Apple Newton

One of my friends grabbed some photos of his colleague Apple Newton MessagePad 120. This retro gadget was released in January 1995 and it still works to this day! Click on the images to enlarge.

Macbooks at Al-Ghanim Electronics

The new single-enclosure aluminum MacBooks are currently available at Al-Ghanim Electronics, tagged with a mind-boggling price of a little over KD 700. Cash discount included. While the most expensive configuration is listed around KD 432 on Apple’s website, a salesperson reasons, “it’s because they have the new nVidia chipsets and DVD writers”.

Oh please. For that amount, I had purchased (and shipped) the high-end 15″ Macbook Pro last year. When will this consumer exploitation stop?

Note: The Macbook on display did not even have an arabic keyboard!

Update: Nabbed a picture. (KD 936.250 it says)

Blog Faster With Google Gears

Now that Gears has finally been released for Safari, this feature should be accessible with all major browsers and platforms (with the exception of Opera and 64-bit Linux):

Awesome Error Message

I was expecting a simple, “Disk Utility could not burn the disk image” message, but I got this instead:

Thank you Apple for including the geeky phrase, “laser power level” in your error dialog; I don’t feel so bad about my SuperDrive failing now! :P