Talking To The Machine

Premium Reseller

siliconchris — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 09:41:37 +0000

I came by an Apple Premium Reseller Shop the other day in Hannover (Germany). Whilst walking by, I got a glimpse on a t-shirt in the window and it instantly made me stop my pace.

The t-shirt was black with a white logo and text. The text stated that funny quote from the apple ads “I’m a Mac”.

“Wow cool“, I thought “I want to have one of those!“

So I entered the shop sauntered to the desk, gave the girl a smile and said “Hi, I’d like to buy one of those shirts“.

In a perfect world, this story would end like this:

Girl: “Why sure. Would you like it in M, or L?”

Me: “M would be nice – and would you care for a drink, when done here?”

Girl: “Yes. I would love to have a drink!”

and so on …

Well, unfortunately this is not a perfect world, so the story continued like this:

Girl: “I’m terribly sorry, but those are not for sale.”

And half an hour later, I was back on the street with, to my total surprise, a brand new MacBook Pro 15″ Unibody and NO T-SHIRT!

I guess, that’s what they are called Premium Reseller

Skype gets Screensharing

Oliver — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:03:17 +0000

The latest version of Skype was released as beta at MacWorld 2009 and supports screensharing between participants. This is one feature I was always looking for to get native support in Skype. Allowing to share also a small section of the screen is an interesting design decision because of the low video resolution.

Truephone adds Skype

Oliver — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:08:53 +0000

Techcrunch is reporting that iPhone client for truephone will get Skype support in the upcoming version. The idea of an integrated Twitter client is ingenious although I would prefer the other way around.