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My son, the nerd

Me:
Hey Thomas!
you there?

Thomas:
hey What?

Me:
how are you?

Thomas:
good

Me:
Keynote was really cool this morning.

Thomas:
cool

Me:
They made Safari work on Windows

Thomas:
awww

Me:
and the new version is available – apple.com/safari

Thomas:
Finally!

Me:
you can download it

Thomas:
FINALLY!
I’m going to wait for the full version

Me:
you won’t be able to use it

Thomas:
oh

Me:
unless we can install Leopard

Thomas:
ok

Me:
we should install Tiger on your computer
I think you need it for safari

Thomas:
The beta version?

Me:
Leopard doesn’t come out until October
yeah
it will say on the website

Thomas:
I want Leopard
!

Me:
it’s still beta,
and will eat up your memory,
but I got a new disc of it,
it’s got a hologram on it
Attempting to connect to 69.64.229.153:4443.
Asking thomasjring to connect to us at 17.210.49.129:5190 for Direct IM.
Me:
are you sending something?
Attempting to connect via proxy server.
Received invalid data on connection with remote user.
Direct IM disconnected
Received invalid data on connection with remote user.

Thomas:
a leopard

Me:
I don’t think it will work

Thomas:
ok

Me:
I’m trying to remember what else they showed.
there’s a new Finder – it looks like iTunes.

Thomas:
aw

Me:
and the new dock is awesome – 3D

Thomas:
danget.
oooo.
wow.

Me:
hmmm, what else.
they demo’d the iPhone.
and told us a way to write software for it.
but it’s totally lame.
(writing software for it)

Thomas:
lol

Me:
you have to do it on a web page.
I have one more session today in 20 minutes.
I always wish that I could bring you with me to WWDC.
I think you’d really like it.

Thomas:
yeah.
I’m watching a video about the new desktop.
ooo

Me:
target=macnn>http://www.macnn.com/articles/07/06/11/wwdc.jobs.talks.leopard/

Thomas:
trasparent finder

Me:
transparent menus, yes.
I don’t like that much actualy.
I don’t like the new Finder, either.
Web Clip works a lot better now.

Thomas:
I like the new dock

Me:
I do, too!

Thomas:
and stacks

Me:
oh and stacks!

Thomas:
lol

Me:
stacks are really cool

Thomas:
yeah

stacks!

stacks!

stacks!stacks!stacks!stacks!

Me:
haha

Thomas:
stacks!stacks!stacks!stacks!stacks!stacks!stacks!crazy!

Me:
stacks

stacky stacks

did I tell you I started using something instead of iChat?

Thomas:
stacks!

Me:
Adium.
you can check it out if you want.
Google it, free download

Thomas:
What is it

Me:
I think it will work on Panther.
it’s like iChat

Thomas:
yes!

Me:
only has more features

Thomas:
and does it work like AIM?

Me:
sort of.
do you like AIM?

Thomas:
well alot of people use it.
all my friends and basically everybody does.

Me:
yes, iChat works with AIM

Thomas:
hmm..

Me:
did you know that?
also, Adium works with AIM

Thomas:
a green duck…

Me:
yeah, you can change that.
you can change a lot of things.

Thomas:
good

hiws….
hows

how’s

Me:
none of those is a word

Thomas:
a purple ferret.
la

Me:
I use the yellow duck

Thomas:
so many substitutes

Me:
“how is”

Thomas:
Safari to Firefox (I hate and love firefox).
ok.
help me setup.
Add an instant messaging account.

Me:
yeah

Thomas:
tell me what to do

Me:
thomasjring.
and your password.
which I’m not sure of.

Thomas:
I don’t have a password…

Me:
but it might be “(redacted)”.
you do.
it’s required.

Thomas:
ok.
AOL or Aim?

Me:
AOL.
they are the same.
I just logged in as you.

Thomas:
brb

Me:
password is “(redacted)”.
I gotta go

Thomas:
oooo.
this is cool

Me:
I have to pee before next session.
enjoy

Thomas:
ok.
bye.

Me:
I’ll ttyl
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WWDC, Day One

Today was the first day of WWDC. WWDC consists mostly of lecture sessions about the technologies in Mac OS X and how to use those technologies. The most exciting session of the week is the first: the legendary keynote by Apple CEO Steve Jobs. This is when Steve unveils all the great new stuff that they’ll be doing during the next year. This year’s keynote was as good as any I’ve attended.

The most anticipated news was the introduction of the Mac Pro line of desktop computers. This was the final step towards an all-Intel line for Apple and all evidence indicates that they saved the best for last. These machines will feature:

  • Two dual-core Xeon processors at 2.0, 2.66 or 3.0 Ghz
  • Four hard drive bays with easy-to-install sleds
  • Two optical drive bays
  • $2500 base model with many build-to-order options

But this was just the start of the goodies that Apple introduced. Next spring they plan to ship the next version of Mac OS X, code-named Leopard, and it is packed full of great new features:

  • Time Machine: Seamless backup for all of your files with greatest user interface ever put on top of backup software. The demo for this was incredible.
  • Boot Camp: Boot into Windows on your Mac.
  • Spaces: The virtual desktop idea done right.
  • Improved Speech: Apple has been using the same speech technology for about 20 years it seems. Now they’ve got speech technology that sounds very human and is very, very close to natural.
  • iChat Theater: Show someone a slide show, movie or presentation while chatting with them online. Totally awesome idea and I hope they don’t require the video conferencing as they showed it today.

Leopard is shipping next spring but we got a “Preview” copy for free today. Everyone was madly installing it on their laptops during lunch. Nerds are so funny!