Controlling everything with a mouse was so cool! Everything is so different than the so-called “main stream” and that’s how I like it. I just love Macintosh & Steve Jobs.

There are plenty moments that I was blown away by Apple & Steve Jobs, and Pixar all these years. The Mac, OS X, iPod, iPhone, iPad, and etc.

And I felt particularly connected with the Think Different campaign.

Watch the video: The crazy ones

Attending the MacWorld Expo Tokyo in 2001 gave me the closet encounter with him. However, this is the one & only encounter that I can ever have now.

He’s been my hero since I ever know about computers, a true innovator, and the god of demonstrations. He’s part of the reason for what I’ve become, a web and iOS developer now.

RIP Steve Jobs. You’ll be missed forever as the world has missed its compass of innovations.

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BootC amp 3.1 is released

Boot Camp 3.1 is released with Windows 7 support. Not sure if it’s a woohoo type of news for you. Get you’d from Apple

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New Mac arrives finally

The long overdue update for Mac Pro, iMac, Mac mini has finally arrived. Apple Store (US store is up though) & Apple.com is still updating and the distorted web site is something that I’ve never experienced ever before. Akamai caching issue maybe?

The most signacificant update should be Mac Pro now using Intel “Nehalem” Xeon processors and Mac mini gets NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics processor.

The Mac Pro high end configuration supports 8-core processors. That should be lighting fast for anything. But the Mac mini update is a bit disappointing. I was hoping for a more accessible casing instead of the same old case that requires 2 putty knifes to crack open.

BTW, iMac supports up to 8GB of RAM and Mac mini supports up to 4GB of RAM. Not bad huh?

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MacWorld 2009

As usual, Apple Store online is in “We’l be back soon” status right before MacWorld keynote takes place.

For more live coverage, try MacRumorsLive.com

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Apple will launch netbook in 2009?

This article from “Taiwan Headlines” is surely interesting since a lot of Apple fan boys having been praying for this. In 2009, it might actually happen.

Quanta is expected to add Sony and Apple as clients for the contract manufacture of netbook computers in 2009

Yeah, you read that right. A Mac netbook from Apple. Save your money for Uncle Steve. No more fiddling with those horrible eee peecee.

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Installing w3c validator 0.8

Recently I need to install w3c validator on my Mac. I did follow Apple’s guide last time when installing verison 0.7 ages ago.

However, that article is 2 years old now. Version 0.8 gives me difficulties and error in compiling Perl module SGML::Parser::OpenSP.

A bit of Google points me to Brett Bieber’s site which gives more information and the link to the appropriate OpenSP version 1.5.2.

With a little bit more patient with Fink and perl, I have w3c validator 0.8 up & running on my Mac.

In short, you must get OpenSP 1.5.2 installed before installing SGML::Parser::OpenSP and other related libraries.

Afterwards, you can resume to w3c or Apple’s guide for installation of the Perl modules.

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Refresh the Finder

If you happen to be editing some files within a sea of files and folder and just want to pick it out after edit, the Finder won’t let you do so sometimes as it doesn’t update the last modified date. Refresh the Finder can help and it works like a charm. As TUAW pointed out, it’s just a 5 lines AppleScript. Very very cool and this is just what I always need.

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Score is here

Bare Feats has posted some test result between 8-core & 4-core Mac. Sounds like better to wait for Leopard (and CS3) for your next purchase.

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Diversions from Apple

I have to say that it’s disappointing for Apple delaying Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard from June to October 2007. I was expecting some cool new Mac with Leopard in June.

Apple has staged many diversions to their brief statement of the Leopard delay.

Diversion #1: Apple TV. The very upgradeable and user friendly HD device without any HD content.

Diversion #2: 8-core Mac Pro has released and seems to be the only Intel machine with 3GHz quad-core if I ain’t mistaken. I want it but I’m just not ready to folk out 3000 US for it.

Then Apple officially puts iPhone on the chopping board for reasons of the delay (look for the statement further down dated on 12 April, 2007).

Diversion #3: Now at NAB, as expected, Final Cut Studio 2 has been unleashed. Sounds cool but I’m not a video production guy.

All in all, I just hope the Leopard isn’t the Copland scenario back then. At least it sounds more solid than any vapor ware.

If you are old time Mac users, you’ll remember the days that Apple promised to bring us the ultimate cool and great Mac OS – Copland (supposing it’s Mac OS 8). It turns out to be a vapor ware, leaving all of us high and dry and dragged Apple down a big time.

This is the first time for scheduled Mac OS X release being delayed. Could iPhone really screws up big time, requiring all the resources Apple can get to fix it to catch its launch in June? Not to mention that mobile phone carriers have already been signing contracts with their customers which could bring multiple party major lawsuits if there’s no iPhone in June.

Or could it be Apple facing some major bumps with Leopard considering all the platforms it needs to support (PPC & Intel)? Even my PPC days are numbered, I haven’t yet spent a penny on Universal Binary upgrade for any of my softwares. Anyhow, I’m still looking forward to seeing the release of Leopard.

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CS3 on Quad-Core Intel Mac?!

With the launch of Adobe Creative Suite 3, finally the native support is here for Intel Mac. Someone has spotted an interesting thing about the CS3 promotion page on Apple Store. It mentions “quad-core” Intel processing.

Quad-core Intel Mac

As we all know, Apple is using only dual-core processors even on Mac Pro. So does that mean a cpu update finally arrive? Maybe that’s the event happening during NAB? Will we be getting quad-core MacBook Pro after all these years?