The Quiet Zone

The Quiet Zone at MacWorld is several rows of small booths off in the far left corner of the hall. While there’s no truly quiet area, the area devoted to smaller developers is free from the bass-heavy thumping of demo music, or the the snake-oily voices of pitchmen doing product demos with their speakers cranked up to 11.

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Macworld Overlooked

As the Macworld Expo comes to a close today, I thought now would be a good time to reflect back on the Apple announcements. While the Mac Mini and iPod Shuffle will deservedly get the majority of the headlines, especially from the mainstream press, I wanted to look at the other new product announcements, because for most of us, these are actually much more important than either the Mini or the Shuffle.

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