Your Apple/Mac Holiday Gifts
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Widgets to Consider for Holiday Gifts
Widgets to Consider for Holiday Gifts
12/08/2003 04:47 PMAP via Daily Press Dec 8 2003 3:03PM ET
Holiday Gifts for .Mac Members
Holiday Gifts for .Mac Members
12/02/2003 01:36 AMApple has announced new benefits for .Mac members, just in time to
help you create fantastic Holiday movies.
Going Digital with iMovie and iDVD
Learn how to create movies with this new training course produced by
Apple. It covers everything you need to know including shooting your
movie, editing it, getting it online, and sharing it with friends and
family.
Free Sound Effects from Skywalker Sound
These sound effects will spice up any movie, and they're available
exclusively to .Mac members via the new Members Only folder of your
iDisk.
Free Soundtracks from Freeplay
Now you can add professional music to your movies with these
soundtracks. Encoded in AAC format, and available in your Members Only
folder.
For more details, visit the .Mac homepage.
Geek Books as Holiday Gifts
Geek Books as Holiday Gifts
12/19/2004 03:51 PMSlashdot Dec 19 2004 2:05AM GMT
Fun games for kids as holiday gifts
Fun games for kids as holiday gifts
12/04/2003 09:38 AMSiliconValley.com Dec 4 2003 8:44AM ET
CompAmerica's Annual 2004 "Holiday PC
Shopping Guide" Features Gifts From $5
to $25,000
CompAmerica's Annual 2004 "Holiday PC
Shopping Guide" Features Gifts From $5
to $25,000
12/19/2004 03:10 PMCompAmerica.com - a rising name in online and direct sales of custom
PCs, Laptops, and computer and consumer components released it's
Holiday Shopping Guide for everyone. [PRWEB Nov 29, 2004]
Microsoft Holiday Support Center Helps
Consumers Maximize Their Use of the
Season's Most Popular Gifts
Microsoft Holiday Support Center Helps
Consumers Maximize Their Use of the
Season's Most Popular Gifts
12/10/2003 07:50 PMIn keeping with the spirit of giving -- and receiving -- the perfect
gift, Microsoft is upholding another holiday tradition, the Microsoft
Holiday Support Center. Provided to customers for the fifth year, this
online support resource -- found at
http://support.microsoft.com/holiday -- offers
consumers help at no charge if they have questions related to
Microsoft consumer products and technologies. A convenient, one-stop
portal, the site condenses the top questions likely to come up over
the holidays for popular products and provides the resources needed to
resolve them.
Apple launches new holiday iPod Web site
Apple launches new holiday iPod Web site
11/14/2003 12:34 PMApple has apparently launched a new Web site, iPodRocks.com, to
promote the iPod for the holiday season...
2003 Holiday Gift Guide from Apple
2003 Holiday Gift Guide from Apple
11/04/2003 01:24 PMApple has introduced the 2003 Holiday Gift Guide, it's annual list of
recommended gifts for the Apple users in your family. The guide
includes both Apple branded products as well as a wide array of
third-party items. Products can be browsed by category, interest of
the intended recipient, or price.
Products listed are available for purchase through the Apple online
store.
Apple posts 2003 Holiday Gift Guide
Apple posts 2003 Holiday Gift Guide
11/04/2003 01:23 PMApple's
2003 Holiday Gift
Guide is now online, offering gift recommendations for Mac lovers.
The guide has both Apple products and those of third parties.
Apple launches 2003 Holiday Gift Guide
Apple launches 2003 Holiday Gift Guide
11/04/2003 12:08 PMApple has posted this year's Holiday Gift Guide, its annual collection
of both Apple and third-party products that it recommends as gifts for
Mac users for the holiday season...
Apple Store cashes in on Mass. tax-free
holiday
Apple Store cashes in on Mass. tax-free
holiday
08/16/2004 12:26 PMThe Boston Globe reports that Apple's Cambridgeside retail store in
Massachusetts was plenty busy during the state's sales tax holiday
Saturday...
Apple Rolls Out New Macs Ahead of
Holiday Season
Apple Rolls Out New Macs Ahead of
Holiday Season
11/18/2003 11:34 AMBoston Globe Nov 18 2003 10:44AM ET
Gifts I gave, Gifts I got
Gifts I gave, Gifts I got
12/31/2003 10:54 AMThis
holiday edition of Wardriver Wednesday looks at the mobile
technology that was found under my Christmas tree this year—both for
me and from me. Maybe it will give you some ideas on how to spend any
Christmas money you received or gift return cash you acquired.
Like Pixels? Check out
MacDesignApple Stores in Mass. open 24 hours for
sales tax holiday
Apple Stores in Mass. open 24 hours for
sales tax holiday
08/11/2004 01:42 PMOrdinarily Massachusetts charges a 5 percent sales tax, but the
Commonwealth has dubbed Saturday, August 14, 2004 a
sales tax
holiday. On that day, purchases of "tangible personal property
costing $2,500 or less" are exempt from state sales tax. Apple has
three retail stores in the state, and they're celebrating the sales
tax holiday by remaining open for 24 hours on Saturday -- opening at
12:01 AM and closing at 11:59 PM in all three stores. Apple's retail
stores are located at the CambridgeSide Galleria in Cambridge, the
Chestnut Hill Mall in Chestnut Hill and the Northshore Mall in
Peabody. You can find more information and directions to the stores
from Apple's
retail store Web
page.
Mass. Apple Stores open 24 hours for
tax-free holiday
Mass. Apple Stores open 24 hours for
tax-free holiday
08/11/2004 12:16 PMApple's three retail stores in Massachusetts will be open 24 hours
(between 12:01 a.m...
Top Ten Holiday Gift Ideas for the
“Science and Engineering Minded”
Announced at Start of Holiday Shopping
Season
Top Ten Holiday Gift Ideas for the
“Science and Engineering Minded”
Announced at Start of Holiday Shopping
Season
12/19/2004 03:10 PMHoliday gift ideas for the science and engineering enthusiast. [PRWEB
Nov 24, 2004]
Last-Minute Gifts for Dad
Last-Minute Gifts for Dad
06/16/2004 10:02 AMIt's never too late to buy a present when you have the Internet at the
ready.
Micropatron gifts (L@@K L@@K)
Micropatron gifts (L@@K L@@K)
03/14/2005 04:24 PMWell, we're a week and a half into the three-week "fund drive" (if
you're just tuning in, start here)
and it's time for a shout-out to the kind people and companies who
have contributed gifts for some lucky kottke.org micropatrons (contribute $30+ and you
have a chance). If you haven't looked at the
list in awhile, you'll notice some additions.
I chose the gift contributors fairly carefully. With one or two
exceptions, most of the list is comprised of either
friends/acquaintances of mine who are supportive of what I'm doing,
companies that have an interest in blogs and blogging, products I've
used, or people who have gone or are going out on a limb to do
something entreprenurial in their lives (selling photography,
software, soap, books, etc...labors of love and commerce). I have a
special place in my heart for the latter group because they're in a
boat similar to mine and it makes me happy than I can help get the
word out about their projects.
Recent additions to the list:
Solid gold platinum executive class founder gifts:
Again, here's the
detailed list and here's how you become a micropatron for a shot
at one of the above.
Affordable Gifts
Affordable Gifts
12/17/2004 06:32 PMIn a round-up of affordable holiday gifts, Julio Ojeda-Zapata writes
in the St. Paul Pioneer Press, “The iTunes cards, in $15 and $25
denominations, are good for the purchase and download of individual
tracks. Get the cards at local Apple retail stores and at Target, Best
Buy, Circuit City and CompUSA stores, or snag them online at
store.apple.com or Amazon.com. The online Apple store offers paper or
electronic gift certificates good for iTunes purchases, too.”
[Dec 14]
Birthday gifts
Birthday gifts
04/09/2004 04:02 PMOn birthdays I like to give a gift. If I had a new beta of NetNewsWire
to post, I would, but it’s not quite there yet. Instead
I’ll just tell you a little about it.
After doing an upgrade just about every month last year, we needed to
take a little longer to do a bigger upgrade, to add a bunch of new
features.
I’m not going to tell you about all the new features today, but
I will talk about two of them. (There are many more... this just
scratches the surface.)
Browsing in place
This is perhaps the most-requested feature, the ability to view pages
directly in NetNewsWire.
Some notes about this feature...
1. NetNewsWire already uses Web Kit (the Safari HTML renderer) to
render item descriptions—in the current version, there is extra
code to prevent browsing-in-place from working. So the first
step in making this work was to remove code, which is not
what you’d normally expect when adding a new feature.
2. NetNewsWire, like many newsreaders, is a hybrid of email/Usenet
apps and browsers. This feature is at the very intersection of these
two types of applications, which makes it quite a user interface
challenge.
3. Even though this feature is requested so often, and even though
it’s demonstrably useful, a number of NetNewsWire testers were
against having it appear at all. They’re in the camp that says,
“Each app should do just one thing and do it well.”
I’m in the same camp, by the way—the disagreement comes in
when you try to define what “just one thing” is. In the
case of newsreaders, it’s increasingly obvious that browsing is
part of that “one thing” that a newsreader does. But, just
so you know, this feature is an option.
Weblog editor overhaul
The new weblog editor is a 99% re-do. The user interface has been
completely redesigned, and most of the under-the-hood code has been
rewritten.
There are several goals:
1. Make the weblog editor easier to use and, at the same time, more
powerful, with a more intuitive and more aesthetic interface.
2. Fix bugs (things like categories not always showing up).
3. Support more of the special features of various weblog systems
(things like image uploading, support for Movable Type and TypePad
keywords, etc.).
4. Make the text editor itself more powerful.
5. Add some other new features which I’m going to leave as a
surprise for now.
Anyway...
There are lots of other
new features to talk about...
But for now I’m just going to get back to work.
And speaking of gifts
And speaking of gifts
12/19/2004 03:40 PMSo the most significant change in my technology-related life in the
last year is the elimination of spam without a white-list technology.
I used to use Mailblocks for my main account, but Marc Perkel
convinced me to try his own Bayesian spam filter.
I'm on record saying such systems could never work. I was wrong.
Marc's system is amazing. I get endless email. His system filters the
mail into three boxes -- my inbox, a low probability box, and a high
probability box. I have never found a mistake in the high probability
box, so I no longer look at it. I very rarely find a mistake in the
low probability box, so I scan it about once a week (maybe 1% error).
And it is almost fun to get an error in my inbox, reminding me that
there still is this problem of spam out there.
Anyway, I'm giving Marc's spam filter service to my family for
Christmas (no, they don't read my blog). And I'd recommend it to
anyone else out there looking for a gift (note, I don't have any
financial interest in this). As Marc described to me:
I
sell it as a service. I can do it several ways. If someone wants a
single email address I can give them a something@marxmail.net account.
$25/year. Or I can host their email domain for $95/year. Or I can be a
front end spam filter where I clean it and pass it on to their
existing email server $75/year.
You can reach him for at this
MarxMail address.
"Shopping & Gifts"
"Shopping & Gifts"
06/03/2004 05:04 AMChristmas Gifts for Geeks
Christmas Gifts for Geeks
12/15/2003 11:43 AMscottfi writes "The shopping season is just about over and I'm always
on the lookout for the cool geek gadget to get friends and family (or
myself). What cool ...
Finding tech gifts for less than $50
Finding tech gifts for less than $50
12/23/2003 02:40 AMWashington Times Dec 23 2003 1:44AM ET
IRS to Eye Intellectual Property Gifts
IRS to Eye Intellectual Property Gifts
12/22/2003 05:24 PMAP via Newsday Dec 22 2003 4:51PM ET
Last Minute Gifts for the Holidays
Last Minute Gifts for the Holidays
07/25/2004 12:54 PMG4 Tech TV Jul 25 2004 5:07PM GMT
IRS to eye intellectual property gifts
IRS to eye intellectual property gifts
12/22/2003 07:40 PMAP via Seattle Post Intelligencer Dec 22 2003 5:44PM ET
Help With High-Tech Gifts
Help With High-Tech Gifts
12/29/2003 04:07 PMCBS News Dec 29 2003 2:28PM ET
Time to buy your Secret Santa Gifts
Time to buy your Secret Santa Gifts
12/19/2004 03:55 PMI got the email today about my Secret Santa gift recipient. He's a
Blog-Keeping, Mac-Using, iPod-Loving Liberal. And no, it's no one I'm
married to; in fact, it's someone I've never even heard of before. So
now I have to...
I will not write about the Giftmas gifts
I bought
I will not write about the Giftmas gifts
I bought
12/22/2004 12:59 AMBecause there are family members reading this little site now (and
have been for a while). However, I will say that I was pleasantly
surprised at how "normal" the two retail establishments I visited this
evening were. Neither felt crowded, featured those annoying bell
ringers, and the checkout lines were minimal. Maybe I should have
waited a few more days... :-)...
Flickr Gives Gifts to Pro Account
Holders
Flickr Gives Gifts to Pro Account
Holders
04/19/2005 08:47 AM
Remember
when Flickr said they'd reward the people who had bought pro accounts
after they were bought by Yahoo? I got an email last night with
details:
1. Double what you paid for! Your original 1 year
pro account has been doubled to 2 years, and your new expiry date is
Nov 22, 2006.
2. More capacity! Now you can upload 2 GB per month.
3. 2 free Pro Accounts to give away to your friends! This won't be
activated for a day or two, but when it is, you'll see a note on your
home page telling you what to do.
Thanks, Flickr!
Home Page [Flickr]
Dad Tries to Sell Christmas Gifts on
EBay (AP)
Dad Tries to Sell Christmas Gifts on
EBay (AP)
12/25/2004 04:58 PMAP - The kids were naughty, Dad put the presents on eBay instead of
under the tree — and Mom's been crying ever since. Now, even the
tree's down.
The MUG update: ideas for last-minute
gifts
The MUG update: ideas for last-minute
gifts
12/22/2004 01:43 AMLeading off the news at The Macintosh User Group (MUG) Center this
week, editor Chuck Joiner notes that the site features a page full of
gift ideas for the Mac user in your life. He welcomes additions to the
list. You might also find something among the new vendor offers also
just added to the site -- the special deals are available only to MUG
members, and the additions include offerings from O'Reilly, Micromat,
the Apple MUG Store and more.
Technology makes great gifts for
everyone
Technology makes great gifts for
everyone
12/02/2003 01:49 AMSiliconValley.com Nov 30 2003 6:32AM ET
Man Accused of Stealing Day Care's Gifts
(AP)
Man Accused of Stealing Day Care's Gifts
(AP)
12/24/2004 01:13 PMAP - A father was charged with burglary and grand theft after he took
presents from underneath a day care's Christmas tree, police said.
Teachers' Christmas Gifts Can Be Strange
(AP)
Teachers' Christmas Gifts Can Be Strange
(AP)
12/25/2004 05:14 PMAP - Middle school teacher ReBecca Kutcher remembers the sixth-grader
who gave her a necklace for Christmas with what she thought was a
cubic zirconia.
Tech Gifts a Luddite Will Love
Tech Gifts a Luddite Will Love
12/09/2003 06:13 AMWhat to buy for the dad who loves movies but still can't program a
VCR? Is there any hope for these non-geeky relatives? Check out our
techie gift guide for non-techie types. By Katie Dean.
U.S. Military Hospitals Flooded With
Gifts (AP)
U.S. Military Hospitals Flooded With
Gifts (AP)
01/01/2005 08:25 AMAP - For the two principal military hospitals treating American troops
wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan, there has been too much of a good
thing this holiday season.
Christmas Gifts, Food, Arrive at ISS
Christmas Gifts, Food, Arrive at ISS
12/27/2004 05:42 PMSci-Tech Today Dec 27 2004 9:05PM GMT
Grok Description matches for Your Apple/Mac Holiday Gifts
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Your Apple/Mac Holiday Gifts
