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BEST WALLPAPER EVAR

    The devil herself on The Cobra Snake! Such an amazing picture. Visit HERE to own it yourself.
    And no, I don't have Leopard yet, ugh...

YOU, ACORDING TO PICASSO, ACORDING TO YOU

    This site called Mr. Picassohead is so cool that let's you create your own self-portrait with a set of simple tools meant to emulate the particularities of the Spanish painter. I tried it but nothing decent came out of it, maybe you'll be more inventive.

THE JUNKYARD OF ART

    Deleted Images is a site that posts the best wrong pictures, those that anybody would delete but here they have the opportunity to shine, like the one I sent and they just published. Cute, no?

HEY! KEEP THAT MICROSOFT AWAY FROM MY YAHOO!

    You've heard the news about Microsoft's intentions to buy Yahoo, whether they wanna sell or not, and since I have a voice here I wanted to use it to express myself against what will most likely happen. If you're a regular reader of this blog (unlikely thing cause not even my friends are) you know I don't exactly dig Vista's mother (ahem), and if we think that one of the 2 or 3 most important internet companies in the world could be swallowed by a company that wouldn't make an eatable product (software or hardware) if they gave it to them made, then the internet's future is in danger. OK not in super danger but you know.
MESSAGE TO SHAREHOLDERS:
DON'T SELL!!!
ETHICS ABOVE MONEYS!!!

STEVE JOBS INTRODUCES THE NEW "MACBOOK AIR" *cough* I HATE IT *cough*

WHAT MAKES IT SPECIAL?
IT'S THE WORLD'S THINNEST LAPTOP AND IT LACKS A CD/DVD DRIVE
WHY DOESN'T IT HAVE A CD/DVD DRIVE?
THEY WANTED IT TO BE THE THINNEST
BUT ISN'T IT BETTER TO HAVE A CD/DVD DRIVE?
YES
OH

 

    You see, I am an Apple fanboy, a devoted one. My body holds both a fashionista and a techno-freak, so it's not hard to see why I'm seduced by Apple's attention to detail and commitment to perfection. But...

 If I've written this post now and not hours ago the minute after it was introduced is because I wanted to wait and see if I found a way to like it, I thought I'd maybe learn to love it. But I haven't. By the pictures I saw of the Macworld conference I was shocked with its thinness, but it was just because I fell to its trickery to look much thinner than it actually is, then when I knew all about it I was terribly disappointed. This feeling was to expect at this year's conference cause last year's saw the introduction of the iPhone and not every year is going to see the birth of something so big, but that's not the reason to my disappointment, a new design for the MacBook line would've been disappointing, this? this is just stupid.
    I hate to have such a strong and bad opinion about an Apple product but I can't help it. I hate it.
    Whenever PC users want to criticize macs they say these are all about a pretty face, lacking real everyday functionality. This new laptop is basically the shameless reaffirmation of that flawed philosophy, and the worst part is that I don't even like the design. What I love about the current MacBook Pro (which I have) is that it's so honest in its perfection. It's symmetric, sharp, clean, straight, perfect. As the iPhone, you feel it doesn't exceed or lack anything, it's futuristically restrained. This new one brakes that philosophy with its shrinking form and other visual lies to make it look perfect when posing in certain angles.
    But truth is OK, my design theory particular beliefs aside, this is a one sexy piece of hardware and once you have it in your hands and people turn their heads it feels good (I assume). Thing is looks aren't the problem with it. To make it so thin they've basically taken a MacBook, disposed of most of the connectivity ports, the CD-DVD drive and the replaceable battery, dropped down some technical features and raised the price. Violà! The thinnest laptop in the world! Then where does the Air dub come from? Well, to make up for the lack of CD and connectivity, they've made up some bullshit about it being born to be wireless blah blah. I'm still trying to buy this, as wireless is been around for almost a decade, only the MBA needs another computer with a CD drive to wirelessly send in the info you need from a CD (I thought Jobs said MBA users wouldn't miss a CD drive). Oh and if you wanna watch movies? You rent them in the new iTunes Movie Rentals for as low as $2,99 to $4,99 (seriously that's the solution they give you), oh, US only for the moment. There's more to make fun of but this post is already too long and too angry for a peaceful little angel like me.

    One of the wet dreams we had about today's conference was the presentation of the "MacBoock Tablet", but it didn't seem very likely lacking a consistent target audience. But what is the audience of the MBA? Someone who... has a desktop Mac, wants a portable, but only to carry it to the bed, and doesn't mind spending $1800 to that purpose? Or...  a man in the midlife crisis who already has a motorcycle and a sports car? Or...

☛ Plenty of pictures and info at Apple.

FASHIONISTAS' COMPUTER REVAMPED

    As announced by Steve Jobs yesterday in a special event, the famous Apple desktop computer iMac gets a new look, a speed boost, new keyboard and... it is now cheaper than the previous version!! How major is that? (forget I ever said that).
    These aluminum and glossy black beauties didn't come alone, as new and highly awaited versions of iLife and iWork were also introduced. To tell you the truth, I though these '08 revisions were kind of lazy for the price they're selling ($79), but as always they come with every new Mac so good for the next buyers.
    The new design is supposed to have a more high-end feel, more pro, like it won't look so playful in an office. In fact it has now a black back.
    What I see is that when the iPod became so huge, they made the new iMac look just like a computer version of the MP3 player, and now the iPhone is a world famous technology icon they've morphed again their desktop line to go with it. When I first saw it, instead of a pro look, it evoked cinema to me. It's kind of a fusion between flat TV and iMac... and iPhone. I won't be the one to say that's a bad thing.

    More at Apple. Thanks Macworld.

GOOGLE, THE FASHION BRAND

    The following picture is totally real.

    Only Google has nothing to do with this store, found in Turkey by an iGadget Life writer, or is this their next step in their world-domination plan?
    As I said HERE, Google is a whore (we all have our things).

Thanks iGadget Life and Gizmodo.

7500 "PRISM". NOKIA MEETS ORIGAMI

Tech bloggers are already saying this is a puke (obviously having an iPhone changes your idea of what coolness is), but I think it's kinda unique and creative, only it's too limited for me, used to a Blackberry, but I think it works great as a teenager cellphone.

It's in black and white and for the moment only released in China.

CELEBRATING THE iPHONE'S BIRTH

Like it or not, this is big, so this is my way of commemorate this historic moment. I've done a bit of a memoir of FASH Report, it's like if my blog was gonna die, what it'd see in its last seconds. Oh and no, I couldn't find a gayer song to go with it.

Thanks Apple for inventing the future. Without you we'd still live in the 90's!

THE iPHONE IS REALLY COMING IN A FEW DAYS

THIS IS HOW IT'LL CHANGE YOUR LIFE:

BEFORE ↓

AFTER ↓

Suddenly my Blackberry doesn't seem so hot. For those of you who like me own the 8800, don't worry, it could be worse, you could have the Blackberry Curve (aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh) or the Pearl (*me dying*).

The Jesus-Phone loves me, and I loves it, so let love be. I'm gonna donate my current cellphone to the poor kids (or something).