I just finished installing the InvisibleShield protective cover on my iPhone and I have to say it’s one of the best things I did. This product is amazing. Zagg , the company that makes them had a booth at MacWorld and they were challenging iPhone owners to throw away their existing case in exchange [...]

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This is a great summarization of Steve’s keynote speech at MacWorld done in 60 seconds.

Enjoy!

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Since every other Mac blog will cover the main products in detail, I thought I would cover those products that are quirky, cool and fun. The next few postings are about these kind of different products.

To start off, here is something that is really cool:

This is a solar charger for iPods, iPhones and other regular [...]

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How rare is this ? I ran into Walt Mossberg, journalist for the Wall Street Journal (and Apple fanboy) outside the Apple store in downtown SFO.

He was gracious and asked me what MacMessiah was as I was wearing a MacMessiah name tag. We had a few minutes to chat about the new Apple products and [...]

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You already know the main features of iPhone 1.1.3from the keynote, but there are a few interesting tweaks that got lost in all the other Apple coverage.• The SMS storage has been upped from 1,000 to 75,000, which means you probably won’t need to ever clear a conversation unless you really enjoy texting.
• The keyboard [...]

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Macworld announced their Best of Show awards today for Macworld San Francisco 2008.
- Photoshop Elements 6 – Universal version of Adobe’s consumer photo editor.
- MacBook Air – Apple’s thin laptop
- Guitar Hero III – Aspyre’s rhythm game for Mac.
- BusySync – share iCal calendars (MacRumors writeup)
- Eye Fi card – SD card with Wifi built [...]

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The night ended with a rockin’ party at Minna Gallery sponsored by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). There was a little inspirational speech by Brad Templeton and the music then kicked up a notch.

The all female DJ team cranked up the volume and some geeks actually started dancing !

The highlight of the evening was finding [...]

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I am sitting at the Chaat Cafe on 3rd & Folsom behind the Moscone South Hall. Just finished dinner with the 40 or so Mac Small Biz owners who showed up. Thanks to Niall Ferguson for organizing the dinner. Here we (Andrew, Gautam, Billy from SGVMUG, Pasadena) are with the Timbuktu people (they [...]

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As usual, Steve took his customary stroll through the halls of MacWorld. And as is customary, I managed to bump into him again. I have been to 2 MacWorld’s so far and as far as getting to meet and talk to Steve I am 2 for 2 !

He did remember me as the ’switcher’ in [...]

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So after the keynote, the insiders know to hang around, because sure enough after everyone has left, Steve shows up again to ham it for the paparazzi !!

He even took my suggestion to balance the MacBook Air on only one hand!
After he was finally gone I took the chance to take the stage

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