We're currently waiting for our gut instinct -- that Yahoo has, in fact, purchased Flickr -- to be proven right on Tuesday. And by "gut instinct," we mean we shook the old Magic 8-Ball and got "All signs point to yes."
Get Ur Geek On
Get Ur Geek On
Apple bowed to complaints that their Mac Mini add-ons were overpriced, dropping the cost of the Airport/Bluetooth, 1GB RAM and 80GB hard drive upgrades signifcantly [from Slashdot]. Hey, what's the point of having proprietary technology if you can't bilk people for the accessories? For those of you who thought what SFist thought when they saw the Mac Mini -- "Set-top Box" -- Engadget has a great how-to on turning your brick into a DVR and media hub for the house.
If You Write It, They Will Com(pute)
Leapfrog announced a new computer, and it's really dang small. Take that, Mac Mini!
SFist Macworld Lunchbreak
On an otherwise banner day for journalism here on SFist, we thought that we would get our lean, fit body out from behind the old desk and head down to the Moscone Center for Jason Shellen's Macworld Blogger Lunch. After all, Steve Jobs had appeared earlier in the day in his trademark turtleneck (could someone buy that dude a suit already?) to announce all sorts of cool s**t from Apple -- a preview of Tiger, the new OS; a demo of iLife 2005; the cheapest and smallest Macintosh desktop ever, the Mac Mini; and the piece de resistance, the new iPod Shuffle (terrible name, hott product).

