This is fun. A couple of years ago, we pointed out a nice archive of Apple’s homepage. Today, the folks at Macenstein have collected similar images from Flickr user Kernel Panic into a video history. Some of the really old stuff isn’t represented, but it’s still a fun way to waste a few minutes.
Who remembers Apple Cafe? How about the smoking bunny suit? Or my favorite: “Beyond the rumor sites. Way beyond.”
Enjoy.
The search for the missing iPhones continues, with analyst Tony Sacconaghi of Bernstein Research throwing more numbers around in what at least partly looks like an attempt to justify his ongoing warmth toward Apple stock. Sacconaghi suggests that a whopping 27-percent of the iPhones sold in 2007 have been unlocked and, in the vast majority of cases, are being used in countries where the cellphone is not officially available. That works out to around one-million handsets unlocked, each estimated to be generating 50-percent less revenue and 75-percent less profits for Apple compared to those registered to authorised carriers.
If you’re an iWork 08 user, then you may want to run a software update, as Apple has just pushed out updates for all three applications. As ever, there’s hugely informative release notes: for Pages 3.0.2 and Numbers 1.0.2 “[t]his update addresses compatibility with Mac OS X” while the Keynote 4.0.2 update “primarily addresses performance issues while playing or exporting presentations.”
On the TUAW Intel testbed here in the UK, the updates weigh in at 32.4MB, 29.3MB and 27.4MB for Keynote, Pages and Numbers respectively.
Keynote 4.0.2 at Apple.com
Pages 3.0.2 at Apple.com
Numbers 1.0.2 at Apple.com
Thanks to all those who sent this in!
The world’s thinnest notebook is now shipping, Apple announced today. MacBook Air measures an unprecedented 0.16-inches at its thinnest point. And at it’s maximum height of 0.76-inches, it’s less than the thinnest point on competing notebooks.
Apple also announced that the free Apple TV software update enabling movie rentals is not quite finished and will now be available in another week or two.
In a turn of events that almost seems too bizarre to be true, Russian journalist and 14-year Mac user Alex Patsay has written an open letter to Apple PR following what sounds to be a disastrous launch event in Moscow. According to Patsay, Apple has added a 75-percent markup on iPods in Russia - taking a 16GB iPod Touch to the equivalent of $710 - and priced the MacBook Air above even inflated European prices: $5,000 for the SSD version.
More worrying, Apple is apparently contravening Russian law by failing to offer the MacBook Air with Cyrillic lettering on the keyboard, nor a Russian-localised iPod Touch.
O2 has announced that it will be offering the iPhone on selected business tariffs by the end of the year. This follows AT&T’s business move last week, and comes just after O2’s revised consumer plans.
It seems that the key which allows software developers to put their applications on to the iPhone has been leaked.
Several web sites have published the string of hexadecimal codes which allegedly will allow anyone to put their own applications on to the phone without the need to jailbreak it.
If recent rumours are to be believed, then Dell and Google are partnering to create an iPhone-rivalling Gphone.
Viddyou has announced that its personal online video site has been released in an iPhone-friendly format, with its complete online video library available for viewing on the phone.
The videos are encoded in H.264 video, the only video format the iPhone can currently natively display. Each video posted to the Viddyou site is now optimised specifically for the iPhone, ensuring the content downloads more quickly even over an EDGE network.
Written by Matt Cutts
Wow, I can’t believe how many people commented on my late-Friday night post about desired features for Gmail. If you want to suggest something for Gmail, that thread is the better place to do it. But looking through the comments, I saw a few requests that can already be done today. Considering that real Gmail users didn’t know about these options, I’m going to call them power tips.
I would like to have a feature for inserting prepared text blocks, so I dont have to write some things over and over again.
Julian, if you use Firefox, check out the Signature firefox extension to insert text macros. That might work for you.
Crazy feature: I’d like to be able to have an easy way to migrate my entire Google account to a different gmail address, because I can’t find a step-by-step guide or anything to help me switch emails without losing various things.
According to this post you can enable POP on your old account (look under Settings, then “Forwarding and POP/IMAP”), then import the emails (also using POP) into the new account. I think you could use Gmail’s Mail Fetcher utility to do this. To configure Mail Fetcher on the newer account, click on Gmail’s Settings link, then “Accounts” and then “Add another mail account.” Google Operating System (an unofficial blog that discusses Google often) has a couple relevant posts with a walkthough of using Gmail’s Mail Fetcher and a write-up on how to back up your Google account.
I would love to integrate my google apps account with my default gmail account. Although right now google allows to associate email address there is no way to integrate or link two google accounts (say one @gmail.com and another yourdomain.com powered by google apps).
Right now the only solution is to forward mails from one box to another! If google makes integration possible we can use a single inbox to check mails from all those email address
I’m not as familiar with the interaction of regular Gmail versus Gmail on Google Apps. This post described a scary-looking way that might work. If there’s a better way, maybe someone will stop by and let me know?
The ability to open Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF without going to another page and using another software
S.E.W, this post from Lifehacker mentions that Gmail can offer HTML view or Google Doc options for Word and Excel.
I’d love to be able to resize the email composition box on the default page - so instead of having to click the icon to open the whole draft in a new resizable window, I’d be able to click and drag to make the draft box bigger (especially vertically).
Easton, check out the Resizeable text area extension for Firefox. It lets you click on the border of any form textarea and drag the border so the textarea expands. I haven’t checked how it works on the latest version of Gmail though.
I don’t know if this would be possible, but how about, when clicking on the compose link (or reply etc) if I hold some key as I click on Compose, it opens the new email in its own window? Same thing could go for Replies etc.
Diego, instead of using ‘c’ to compose a new email, type ‘C’ and you’ll open a new window to compose your email. It looks like using ‘R’ instead of ‘r’ to reply will open a new email for replies too.
I heard a lot of great suggestions that I wouldn’t even have thought of. For example, I liked the idea of a “bounce” option for unwanted emails to make it look as if your email address didn’t exist. Oh, and since so many people asked for cool features, let me add one more feature I want: let me set a different vacation message for co-workers compared to people outside Google. Maybe in Google Apps for Gmail, if you are managing example.com, let people on example.com set a different vacation message for people on example.com vs. other domains?
By the way, what was the funniest suggestion I saw? Jeff Hall won with “A USB breathalyzer kit for a friend who forgets how embarrassing her e-mails are when she gets drunk. The e-mails could be delayed until she provides a negative sample.” 
And here’s your bonus tip. If you’re a Gmail power user, three links to check out are the Gmail tag on Lifehacker, the official Gmail blog, and Google Operating System. Lifehacker does so many posts per day that limiting to the Gmail tag will narrow down the posts you see. The Gmail blog is the best place to get official Gmail news first. And Google OS seems to have Gmail-related posts pretty often.