AI, Mobile, and Eveything Around the Cloud

No one knows if Steve will be back as CEO of the company. I don't know either and I frankly don't are so long as he's still around to make the big decisions. And here's why I think Steve will be around for a long time to come. According to Information Week, a source familiar with Apple's government sales plan said Jobs and certain Apple executives were granted security clearance by the federal government. Why provide Steve Jobs clearance if he isn't coming back to Apple? You don't just grant security clearance like it's some kind of knighthood. And let's assuming for a sec that Apple is treating the NSA and the military like they treat the rest of us, basically, telling them Steve's health is a personal matter. I have to assume that for the folks fighting and trying to keep America safe, they would have some intel on the status of Steve's welfare before giving him security clearance. Finding out about Jobs' medical situation isn...

If you have bought a Mac in recent years, you'll notice OmniOutliner that comes with the Mac. The Omni Group has gone a step further today and made a few applications free for Mac users. This is a recession busting sort of thing but its greatly appreciated as far as I'm concerned. OmniWeb - I like the session saving feature. But I'll go with what I've already got on my desktop. OmniDictionary - not bad. I will be downloading this one. OmniDiskSweeper - always need more memory and space. OmniDazzle - I'll be passing on this one. I don't need more "dazzle" even though my Macbook can handle it. OmniObjectMeter - it's a good application for developers who are looking to optimize their applications. Not for everyone. I've downloaded OmniDictionary and OmniDiskSweeper. I've got Safari, Firefox, and, more recently, Flock. OmniWeb has come neat features but given the unqiue session saving is a good feature but it's not one that I nee...

Apple released Safari 4 beta here .   I'll be back later for some previews/reviews.