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Wednesday at Macworld was all about diggnation. Tho I was close, I took some pretty shitty pictures. Most are either blurry, have ginormous head dude or redhed girl in all of them

Flickr Set

The taping was awesome. Kevin and Alex got a couch from god knows where somehow and snuck in beers so it felt like a real diggnation taping. They tossed out T-shirts, which I didn’t get any and lighters, which I didn’t get any.

The video of its up for members right now and should be on iTunes in a couple days. Got to see the video and you can catch me during the beginning pan of the audience.

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Video I took of the Apple iPhone on display at macworld

I got the chance to see Kevin Smith at Macworld this year which was definitely one of the highlights of the week. Kevin did his standard Q and A for about an hour and a half and I was lucky enough to be pretty close to him. Maybe in the 6th or 7th row. I’m just pissed I didn’t get any pictures.

I even brought my Green Arrow #1 for him to sign but the asshole I am, I left it in the hotel when we left. Damn it.

The Q&A was great, with some awkward moments when fans were trying to be witty with him and it back fired. If anyone else was there, just remember the big snake, little snake thing.

I “think” he’s suppose to be at the NY ComicCon next month also. If so I’m going to try and catch him and get my Green Arrow #1 signed. Its now my mission in life.

Keynote
I didn’t go to the keynote this year. $200 and standing in line for 5 hours didn’t really appeal to me too much so I did what everyone else did, followed everything online. I followed mostly everything from Macrumors and Engadget with a few refreshes of a couple other sites.

What did I think?

Apple TV
I’ve been waiting for this. I like what they did and will probably pick one up but its definitely not the perfect device. I don’t want to move all my movies into iTunes. I keep everything on a separate drive and you cannot stream from a folder.

The interface is slick and it can sync with iTunes just like a iPod so you don’t have to keep your computer running. I’m probably going to pick one up anyways since I get all my TV Shows from iTunes and its convenient but I’ll probably find another device down the road to replace it.

iPhone
This thing is amazing. I’ve said it before that when Apple drops there phone I would be be first in line to buy one. After all is said and done, I’m probably not going to get one.

Reasons:
1) Cingular. I’m a T-mobile customer.
2) Price. $599 is kinda steep tho I do think its worth every cent.
3) I’ve fallen in love with my Blackberry’s push email from work and I’m not sure if the iPhone can do that.
4) Doubt its going to work with the Nike+iPod kit.

June is along time away, half a year. As more details get announced, I’ll weigh in on my choice.

In other news, if Apple released a 120G touch widescreen iPod, that I will buy.

Apple AirPort Extreme
Nice, real nice. I want one but kinda pricy and my Macbook doesn’t have N in it.

Disappointed
After dropping a bombshell like the iPhone I still felt a little disappointed with the keynote. Why?

No new iPod, no Leopard and no iLife ‘07.

I was actually looking forward to new Leopard details, maybe even a release date and what’s new in iLife ‘07. I’m really hoping they overhaul iPhoto.

My guess is all that stuff will be announced soon and wasn’t at Macworld do to the iPhone stealing everyones thunder.

I’m back from Macworld and I feel like shit. After I feel a little better and catch up on about 2500 unread RSS items, I’ll post some stuff from my trip.

This time tomorrow I’ll be on a plane headed to San Francisco for Macworld. This is my first trip anywhere and my first time flying, so I’m excited. Right now I’m packing and trying to get all my ducks in a row.

My planned itinerary is:

Sunday - settle in then grab a bite to eat.

Monday - free day that I want to do some site seeing

Tuesday - going to follow the keynote online then head to the exhibit hall for 11am. Kevin Smith at 2p, Macbreak at 6pm then Macbreak Get Together at 7pm

Wednesday - exhibit hall at 10am, diggnation at 4pm then Macworld Party at 9pm

Thursday - expo at 10am and Capcom Lost Planet release party at 8pm

Friday - expo at 10am and rest of the day free for whatever. plane leaves at 10:30pm

Saturday - back home

If anyone is going and would like to meet up or just lives out there and knows some good places to eat or hang out. Feel free to contact me.

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