Popular Anime Series

Are you a fan of anime? The cute little characters features high pitched voice and some with funny looking faces and bodies. I find myself sticking in front of my computer or television (depends on where I watch anime) for hours if I started a new anime series. If you have similar characteristics as me, you would like the new anime series named Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo.

You would alternatively gain more insight of this anime by visiting their Official Website. I have had watched a few series of it and I could not deny that I am excited for more chapters.

Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo is a funny anime series that features alot of jokes. The jokes is close to nonsense, but it seems sustainable. However, as I have not gone watching until the last chapter, I would presume that the ending would be quite nice and meaningful. The beginning of the anime series Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo reveals the story of Bobobo-bo being able to communicate with Hair. From young, he could talk to his own hair and receive some nonsense feedback from them. To him, the hair is alive and he proclaims himself as the protector of all hair from young. Things get much weirder as he grows up. Bobobo-bo and Beauty started what he called a Hair Squad where they consists of weird characters from booger soldiers to his own armpit hair! There is also an instance where Bobobo-bo is being eaten up by a giant hamburger. Things become more surreal beyond that.

If you would like to lighten up and laugh at a bit of nonsense, this anime is just the one for you. I personally liked these types of anime once in a while to lighten up after a hard day of work. You should too!



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Apple’s Unsung Hero 2

Name: Bill Atkinson
Title: Software Engineer
About: Atkinson, the software genius behind the majority of the Mac’s graphics programming, was much admired by Steve Jobs. It was Atkinson who eventually convinced Jobs to take a look at the Xerox Alto, which he had previously ignored because of his dislike of Jef Raskin.

Name: Burrel Smith
Title: Repairman
About: While working in Apple’s maintenance department, Smith knocked up the first prototype Macintosh, based on plans designed by Jef Raskin. By this time, Steve Wozniak was growing disillusioned with Apple so Smith became one of the main figures in developing the Mac hardware design.

Apple’s unsung heroes 1

Name: Steve (‘Woz’) Wozniak
Title: Resident Genius
About: One of the original founders of Apple alongside Steve Jobs, Wozniak was the technical genius who turned Jobs’s grand ideas into reality. Apple made him rich, but he became disillusioned with corporate politics and left Apple in 1985, spending his money on staging rock festivals and generally being a nice guy.

Name: Jef Raskin
Title: Manager, Advanced Systems
About: Known as the true father of the Macintosh, it was Raskin who visited Xerox and saw the Alto, a prototype computer with the first graphical user interface. That gave Raskin the idea for the Mac – Steve Jobs only got involved with the Mac after he was kicked off another project.

The myth of Jobs

Steve Jobs is often described as some sort of technological visionary. And, to give him his due, his vision of the Mac as ‘the computer for the rest of us’ is something that he’s pursued with single-minded intensity over the years.

But his greatest asset is probably the famous ‘Steve Jobs reality distortion field’ – the ability to charm anyone who listens to him into going along with whatever idea or product he’s trying to sell.

That’s how the barefoot Jobs sold his first order for 50 Apple I computers to an electronics store in California in 1975. And that’s how he whipped the crowd into a frenzy at the launch of the first Macintosh in 1984.

His return to Apple in 1997 was greeted like the Second Coming and he stunned the entire industry when he announced at the Macworld Expo that he’d done a deal with Microsoft that not only settled all their outstanding legal disputes, but also ensured that Microsoft would continue to develop the Mac version of Microsoft Office and invest a handy $150m in Apple at the same time. He may be an arrogant sonofabitch but only Steve Jobs could have pulled that off.

A few months later he unveiled the iMac with a similarly theatrical flourish – and the rest is history.

Rotten apples 3

Name: Copland
Launched: DOA

Copland was Apple’s first attempt to produce a new Operating System to replace the original ‘Classic’ Mac OS. Work on Copland began in the early 1990s, but by 1996 the project had fallen apart. It cost Apple $400m to buy Steve Jobs’ NeXTSTEP software, which formed the basis of OS X.

Name: G4 Cube
Launched: 2000

They say that pride comes before the fall. At the launch of the G4 Cube, this author asked Apple’s marketing managers who the new machine was aimed at – consumers or professional users? “We don’t know,” they said. “But isn’t it cool?” That was the moment we realised that the Cube was doomed.

Men at the top 3

Name: Dr. Gilberto (‘Gil’) Amelio
Appointed: February 1996
About: With a reputation as a turnaround artist who could save struggling companies, Amelio’s appointment was a last ditch attempt to save the dying Apple. Ironically, Amelio’s strategy worked – but it also cost him his own job.
Best moment: Buying Steve Jobs’ NeXT company – whose NeXTSTEP software was the basis for OS X.
Worst moment: Boy, did he get screwed by Steve Jobs.

Name: Steven P Jobs
Appointed: July 1997
About: One of the original founders of Apple, Jobs was ousted by Sculley in 1985. He went on to found NeXT, which was bought by Amelio in 1997, paving the way for Jobs’s triumphant return.
Best moment: How about introducing the iMac and saving Apple for starters?
Worst moment: Overthrown by Sculley in 1985 boardroom battle.

Men at the top 2

Name: John Sculley
Appointed: April 1983
About: Sculley was President of Pepsi Cola when Steve Jobs approached him and said, “do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water, or do you want a chance to change the world?”
Best moment: Enormous sales and profits at Apple for his first five years.
Worst moment: The Mac Portable – so heavy it was quickly nicknamed the ‘Luggable’.

Name: Mike (‘Diesel’) Spindler
Appointed: June 1993
About: Nicknamed ‘Diesel’ because of his head-on approach to tackling problems, Germanborn Spindler took over Apple at a tough time and was forced to lay off more than 2,000 employees and slash R&D costs to keep Apple afloat.
Best moment: Introduced the first Power Macs in 1994.
Worst moment: The amazing exploding PowerBook 5300.

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Newton falls to Earth

The G4 Cube was an embarrassment for Apple, and the PowerBook 5300 was both embarrassing and damaging. But of all Apple’s failed products, the biggest, most expensive, most high profile and – ultimately – the most tragic, has to be the Newton.

Former Apple CEO John Sculley is often reviled by the Mac faithful as the man who kicked Steve Jobs out of Apple back in 1985. Jobs is held up as the technological visionary, while Sculley is dismissed as the corporate number-cruncher brought in from Pepsi Cola to give the hippies at Apple a bit of corporate respectability. Yet Sculley steered Apple through years of enormous success until his resignation in 1993, and the Newton proved that he was a man of vision.

Unfortunately the product didn’t quite live up to the vision. The Newton may not have been Sculley’s idea – any more than the Mac was Steve Jobs’s idea – but Sculley did see the enormous potential of the product and did his best to support it through years of troubled development at Apple.

It was Sculley who coined the term ‘PDA’ – personal digital assistant – to describe the Newton. He saw the Newton as the first of a new generation of handheld devices that people could carry around with them in order to store and organise personal data such as addresses, phone numbers and calendars. And, because it was intended to be a handheld device, the Newton would use advanced handwriting recognition technology to allow people to quickly enter information simply by writing on the screen with a small stylus.

Pear-shaped cube

You don’t have to look all that far back for Apple’s most recent cockup, either. Sandwiched in between the enormous successes of the iMac and iPod sits the G4 Cube. Many of Apple’s biggest flops have actually been excellent products, marred more by insane marketing than any technological flaws. In that sense, the G4 Cube was an absolutely archetypal Apple product. Launched in July 2000, the Cube was a superb piece of design work. It took Steve Jobs’s vision of the iMac as a kind of technological fashion statement to the next level, and combined it with the elegant design that is Jonathan Ive’s trademark. And, to give credit where it’s due, Apple’s backroom engineering teams did some amazing work by managing to cram the whole thing into such a compact enclosure without having it melt the moment you turned the power supply on.

But if the design work was impeccable, Apple’s marketing was insane. The Cube was way too expensive for the consumers that lapped up the iMac, while professional users just looked down on it as an expensive toy.

The Cube cost almost as much as the current top-of-the-range flat-panel iMac, yet it didn’t include a monitor – flat-panel or otherwise. Buying a decent monitor took the price up to more than £2,000 for what was little more than a smaller version of the iMac. Not surprisingly, the Cube sold poorly and was shelved a year later.

The Cube wasn’t Apple’s first hardware failure – there’s the story of the PowerBook 5300, which still ranks as one of Apple’s most humiliating product launches ever.

It came at a bad time, too. The PowerBook range had been a massive hit for Apple in the early 1990s, and at one point Apple was actually the number one manufacturer of laptops, outselling any of its PC rivals. But when Apple introduced the first Power Macs in 1994 it had trouble getting the powerhungry PowerPC processor to work inside a battery-driven laptop system. PowerBook sales had started to flag so the eventual launch of the PowerBook 5300 in August 1995 was an important event for Apple. But, just as Apple started to ship the first units to customers, two early sample units caught fire – one at Apple’s factory in Singapore, and another one that had been taken home by an Apple employee. The fault lay in the Sonymanufactured batteries that were exploding while recharging off the mains power supply.

Apple had to recall every single one of the new PowerBooks, but as soon as it sorted out one problem, others sprung up. Cracks started appearing in the plastic casing, and the power plug had a knack of snapping and falling off. Oh, and the power supply wasn’t strong enough for some of the expansion cards you could put into the card expansion slots. The machines also had a tendency to crash if you pressed certain combinations of buttons.

This endless succession of problems ground the PowerBook’s reputation into the dirt, and damaged Apple at a time when it was already struggling. The company’s financial results suffered and within six months, CEO Mike ‘Diesel’ Spindler was gone.