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New Jersey’s own Bruce Willis, star of 12 Monkeys, Unbreakable and other obscure movies like Pulp Fiction, Armageddon and Die Hard, also turns out to be a Mac user!
He popped up on the dicsussion boards of the Ain’t It Cool News movie web site and, when asked to prove he was who he said he was, answered:
You all live in a digital world. someone must have a Mac with iChat camera ability. Send me your biggest doubter, who has iChat/video ability, and have them call
They did, and you can see the result in the linked article above and also here.
Macintosh - the choice of discriminating action heros everywhere.
According to a report at MacWorld UK Adobe plans to launch Creative Suite 3 on March 27th. This will be the long awaited Universal version that can run natively on both PowerPC and Intel processor based Macs. The lack of native versions of PhotoShop, Illustrator, InDesign, GoLive, etc. has been a major sticking point preventing adoption of Intel Macs by many creative professionals. Creative Suite 2 will run on Intel Macs but considerably slower than it does on PowerPC Macs.
This should also help kick-start sales of Apple’s Mac Pro desktops.
A few years ago the guys who create the gamer oriented web comic Penny Arcade! created an amazing charity called Child’s Play which donates new toys, games, books and other goodies for use by sick kids in children’s hospitals across North America and the world. To date they’ve donated over a million dollars in items and 100% of the donations including the cash go directly to the hospitals, everyone involved donates their time and effort.
This year a group of Mac developers have decided to donate all proceeds from the sales of their software on Thursday, December 7th to Child’s Play.
So, while you’re checking the site for details about the party on Friday take a minute to head on over to Child’s Play Day by Mike Zornek to check out the links for the participating developers and products. I suspect you’ll find application you never knew existed that you can really use. SlingShot looks like it does something I’ve been wanting for a long time: synchronize data and iTunes playlists between my Macs.
Buy yourself an early holiday gift and somewhere you’ll make a sick child’s hospital stay a little bit happier.