9to5Mac gives us The only Steve Jobs patent that hasn’t become a reality…yet

The Safari Pad!

MacDailyNews found:

“Apple Computer’s [sic] iPhone is not the only Apple technology that is gaining traction in business. Apple’s Mac notebooks, desktops and server sales to both small business and enterprise work groups have grown. And more third-party technology that supports the Mac platform is now available too — from servers to storage to virtualization to e-mail,” Jessica Davis reports for Channel Insider.

MacDailyNews also found this:

InfoWorld: Time for us to bury RIM’s BlackBerry and move on to a modern mobile: Apple’s iPhone

“I spent a month with an iPhone 3G and a BlackBerry 9000 Bold (the professional model that RIM recommended as the best to compare to an iPhone) to see how well each would fare in my daily grind. In doing so, I also had the chance to compare the two devices in depth: mail to mail, phone to phone, browser to browser, and thumb stroke to touch-tap. In short, I evaluated them based on everything from classic PDA functionality and usability to location-based services and availability of third-party apps,” Galen Gruman reports for InfoWorld.

“And how do they stack up? Frankly, I’ve concluded it’s time to bury the BlackBerry. A revolution in its time, thanks to its ability to provide instant, secure e-mail anywhere, the BlackBerry has become the Lotus Notes of the mobile world: It’s way past its prime,” Gruman reports.

Apple website circa 1997:

Underneath its Still Windows

Protecting You From Yourself
Face it, computer security problems and viruses are your own fault. Weak passwords, dangerous files, and questionable web sites. You’re a ticking time bomb. Wouldn’t it be nice if your computer stepped in and stopped you from making these mistakes?

Another find of MacDailyNews:

Cringely: Apple is the future of U.S. Internet TV

“When you buy an episode on iTunes everyone in the production food chain makes a profit. Hulu and its ilk are money-losing services that rely largely on concessions in various guild contracts that pretty much keep the writers and producers and actors from sharing in profits that aren’t there anyway, at least not yet,” Robert X. Cringely writes for PBS.

Cringely writes, “Fox owns a big chunk of Hulu, yet American Idol performances are exclusively available on iTunes, not Hulu. Why is that? Because American Idol performances on iTunes make a lot of MONEY, that’s why. Adam Lambert downloads alone make more money every week — a LOT more money — than do ALL the shows on Hulu put together… Hulu will remain an artifact of network labor agreements and will be vulnerable for that reason. Hulu can’t afford to PAY its way.”

Microsoft “Laptop Hunter” Ads Made on A Mac?

I guess they are cooler than Lauren. I wonder if she knows that they looked down on her :)

From Groklaw, Does MS Office SP2 With ODF Support Really Work? Test Results Point to No. – Updated 3Xs

I tried the updated Microsoft Office 2007 SP2, which supports ODF, or says it does. I created a document in Office 2007 SP2 and saved it as ODF. I got an ominous Microsoft warning that if I persisted, I might lose some formatting — “Document [name] may contain features that are not compatible with this format. Do you want to continue to save in this format?” — but it saved the document when I clicked Yes. I reasoned that OpenOffice, which I intended to use to test the result, does have the features I wanted. I had included one footnote, a photo, and a text block, all of which OpenOffice can do, but when I opened the saved document in OpenOffice, none of it looked right. You couldn’t read the footnote at all, because it’s cut horizontally in the middle of the text. You can see it’s there, but you can’t make out the words.