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Re: Projects

davidmichaels — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:17:46 -0000

Thanks Eric! That was really sweet of you to say! :)

Re: Terminator Salvation, Twilight Flu

davidmichaels — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:17:18 -0000

:). I like Twilight too! Thanks for commenting.

Re: Formidable iFoe or iPhoney?: Motorola Droid

Ryan Williams — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:48:42 -0000

Man, it's a tough choice. I think the Droid won't "kill" the iPhone, but it will make a considerable dent into the iPhone market share, and may completely "kill" the Palm Pre. The Droid is a beast of a device and offers everything that the iPhone can with the exception of the millions of apps Apple offers. I've been waiting for this device for a little over a year now, and I hope I can afford the Droid!

Long Live Android!

Re: Formidable iFoe or iPhoney?: Motorola Droid

davidmichaels — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 02:36:51 -0000

Sounds like a worthwhile investment to me, but also make sure that it suits your needs in addition to good pricing. Curious, what are you using now?

Re: Vlog: 140 Characters Conference

davidmichaels — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:38:20 -0000

Thanks so much Andrea!

Re: On Transparency with “Friends with Benefits: A Social Media Marketing Handbook”

davidmichaels — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:12:50 -0000

Thanks so much Justine for commenting and answering my question. I've learned a lot from what you do and always look forward to the great things that you create.

P.S. I was meaning to wait on asking you this question, but I really would like to feature you on a new but long-term project of mine called How iMac. I imagine you glanced at it while you were on my blog. It would be really awesome if you could. I'd feature you in January 2010--I only do a feature per month for practical reasons. And also, the current lineup of featured people is a bit male-heavy. So... Let me know, either way!

Thanks again! :)

One more thing.... Your "I want a cheeseburger" video kills me. It's just too funny! Loves it!!!

Re: Atypical Spending

davidmichaels — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:34:21 -0000

Um seriously!!! Don't come to my blog again with your spam. Person,
not consumer!!!

Re: bbautista.com

bbautista — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:26:26 -0000

Thanks David!

Re: bbautista.com

davidmichaels — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:15:52 -0000

One more thing...

I emailed Jon Rajewski (http://www.myspace.com/jrajewski) of the, now defunct, band The Poor Souls whose some plays during the ending credits of this film. I haven't gotten a reply yet and I was wondering if you might know another means by which I can get in contact with him. I'd desperately love to use the song "Strange Life" in my next How iMac video.

If you can help in this regard at all please let me know. :)

Thanks in advance B!

Re: bbautista.com

davidmichaels — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:04:29 -0000

I've been intending to tell you that I watched this, and your role was awesome. Ice cold jerk...that's so far from who you really are, and that what makes acting so cool!

Re: Apple Working on Tablet Since At Least 2003

ebygum — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:31:01 -0000

True. There were some rumours that it would be running iPhone OS - I
hope not, I think it would be better with a full version of OS X, or
at least a better optimised and featured version of the iPhone OS.

2009/10/5 Disqus <>:

Re: NVIDIA GeForce 8600M and 2007-08 MacBook Pro Saga

davidmichaels — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:00:45 -0000

Wowza! This story is slowly but surely gaining traction among a
number of people. Thanks for commenting and sharing!

-David

P.S. I'm glad you got a positive result from this experience. :)

Re: Apple Working on Tablet Since At Least 2003

davidmichaels — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:00:10 -0000

Agreed! I'm not into the Kindle. However, I am also hoping that it isn't a glorified iPhone. The idea sounds stupid. So I hope that what we will get is very worthwhile, timely and practical.

Re: Contact

facebook-637277212 — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:37:47 -0000

i ll check this , thanks a lot, but i just bought ay firewire cable 8/8 just waiting for a mac friend for the transfer !
and thx for the http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2377 page also !!!

Re: NVIDIA GeForce 8600M and 2007-08 MacBook Pro Saga

stuthompson — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:03:21 -0000

Ha! That is fantastic news. I had seen your earlier post about parts hold, and was expecting a drawn out drama.

I just bought myself tickets for a 'very long weekend' next week, and will put my MBP into the shop the day before I leave. Hopefully everything goes well, and I'll have it ready and waiting for me when I return.

Twitter: @stuninzuri

Thanks again for the feedback. Things like this freak me out.

Stu

Re: NVIDIA GeForce 8600M and 2007-08 MacBook Pro Saga

davidmichaels — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:07:25 -0000

About the Time Machine. Yes! It's a worthwhile investment. Not only does it regularly back up your Mac, it allows you to literally go back in time and select files from previous backups that you may have since deleted or modified. When ever you may have the moolah to spend on it, I would highly recommend it.

Thanks so much for your feedback on this. I was wondering if there were more people out there with the same issue, and now I know. So I'm glad I could help!

-David

Re: NVIDIA GeForce 8600M and 2007-08 MacBook Pro Saga

davidmichaels — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:04:43 -0000

Same exact thing to the "t" indeed! In fact, It took approximately two weeks as of yesterday for ship off, repair, delay for parts, and ship back. I certainly hope it won't take that long for you because I was beginning to feel the hurt in my projects by the end of the first week of waiting. So I'm hoping for a speedy return of your Mac! :)

Re: NVIDIA GeForce 8600M and 2007-08 MacBook Pro Saga

davidmichaels — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:02:30 -0000

You're very welcome Stu! Btw, I don't know if you had a chance to pop back by my blog, but I got my MBP back yesterday morning. They went above and beyond the call of duty. My Mac actually had a lot of other issues that I couldn't afford to fix, and they just decided to go ahead and fix everything free of charge. I was so elated when. Anyway, take care and if you're on twitter I'll follow you. :)

-David

Re: Golden Burn

bbautista — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:45:44 -0000

Yeah, at least I got a good story out of it.

Re: NVIDIA GeForce 8600M and 2007-08 MacBook Pro Saga

stuthompson — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 07:10:44 -0000

No Problem :) Thanks for replying in detail.

So, with all that info in mind and printed out, I popped into my local Mac dealer (Data Quest here in Zurich). They told me a) my MBP was covered, and b) 5-day turn around. Not bad. It's my work machine, so I think I'll take a short holiday in a week or so while it is in the shop.

Thanks again, and good luck with your repair!

Stu

Re: Golden Burn

davidmichaels — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:13:27 -0000

I'd love to say that I was ripped on by an Oscar winner, so I guess that makes your encounter a very awesome one.

Re: Great Cause + Bad Twitter Etiquette

brandice — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:56:08 -0000

Yes, you DO make a lot of sense and you raise a lot of valid points. :) And it is definitely important to remember that my etiquette and my critique of Twitter use comes from the way I use it personally, and it's not for everyone. A lot of people use it for massive amounts of constant concise information, and I use it for more personal purpose mostly. When it comes to professional Twitter accounts though, I think it's important to consider both vantage points, which is where I think this particular account got it wrong. I'm sure that I get it wrong some of the time as well. ;)

Thanks for your musings on the topic... very interesting read!

Re: Contact

davidmichaels — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 12:52:07 -0000

Sorry for the late reply. Yes! :) The ethernet cable for Screen Sharing to gain access to files, transfer urgent data.

Again I'm sorry for replying two days later. It's been quite a hectic. Let me know if this helps or if I can assist in more detail in ANY way. :)

David

Re: Great Cause + Bad Twitter Etiquette

davidmichaels — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 02:56:09 -0000

This article shows the genius behind the openness of Twitter. The use of twitter is like life in how we exercise autonomy or choice for say, personal values for living. Analogously, twitterquette is user-defined on a user-to-user basis. This is both good and bad, but mostly good. Good because who the heck is twitter to dictate to the user how to speak and use the product, otherwise what's the point. Bad because from one user to the next, folks following each other will bump heads over how one should be using twitter (which kinda proves that relativism in twitterquette is untenable, but I digress). However, the compromise on this latter point is to simply filter out the person by unfollowing them--but this too is an additional "con" due to the obvious initial interest in following the offender from the start.

Personally, and I've said this on here before, I avoid such strict Twitterquette as yours Brandice, but that's not make you seem like the bad guy. To your credit, my twitter stream is a bit noisy at the moment, but the benefit to me is I'm getting a lot of the live information that I want and/or need for certain things that interest me from folks I follow. So my solution is to follow certain people for a period of time or at least until I feel I've benefited enough from their stream. Does this make for meaningful connection, yes and no. I use twitter close to the way I live out my real life. I'll talk to new people in the moment and if something grows from that interaction, then "let it be written, so let it be done". Otherwise, nice to meet you and adios--nothing personal. Twitter is my business card, and my weblink is my phone number. Ya dig. I don't come to twitter with the expectation for it to be a dedicated instrument for close relationships, but rather, twitter to me is a medium to other tools that are for more personal connection: Facebook, Myspace, email or my blog. So one's understanding of what twitter can ably achieve is what should be taken into consideration.

If a close-knit circle on twitter is what you're after than do yo thang. But with all due respect, I kinda feel that that is what Facebook is for. Facebook is very twitter-like these days and has A LOT of filter control than Twitter by necessity. Twitter on the other hand somewhat lends itself to be practically an open forum of connectivity and a lot less cliq-ish. More to the point, twitter has always seemed to me to be a platform that wants to push it's users to do the opposite of what Facebook does by encouraging you to connect with many more people and host conversation as if in a room without walls--Facebook is the inverse (and to digress that's why I'd argue that it will never eclipse Twitter). You can entertain a great deal of people on Facebook too, but with privacy controls, friend filters, newfeed filters, and probably more that I haven't learned about. But this all occurs behind the closed doors of your account with only your "friends".

But another credit to you is this aspect of connecting with many people on twitter. This is twitter's greatest strength and simultaneously it's biggest downfall. I'll use @aplusk (Ashton Kutcher) as a guinea pig. It is entirely impractical to have 100 mutual followers, so imagine the sheer volume of noise that 1 million+ followers will bring versus meaning buzz from 20 mutual followers. And this leads me to a most unfair and cynical conclusion that the numbers on twitter are only for show for a lot of folks, much less meaningful consumption of live content from real people.

In conclusion, I agree and sort of disagree with you, but because of this, I agree with your overall brand of twitterquette on the grounds that it's your choice. Otherwise, I disagree. Make sense? lol

-David aka MacDavid ;)

Re: NVIDIA GeForce 8600M and 2007-08 MacBook Pro Saga

davidmichaels — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 01:49:59 -0000

First, I want to apologize for my late response.

"How long will the repair take?"
As far as the length of the repair time, I'll simply tell you that I mailed off my Mac last Tuesday and I haven't heard anything back, other than Apple is waiting for a part on back order--which takes me to your next question...

"Do they actually replace the chip?"
I would definitely assume so. My educated guess is that Apple is replacing the chip in my Mac by having NVIDIA make one from scratch judging by the length of time I'm waiting for my Mac to be mailed back to me.

Furthermore, the repair is very costly, but the great thing is that it's not your fault, nor Apple's fault that the chip is defective. So if you do decided to send your computer to an Apple technician, be sure to mention this article: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2377. When I quoted this article to Apple over the phone, they snapped into action and took care of the rest. But be prepared to possibly go without your computer for a while.