MACWORLD VERSION 5.1
 
 
Designed in 06 because realized I never upgraded the laptop...oh well.  Mike Silverman got to Macworld early since he’s an exhibitor, so some of the shots are of him and by him.  Also warning, I’m a computer consultant...not a web designer!  That’s all for today.  I’m exhausted and will write my impressions of the show tomorrow.
 
Macworld 08
First shot...before the crowds
At this point, “air” was something you breath!
As they begin to set up the booth
How many engineers *does* it take to set up a booth?
Fortunately marketing people know how to do it
For a company that gives away their product, it’s a big booth
Mike noticed that the Microsoft booth was using XP to present Office
The Apple booth before the keynote.  Hush Hush
Buy a car for your iPod
I got my Media page and I’m a Happy Camper with a capital H
And the crowd descends, for so much air it was hard to breathE
Give me some air!
I can do these puns all night long folks
This is for real!  Put that on your Christmas Tree
Microsoft Office, Simple?  Huh?
Note objects in rear view mirror may be bigger than actual size
Some basic shots of Moscone South
Rush hour at Macworld!
Inventor of the Mouse
Doug Engelbart
Leaving Moscone South headed to
Moscone West.  Special teams?
Don’t touch...it’s all about the touch baby!
Shot of Mike Silverman working the Motorola booth
Another shot of a demo
Brian Best gives Timbuktu Two thumbs up!  Thanks Brian
Bling your Mac.  Does that void your warranty? But that’s nothing compared to a....
A Gold Hard Drive?  This time the drive is worth more than the data
But if that drive fails, these guys will get the data back
Can you believe they recovered the data off that?
Data recovery from your iPhone.  How many times have you dropped yours?
Let’s hear it for the ladies!
VMware had a rather small booth compared to it’s competitor
Parallels
Jesse moved from Lawrence to work for Parallels
I liked this portable laptop stand.  Sounds good for a review
Notice how clean the Quickbooks desktop is?
Quicken is dead and is being replaced with another Intuit product
But these guys are going after Quicken head on!
These guys too, at least for taxes.
Another shot of the floor.  Intego’s booth in the background
Here’s another shot.
David Pogue, my personal hero.
These guys presented the same product last year...yet to ship!
I didn’t want to know, so I didn’t ask
What will they think of next.  Speakers integrated into your bag
They couldn’t help me find my stolen GPS!
But these guys could of. Darn, day late and $700 short
Gizmos Galore
Hey, we know that guy!
Hey!!!  That’s little ol’ me! *blush*
This was floor to ceiling
And so was this!
The Apple booth tends to be very popular
These were not floating.
This was a cool product I want to check out! Syc ical without .Mac
This as well.  Sync itunes libraries!
  For a computer so easy to use, why such a  big booth?
Belkin was as large as Apple’s booth
They even had a nightclub complete with a band.  Wow
This was the machine running Xp earlier.
Microsoft begging for bloggers to say something nice
Absolutely begging.  Note people were literally walking all over them
Crumpler bags...I couldn’t figure out their theme.
About every fifth booth was some iPod case.
Anyone remember when Quark’s color scheme was orange?
The touch screen Macbook
Fancy digital camera stands.  Neat display
Mac Spyware protection is like Volcano insurance...
Just because Kansas doesn’t have volcanoes, simply means we’re past due for one.  Protect yourself now
See, every fifth!
This was interesting product to hold your cords
Then we got into some cute and silly stuff...
like Penguin USB flash drives
Star Wars Themed USB Flash Drives
Or if you want to engrave your iPod or Macbook
Now onto Moscone West again
This was the “low rent” district.  It’s all about location
Pantone, Color me surprised (pun intended)
These Products make your Ipod warm and fuzzy
Along with iPod cases, laptop sleeves were the in thing
In every shape, color and style.
Tax, and Mojo in the same sentence?
This was an innovative keyboard cleaner I want to review.
An iPod speaker that is just plain weird
American Express?  Huh?  They were in the low rent part
Acura a special Interest.  Again, Huh?
Ask about remote time machine?  Apparently Brain and I aren’t the only ones annoyed at Apple