me.com

me.com” is currently a placeholder page hosted by MarkMonitor, a company that specializes in brand-related DNS management. You can see that it’s handled by MarkMonitor by checking the whois information for the domain. Apple uses MarkMonitor for most of its domains, including “apple.com”, and it’s where they’ve previously parked domains for future use.

Forbes Small Business: ‘Why Macs Still Aren’t Right for Most Businesses’

“Tech guru” Jonathan Blum concludes Macs aren’t a good choice for “most” small businesses. Regarding the iMac he tested:
But why should locating the “on” switch be such a struggle? Just stick the thing where I, and my employees, can find it: right up front.

WMD

Outstanding “what you see is what you mean” Markdown editor written in JavaScript. Best way to compose Markdown-formatted text in a browser textarea field I’ve seen, by far:
You can add WMD to any textarea with one line of code. Add live preview with one line more. There’s nothing to install on the server, and WMD works in nearly all modern browsers.
Free for non-commercial use, unclear what it costs for commercial use.

PC Magazine Reviews the Latest 15-Inch MacBook Pro

PC Magazine:
The one test that stood out more than anything else, though, was battery life. The batteries themselves didn’t change, nor did the Leopard operating system. Apple didn’t invent some great new power-management utility. The improved battery life is a direct result of the Penryn CPU’s deeper sleep states and its more energy-efficient processor core. The new MacBook Pro produced 3 hours 56 minutes on MobileMark 2007 tests, which is a significant jump from the 3 hours 10 minutes of the previous-generation MacBook Pro. That’s about a 15 percent improvement, which should be music to the ears of road warriors.

Fortune’s 1985 ‘Fall of Steve Jobs’ Cover Story

Speaking of vintage ’80s magazines.

The Best Peep Show in Town

Upon my most recent visit to Art-O-Matic I found myself enchanted by a single exhibit… the Washington Post Peep Show. The 2nd annual contest happened back in March, but the exhibit is currently on display at Art-O-Matic . It is a spectacular celebration of wit, creativity, and craft. Not only was each little box a jubilant little experience, but the entire concept a fantastic exhibit. The fact that creativity sprang from all of these ordinary Post readers to create miniature snapshots in time using marshmallows… that was what really got me. No these weren’t kindergarten-grade dioramas, these were magnificent little masterpieces...

Building for the future

Does building with web standards really provide a firm foundation for the future or will websites be forever stuck in a cycle of sporadic redesign? This year at @Media I moderated a panel on communicating best practice. My fellow panellists were exceptional and nobody could dispute the excellent advice they gave. I on the other hand managed (as always) to court some controversy with my off hand remarks...

1983 Byte Magazine Interview With Engineers From Apple’s Lisa Team

Modern Mechanix has both the full transcript and scanned pages of Byte’s 1983 interview with Wayne Rosing, Bruce Daniels, and Larry Tesler regarding the then-new Apple Lisa.