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January 13 - iPhone Shuffle

We proudly present to you, the non-existent iPhone Shuffle! Thanks Gizmodo. And no… It seems that the fake photoshops have not stopped. Ah well. We can live in hope. But now we need a new Apple product to speculate, make fakes of, and create hype around the rumour mill. Anyone got any ideas?

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January 13 - Colbert on the iPhone

Colbert on CES, 108″ flat screen TVs, tasers, and of course, the iPhone. Segway Polo Leagues, Steve Wozniak, and of course, his multi-coloured lasers.

Colbert doesn’t seem to be very pleased with it, until he gets it for free. And finally, NASA. The NASA stuff is very funny.

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January 13 - iPhone Video

The iPhone is still hitting the headlines, and now, thanks to CBS News, we can present to you a world-exclusive video of the beautiful device in action.

With over 725,000 views already, this thing is showing how hot it is! Sourced from Technabob.

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January 10 - Apple Funfair

I wish I could have made it to MacWorld 2007, or CES for that matter, but of course, with school ‘n’ all, I couldn’t make it, much to my disappointment.

No matter though, for the good ol’ Internet has kept me as well-informed as anything as to what’s been going on. Who stole the show? No surprises… Apple, with their iPhone! You didn’t know? Well, if the 101 fake leaked pictures hadn’t already suggested, the iPhone is
a touchscreen wonder, that is currently topping my Feb 15 Birthday list. At least it would be, but in Europe this beauty has a launch date of Q4. Elsewhere it’s June… So unfortunately, not for my birthday.


With the iPhone, along came a tiny Bluetooth headset, which looks set to outsell the Microsoft Zune within it’s first 48 hours of launch. That said, before Apple went and stole the show with MacWorld, Bill Gates didn’t do an all that bad job of delivering a keynote speech to thousands of tech-hungry ravenous press vultures and ProBloggers alike at CES.

Moving back to the iPhone though… What do we know so far? It has spiffy looks (Just check those pictures!), it has a spiffy OS, (OS X to be precise! WOW!), and a whole tonne of spiffy specifications to accompany the spiffyness. What am I on about? A 11.6 MM device… (That’s thin by the way… VERY thin!) with a 3.5″ touchscreen (WOW!), up to 8GB of storage (Can I christen this thing the king of all things ubery?), automatically engaging WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0, a 2 mega-pixel camera, quad band GSM radio with EDGE, and of course, only the best Internet connection going!

For those of you wondering, Job’s iPhone’s number is 408-996-1010, or so the big screen behind him at the conference said… Visual Voicemail is another cool feature that caught my eye, along with the menu system on the phone. Why do I bother mentioning it? You know what Apple are capable of, and they’ve delivered alright! The calls section somewhat reminds me of the latest Skype interface, except it looks far more polished and professional.

Widgets on a phone! How cool? Very self-explanatory though. Apple have chosen to partner with Yahoo! Widgets on this one, (Previously Konfabulator if my memory serves.) In-built Google Maps. Does this mean GPS? Safari web browser? Dude! This is sweet stuff, combined with full, rich-HTML e-mail.

Built in Yahoo! Mail too. Free ‘push’ IMAP e-mail. Why not GMail? Well, perhaps it might have been, had Google simply stripped the service of it’s beta tag.

Who made a surprise appearance this time? No, not a rock singer, but Google CEO, Dr Eric Schmidt. Jerry Yang, co-founder of Yahoo! also made an appearance. It’s unclear to what extent the two rival search companies collaborated on this project, but I’m guessing it can only be good news. Both search companies may have had chance to discuss more unified methods of refined searching. Let’s What for the Yahoogle! launch any day.

Oh… And Apple Computers Inc are no more. Now to be known simply as Apple Inc! This phone is state of the art. Forget Samsung. Forget Sony. Forget Blackberry. (Could it be? *GASP!*) If any one company wants to compete with Apple, they seriously have their work cut out. Apple are brilliant. Design. Power. Simplicity. Apple my friends, are the future.

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December 23 - Christmas Goings On

Here at Techzi, we’ve been busy getting ready for Christmas. Now only a couple of days away, we thought we’d let you know how we’ve been getting on.

Timothy, Aged 11, Guest Blogger, has spent quite a few days in New York. I’ll let him explain all that when he gets home though.

Seshi, Who shall now be known by her real name, Caitlin, Aged 12, Spiffy Graphics Artist, has been busy moderating the forums, kicking some spam-bot asses, and designing new uber characters to compliment the plots going on on the Roleplay boards.

Delta, also known as David, aka. me, aged 12, has been monitoring the site’s visitors closely, to see who reads the blog. In the past few days, we’ve had some pretty impressive guests! Thanks to MyBlogLog for letting me know!

Amit Agarwal, from Digital Inspiration had a good read over my blog, much to my surprise!

Chris Pirillo from bLaugh chimed in, only to find his own cartoons plastered over my blog…

No week would be complete without Michael Arrington stopping by for a chat either, that was extremely good stuff.

And Mark Seremet, co-founder of Take Two Interactive (Best known for the Grand Theft Auto series, Prey, Manhunt, Bully, Midnight Club, Red Dead Revolver and the Elder Scrolls games, as well as owning Joytech and several other major gaming publishers), had a good read of my blog, and I made quite good friends with him. He’s a great guy, and he said that he’d let the guys at Take Two know that I might be interested in testing some of their games. Now that would be cool…

All in all, it’s been a busy past week. Timmy promised to bring back some photos for us, and I know he’s already had a good luck round the Apple store in NYC, apparently the coolest one in the world.

Life is insane, yet brilliantly planned out. God knew what he was doing!

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November 21 - Legend Woz Gets New Mates!

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Wow. Or should I say Woz? Steve Wozniack has made a surprise move to Google. Read more at the Google Mac Blog. This is pretty cool stuff! Afterall, this is the guy who wrote iWoz: From Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It! The book with, officialy, my favourite title. Of course, it’s one of ‘em that you can spit out in a second flat. That’s why it’s known as iWoz.

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