iPad Guided Tours

You can now learn all about your favourite tablet at the US Apple website (there's nothing on the UK site yet). The actors in the films must have the world's strongest left arms to hold the iPads still for as long as they do.

Snow Leopard updated to 10.6.3

Fire up Software Update. This system update includes general fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac, including fixes that:

• improve the reliability and compatibility of QuickTime X
• address compatibility issues with OpenGL-based applications
• address an issue that causes background message colors to display incorrectly in Mail
• resolve an issue that prevented files with the # or & characters in their names from opening in Rosetta applications
• resolve an issue that prevented files from copying to Windows file servers
• improve performance of Logic Pro 9 and Main Stage 2 when running in 64-bit mode
• improve sleep and wake reliability when using Bonjour wake on demand
• address a color issue in iMovie with HD content
• improve printing reliability
• resolve issues with recurring events in iCal when connected to an Exchange server
• improve the reliability of 3rd party USB input devices
• fix glowing, stuck, or dark pixels when viewing video from the iMac (Late 2009) built-in iSight camera.

Apple Store open again.

No pre-orders for the iPad are being taken yet.
Officially it will be available to buy in late April, so you'll just have to wait.

Get your Apple history here.

The film Welcome to Macintosh has been uploaded to Snagfilms.
Click on the picture above to watch.

Apple store currently closed.

The Apple store is currently closed. I wonder if this signals updated products or pre-ordering of the iPad? Probably the later.

The new iPad telly advert

Hey I've just noticed that if you shuffle (or type them wrong as I did) the letters you get iPda. 
I can't remember I last time I heard that acronym.

Amazinger!

This pastiche is spot-on. Jumping on the back of the iPad launch next month, Channel 4's sister channel had produced
a lo-fi version of the Apple' touchscreen wonder that more in common with the old Apple Portable.