I wouldn't want to be debugging that 'wired format control'!

via Royal Pingdom.

As the organiser of CocoaHeads Sydney I wanted a way to better connect Cocoa developers and employers here in Australia. The result is CocoaJobs.info - a free job post site exclusively for Cocoa and Cocoa Touch positions.

http://CocoaJobs.info/

It is available for use globally so please feel free to let any companies or recruiters know about it, as well as your own CocoaHeads chapters of course.

The first Mac I ever used was a Mac 128, when my Dad brought one home as part of the ground breaking Apple Test Drive promotion. It booted into the Finder quickly even though it used a floppy. It only ran one program at once, so programs (mostly) started and exited quickly and didn't interact. It had a fixed screen size so everyone's experience was the same. There were desk accessories that gave access to limited functionality while applications were running.

Sounds a lot like the iPad (except bigger and black and white - and of course no 3G ;).

Seriously, it's Steve Job's core vision all over again. Steve Jobs didn't want the Apple ][ to have any expandability, it was Steve Wozniak who convinced him (correctly) that computers were still very much a hobbyist device and need expandability. The original Mac wasn't supposed to have upgradeable ram - it was the engineers (Burrell Smith I think) who secretly made the circuit board easily upgradeable.

Only now, the hardware and connectivity reality has caught up with Jobs' reality: hardware is cheap, expendable and compact - and Apple makes the best. Once again another insanely great device is going to change the place computers have in our lives.