RIP

I'm sure everyone has heard that Steve Jobs passed away today. I got the alert from my Associate Press app and it made me really sad to hear the news. I didn't know him, but from what I do know, he has done some amazing things. Apple obviously, but Pixar as well. This man has had many visions and they all seemed to pan out really well. I really hope that everyone will be ok without him. I'm sure he will be truly missed. I know as a consumer he will be missed. RIP in Steve Jobs.

Book of Jobs

The Steve Jobs biography, iSteve: The Book of Jobs has started to hit Amazon for presale and it’s already a best seller. It still has 9 months to go before its release! That’s insane. The set release date is March 6, 2012. I’m glad that the cover picture is only temporary because it looks a little silly. I’m still interested in reading the book and my hopes are still high for many chapters about his Pixar days.

From bestselling author Walter Isaacson comes the landmark biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. In iSteve: The Book of Jobs, Isaacson provides an extraordinary account of Jobs’ professional and personal life.

Drawn from three years of exclusive and unprecedented interviews Isaacson has conducted with Jobs as well as extensive interviews with Jobs’ family members, key colleagues from Apple and its competitors, iSteve is the definitive portrait of the greatest innovator of his generation.

Are you going to read it?

Book of Jobs

I’m not going to lie, I’m a little excited by this. Steve Jobs has authorized a biography to be written about him. It will be called iSteve: The Book of Jobs. I might be excited because he was one of the founders of Pixar and there will probably be some really good stuff in there about the first days of Pixar. Otherwise, I might skip the rest unless it’s super interesting. Biographer, Walter Isaacson will be writing the biography, which is kind of awesome because he’s written about Einstein and Ben Franklin and many others so he knows what he’s doing. I’m sure the book will focus on Apple more than anything else, but I will definitely read those chapters about his days at Pixar. It’s scheduled to come out next year. I hope this doesn’t mean he has been given a short time to live…. That makes me sad to think about.

Grab Your Dick and Double Click

Oh Hugh Hefner. Always trying to bring the fun of naked women to everyone. He announced last week that there’s going to be a Playboy app for iPhone and iPad that will launch in March. No nudity will be allowed because Steve Jobs has moral codes he wants to follow, which I understand. Although I read that the iPad app won’t be censored… I’m confused here.

The app will have old and new issues of Playboy. This means every Playboy ever published. That might be kind of interesting actually. Although, it seems kind of pointless to me to have a Playboy app with no nudity. Isn’t that what Playboy is all about? “Tasteful” nudity? I’m sure the people who buy the magazine aren’t interested in the articles, right? Android doesn’t seem to have a problem with nudity on their network. Why didn’t Hef go there? Either way, I'm not in the market for an app like this.

I'm Ready For My Close-Up

I have always been into photography. I love old pictures and Polaroid's. They are just so cool looking to me. I took a photography class where I learned to develop my own photos old school and new school style. I loved it. I found a new iPhone app that takes your pictures and turns them into old looking photos. It's so cool. My mouth dropped for like 10 minutes while I was reading about this app. It's called Camerabag. There are plenty of apps that are just ridiculous and I'm surprised they get made, but this one is freaking awesome. Just upload your pictures to the app and you can do all kinds of stuff. You can add color, take color away, add an old tint, etc. The possibilities are endless. Who the hell needs a real camera when you can do awesome stuff with this app. I will of course still have an obsession with old cameras, but this app makes things so much easier. I think I'm going to do a photography contest. It would be so fun to see what you guys can come up with.

Manic Monday

Well, the iPad came out this weekend and I have to say that it didn’t seem to be as big of a hit as the iPhone. Maybe it has something to do with the economy, but I was in the apple store the day it came out and there was no line. Yeah, there was a small crowd gathered around the table where the iPad was being displayed, but other than that, I saw a few people buying them and that was it. The apple store was closed on Sunday for Easter so if people wanted to buy them, they would have gone on Saturday. One guy bought a bunch at one time, but I’m sure it was to sell on eBay or something. I think the iPad is a waste. If you have an iPhone and a macbook, the iPad is kind of a waste of money. If you have any phone and any computer, the iPad is a waste. I wouldn’t buy it as an e-reader because it’s back lit and that would kill my eyes. I wouldn’t buy it for the email capabilities because I get that on my phone and my computer. I wouldn’t need the picture capabilities because I have iPhoto on my macbook. I just see no reason for it. I wonder if the rest of the world saw that too.

Read Me

Since this blog is supposed to be about guilty pleasures, I would like to touch upon one of mine: Apple. No not the fruit, the company. I was always terrified to use a Mac because the one in school was so weird and confusing, but I got one when I was in college and I don’t think I could ever go back. I use a PC for work, but that’s against my will. I enjoy all the features the Mac has to offer, such as the designing programs and editing programs. I also enjoy the other products from Mac such as the iPhone, which is the best invention ever, as well as the iPod. How many people do you know without an iPod? Probably not many.

To add to this amazing list of Apple products, it is said that tomorrow, Apple will be launching a touch screen tablet called the iSlate. If anyone knows where the “i” thing came from, please inform me because I still do not understand. Anyway, this thing seems pretty freaking sick. The iSlate is basically the competition for the Kindle and other e-reading devices. The cost is said to be more than the iPhone, but less than the Mac book. So in other words, way more expensive than the Kindle. I guess the big thing with this is that the iSlate will pay publishers more for their books causing more books to be made for the iSlate in turn gaining a monopoly on the e-reader. I am pretty ok with that. I mean it’s a sad day for Amazon and Barnes and Noble, but it’s Mac. Soon they will rule the world.

There are no real pictures of the device yet, but there are some pictures of what the product is assumed to look like. It won’t be sold in stores until March. Start saving up!