fire vanished into thin air

As expected Apple announced the new sub-ultra-portable mac recently, and now everyone is salivating collectively. Including myself. It has some really nice features, and especially lack thereof. The most noteworthy lack is that, this is the first mac to be sold WITHOUT firewire connection, since 1998.

Apple always gives hint to new trends, with their new breed of products. This time around it's pretty apparent that macs sans optical drives, might be coming our way in the near future. Furthermore the emphasis on wireless, both in the iPhone as a substitute for GPS, and the new MacBook Air's lack of superdrive, makes a clear point about the direction Apple is headed.

The other trend is the omission of a FireWire port, which has been standard on all macs since it's introduction in 1998. Back then it was set to be the most prevalent way of connecting your DV camcorder to your mac, and transfer files. Even the first iPod in 2001, came only with IEEE 1394 (aka FireWire), but USB have been combatting the standard ever since they moved to version 2.0 in the new millenium.

And now, it seems: firewire is about to face it's demise.
Who knows what Apple has in store....
only Stevie will tell

It means that this damn thing doesn't work... at all!

Recently I've been touting the greatness and grandeur of the embedded "time machine" feature in the new leopard operation system, as if it was the second coming of christ. But up until now, I haven't had any real life experience with it; except for the odd experiment or two.

Then a couple of weeks ago, I accidentally deleted a whole bunch of my emails and synced my Gmail, so if everything went wrong, they would be gone from the web-server as well. Clever me. Always one thought ahead.

Well, enter Time Machine. Go into the mail app, and go back in time to before the incident ever happened. Click restore. Watch mail go into an infinite loop of despair. So uplifting to be granted this levity of convenience. No dice. Mail returns with no returned, revived or resuscitated emails. At all. ARGH!

I found the only way to actually retrieve my lost emails, was to navigate to that mailbox folder from within Finder, and then go into "time machine" to recover my precious information.

What a tedious bug.