Your captions, please, for this lonely G5 as it sits watching the world go by in a quiet Danish street. According to Google Translate, “PÃ¥ gÃ¥tur” (the photo’s title on Flickr) means “on the walk.”
Clean and funny please. Extra points for poetry, flowery language and use of puns. Lolspeak is banned.
Winner (as chosen by me) will be sent a small packet of Wine Gums. Deadline for entries is midnight (GMT) tomorrow (Friday 10th October 2008).
Photo used under Creative Commons license; thanks to Kofoed on Flickr
Written by Giles Turnbull on October 9th, 2008 with no comments.
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Over at Howard Forums, user Windsor43 relates the hilarious tale of how an SMS message from him to his wife autocorrected the word “nah” to “nag”.
“Thanks, Steve,” Windsor43 says, “for making my wife almost Think Different.”
I suspect most of us can relate to that one. I tend to sign off messages to loved ones with “gx”, but the iPhone likes to correct that to “Gf”. Is that supposed to be short for “girlfriend” or something? No matter; my wife is used to it already.
(Yes, we’ve heard the rumor about an autocorrect toggle switch in the next iPhone update. Let’s hope it’s true for Windsor43’s sake.)
Have you got any amusing tales of autocorrect woe? Confess all in the comments.
Written by Giles Turnbull on October 9th, 2008 with no comments.
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This is Miles the iBunny, enjoying the comfort of his hutch, formerly a classic first gen iMac.
Owner Lisa Balbes of Balbes Consultants told us: “Four Macs is not enough for one family. We currently have six for our family of four (one is an original SE). We pass them down through the family, and my pet rabbit Miles is at the bottom of the Mac chain. Here he is in his iBed.
“I travel a lot for business, and recently realized I had visited several Apple stores. I have now made it a goal to eventually visit all of them. Does that qualify me as a Mac fanatic?”
I don’t think we need answer that one, do you?
Written by Giles Turnbull on October 8th, 2008 with no comments.
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Google’s 2001 retro-search tool has provided endless amusement over the past few weeks. None so much as the image at right, which is the “iPhone 2,” released by InfoTech in mid-1999 and reviewed on StreetTech by Gareth Branwyn.
And yes, it was a comical Internet landline phone, featuring full QWERTY keyboard. Like today’s iPhone 3G, it featured a touchscreen, Internet access, e-mail, and location-based services. Also like today’s iPhone 3G, it improved on significant shortcomings in its predecessor, by adding a better keyboard, higher data speed, and better speaker-phone sound quality.
And, eeriest of all, it had notable areas that needed improving. There was no “Forward” browser button, no “Find” function, and, hilariously, no Cut, Copy, or Paste features. In many ways, it’s exactly like today’s iPhone. Just, you know, totally janky.
Some things never change, apparently.
Thanks, Jwester!
Written by Pete Mortensen on October 7th, 2008 with no comments.
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This is the actual Mac plus that Scotty tried talking to in Star Trek IV, spotted and photographed by Marcin Wichary at the Star Trek: The Experience exhibition shortly before it closed last month.
Note how shiny and clean this particular Plus is. Bet it boots up shiny and clean, too. And if it has problems, it can run a Level One Diagnostic.
Now that the Experience has left the Las Vegas Hilton, it has no home of its own. Where is this Mac now? Probably packed away in a container somewhere. Possibly wrapped up in Spock’s Vulcan gown that it was once displayed alongside.
Annnyway: Borg teddy bears.
Photo used under Creative Commons license. Thanks to Marcin Wichary.
Written by Giles Turnbull on October 6th, 2008 with no comments.
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