Waiting. Anticipating. Preparing for what Apple is going to come up with.

And also missing Steve Jobs. The charismatic Mr. Jobs, the Idol, the one man army, the iconic CEO and the best technology think tank in this world. I am absolutely awed by everything he does and people like him make me proud to be a part of technology fraternity.

As far as I know he isn’t going to present on the Jan 27th Apple media event. But here’s some of his signature keynote speeches:

The sexy launch of iPod nano (1st 2 mins of the video)-

And this is the iPhone launch-

And for those who can’t get enough of him, here’s an extensive list.

CORRECTION: Steve Jobs is going to present tomorrow, he had backed out from Feb Macworld Expo. Looking forward to some real magic

There is no intuitive direct way to hide/unhide files on Mac (at least without using some utility). Apart from the files starting with ‘.’, there can be other forms of hidden files with some implicit flag that makes it tough to unhide them by just renaming in terminal.

This script makes all the hidden files visible-
defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles YES

Type this in terminal and relaunch Finder. Revert back using ‘NO’ in the command.

To selectively hide/unhide files, use this command on terminal-
/Developer/Tools/SetFile -a V 'filename'

“Finally, the first phone to beat the iPhone… Introducing the NEW iPhone 3G.”

In a perfectly architected keynote, Steve Jobs exposed the new 3G iPhone today. Deliciously affordable at $199 (for 8 gigs), the 3G phones will be available from July 11. The sales are expected to rise once the phone makes its way into the market of new countries. With iPhones, Apple has re-affirmed its superiority when it comes to revolutionizing a long established design – a trait that it introduced with iPods and we know how big of a hit that was. All kudos to Jobs and his team for successfully including the most-demanded features in new iPhones and still keeping the price controlled.

Lets hope some of that translates to a lift in the stock price as well.And I am all excited to adorn my Macbook soon with OS X Leopard, which has been termed as evolutionary, if not revolutionary and reinstates the Mac’s superiority over Windows and Vista in particular.