The digital domain of Rick Curran
The recent SimpleBits LogoMaid logo debacle made me imagine what kind of blog template ripoffs might be out there so I started to make a few just for fun!
If I was on the ball then this would have made a good opportunity for an April fools gag but unfortunately I didn’t think about it until later on!
I hope Dan Benjamin and John Gruber don’t mind me using their sites for this little bit of fun!
~Rick
UrbanDictionary.com defines a MacWidow as:
This is what you call the wife of an Apple Macintosh user. He ends up spending much more time on his Mac than with her!
Well, we recently gave away our PC to some friends so I have been keeping my now slightly ageing powerbook at home. Since then Annie has been getting into using it more and more, once she realised that you could do a lot more in GarageBand than just loop a few sounds together she’s been producing quite a lot of songs with it.
Now, the final evidence that Annie’s no longer a ‘MacWidow’ is that she went to an Apple Seminar called ‘Guitarists and the Mac‘. She came home all excited telling me that she found out:
“How the Mac and Apple?s audio creation software along with some amazing third-party products gives you access to thousands of amplifier emulations and pro-quality effects for rehearsals, studio and stage…”
and also:
“How recent developments in guitar technology turn your favourite axe into a virtual orchestra by giving you access to thousands of sampled sounds, virtual instruments and synthesizers…”
Mmm, if you ask me, she sounds like she’s getting a little bit fanatical about this Mac stuff, next thing she’ll be telling me how “she can’t wait until January for Macworld San Francisco as ThinkSecret says that there will be a new Mac Mini – the first to run on Intel chips – and that it will be part of Apple’s move for the Mac to be the center(sic) of the digital hub in people’s homes…“
I guess I shouldn’t have gotten her that iPod shuffle, seems like I’ve started something… ;)
~Rick