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Apple is surrounding me.  It seems like almost every other day, someone else around me buys some Apple product.  At the current rate, it won’t be long before everyone around me is using all Apple products.  So far I’ve held my ground.  But I can’t say that I haven’t been tempted (see my previous entry on the subject).

It started a number of months ago when my manager at work traded in his BlackBerry for an iPhone and his PC laptop for a MacBook.  Then more recently a few of the Flash developers at my company switched to MacBooks.  Then a month ago another co-worker got an iPhone.  Then last week two of my friends from work switched over – one got a MacBook and the other an iMac – both for home use.  Now my dad made the switch for a new job.  As I sit here typing on my PC laptop, I wonder if there is any avoiding this slow trickle continuing to grow until it becomes a landslide. (continue reading…)

Again, I’m pimping one of these giveaways.  But the truth is that this is a great giveaway and it is great to see a company like HP being so generous this time of year.  I mean these guys are gifting out $6000 worth of equipment TIMES 50!!  Each of 50 blogs that they chose has the full $6000 package of stuff to give away.  And the only catch is that you have to pay it forward?  Even if I gave ALL of it away, I’d still feel better for winning. (continue reading…)

I have been anti-Mac for a long time.  It isn’t a stubborn bias, but one rooted in a set of formulated opinions.  I am a flexible person and I’m willing to change my stance on things if given good reason.  Apple seems to be coming closer to doing so. (continue reading…)

In my line of work, it is critical that I am on top of all of the latest browsers and internet technologies.  So when Google suddenly decided to release their own browser 2 days ago (called Chrome), I was right on top of it.  I read the comic book intro for it while I was waiting for the download to be available (btw, awesome way to describe … well … anything – much more interesting than reading an article … hrm).  Some of the features sounded really cool and smart.  Some of them worried me a little (at least on a professional level).  After using it (which I am right now to write this), most of my concerns were quickly abated and all of the features were as good as or better than I expected. (continue reading…)