Morning,
May is just flying by, and we feel like the fast and furious pace of the month has definitely been echoed by the happenings in the Apple space! Today finds us gazing longingly at the new MacBooks, ruminating on how the iPad and the Model T are alike and fixing our Facebook privacy settings without wading through pages and pages of options.
MacBook Refresh
Oh, they grow up so fast, don't they? Seems like it was only yesterday the MacBook was just a wee thing...oh wait. It WAS only yesterday! The new unibody 13" MacBook joins its grown up siblings with a faster processor and better graphics: the entry-level Mac now sports a 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo and uses the NVIDIA GeForce 320M for graphics. Aside from the "new and improved" MagSafe connector (which now points toward the back of the laptop instead of hanging out on the side) and the impressive 10 hour built in battery the feature list remains the same. Know what else hasn't changed?
The price. And hurrah for that!
Steve Jobs is the Henry Ford of Computing
OK, OK, so the column doesn't say that exactly, but still...Joel Johnson's piece for Macworld does draw some interesting and thought provoking comparisons to the inventions of yore. The Model T was once a new fangled contraption too! The premise of the article is that in forty years we're going to look back and see the iPad as the first "appliance" computer, the point on which the world of computing turned.
We agree, frankly...not only will iPad imitators abound because of the potential for consumption, but now that this level of technology has been introduced we just can't go back to a solely mouse and keyboard existence. There's a whole new world out there, and we hope you'll click over and read; the awe we feel never really goes away but it's awesome to check back in and go, "yeah...we've got it pretty good!"
More Facebook
We really dislike talking about a problem without offering a solution, and thanks to ReclaimPrivacy.org we've got an answer to the Facebook woes. PCWorld had this information up on their site today and we had to reshare it!
Just link to that site, drag the "Scan for Privacy" link on the page into your bookmarks bar and log in to Facebook. Once you're in, click the bookmarked link and the free software scans ALL the privacy settings, links to the specific pages so you can decide what you want to change and what you're ok with having on the internet and click to fix. No searching through pages, no surprises.
Please pass this around the interwebs! We thought we'd gotten everything taken care of but there are settings for what your friends can share about you that even we had missed. Go forth...protect your privacy!
Retweet that link on Twitter!
Till tomorrow, Newsies...
