I still recall this amazing post on Apple Recon from 1998

Oh, that's priceless. Here's another gem:

Pixar, as we all know, is an unwelcome player in Hollywood and is NOT a big entity either. Jobs is out of his league. All it will take is Unca Walt to decide…

I honestly think he started that whole culture of groups competing against each other – maybe it all got more out of hand after he left with out him at the top

Yeah, that's depicted quite nicely in Pirates of Silicon Valley — my impression is that it all got…

the first thing I would uninstall on a PC was quicktime; it came second only to AOL software, anyone remember that ?

Indeed, and then you go and install a printer...
Why is it that printer manufacturers believe that they alone know how you should arrange you photo collection (we…

ii) Tom got a whole lot more authetic for me – hmmm perhaps it's just a Welsh thing...

Thanks anyway Don.

I've gotta say – long before I got my ihate on, the first thing…

I have an iPod Classic. I load songs onto it via Winamp, create playlists via Winamp, add album art via Winamp. Am I crazy in the coconut?

Crazy like a fox.

Loading to iPod with Winamp instead of iTunes?? That's just blown my mind; will investigate further.

Awesome. Do you "burn" CDs too? ;-)

Bite me, Russell. ;)

Me too; 11 years and counting, but I meant for your iPod, which I presume from the phrase:
poof, there goes my 160GB of music
that you have one of. Or am I entirely mistaken?

No, you're right, I…

Proud to be one of em. Rhythmbox or Banshee for the win.

Erm, Winamp.

Me too; 11 years and counting, but I meant for your iPod, which I presume from the phrase:

poof, there goes my 160GB of music

that you have one of. Or am I entirely mistaken?

I hate iTunes largely for that reason (and it did happen); switched to…

a chance to road test this bad boy...

It kind of looks like a motherboard, doesn't it?

yeah, and it's got all those network ports in the back there, what I'm not seeing is the pylon line heading in, or the substation, ya don't think its running on…

Helps that it's portable – any time I reinstall Windows I…

Lotus Notes for the Mac, and Word 6.0.

Je-zeus!

Winamp! Amazing how software can bring the same sort of nostalgia as an old kitchen appliance. Oh, sorry, that may sound a bit patronising. I still use my old kitchen appliances, if that helps. ;-)

Still. I had to use Lotus Notes…

Erm, Winamp. I sort of have the feeling that people are snickering up their sleeves at me now. :)

Awesome. Do you "burn" CDs too? ;-)

I barely use iTunes now, although it is still my main music software organising programme on a computer. I have mainly used my various phones over the last couple of years for music…

What then do you use, D?

Erm, Winamp. I sort of have the feeling that people are snickering up their sleeves at me now. :)

Apple's massive new data centre in North Carolina, which doesn't fully open till the end of the year:

It kind of looks like a motherboard, doesn't it?

It would be a hell of a lot for any CEO to hold down, let alone one who's had pancreatic cancer and a…

Does anyone else find itunes one of the world's more annoying pieces of software?

I just don't even use iTunes at all (unless I have to get an iPhone software update). It takes so long to do anything, and I'm terrified that it will get a bee in its bonnet…

The interesting (well, to some of us) thing about this NBR story from yesterday's Apple event isn't Steve whining about reported Android activations, it's Apple's own numbers.

230,000 iOS activations a day, worldwide. That's a lot of customers expecting it to just work, a lot of…

Seemed odd they could trademark the action of sending a network IP request*, but actually it was owned by a golf company.

Still with us Gio?

* Strangely trying to describe that process was too much for 5.40pm on a Friday. But you know what…

O my, YES!

I had 2 hand-dyed oceanic beauties made that year. It was called 'supporting local artists'.

Unfortunately, they didnt survive a year of washing (= 6x)

(Most shocking to me, however, was the same 1987 duvet cover that I just found in my cupboard – what does that mean?)

Strangely, this is the 3rd time I've had that comment made to me. Were there any other duvet patterns in 1987?

Thanks, makes me feel like I got my own personal shout out :-)

I had to take powerful stimulants to get through that. Ping: it's a whole new way to ( falls unconscious )

Warning: contains pieces of Apple

Thanks, makes me feel like I got my own personal shout out :-)

Because it is Friday and I *am* cool, I give you Tom Jones (who is the new old cool)...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4s33Q-nZwyo&feature=related

"It's just like standing next to the tube coming in..."

Is there any significance in the digital clock reading 3.33am when he got the phone call in the middle of the night?

Wasn't that the time when the guy woke up every night in Amityville Horror?

Other than the glasses, the waterbed, the hairdos and the wooden technology (as someone described it), it's…

Cheers,
Joseph.

Must buy, apparently conch has soem vinyl samplers..

Apple's intense, secretive development process ....

I used to be a serious Apple developer when I lived in the US – back in the good old days before the iEverything .... I've seen the Apple development process up close and personal .... basically it's highly political, chaotic, thrives on leaks…

As a purported social networking tool, it's impossible to converse with contacts about music – surely the whole point of the thing.

The number of recording artists available to follow is pitiful.

Last.fm does a much better job.

I've been an Apple…

Lady Gaga, Yo Yo Ma and U2

Didn't everybody have these as suggestions?