It’s going to be pure madness this Friday as hordes of people run to their nearest Apple/Cingular/AT&T stores to get their hands on the most anticipated piece of electronics of our generation. The iPhone quite possibly might be the defining product of the decade and my hope is that it sets in motion a wave of new Apple-created products in other market segments as well.
Here in Hawaii, my hope is that the hype won’t be as big as in other parts of the US. I will be heading to AT&T stores in the more rural areas of Oahu like Waianae, Waipahu, or perhaps even Mililani. I don’t plan on waiting long since most of the activation procedures will take place back at home on my computer with iTunes. I’ll let you all know how it turns out — but seriously, I cannot wait to shed myself of Verizon!
I just installed the newly released Safari 3.0 for Windows Public Beta only moments after Steve Job’s keynote and it looks great and is SUPER speedy. Take a peek at the screen capture — notice the brushed metal is gone and it looks a lot like iTunes. Fancy!
It has just been announced that my favorite web browser on Apple is being ported to Windows! Steve Jobs is giving the Keynote Address at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco and updates are fed continuously at MacRumorsLive.com. Leopard Beta has already been announced to be released to developers attending the conference today, and now word of the new PUBLIC beta for Windows has just been dropped on the crowd. iPhoto developer extensions are also being covered towards the end of the Keynote. I love WWDC 
Even though I’m forced to use a crappy Dell Optiplex at work for the majority of my day, my favorite computer is my current Apple MacBook. It’s the black, 2.0Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo with 2GB RAM and a 200GB SATA HD. I purchased it after selling my 1-year old MacBook Pro 2 months ago. The desktop wallpaper comes from Wolfgang Barteleme and his published devkit.
If you take a look at the image via Flickr, you can see the notes I’ve added to the screen, as well as the full-sized image.
Omni Group’s latest application, OmniFocus, was just released today into Private Beta. Unfortunately I had not signed up on the mailing list early enough to snag a copy but I’m anxious to get my hands on it when it is more publically available later in the next month or two. I’ve been using Midnight Inbox and iGTD but have been holding out for the Omni product since their other apps, OmniGraffle, and OmniOutliner are so damn great. If anybody has a copy, pleeeez share!
OmniFocus is a personal task management system, designed to quickly capture your thoughts and allow you to store, manage, and process them into actionable to-do items. Tasks can be assigned to projects and stored within contexts (for example: “Home”, “Work”, or “Garden”), with built-in visual cues to highlight the next action you need to take care of. With OmniFocus, you can narrow your field of concentration to only those areas—tasks, contexts, projects—you wish to view, which helps you stay on track and organized.
