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My last day in San Francisco. I can honestly say its been a fantastic experience and I have really enjoyed this gorgeous city. Read the rest of this entry »

Posters with this slogan have been blazoned across San Francisco since Steve Jobs made the big announcement on Tuesday, January 10, at 9 a.m. PST that Apple were shipping, as of this date, the new “iMac® featuring Mac OS® X running on the new Intel® Core™ Duo processor”. On this occasion I was lucky enough to be sitting, with the faithful, in the audience at Macworld (all be it in the spill-out room) with thanks to a scholarship received from the Apple University Consortium (AUC www.auc.edu.au). So what is an Intel chip doing in a Mac? Without getting too technical Apple were having a hard time making any new gains in computing speed or power with the chips they were previously using, so they made a strategic decision (which was announced twelve or so moths ago) to move to Intel based chips which are more commonly associated with the Windows platform. Read the rest of this entry »

The conference over it was time to get back to some serious sight seeing. The only problem being rain so I decreed it Museum day and headed for the Asian Art Museum. Considered to be one of the largest museums in the western world dedicated to Asian art it was equally fascinating from the point of view of the treasures it holds as for the architecture of their container. Read the rest of this entry »

Today was the last day of the MacIT conference and a short day at that just two sessions up till 12:15 pm: Read the rest of this entry »

This was my first actual full day at the MacIT conference. Most of the sessions I attended were on subject I already new a fair amount about, but one can always learn more and it’s always good to get an idea about wether you’ve been doing things the right or wrong way all these years. Read the rest of this entry »

This was supposed to be my first actual day at the MacIT conference but I had signed up to do the Advanced Digital Photography day instead. I had expected to be doing it on Tuesday but fate had dealt me a different hand. Read the rest of this entry »

Pulled up reasonably well after tying it on a bit the night before. Queued for ages to hear Steve Jobs’ key note, in the spill-out room alas (see post entitled “What’s an Intel chip doing in a Mac? A whole lot more than it’s ever done in a PC!” for more info). Amazingly caught up with Jason in the key-note queue. Read the rest of this entry »

Cued outside the Moscone Center for twenty minutes or so at about 8:30 am to register for the MacIT conference, exhibition etc. only to discover that there were no events for me to go to this day and that if I had left it till 10am I wouldn’t have had to cue at all. Read the rest of this entry »

Photos from day two. I’ll post some relevent comments very soon.

Big day… Read the rest of this entry »