Melinda & Cristiano

I was/am in the Apple Store today and took a moment to play with the iPod touch, and “WOW”. It is so coooooool. I played with all the elements and was amazed about the speed, precision, and the screen. I never used an iPhone so this was my first iPhone-like experience, and I don’t know how the touch compares to the iPhone.

I even tried typing some info in the address book and browser. I really like the landscape keyboard in Safari, it is simply flawless for my fingers. The portrait keyboard is a bit less accurate but amazingly works really OK for my fingers. I entered all my details (address, phone number, etc) into the address book within 2 or 3 minutes, which is a lot faster than I can do with any other phone keyboard. Ow, and yes, I deleted all the info afterwards.

I was a bit disappointed that you can’t edit events though, but I think we will see that soon either hacked or by Apple.

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Just had a quick view at iWork 08. I like the little updates they made, especially to keynote. Some of the new cool builds are really handy, and exactly what I and many others including Reinier have been hoping for. I had a quick look at Numbers, and yes it is fun, but seriously: it is still a spreadsheet. All and all not much change, but a goo basic alternative to a very expensive Microsoft Office.

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Went to the Apple store exactly two weeks ago to have my MacBook fixed. I had a little crack in the topcase (again, third time) and as I was 1 month out of warranty I was hoping to be lucky. Amazingly the Apple Geek was ok with the repair, and even wanted to replace the bottom-case too, which had a very small crack.

As an extra he told me to have a look at my battery, that recently had dropped to a capacity of 59%. After 1.5 week of phoning the Apple Store and complaining about the time it took for them to take care of this “high priority” repair, I was happy to see that they finally managed to repair the topcase, bottom-case, battery and fan on the Sunday before I left for The Netherlands.

Pretty cool how they even decided to replace my battery outside of the warranty. Kudos for Apple again, but please, next time do my repair a bit faster.

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Many people know that I like LJS Apple Service Center in The Haque (The Netherlands), but unfortunately there is no service point here in London that will do a repair in a couple of hours. Still I am glad when I went to the Apple Store in Regent Street this afternoon.

LJS killed my combo-drive with the last repair of my topcase of my MacBook. The Apple Store here was happy to fix it for me, even though somehow all of my repairs at LJS are not listed in their system. Additionally I had a nice talk with some of the tech guys of DJ Jazzy Jeff (who was also int he store himself). I just love the geek bar here, it is simple and it works and when you sit there you even get to meet people.

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The first Apple TV’s arrived at their customers today and soon alot of unboxing pictures could be found. I personally got a commercial email from Apple announcing their Apple TV. I was surprised by the title of their email.

Yes, it says “The Show Starts Now”. For the people who aren’t that annoyed by Vista I might have to explain that I think this slogan makes much more sense than the Windows Vista Slogan “The Wow Starts Now”.

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