Apple

Throughout history, there were very few opportunities for ultimate loss in a short period of time. The only way to lose all of your information, papers, and life works, is through perhaps fire at the worst. However, even then, there is some warning attached to it. While running out of your burning house, there is the chance to grab that birth certificate or what not.

But with the development of the personal computer, all that has changed. Everyone in the world has felt it. The feeling of “Oh my goodness I saved that file to the wrong drive”, or “Crap I just emptied the Recycle Bin” or the ultimate “OMFG my hard drive is grinding”.

This, happened to me. I’m sitting browsing the web like a normal human being when all of the sudden a horrifying clicking sound comes from my hard drive. A sound that, to any computer-savvy individual mean death to data. A massacre has occurred on your disk platters, and if you weren’t backed up, it’s all gone.

Luckily, I did backup. I have learned from past experiences that hard drive backup is critical and that regularly backing up files can spare you from worse things. But what was salvaged wasn’t amazing:

• Photos post-Sept 4 that are not online are now gone
• Documents post-Dec 12 are now gone
• Websites are spared for the most part, as they are online, however some joleblog development was destroyed
• All Applications are gone (I can redownload them and re-install them, but still several hours of work)
• All Application settings are now gone
• Mail is gone

Great.

I want one. I am so getting one. Wow. Oh my goodness.

Apple iPhone

Well the New Year is upon us, and we all know that means MacWorld Expo.

There have been many rumors regarding this year's product launch. My expectations are:

• iTV (or whatever it's called)

• 802.11n
• Small Hard Drive
• Such a ridiculously intuitive interface your socks will start on fire

• Apple Phone

• Two Models
• Small candy-bar format iPod/Phone
• Larger Video-capable format with PDA capabilities (I HOPE!)
• Cingular. (What will happen.) Unlocked phone (What I want -> Canada-ness)
• More sock-burning UI

• iPod Video Full Screen

• If it does depart from he clickwheel, I doubt it will be touch-screen.
• Probably bezel-controlled, where you touch the sides.

• iWork & iLife

• iPhoto will have groups like in Aperture (I hope so!)
• iWork will have an spreadsheet program. If Google can, so can Apple
• iWeb will be more friendly to developers with FTP support, and raw code editing (Again, I hope!)

• Leopard

• Portable home folders on iPod/External Device
• Some sweet new GUI styling
• ZFS (so awesome)

I hope that there is some sort of Apple Tablet released, and that the iPhone is released in Canada as well. I really need a WiFi enabled PDA, and I'm thinking of buying a Dell Axim, but I would much prefer it if it integrated well with my Mac.

I've been updating the website a bit, and a new design is coming very soon! Enjoy the countdown! (Get the Widget!)

EDIT: I expect new Displays w/iSights too!

When asked about the Microsoft’s Zune (competition to the iPod) and it’s new “music sharing” feature, Steve Jobs had this to say: 

In a word, no. I’ve seen the demonstrations on the Internet about how you can find another person using a Zune and give them a song they can play three times. It takes forever. By the time you’ve gone through all that, the girl’s got up and left! You’re much better off to take one of your earbuds out and put it in her ear. Then you’re connected with about two feet of headphone cable.