new iMac just around the corner

according to several sites and rumors, apple is going to renew the look and spec of the old known iMac, this supposedly should happen in mid of october this year (15/10/2009), the last rumor is comming from AppleInsider:

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/09/24/apple_ready_and_waiting_with_redesigned_imac_line.html

the rumor say that the current iMac models prices will be reduced by 100$ - 200$, regarding what is comming for the next model starts with blue ray drive, sd-card slot, multi-touch support, slimmer chassis, and what not, but the history shows that eventually the changes were much smaller like CPU upgrade or bigger storage capacity,

The last time Apple updated the iMac was in early March 2009, when the company doubled the amount of RAM, increased storage space and dropped in faster Intel Core 2 Duo processors while keeping prices stable for all but one model, the least-expensive 24-inch iMac. (InfoWorld)

keep checking...

Changed Poll, added Google Analytics data

hi,

sorry i havn't written any thing in the last few weeks, i am on a vecation (it is passover in israel), i am having a quality time with the kids and wife, and with the computer (just not for blogging, gaming with BF 2142 mostely),

there are some people out there with LG laptop like mine,
that asked me if i have writen a keyboard driver,

i was wondering how many of you really need it,
if there is a real need then i will start porting the linux driver code and start a support section for it, so i started a poll/vote for that, please let me know if you are one of those people.

so what is going to happend with windows vs mac poll you ask (no? you didn't ask? really?), well i have decided that every month i will publish my google analytics report for browsers and OS, i did not find an automatic way to do this so i am capturing the screen and pasting into a post.
(google analitycs made a "share my data" option but didn't expose it for free use with API of some sort)
here is the last position of that pole:


hopeing it will serve someone,
Enjoy.

Milonic Menu Added to Blog

i added a Menu to the blog that will allow finding posts easily from every page by category,

this menu is from Milonic, it can be bought or added free for non-profit sites,

the only requirement is to add a link to them on every page that this menu appears,

i added mine at the bottom of each page, it is pretty good, it supports many browsers (let me know if you are experiencing problems), they have a page of samples and it is loaded with all sorts of menus,

hope this helps a little more in getting to the proper information.

Enjoy.

Apple2PC Google Search Engine

i have added to the site a Custom Google Search Engine,

this is a beta of google allowing you to create search engines of your own,

you can specify the sites you wish to search, or pages or patterns,

you can decide on how it will look and where the results are displayed,

you can embed it to your site/blog like i did,

and it has the power of Google and its free.

you can checkout my search engine that index Apple2PC and Dev4Mac here.

and you can go and create your own Google Search Engine here.

Enjoy.

iDigital MacBook Air launch event

today i went to iDigital "MacBook Air launch in Israel", the event took place in the BigBox center in Ramat-Gan, the event included lots of mac computers stands, from the 17" to the 24" and all the laptop versions including the legendary Air.

few people attended (sadly) but, it was gratifying, i got to touch, feel, kiss (ha? who said that?) the MacBook Air, it was fun, and amazing to see how light and thin it is, it act and behave like other mac laptops with 13" screen and C2D,

fast application loader like all macs, but it has a super power saver, if you don't interact with it for a minute it will dim the screen light, if another minute will pass it will turn off the screen and hard drive, of course it is all configurable,

but the hardware support the power saving, by a unique LCD screen, extra thin hard drive and cpu that doesn't need fan for air cooling, setting it right will squeeze a cool 6.5 H of work. the only thing that bothered me that it does not have any CD, only one USB port and too low speakers, perfect for marketing guy, not good for development/gaming, but will do for reading/surfing and average day to day jobs.

in that event (beside eating a lot) we heard (again) the lacture of leopard and all its glory for the people that didn't know what mac is, we saw the iPod touch, i got to play with it its a must have, preferably an iPhone (ranchuk you were right).

the best thing is that i got to see and play (didn't expect it this soon) with the hebrew leopard, it looks great, (sorry didn't picture it), works great, no apparent bugs, there were some words left in english like: "Finder", i guess no better word for it in hebrew, also a good decidion was not to turn the whole system right to left like in hebrew windows (that suck, it ruin the whole OS experience), it is expected to be available for download in the next few weeks from the idigital home site, will keep you posted.

all in all it was a good night, didn't buy anything, but came back hangry for iPhone, AppleTV and macbook.

Enjoy (i know i did).

First Jewish iPhone

just kidding, iDigital the marvelous Apple representative in Israel has decided to market the first (legal and Hebrew) iPhone in Israel.

the announcement came 2 hours ago 20:00 o'clock Israel time, the iPhone will support Hebrew SMS messages (the hacks until today did not support it at all), the opening price will be 2,990 NIS which in current US $ rate is about 855$ it is a lot more then it should be but it is a good start that the phone has arrived legally, let the marketing begin and the prices go down.

the first store that is going to sell it is "Handy Store" located in dizingof center in tel-aviv, according to "Avishai Freez" the CEO iPhone is a world wide phenomenon and we in Israel deserve it too.

the sales will start on this Wednesday 09.04.08 in the "HandyTech" convention, this year "the::unwired" editor will join to speak on hand held technology and future, for last years HandyTech event , see the following clip:

granted the phone will not appear in the cellular companies and will not sale with a plan but in Israel's terms it is quite a revolution.

here is the original first post (in hebrew) regarding this issue in PocketPCFreak.

Enjoy.