TECHNOLOGY

Sabe aquelas fotos (e vídeos) usados nas Demo's que o Steve Jobs faz nos eventos da Apple e que sempre são usadas nos vídeos de demonstração e nas páginas do iLife '08?

Eles estão AQUI.

Em alta qualidade. Disponíveis para download.

The fun kids over at Tech Soup told me they ran an experiment to see if it's true that Apple's logo makes people more creative. Looks pretty convincing to me.

Thanks Alison!

Michael Dell is still struggling to reclaim his company’s former glory, and the latest cutbacks show he still has a long way to go.

Dell (DELL) said Monday that it will close an Austin, Texas plant that makes desktop PCs. It's just the latest step in a plan management laid out nearly a year ago, in which the company plans to shed 8,300 workers and save $3 billion in costs. The remarkable thing about Dell's announcement isn't the simple shuttering of a U.S. manufacturing facility – that sort of thing is happening across the country every day. It's how precipitously Dell has fallen.

Existe mucha variedad en cuanto a aplicaciones para personalizar el dock de Leopard, pero a mi me ha gustado una aplicación por su simplicidad, y sobre todo por ser freeware, en vez de tener que usar aplicaciones como Candy Bar que no digo que sea mala, pero esta aplicación nos permite instalar temas nuevos al dock de Leopard sin necesidad de usar software de paga.

|Descarga: Dock Library

Google has now released Google Docs with Google Gears functionality (previously limited to Google Reader). This will allow you to use Google Docs offline and sync your changes. This makes Google Docs much more useful to laptop users and travelers.

Lo acabo de ver en Gizmología. Es buenísimo y está muy conseguido. La pega es que solo funciona en portátiles con sensor de movimiento. Podrían sacar versión para iPhone/iPod Touch. Sería la caña, no?

Lance highlights a problem that needs to be dealt with by all Apple aficionados.

Broadly speaking, Apple are a company that make amazing new products which will be released soon.

They often don't announce release dates until they arrive. And, as I've mentioned previously, they don't seem to have any issue with selling the old version of the products right up until that date. As a result there is a lively ecosystem of rumour sites which offer up various advice about which products to buy when and why.

Astroturfing. What a concept. It used to mean that green plastic stuff that people put in place of lawns in the 60's. But now? It refers to a disturbing trend in the web. It's how you target market the American Presidency to a foolish proletariat who doesn't know any better isn't it?

And, thanks to the web, and things like the bubble sort, it's pretty easy for a guy like Axelrod to work up a whole bunch of support subliminally, huh?

Man mag meinen, dass Apple unpolitisch ist, aber folgendes Video zeigt, dass Steve Jobs keines Wegs ganz unschuldig an den politischen Entscheidungen der USA ist ;-)