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How To Be First In Line To Pre-Order The iPad

With just a few weeks to go before the iPad hits stores, here’s the best way to ensure you’re at the head of the line to get one (or three).
If history is any indication, the iPad will be in short supply when it goes on sale April 3. Plus there are rumors of production delays [...]

Digital Americana: A Magazine For iPad, And A Sign Of Things To Come

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Digital Americana has just popped up out of nowhere, claiming to be “the first literary & culture magazine developed especially for the interactive tablet experience.”
Or to put it another way, it will be “a new interactive magazine made exclusively for the Apple iPad”. And anyone can contribute.

The editors are looking for fiction, artwork and photography [...]

Review: Launchy Comes To OS X From Windows

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Just days after we reported on the launch of Alfred for OS X, along comes yet another keyboard-centric file and application launcher: Launchy.
Launchy has a long history as an open source Windows application, doing much the same on that platform that Quicksilver did on OS X. It too supports plugins that greatly boost its usefulness.
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What’s On Homer Simpson’s iPhone?

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Here’s Homer Simpson’s iPhone. Pretty dull, actually. Only one page of apps, and most of them look like the defaults. No iFart? No iBeer? No iDoh?
Wait – what’s that app there? Third row down, third from left?

Ah! Couch Gag! Yeah, one of my favorite apps.

Funny, it never does that when I use it.

Journalists Cover Microsoft, Using Macs

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Journos on Macs at Microsoft's Mobius event. @windows phone thoughts

It’s not an easy time for Microsoft — with Steve Ballmer having to field questions about being “buffoons” and an “evil empire”  at the shareholder’s meeting (.doc) — so when they get together “the world’s most influential technology pundits and online writers” (nb: we weren’t invited) for Mobius to discuss super-secret mobile tech you’d think they’d have a more sympathetic crowd.

If this pic posted by Jason Dunn over at Windows Phone Talk is any indication, most journalists, even the best and brightest from sites like Engadget and Slash Gear are Macs, at a non-scientific ratio of five to three.

Sorry guys. It looks like we’re mostly interested in covering you, not using you.

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Nicole Martinelli was born in San Francisco and has lived in Milan and Florence, Italy. Cultish tendencies and love for DIY increased while living on the Old Continent, where tech came late and cost more in Big Mac index terms. She's written for Wired.com, The New York Times and Newsweek. Since 1999, she's been tapping away at zoomata. You can also find her on Facebook, Linked in and Twitter.

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20 comments

    And I bet those 3 netbooks were probably running OSX anyways…..

    They may well be using Windows through Bootcamp… doubtful but very much possible.

    Look how unique and different everyone is…oh wait.. never mind.

    If the proof is in the pudding, I’d call this photo ‘pudding’.

    It’s “The proof of the pudding is in the eating”, to be pedantic. Still humorous, though.

    I love it.

    Fantastic! Makes you feel proud, doesn’t it?

    All that shot needs is a huge MS banner at the back declaring what the PR event is, it woudl then be on every Mac user’s sig within hours!

    @nico — and what is unique and different about using a windows laptop?

    I’ve got a Windows PC and an Apple one, but I’ve got Microsoft products on both. I’d be willing to bet that most journalists do too. Microsoft Word, anyone? I also have 5 alternative word processors, but really do maximize Word and Excel.

    Journalism has always been an industry dominated by Macs.

    I work in Health Care and not a single mac to be seen anywhere. Well except for on TV on House MD.

    probably jonack….. lol

    And the purpose of this is ? ( to make feel insecure mac user feel better ? )

    Who really cares if these guys use mac’s … They could have been there with pen and paper the results would have been the same ..

    I’m secure enough in my computer buying decisions that I don’t need constant validation. Grow up people …

    Well said Alex.

    I bought a MacBook Pro earlier this year b/c it was the best laptop for my needs at the time. I wasn’t sure if I would use OSX or bootcamp into Windows 7. I knew I would have the option, so it came down to that and hardware performance. Machine is sexy as all get-out, and I feel good when I take it out but it’s not working for me; part of the reason is that I NEED to be in Windows 99% of the time. And the unit has a few design flaws, in my opinion.

    Those of you who still blindly accept Apple’s products purely b/c it’s Apple or b/c you really think they are that different need to give your heads a shake.

    Who really cares anyway? Use a Commodore 64 to type your letters to Aunt May if you want. If it does the job for you, then that’s all that matters, isn’t it?

    I grew up after fifteen years of using a Mac in publishing. My modest pc does everything I need including graphics, but it’s still not a mac. Unless you are handling large graphic files most any computer will do, the mac is just more user friendly. And you can thank Apple for the way windows looks. Let’s not turn this into a flame war.

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! EPIC FAIL!!!

    Five to four!

    All MS needs is a “Mission Accomplished” banner behind them.

    The day Microsoft will create a product that does not suck, is the same day they start manufacturing vacuum cleaners.

    Amazing Article , I considered it extraordinary

    I look ahead to more innovative postings like this one. Does This Blog have a RSS I can subscribe to for new posts?

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