The World According to Nils » Apple

New iTunes 8 Visualizer

Nils — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 11:58:25 +0000

Oh my god, it is full of stars…

I got my first computer pretty much 20 years ago. I’ve been a gamer and I’ve followed the cool stuff the demo scene put out. I thought I was a hardened user, one which simply doesn’t get “wow’ed” anymore.

Enter Apple and iTunes to prove me wrong.

Their new visualizer is simply stunning. Words would be wasted, take a look:

Needless to say… I am currently going through my classical music collection. The Blue Danube is playing as I write this, and it is stunning.

There's my iBook!

Nils — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 12:56:55 +0000

Some time ago I mentioned that I gave away my iBook. I’ve received photographic evidence that it has reached its destination:

It’s really nice to see that my old iBook is finally being used again. It was simply sitting on a shelf here, doing nothing at all. It was a really good notebook when I bought it way back in 2001. And I guess it saw most of the world: It was built in China, assembled in Ireland, traveled with me to Japan and other locations, and now it has “retired” (so to speak) to Rwanda.

Bye Bye iBook

Nils — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:52:52 +0000

Today is a day I have to say “Goodbye”. My trusty old iBook and I are parting ways. It’s not really tough, because I haven’t used it in several years. But I bought it in September 2001, took it with me to Tokyo, read all the news about 9/11 on it, and then took it with me when I moved to Frankfurt a month later. Memories. But the iBook will serve a good cause: A co-worker will give it a friend who will in turn take it to Rwanda. There my little iBook will hopefully help someone browse the web to study, write his or her homework, and maybe communicate with the rest of the world. In other words, it’s going on a mission of charity, and hopefully someone down there will enjoy working with it.

Bye, bye, iBook. Maybe I will some day buy your younger brother, the MacBook.