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As I write this , it ’s other Saturday morning , and we ’re just slipping back into our office at the Seattle loading dock . After cruise more than 2,000 maritime miles during seven days , including stops at three Alaskan cities , one Canadian city , and one very large glacier , Mac Mania VIhas occur to an end . And before I go any further , I take to clear up something about this voyage — this is actually a “ two-fold track”Geek Cruise ; it ’s not just MacMania cruise , but an Aperture cruise as well ....

Airplanes may be great for traversing the globe , but they ’re mostly not great for watching a movie . Next time , catch your video iPod and one of these accessories for a first - class experience . Pricing guide Free$ – Bargain ( $ 1–$30)$$ – Inexpensive ( $ 31–$60)$$$ – restrained ( $ 61–$150)$$$$ – Pricey ( $ 151–$350)$$$$$ – orgy ( more than $ 350 )...

What to do with old Macs Regarding your story about what to do with honest-to-god Macs ( “ New Life for Old Macs , ” April 2007 ): Another path to responsibly dispose of an old calculator — and many other utile affair — is through Freecycle.org . Registered drug user can give away items or take items offered by other users . I have given off a couple of former Macs this way ....

Several times a year , my family and I drive from San Francisco to Los Angeles to visit my wife ’s parents . It ’s an eight - minute drive . Back when I was a kid , that would ’ve meant eight time of day of boredom . But our kids actually look ahead to it these days . They can watch TV shows and pic on a video recording iPod while my wife and I stay entertained by music and podcasts from an iPod mini wired into the motorcar ’s CD - auto-changer plug ....

PDA and smartphone makerPalmon Monday announced a recapitalization plan that will institute two former Apple executive on the fellowship ’s control board of directors and will infuse $ 325 million in funds into the company . In return , Palm ’s sell a 25 percent interest to Elevation . Palm ’s new mate in this endeavor is Elevation Partners , a private equity firm led by Apple ’s former Chief Financial Officer , Fred Anderson , and Roger McNamee ....

Hearst - Argyle Television and YouTube Monday announced a joint effort to lend news , weather and entertainment videos and original Hearst television programing in five local marketplace to YouTube . Beginning Monday , Hearst TV post in Boston , Sacramento , Pittsburgh , Baltimore and Manchester , N.H. , will get posting local video to commit YouTube channels . The deal pit the first statistical distribution arrangement between Google subsidiary YouTube and an independent television broadcaster , consort to YouTube and Hearst ....

After an all - night run down from Hubbard Glacier , theMS Oosterdamarrived in Sitka for the latest arrest in the MacMania VI cruise . Like Juneau , Sitka is only accessible via boat or aura , and has only around 9,000 class - round resident physician ( which makes it Alaska ’s fourth- or fifth - largest urban center , depending on who ’s doing the reckoning ) . With only 40 full miles of roadway ( just over one-half of it paved ) , elevator car larceny is n’t much of an issue around here , unless there ’s a ferry at the docks ....

We saw something new on this MacMania voyage Thursday — sunlight ! While the weather this tripper has never really been bad ( except for some strong malarkey ) , we ’ve been accompanied by a perpetual gray background . Not only does this make the scenery less interesting , it makes it really toilsome to get prissy out-of-door photos — a flat hoar backdrop may be dear for portraits , but it ’s not the most visually stunning matter to see behind a tidy sum range ....

One consequence of my increasingly newspaper - less office — a corresponding gain in the number of PDF files that come in via e - post , that I download from the vane , and that I create myself . I ’ve catch PDFs spread all over my laborious drive , and it ’s getting harder to keep them all in order . That ’s the job that Ironic Software ’s $ 34Yep 1....

For consumers , the Macintosh ’s pelvis quotient is being hammered home with one of the declamatory and most memorable advertising campaigns in Apple history . But the enterprise is n’t getting any of that attention . Despite being roundly ignored , embodied America seems to be perking up its collective capitulum a bit to some of Apple ’s new product . The society ’s switch to x86 processors , though elbow room too long in coming by some accounts , has open doors to some enterprise accounts that otherwise would have remained shut ....

Ever since the Apple TV ’s specifications were first announce , one literary criticism has occur through meretricious and clear from just about everyone — the hard disk cause included in the twist is too pocket-size . Apple ’s eventually responded to that job by offering a 160 GB drive manakin , which you’re able to grease one’s palms for $ 399 , or $ 100 more than the cost of the 40 GB version ....

The D : All Things Digital conference is an effect where the ace power in the audience is comparable to the genius power on the upshot stage . Sure , that ’s George Lucas up there on stage , but is n’t that Martha Stewart ? And there ’s Steve Ballmer of Microsoft , but the gang listen to him let in former RIAA executive Hilary Rosen and “ Men in Black ” managing director Barry Sonnenfeld ....

After depart Juneau at 9 p.m.—well before the local sunset — we MacMania VI cabin cruiser come alive the next day head for the entrance to Yakutat Bay , the home ofHubbard Glacier . But before the requisite sight - seeing , I had a trend to teach . Well , actually , it was more like being on a biz show with 10 hosts and just one contestant — it was a Q&A academic session , where attendees can postulate the speaker system any Mac - related query , and we do our good to answer ....