Macenstein’s “Mac Chick of the Month” (September 2007): Ana Maria
Filed under: Apple Fanboyism, Awesomeness, Mac Chick of the Month
Posted by Dr. Macenstein
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 photos by Foto Club Mallorca |
Heralding from Majorca Island, Spain, Ana Maria may not speak very fluent English, but her love of Macs and tech gear in general comes through loud and clear in her Google-translated e-mail.
Quick facts:
NAME: Ana Maria
AGE: 26
LOCATION: Majorca Island, Spain
OCCUPATION: UV technician at Solmania
FIRST APPLE PRODUCT: iMac G3 Indigo. I also had a Macintosh G4 “lamp” - Broken but was the most wonderful and nice computer I had. No repair was posible :’(
I now have the MacBook Pro - The one of the photos, another gift for my husband. He bought me when the G4 failed, but I prefer to use desktop computers.
FAVORITE APPLE GEAR: Pink iPod nano 2Gb
FAVORITE NON-APPLE GEAR: Sega Master System II 
FAVORITE TV SHOWS: Jericho, Lost, & Zorro: la espada y la rosa
FAVORITE MOVIES: The Labyrinth, Titanic, Ghost & The nightmare before christmas
FAVORITE BOOKS: The Little Vampire by Angela Sommer-Bodenburg (yes, I do not read so much!)
ON MY iPOD: I don’t have favorite band. I listen generally flamenco songs & 80’s songs
HOBBIES: Cooking & collect all 80’s vintage objects I see !!!
“Life itself need not be so complicated, so I use Apple things because they are easy & funny to use. My first Apple computer was a gift from my husband, an iMac G3, back in the 99 when we where just a starting couple. I still use it daily for internets and e-mail. My daily basis Apple gear is my iPod nano, I love it!”
Ana says she took these photos as a surprise birthday present for her husband (another Mac-head) so he could use them as his desktop wallpaper. If you’d like to add Ana to YOUR desktop, check out our desktop wallpaper of Ana below.
Do you think you or someone you know would make a great “Mac Chick of the Month”? Send us an e-mail, or check out our application guide here or on our MySpace page for details.
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Apple drops NBC after NBC drops Apple
Posted by Dr. Macenstein
Fans of The Office may have to dust off their VCRs, as Apple today announced that it will not be selling the upcoming season of NBC television shows on its online iTunes Store.
The move follows NBC’s decision to not renew its agreement with iTunes after Apple claims they declined to pay more than double the wholesale price for each NBC TV episode. We’re not sure what the “wholsesale” price of a TV show is, but Apple says the proposed cost increase would have resulted in the retail price to consumers increasing to $4.99 per episode from the current $1.99. ABC, CBS, FOX and The CW, along with more than 50 cable networks, are signed up to sell TV shows from their upcoming season on iTunes at $1.99 per episode.
“We are disappointed to see NBC leave iTunes because we would not agree to their dramatic price increase,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s vice president of iTunes. “We hope they will change their minds and offer their TV shows to the tens of millions of iTunes customers.”
Apple’s agreement with NBC ends in December. Since NBC would withdraw their shows in the middle of the television season, Apple has decided to not offer NBC TV shows for the upcoming television season beginning in September. NBC supplied iTunes with three of its 10 best selling TV shows last season, accounting for 30 percent of iTunes TV show sales.
Rampant Speculation: New 15-inch MacBook Pros Sept. 5th?
Filed under: MacBook, MacBook Pro, Rampant Speculation
Posted by Dr. Macenstein
Astute Apple shopper and faithful Macenstein reader Hendry pointed us to the online Apple Store, where for some reason the ship time on 15-inch MacBook Pros has slipped to 7-10 days. The 17-inch model, and all “normal” MacBooks seem to have ship times of 24 hours.
Such a supply delay would normally not be overly suspicious in and of itself, however, Apple has coincidentally set up a “Special event” (aren’t they all?) to be held 7-10 days from now (Sept 5th). Most people feel the focus will be iPod-based in nature, but perhaps there will be something more? (For the record, Amazon.com, whose inventory shortages have a long history of spoiling upcoming surprise Apple product refreshes seems to have a healthy supply of the 15-inch MBP ready for same day shipping).
The MBP is not necessarily due for an update, but it’s been about 90 days since the last refresh, so it isn’t entirely out of the question either.
So, make of it what you will. But you know us and our conspiracy theories. We’re now predicting 15-inch touchscreen MacBook Pros in 8 colors! What else could it possibly mean?!?
Anyone out there know WordPress?
[UPDATE: Thanks for the overwhelming response. We believe we have found our Wordpress guru, so thanks for your offers of help, but it looks like we're set. But perhaps we'll come begging again for the Macenstein Version 3.0 launch!]
We’re looking to update Macenstein’s look, and we could use some help. We’ve come up with a look for the site (for better or worse), we just don’t know how to code a theme out of it. It would appear CSS is our kryptonite.
Our good friend and sometimes contributor Brain in a Jar says he will “get to it eventually”, but he is swamped with more important (and higher paying) work for the next few weeks.
So, if there are any WordPress whizzes out there who think they can bang our a WordPress theme post haste, we want to talk to you.
Drop us a line at plotsuggestion@macenstein.com, and let us know what you can do.
Thanks!
-The Doc
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