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After reading this article, most people would have "Schadenfreude" about poor Jack Campells trials: http://www.apple-x.net/modules.php?op=modload&name =News&file=article&sid=1483&mode=thread&order=0&th old=0&POSTNUKESID=10769edefecec7b61a24bd85104bd404

Don't get blindly ideological, one way or another. This is a company that has played fast and loose with a lot of things. See http://www.apple-x.net/modules.php?op=modload&name =News&file=article&sid=1483&mode=thread&order=0&th old=0/ or http://www.macintouch.com/mactable.html/ This is one of Jack Campbell's companies, and one of his self-promotions.

I haven't been able to find the "expanded" pic I was looking for, but here's what I have found:

go here and look for the entry on 12 May 2003 titled "Detail to Mac OS X.3 Panther." The little pic on the right shows a pile in its normal, unexpanded state. The pic I can't find, of the expanded state, would look like that except that it would be expanded vertically so that you could see all the icons. I suppose it would sort of float above the Finder window, kind of like when you're dragging an icon, so the rest of the window wouldn't have to be re-arranged. Imagine a dock-like scaling effect.

The other, different concept can be seen here and is described here (look for the entry titled "Steaming Piles"). This one seems to me a little less likely to be the "correct" interface, but all they had to work with was the patent application...

> The best was the sound for winning a level it was a comical "Ahhhhh!" sound.

I always thought the sound was orgasmic, because the level exit gates were shaped like labia, which the player had to penetrate to go to the next level. The exit is at the bottom of this picture, but it's shown closed before killing all the enemies (cherry, anyone?).

oops, make that http://apple-x.net/images/iwork_images/pages/01_te mplates.jpg! I'm using internet exploder at the minute. Its a conspiracy ;)

Looking at this image: http://apple-x.net/images/iwork_images/pages/01_te mplates.jpg/, does anybody notice what the "Non-Profit" newsletter is called? ;)

I doubt this service is going to be Linux based.

iServices from Apple

Over at Apple-X.net, our senior investigative journalist had an article about Apple's connection to Connexion and a possible new iService. After seeing PCWorld cover the topic, we decided to run the story now. Check it out: "Apple's Connexion to Boeing: OS X Tiger's QuickTime Could Reach More than 3 Billion Users a Year!" --Trent L. CEO of Apple-X.net

Some of the article discussion complains that leaving out the screen is a bad move, but is that necessarily the case?

Maybe not.

In the essay What have we got to lose? (as anthologized in _The Salmon of Doubt_), Douglas Adams gives a fascinating overview of all the cases where a clever new product was born not by adding some dazzling new feature, but by identifying properties that could easily be dispensed with.

Some of the most revolutionary new ideas come from spotting something old to leave out rather than thinking of something new to put in. The Sony Walkman, for instance, added nothing significantly new to the cassette player, it just left out the amplifier and speakers, thus creating a whole new way of listening to music and a whole new industry. Sony's new Handycam rather brilliantly leaves out the zoom function on the grounds that all a zoom does is cost money, add a lot of bulk and render every amateur video ever made unwatchable. (They might, while they're following this line of thought, consider marketing a record-only video player, and video companies might consider releasing movies that are actually recorded in fast forward mode.) The RISC chip works by the brilliant, life-enhancing principle of getting on with the easy stuff and leaving out all the difficult bits for someone else to deal with. (I know it's a little more complicated than that, but you have to admit, it's a damned attractive idea). A well-made dry martini works by the brilliant, life-enhancing principle of leaving out the martini.

So... an iPod with no screen. Well why not? How often do you actually look at the screen? Probably not very -- most of the time the device sits in your pocket, and a lot of people just control the thing through Apple's remote control, which of course has already dispensed with the screen, and has in fact left you with something that looks a lot like the device in the article's photo.

But okay, some of the complaints are right -- browsing through even a modest music collection can get tedious when the only controls you have are to skip forward & back by a track. Being able to see what's going on is nice, but do you have to be able to see it when every iPod listener is already ipso facto listening to the device? Think about it: this would be an excellent place to use some kind of audio / speech interface, and Apple certainly knows how to design a system that way, having had a speech interface built into Macs for many years now.

That may or may not be what Apple is up to here, but it seems like an obvious future direction for the suite of products. It wouldn't surprise me at all if, for example, a future version of the bundled headphones doubled as a microphone somehow, so that you could control the device by just saying "iPod, shuffle playlist Beatles", and it would go forth and do your bidding, and you didn't have to dig it out of your pocked or your backpack or whereever you keep yours stashed.

Apple-X.net :: TheMacMind.com Unveils Flash iPod Concept Image Based On Inside Info (Image Mirror Included) Enjoy! --Trent L. CEO of Apple-X.net

Apple-X.net :: TheMacMind.com Unveils Flash iPod Concept Image Based On Inside Info (Image Mirror Included) Enjoy! --Trent L. CEO of Apple-X.net

For more on this software, and issue, you can visit my site Apple-X.net: CherryOS: Interview With Creator, Plus Screenshots

mirror of images here

Here's a link to a screenshot I was able to find: http://apple-x.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=New s&file=article&sid=680

Look all the way towards the bottom 3/4 of the article. It contains screenshots of other notable Mac games as well.

Over at apple-x.net, they got pictures of the new liquid cooling module Apple-X.net Looks like a car radiator, probably would not fit into the definition of a heat pipe.

This article helps put this FUD into perspective. Apple bashers need not read it, since they've already made up their minds.