New 17 inch iMac - Still Available?

After the recent price and spec revision of the 20inch and 24 inch iMacs, there is said to a 17 inch model.

Apparently it's only available to educational institutions. This would be so cool if they released that to the general public,  at a lower price so that everyone could afford to buy a mac.

But since it's for educational institutions only, it's probably going to be the old white version rather than the aluminum version.

Much like the budget entry macbooks which is white and not aluminum.

It makes sense really. Though, I wouldn't mind buying the original cheaper white iMac. It still looks really nice.

Safari 4 Beta - A Pretty Browser for Girls.

Lots of eye candy and lots of fun.

Top Sites

At a glance, gorgeous preview of your favorite sites、all ranked by safari which tracks your usage.

Great feature that was useful for about 5 minutes.

But it was a really good 5 minutes.

Cover Flow

Always liked cover flow.

Genuinely useless but looks so gorgeous.

Imagine using this with the touch screen ASUS Eee Top 1602.

Full History Search in Cover Flow.

Oh wow. Something useful. It can be a minefield looking back at your history, just to remember that page you suddenly find useful.

Tabs on Top.

Genius. Utter Genius.

Nitro Engine.

Snore.

There's also over 150 features of safari.

But things like ARIA Support,Enhanced Keyboard navigation, CSS, Acid Test are just too interesting for me.

Now if they could sort out all those websites where Safari is not supported.

Aluminum Keyboard - Plain and Flat

I have come to the conclusion that the iMac flat aluminum keyboard is one of the best looking keyboard ever.

However, it is also one of the keyboards that is absolutely terrible for aspiring, brain starved, burned out writers.

The flat design makes it so uninspiring, so plain, so cold, so simplistic that the IBM clickety clickey keyboard just positively trounces it! The IBM keyboard just beats in on sheer ' I want to write a novel on this damn keyboard' feeling.

Where as on the Apple aluminum keyboard, it just squeaks in a tiny voice, " I wanna twitter".

Fullscreen or not to Fullscreen. That is the...oh whatever.

Whenever I use a computer, be it a desktop, a laptop, netbook or a PDA, except on a huge 30inch screen, I always have to make it full screen.

I can concentrate better as I am not distracted by the desktop background. The mac doesn't seem to allow me to work this way. It just doesn't allow full screen on most native apps.

It's hard to compare documents if I have to manually resize each window. I appreciate the logic behind it, but it is so counterproductive. When I do work, I much prefer to use the dreaded Windows.

Now, I'm wondering if I will ever switch.

iPhone App written by a 9 Year Old

Incredible! If the economy wasn't so bad at the moment, this would be fantastic news. Images of the movie 'War Games' and old retro days of the Spectrum, Commodores, where you could literally write your own commercial games.

Unfortunately, the news is a bitter blow to anyone who has been let go in the IT community.