If you’re a fan of Apple’s highly successful and endearing Get a Mac commercials, AdWeek has them all in one place. From 2006 to the last of 2009.
We know how you love Apple’s “Get a Mac” ads with John Hodgman and Justin Long. So, here are all 66 TV spots (plus the 90-second extended version of 2008’s musical ad “Sad Song”) that have aired since the campaign, created by TBWA Media Arts Lab, launched on May 2, 2006.
Apple did not run any ‘Get a Mac’ commercials during the 2009 holiday period. Is that the last of ‘Get a Mac?’
Just when you thought it was safe to live in your own home, a Santa Fe man who claims to suffer from electromagnetic allergies is suing his neighbor. Why? From the Santa Fe Reporter:
Arthur Firstenberg, the plaintiff, has been sleeping at friends’ homes or in his car to avoid the electromagnetic waves created by his neighbor Raphaela Monribot’s cell phone, wireless network, computer, compact fluorescent lightbulbs and dimmer switches.
Wait. There’s more. And it gets worse. Other residents claim that WiFi internet waves aggravate their electronic allergies, too, and they’re suing to remove all WiFi Hot Spots in the city.
To add merit to their case, they are classifying their “allergy” or “sensitivity” as a disability and are claiming the Americans with Disabilities Act, which prohibits discrimination based on disability.
What if they’re allergic to radio and television waves?
What happens when a designer’s company goes out of business and he becomes unemployed? Etsy and a gallery of stickers for MacBook users.
My favorite:
I like simple. For Mac users, iCal is simple. It tracks To-Do items, notes, and, importantly your daily schedule, and it does it on multiple calendars. What would make iCal even better? Since iCal captures my daily schedule, wouldn’t it be handy to pull up all that data and calculate the time spent on various events, projects, meetings, and tasks? That’s what TimeTable does.
From Mac360’s review of Evernote, and from my It Pays To Read The Fine Print department comes the Terms of Service agreement at Evernote:
Accordingly, by using the Service and posting Content, you grant Evernote a license to display, perform and distribute your Content, and to modify and reproduce such Content to enable Evernote to operate and promote the Service. (You also agree that Evernote has the right to elect not to accept, post, store, display, publish or transmit any Content in our sole discretion.) You agree that these licenses are royalty free, irrevocable and worldwide, and include a right for Evernote to make such Content available to others with whom Evernote has contractual relationships related to the provision of the Evernote Service, solely for the purpose of providing such services, and to otherwise permit access to your Content to third parties if Evernote determines such access is necessary to comply with its legal obligations.
In other words, when you store your data online using Evernote, they can re-distribute or modify your data any which way and wherever they choose. They wouldn’t, would they?
Football makes for strange bedfellows. And exciting drama. Green Bay Packers’ quarterback Brett Favre retired. Then came out of retirement. Then retired again. Then came out of retirement. Again. Lane Kiffin was hired to run the Oakland Raiders and ran them to a 5-15 record, and a big mess. He was run out of town by team owner Al Davis. Kiffin went to Tennessee for a year. Now he’s gone. Again. Where did Kiffin turn up? Dan Wetzel:
USC, which is facing a multi-sport, department-wide NCAA bloodletting next month, just hired a guy who in his tenure at Tennessee was a walking secondary violation (six of them), had two players booted off the team after an attempted armed robbery and leaves with NCAA investigators looking into how the program used recruiting hostesses. And, of course, he was a Trojan assistant when the compliance trouble USC must answer for began.
A mess at USC, a mess at Oakland, a mess at Tennessee. Let me predict a mess at USC.
It’s just a matter of time before Avatar becomes the highest grossing (most popular) movie ever. The regular movie is stunning. The 3D version only more so. From Movie News & Gossip:
Vatican newspaper and radio station are criticizing James Cameron’s 3-D blockbuster for flirting with the idea that worship of nature can replace religion — a notion the pope has warned against. They call the movie a simplistic and sappy tale, despite its awe-inspiring special effects.
It is simplistic. Avatar is good vs. evil. And the special effects are, well, stunning. From the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore:
So much stupefying, enchanting technology, but few genuine emotions… Everything is reduced to an overly simple anti-imperialistic and anti-militaristic parable…
No emotions? Didn’t you hate the bad guys and root for the good guys? Remember, it’s a movie, not the Gospel. Vatican Radio:
(It) cleverly winks at all those pseudo-doctrines that turn ecology into the religion of the millennium. Nature is no longer a creation to defend, but a divinity to worship.
Did I mention that Avatar is a movie?
From the Associated Press:
Sarah Palin, former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate, will return to her broadcast roots and take her conservative message to Fox News as a regular commentator.
From Sarah Palin:
I am thrilled to be joining the great talent and management team at Fox News. It’s wonderful to be part of a place that so values fair and balanced news.
From me:
I think I’m going to be ill.
Ouch.
A Swiss court has slapped a wealthy speeder with a chalet-sized fine — a full $290,000. Judges at the cantonal court in St. Gallen, in eastern Switzerland, based the record-breaking fine on the speeder’s estimated wealth of over $20 million. A statement on the court’s Web site says the driver — a repeat offender — drove up to 35 miles an hour faster than the 50-mile-an-hour limit.
Moral of the story? If you’re rich and drive in Switzerland, don’t speed.
One of the problems with being an aging computer user is diet. And exercise. Alright, that’s two problems. Simple problems. Too much of the wrong kind of food. Not enough exercise. Fortunately, the solution is simple. Unfortunately, the solution is not easy. Your Mac and Perfect Diet Tracker to the rescue.
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