I’d like to see somebody pull this off. I’d love the MAC OS and hardware, but I’ll probably be running some form of Microsoft OS for who knows how long.
UPDATE (01/30/06): The purse has passed $8000 as of today.
Entries from January 2006
Windows XP on an Intel Mac contest
January 26th, 2006 · Comments Off | Tags: Asides
10 Lists of 10 for Smashing Blog Success
Since everybody seems to be blogging a list lately, what could be better than 10 lists of 10 ways to improve your blog? Probably no list at all–but here it is anyway.
Top 10 ideas for how to build a better blog
10 Killer Post Ideas
Ten Mistakes Writers Don’t See (But Can Easily Fix When They Do)
10 [...]
January 12th, 2006 · 4 Comments | Tags: Blogging
No XP on Intel Macs, but Vista is good to go
This piece at Engadget looks interesting…
No XP on Intel Macs, but Vista is good to go
It’ll be fun to see what happens–and see who gets XP running on those new Macs first.
Update: Seems there’s plenty conjecture to go around…
apcmag.com: Intel Macs may boot XP after all
“Reports spreading across the web that Intel Macs can’t boot [...]
January 11th, 2006 · Comments Off | Tags: Mac
15″ intel Macbook today
Kevin Rose say’s he’s heard there’ll be a 15″ intel Macbook today. Interesting–we’ll see.
UPDATE: Looks like Kevin has his sources…
MacRumors.com : Macworld San Francisco 2006 Live Updates
10:33 am iSight Camera.
10:32 am 15.4inch LCD. bright as cinemas.
10:32 am Hair thinner than the 17″.
10:32 am Fastest notebook ever.
10:31 am 4-5x faster.
10:31 am 2 processors in every Macbook pro.
10:31 am No more Powerbook. Intel [...]
January 10th, 2006 · Comments Off | Tags: Mac
Newsvine is out
Good review of Newsvine over at Solution Watch (via). A new community approach to getting the latest news. It’s invite only right now but I happen to have invites for the next 15 commentors.
NOTE: My invites are now all gone.
January 7th, 2006 · 18 Comments | Tags: News · RSS
Hemingway for Wordpress
Hemingway for Wordpress is a top notch theme by Kyle Neath that’s got a lot of promise. I’m very happy to see that Matt–as he commented here–has made it available to users of Wordpress.com. Looking forward to where this theme is headed.
January 7th, 2006 · Comments Off | Tags: Blogging
10/20/30 Rule of Powerpoint
Guy Kawasaki makes a good case for The 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint.
I am trying to evangelize the 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint. It’s quite simple: a PowerPoint presentation should have ten slides, last no more than twenty minutes, and contain no font smaller than thirty points.
Great advice.
January 7th, 2006 · 2 Comments | Tags: Presentations