Good bye, Steve Jobs

I am sad, and I don't even like Apple.

Mac Software

I do not use a Mac. I never have used one. There is a lot of cool software available for Macs, and now that they use Intel chips you can pretty much run any Windows software on it that you want too. Below are some sites I found that seem to have a good selection of good software. They all come from a family of sites by Worcester LLC.

• Best Mac software - I have used the PC version of a lot of these and they are great
• Best open-source Mac software - open-source may not mean much to you non-technical folks, bit it is cool
• Best free software (Mac and PC) - With these programs you get way more than you pay for
• Get the free version - Shows a piece of popular software and a fee program with similar functionality
• Open-source iPhone software - It is not for Macs, but it's related

"Live" blogging the Apple tablet announcement

I missed the Apple announcement today due to some family obligations. I remembered in seminary doing a "missionary week" during the Super Bowl, so then we all would watch the Super Bowl the next day when we were no longer pretending to be missionaries. I decided to do something similar for the Apple press event. I successfully navigated my day until now without hearing anything about the event, so now I am going to watch the keynote and blog about it.

Why? I'm not entirely sure. I definitely won't do as good a job as Engadget, plus the news happened seven hours ago. For that matter, I think my blog is currently restricted anyway. The main reason is that I want to capture my initial reactions to the actual device, plus I want to get a greater appreciation for what the folks at Engadget do at these events.

So, let's get going . . . as soon as I find a video feed that I can get working. I tried all three from Apple's site in Chrome and none of them worked. Front page of Apple said iPad and had a picture. No real surprises that it actually is a tablet, and I didn't look closely at the picture. Internet Explorer is stalling out on the site. Now a bunch of errors and Quicktime not working. . . Real impressive, morons. I was hoping to do something else tonight too.

Screw it. I'm watching the State of the Union. Stupid Apple. You can take your iPad and . . . grrr.