iPhone 3G in Malta - Steve Jobs mentions it too
The above video clip is from Apple CEO’s Steve Jobs’ Worldwide Developer Conference keynote address. Basically every year Apple organises a developers’ conference where the Apple developers congregate and clap the latest announcements from Cupertino. Often, it’s been used to announce new consumer products. Case in point - this year’s unveiling of the new iPhone 3G. Not only (as mentioned in a previous post) has Apple listed Malta as one of the 70 countries it will be available in, but at the end of the presentation announcing the countries, Steve Jobs remarks that the next time someone is Malta they can get themselves an iPhone! His tone was jovial but it might be construed as condescending to our proud nation rock. Oh well we’re on apple’s site
And steve Jobs mentioned us
any publicity is good publicity isn’t it? I’m just glad I waited out the first gen iPhone. Now we wait with baited breath for the pricing announcements.
Thanks to my PHB for pointing this out.



I’ve finally managed to install Leopard. Took me over a week because I wanted to go out and get myself an external hdd. I did this not so much for Time Machine which I don’t have much use for at home but I wanted to do 2 clean installs so I needed something to back up to. I proceeded to install Leopard on my 3 month MacBook and on my 4 year old G5. The G5 has 2 hdd’s, one of which I cleaned after moving its data to the external HDD.The HDD (a 500gb LaCie basic model from scanmalta.com for Lm52) will also house all my software installers and backed up installer CDs in one neat place. It will also be used to back up my Mac Pro at work. This will free up some space on my other LaCie external drive which sits on the network as my media server. I’m pretty happy with LaCie’s products and chose them originally for their long standing support for the Mac platform knowing set up would be very straightforward.
We all knew that prices in Malta are ridiculously high for most things in Malta (I pay USD $65/month for a 4mb connection for example) it is now official. Thanks to Australia’s Commonwealth Bank which has started using the 4gb iPod nano to build an international price comparison index which is similar to the Big Mac index. We can now see that Malta is the 7th most expensive place in the world to buy an iPod and the absolute most expensive in the EU. Things could be worse as Brazilians have to pay about $100 more than us Maltese.
Ok, i’ve had a few days to play aroudn with the CS3 suite + Fireworks. Fist of all a big thank you to Adobe for fixing the flash timeline! I can use my mighty mouse to scroll up and down - Finally! Now we need proper zoom in and out and a way to add frame names by double clicking and typing the name right in the timeline rather than in an inspector a mile away at the bottom of the screen.