So my flatmate left over the weekend and before doing so he got the Phone/Internet/TV cut off and due to a stuff up on my part I can't join Telstra for another couple of years (long story). So I haven't had the Internet for a week or so nor have I had a phone (not that that gets used much anyway).

So I took the plunge and tried Orcon and ended up speaking to a chap by the name of Stefan. The whole process was smooth, quick, and helpful. All my questions were answered and although for some reason

 

The MacBook Air is an interesting development. Sure it's been done before but the thing that is interesting more than what the MacBook Air has is what it has left out. The DVD drive.

 

With most sub-notebooks the drive is not internal but external but it is included however with the MacBook Air it is not. This might be more telling than you think and highlights a possible future sans physical media. A future I'd be glad to see come. Here's why...

 

CDs and DVDs are namby pambys:

 

CDs and DVDs

I just wanted to say Thank You so much for those that took the time to complete the site survey. The results confirmed many of the things I had in my own head about the site and also the fact I hadn't communicated other things clearly.

It also pointed out the dilemma web designers face daily...more news/less clutter...more functionality/simplified pages...more news/less text....etc etc....you get what I mean? I've always said that NZMac.com is a work in progress and 5 years on, that's still the case....but I thought I would share the plan for this year and how your feedback helped.

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So I went to the Geeks, Gadgets, and Games event at the Michael Fowler Centre on Wednesday and I have to say it was a great night.

I met Jo aka Mangee so "Hi once again, nice to put a face to the name and thanks for helping to run such a cool event."

The night basically consisted of 5 speakers. I found the first two to be quite boring. It was all about what they and their companies are doing and how to make money. Frankly I don't care about that so I was biased against them. I want to learn about technology and how it can be applied effectively not how I can make m

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I don’t know what made me do it, but I typed in the old www.macguide.co.nz address a few moments ago...and got a pleasant surprise...and then got confused....and then got angry...and then got spam.

It’s great to see the Macguide site finally come alive, although the redirection to a domain called “woop.tv” had me freaking out a bit. On the surface, this looked like the Macguide site I was expecting....Apple and Mac news etc.

Obviously even though it is early days, I was curious to see who was using the site and noticed a number of blog entries. Str

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It's not been a great time for NZMac.com over the past month or so. More often than not, you've experienced a message that the site is offline. It's also meant hours of work, lack of sleep (Palmerston North is very quiet at 3am by the way) and new additional costs for me in order to get the site back up and running to the standard that I set for myself and that is required for site users. Things are going really well with the move to a Virtual Private Server system, but it's not all over in

Completely ignoring the launch of the New Zealand iTunes Store and online Apple store for a moment...2006 was an impressive year for Apple. With the smooth launch and transition to Intel Macs (it seems so much longer than 12 months ago that the first was released) and the promotion by Apple of products such as Parallels on your Mac, Apple is (as ever) evolving beautifully.

Then factor into the mix local news in the December launch of an iTunes Store (finally!), lower prices than we had