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• You should be able to dedicate a considerable of time to the site
• Tell us a little bit about yourself, brief bio/resume
• Don’t forget your contact info
• Samples of your writing (can be links to samples as well)

If interested, shoot us an email to info(at)macblogz.com with “Join the Team” in the subject line.

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Steve Jobs, the name within itself is synonmous with Apple, the iPod, iPhone, cutting-edge innovation and devotion to perfection. The Apple CEO has become so mystifying, yet so culturally shape-shifting, that a sneak peak into his mind would be a once in a lifetime opportunity.

With Inside Steve’s Brain, Wired News Editor Leander Kahney provides an accurate, honest and intriguing look into the mind behind one of the greatest innovators of all time. What separates this book from the vast mountains of Apple literature, is Kahney’s elegant approach to the narrative. The book is up-to-date, relevant and most importantly, factual. As a long time Jobs follower myself, I found Kahney’s deep knowledge of the subject immensely intriguing and engaging.

Many books have attempted to chronicle Jobs and Apple in the past, but none have come across quite as effortlessly interesting as Inside Steve’s Brain. Kahney is able to seamlessly weave together quotes, elements of Apple’s history, interviews and a deep understanding of the culture within a joyful, enjoyable read.

With respect to modern culture and what is happening now, Kahney refrains from delving too deeply into the past. After a brief jaunt through Jobs’ experience at NeXT, coming back to save Apple, and his relentless pursuit to perfect OS X, the book delves into the backend of Jobs’ brain, with rather intricate detail. Kahney’s passion clearly shines through in the book, yet his ability to stay focused is a major perk for the reader. When writing about a subject so culturally significant as the era of Apple and Steve Jobs, many writers have the tendency to get swept away in “passionate” rants and blurry details. Kahney, on the other hand, keeps the experience crisp, focused and to the point.

“At every turn of his career, Steve Jobs has inspired employees, lured software developers, and snagged customers by invoking a higher calling. For Jobs, programmers don’t work to make easy-to-use software; they’re striving to change the world. Apple’s customers don’t buy Macs to work on spreadsheets; they’re making a moral choice against the evil monopoly of Microsoft.”

The above quote is taken from chapter five, which is titled “Passion: Putting a Ding in the Universe.” It’s here that Kahney truly delves into the inner-workings of Steve Jobs. Showcasing how Apple has time and again fought against the grain, yet somehow manages to emerge on top, Kahney breaks down not only Jobs, but many of the top tier employees at Apple, providing a window into the enormously impressive braintrust that is Apple Inc.

Touching upon everything from life in Silicon Valley, Apple’s terrifying backdating scandal and Jobs’ alter-ego, the meat of the book contains an immense spread of information, all pieced together to create an informative, intelligent read.

Whether Jobs is saving a life’s worth of documents for his own memoirs or not, is still unconfirmed. But his lack of participation in the book isn’t shocking in the slightest. Even without a direct interview from Jobs, Kahney delivers home the essence of Apple, while weaving together an immense understanding of the culture. If you haven’t by now, pick up the book and give it a twirl.

[Inside Steve's Brain]

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Of course part of the rules were that the contest winner gets to choose the color of his new iPod. We already contacted Max and he told us he wants a blue one. Well Max, congratulations and consider it done.

We would like to extend our gratitude to everyone who has participated in the MacBlogz Caption Contest. While we certainly have enjoyed all of your entries, the votes have been tallied and we have a clear winner. The official winning caption can be found in the image below.

Winning Caption: “Steve summons his level 4 iPod Nano to wreak havoc on the helpless streets of San Francisco.”

Once again we would like to thank everyone who participated, stay tuned for more contests in the future!

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It’s extremely easy to enter the contest. Simply click here, check out the funny image, write a caption in the comments and the vote alongside everyone else.

The contest ends on Tuesday, September 16th at 5:00pm Eastern Time, 2:00pm Pacific Time. Enter Here.

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Want to win a brand new 16GB iPod nano? Sure you do.

Well folks, it’s pretty easy to enter our Caption Contest below. Simply think of a funny quote, saying, comment, question, prayer, rant, etc., that is relevant to the image below and then collectively vote on the winner!
Please make sure and read through the rules carefully. The voting system is really simple. To the right of each comment, there’s a “thumbs up” and “thumbs down” button.
(Just like Digg)

Contest Rules:

• Enter a comment (caption) below
• Limit (THREE) comments per person
• Vote your favorite comments up, and the other ones down
• You can vote once per comment, per IP address
• You can’t vote for your own comments
• All comments require a valid email address, this is how we’ll contact the winner
• There needs to be a minimum of 50 comments (entries) for the contest to take effect
• Contest end date is Tuesday, September 16th at 5:00pm Eastern Time, 2:00pm Pacific Time
• Don’t worry about how many votes are on your comment, we use math to determine a few factors
• The comment with the highest ranking will win a 16GB iPod nano, in the color of your choice!

To enter the contest, simply think of a funny quote, saying, comment, question, prayer, rant, etc., that is relevant to the image below, and then collectively vote on the winner! CLICK HERE for a full size version.



Click Here for a full size version of the image above.

The Contest begins NOW !!! Good luck everyone !

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We prefer to get our live coverage from Gizmodo or Ars Technica (links below). They offer a stable method of updates and usually leave all the fluff out as well. Which is important when you need your fix.

Tomorrow’s event begins at 10 am Pacific Time and is being held at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco, California. The photo to the right was taken this weekend and shows the massive banner Apple has already draped on the front facing side of the building.

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Towards the top of the page, directly to the left of the search field, you’ll find a real-time Dynamic Stock Quote.

The figures change every time you refresh the page. As long as the markets are open and Apple’s Stock Price is fluctuating, the stock quote on MacBlogz.com will change.

Thank you to everyone who’s been vocal about expressing features you’d like to see on the site! As long as you keep sending them in, we’ll keep working on them!

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If you own an iPhone, you’re familiar with the fetch feature that can retrieve your email periodically throughout the day from your mailbox and download it to your iPhone. PostSnap acts in the same way. PostSnap will retrieve posts from the community between every 5 to 15 minutes and display them on the MacBlogz homepage. Much in the same way the iPhone retrieves your email.

Here’s a quick rundown:

To use our new feature, simply start by pressing Previous Posts to load older posts in sequential order. You will now notice that 2 different headlines will populate the module. Don’t be alarmed, that’s supposed to happen.

From here you will be able to navigate even further back as well go forward by hitting Next Posts. If at any point you lose your place in time, not to worry, simply hit the reset button.

One last thing… To give you the heads up, if we notice bugs or see any funny business in the modules, or the way that PostSnap is working, we might temporarily take it down so that we can address these issues.

So thats it, we hope you enjoy PostSnap.

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We joined our wonderful 3G Launch Line at around 3:30am this morning. Luckily, we were in a location that had a fairly large Apple Store right around the corner, so we had two lines within a stone’s throw from each other. Our line was definitely the best! We were hanging out, taking pictures, talking about our shiny toys, and in the process we managed to snap up quite a bit of good shots!

CHECK OUT OUR iPHONE 3G LAUNCH LINE PHOTO GALLERY HERE

MacBlogz brought special t-shirts to the launch that said “iPhone 3G: Because Steve Says So.” We only made a limited edition of these special iPhone 3G Launch T-Shirts, so hang on to them if you got one. Check the shirts out in our Launch Line Photo Gallery here.

The one and only original “Because Steve Says So” T-Shirt is Here.

By the way: We picked up 4 iPhones, two white 16GB’s and two black 16GB’s. Only one of them has been successfully (and accidentally) activated by leaving it plugged in for a long, long time.

Updates: All 4 iPhones are working great and have been synced and updated. Mobile Me, on the other hand, that’s a different story. Contrary to reports, Mobile Me is still very, very unstable.

CHECK OUT OUR iPHONE 3G LAUNCH LINE PHOTO GALLERY HERE

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Although I’m being told not to say anything, I can’t help myself.

Last night we initiated a major server migration. I’m happy to say that we experienced ZERO back-end downtime! The only hiccup we ran into was a simple CSS error. Which was fixed in 15 minutes by Genius Tom.

MacBlogz.com has only been live for a single month, but our traffic was above expectations for our first month. We poured our hearts, blood, sweat and tears into this site and we love it more and more everyday. Getting the wonderful reader feedback that we’ve gotten in such a short amount of time is truly humbling.

A few days into initial development on MacBlogz, a key decision was made… “Top priority is making sure MacBlogz.com never suffers from traffic issues, and turns into another horrifyingly sluggish site.” This means staying well ahead of your server capacity by projecting future traffic numbers, or just spending a lot of money you don’t have on big servers because you’re obsessed with responsiveness, like we are….and did.

We’ve narrowed down a lot of feature requests to three specific new features to implement. We completely agree with the enhanced usability these features will bring, and think everyone will love them as well. We are very close to completing development on the first new feature to MacBlogz.com (which happens to be the most dynamic). We have a few staging sites that are used to try out new features with, that’s why you’ll (hopefully) never see interruption to the site. But rest assured, we haven’t stopped working on additions and enhancements to MacBlogz for one second.

Stay tuned! We’re working really hard to get everything cleaned up and obsessively perfect. I’ll drop a little hint about the new feature that’s coming…….Nav.

P.S – If you guess what the new feature is in the comments below, we’ll let you personally see it first in a test build.

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