I transitioned our family’s blog from being hosted on Apple’s soon-to-be-cancelled iWeb service over to the ever-consistent WordPress service. For most people who just visit the website: http://webelfamily.com , you will not need to do anything different, that same address will now take you to the new location. However, if you subscribe to the blog using “RSS”, then the feed has changed and you’ll need to delete the old feed and re-subscribe to the blog’s new RSS feed!
There is also an option to have an Email sent to you every time the blog is updated, so if you are not into RSS, but you’d like to make sure you don’t miss any blog posts, click on the “+ Follow” button on the lower right corner of the blog and you’ll be prompted to enter your Email address.
Come by and visit the family blog and make a comment or two – Erica LOVES to get comments on her blog posts!
Just downloaded the WordPress app for my iPod.
Cool!
Over the weekend, something exciting happened… well, at least it was exciting for me. Apple opened it’s first ‘official’ Apple Store in China. (Beijing of course.)
The two-level store store opened July 19th in Beijing’s Sanlitun entertainment district at 10 a.m., Apple’s 219th worldwide.
“This is the first of many stores we will open in China,” said Ron Johnson, Apple’s senior vice president of retail, in remarks at the store. He later added that Apple will open stores “in Beijing, in Shanghai and beyond,” and confirmed that another store will open in Beijing’s Qianmen area, a shopping street south of Tiananmen Square that has been renovated ahead of the Olympic Games, which begin next month.
The store will offer Genius Bar services in Chinese and English, said John Ford, the store’s manager, with support in some other languages available, including German.
Some of the readers of my blog who are into this sort of thing know that I use the blogging software known as WordPress to publish SteveWebel.com . Well, I upgraded to version 2.6 today using WordPress Automatic Upgrade which automatically upgrades your wordpress installation to the latest one provided by wordpress.org by just clicking on a link. Easy, right?
Everything seemed to go smoothly, but then I couldn’t log back in to my admin page (where I write new posts and manage all the settings of the blog.) I have to admit, with all the issues Erica is having with her blog as a result of Apple‘s problems migrating from .Mac to “MobileMe”, I became very nervous that we were both gonna be hurtin in the blogging arena.
However, after a few minutes of trouble shooting and trying a few things, I thought about resetting my browser (I’m using Apple’s Safari browser.) I had read that one of the ‘upgrades’ in v2.6 was a new way of handling “cookies”, by resetting Safari, I would wipe out the old cookies and get a fresh start, so to speak.
Well, it worked! Whew! Crisis averted.
Okay, if you made it this far in this post, congratulations, you are probably the only one!
There are media reports out that suggest that Apple’s iPhone is coming to China, soon!
Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs has said the company hoped to roll out the iPhone later this year in China.
I’m not so sure that I’d be interested in one, but I kinda like that I will at least have the option to get one!
New research from the NPD Group finds that 50 percent of Mac users pay to download music, compared to just 16 percent of PC users.
New market research figures from the NPD Group may highlight some of the gap between users of Apple’s Macintosh computers and…well, users of those other systems. According to the NPD Group’s Digital Music Monitor, Macintosh users are considerably more likely to pay to download music, with 50 percent of all Mac users surveyed paying to download music during the third quarter of 2007 compared to just 16 percent of PC users.
hmmm!
the article
China Mobile is in talks with Apple to sell the iPhone in China, the company’s CEO said on Tuesday. But he’s not keen on the type of revenue-sharing model that Apple has insisted on elsewhere in the world.”Our customers like this kind of fashionable product,” Wang Jianzhou, China Mobile’s CEO, on the sidelines of the GSM Association’s Mobile Asia Congress in Macau.But in a speech at the conference, Wang said he doesn’t like some of the new business models emerging in the mobile phone industry, including handset makers wanting to share revenue with mobile operators. ”We still think we can maintain the operator-centric model because we have the customers, the end users,” Wang said.Apple has been signing exclusive deals with operators to sell its iPhone, including O2 in the U.K. and AT&T in the U.S. As part of the deal, Apple requires the operators to pay it a portion of their iPhone subscriber revenue.Apple has said it will roll out iPhones in Asia next year, and China Mobile would be a good catch for the company. It is the world’s largest mobile operator, boasting almost 350 million subscribers at the end of September.
If they can actually work out a reasonable deal with China Mobile or another carrier, this is going to be very tempting! Up to this point, the iPhone was out of the realm of reality for me, so it was not a problem. Now I’m gonna have to convince myself how I DON’T actually want one of these!
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