Due to overwhelming media attention, inquiries and rabid public entreaties, we here at Navarino Unincorporated in a pathetic effort to meet demand have uncovered even more hidden pictures and slides taken from Apple’s iPad web page and Steve Jobs’ iPad presentation from his January 27th press conference at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts:

Note: We had to slow the scrolling down over 2,000x’s to notice this one.

On to more secret slides no one saw from Jobs’ speech at the iPad launch. They went by so fast we didn’t catch all of them. Remember people, you’ll only see the secret slides from the iPad’s launch here at Navarino Unincorporated!

I guess most people just aren’t cool, Steve. I’m glad I’m not cool. I love multi-tasking.

Well people are you cool enough or not? Me likies multitasking, so I’m definitely not cool.

Are You?

We here at Navarino Unincorporated always try to get exclusive content, inside information and proof of things no one else can find but us. We’ve always failed, but this time we were successful. Big-time!

We’ve uncovered a goldmine of exclusive information on Apple’s new iPad that NO ONE HAS but us! Exclusive information that you won’t find anywhere else except right here on Navarino Unincorporated!

The first two pictures are secret graphics hidden in the iPad slide show on Apple’s own website. We had to slow the scrolling down over 1,000x’s to notice them.

Secret Image #1: No doubt Apple’s subliminal advertising attempt to try to sell more iPads


Secret Image #2: This one took us by surprise but it might be Apple Engineers crying for help

Yep, you heard it here. Confirmed. We were right, it’s a freaking Etch-A-Sketch.


Ok, we admit it, that one above is a real slide and in Jobs’ speech.


Now that explains a lot! Get better, Steve! FAST!


Point taken. I think he’s using a Kindle.

You saw it here first, people. Secret graphics and slides taken from Apple’s website and Steve Jobs’ iPad slideshow presentation. And remember, you saw it all here first at Navarino Unincorporated!

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There are two graphic programs I use when I need to find, view, organize or convert pictures on my computer. Both are free, of course and do what they do well.

XnView - I’ve been using it for years after ACDSee became bloated and slow. It’s the fastest, most feature-rich and capable image viewer I’ve ever had the pleasure of using and is updated constantly. You can whip through directories of graphics with the thumbnail browser standard in all programs of this type, batch rename/ convert/ edit files and create slide shows. While you can do basic editing of graphics with XnView, I prefer dedicated graphic editors like Adobe Elements or Paint .NET. XnView is light on system resources, doesn’t eat up much memory and you don’t have to install it; you can use it as a portable application. XnView supports over 400 different file types including movies and PDF files, it’s cross-platform and according to their website “there are versions for Windows, MacOS X, Linux x86, Linux ppc, FreeBSD x86, OpenBSD x86, NetBSD x86, Solaris sparc, Solaris x86, Irix mips, HP-UX and AIX!” Chances are no matter what OS you use you can run XnView! (For the record, I did try Irfanview several times over the years but I refuse to use anything that has such a horridly ancient & outdated GUI).

Picasa - has a ton of features and while it’s categorized as an image viewer it’s really an image organizer. I’ve seen a lot of image organizers out there and while free doesn’t always mean something’s comparable to a paid product, Picasa is both FREE and GOOD. Like XnView you can edit pictures but that’s not really it’s strong suit. Picasa can scan your whole computer looking for pictures and movies and automatically scan for new ones on your system and add them to it’s index. After the pics and movies are scanned you can whip through them all fast as lightning in a thumbnail view or search by name or tags you assign your photos for better organization. Using Picasa, it was very easy to locate pictures I thought I lost and misplaced. You can also put your pics into different album views which makes sorting your images a snap. While Picasa uses more memory than XnView that’s to be expected from a program that organizes all your images vs a picture viewer and Picasa didn’t run slow on an older backup machine I have vs. my main rig.

Picasa can also upload your pictures to Picasa Web, Google’s free web album. It also integrates well with Blogger and you can email, Geotag, export or print selected pics as well as creating movies presentations or collages.

It’s free from the folks at Google, but only works on Windows and Mac OS X (beta). Sadly, there was a Linux version but it’s no longer being devloped (boo!).

XnView and Picasa make a great combination for practically anyone who has a lot of images on their computer and best of all they’re free and feature-rich.

What programs do you use for viewing and organizing your pictures?

Sadly, there are some things this geek just doesn’t understand. Maybe it was Steve Jobs introducing the iPad yesterday that just made me shake my head a little too much so that something which used to just rattle broke loose. Maybe it was a combination of things such as this 365 Julie/Julia tech project I started or it just might have been nothing at all. Let’s go with that for now.

See peeps, there are just some things I don’t understand. So many in fact, I just have to start tossing them out of my head to clear some much needed room:


Things This Geek Just Doesn’t Understand:

The iPad. Seriously I just don’t get why anyone would want something that might look prettier than a netbook yet is more expensive and far less capable. Locked iPhone OS? No hard drive? You have ZERO control over it and can’t put any programs you want on it? It’s not really a computer. It’s a stretched iTouch Etch-A-Sketch that’s not even better than an eBook reader thingamabob and yet costs more? In this economy? Nope. Don’t think so.

A lot of people, articles and writers all over the Net talking all disappointed about Apple’s latest product AND they agree with my opinion. That’s like never happened… thanks iPad!

Stargate Universe. It’s definitely not SG-1 or Atlantis. One of the guys who made the two previous Stargate series created this one. It’s nothing like SG-1 or Atlantis but it’s ratings are just like wormholes; no evidence it exists. To say it sucks is giving it too much credit (not to mention slighting the word suck). It has so nothing to do with the previous franchises, lose the Stargate in the title so it stops tainting SG-1 and Atlantis, already. Could you see the pitch for the show? “It’s not like Stargate the movie, SG-1 or Atlantis. It’s all about people on a ship, marooned like Voyager but far less interesting. They’ll love it!”

Making Simple Shapes with Photoshop. It’s like a 5 part process to make a filled or outlined square, circle, or any common shape. All the other paint programs out there do it in one step. COME ON ALREADY, ADOBE!

The iPad. Not only was it a five year old skit from Mad TV, but it was also a low-cost touch screen kitchen appliance that was going to run a form of BeOs which was announced at the PC Expo way back in 1998! (It never came out.)

Celeron or Cheap AMD celeron-class chips in laptops. I hate underpowered laptops and there’s really no reason for slow cheap chips to appear in laptops these days. Know what the price difference for laptop manufacturers is between a dog-like Celeron/AMD chip and a good one? Usually $20-50. Really no excuse to use bad, slow processors these days except to dupe customers who don’t know better. Also it’s a crime to make a nice laptop and put a 1.6Ghz celeron/AMD single core sloth inside! Criminal, I say, criminal!

80,000 people also agree with me. About Jay Leno vs Conan O’Brien. On a recent Oprah Winfrey poll, 98% of the people said they were on CoCo’s side and 96% said Jay shouldn’t get the Tonight Show back. (Ok, so only 97% of 80,000 people agree with me.) I’m as freaking shocked as all of you.

My Julie & Julia inspired blog tech challenge. I’m on my 28th day. I committed myself to attempt to post 365 entries that were worth the geek read this year and I’m not doing too bad almost a month into it. No cutting and pasting links like other people. Just talking about what I like, use, read, heard and believe. Not doing too bad. Wow.(For now)

Later geeks. Until tomorrow. Maybe.

Apple unfortunately announced their new, appallingly-named “tablet” computer today. Sadly many geeks out there’s hopes were crushed as they found out that the horribly-named iPad was merely a stretched, disfigured and more costly iPod Touch in a bigger less pocket-friendly shell.

The unfortunately feminine hygiene named product, iPad starts out at $499 (16Gb). The iPad sports a 9.7″ diagonal display with a resolution of 1024x768 pixels. If you’re familiar with that terribly low resolution size, you should be as it was first introduced 20 years ago! (XGA)

It doesn’t multi-task, runs the iPhone OS and with a slow-as-molasses 1Ghz Apple processor, the iPad (aka Apple Etch-A-Sketch) is even more underpowered than those stupid first generation netbooks with Atom Processors (like the slug-like Asus Eee PC). *shudder*

There are three sizes of the Apple iPad: the MicroPad, the MiniPad and the MaxiPad.

And here are the unbelievable prices:

Wifi Only…………………/ Wifi + 3G (ack, AT&T is the carrier!)
16Gb MicroPad: $499/$629
32Gb MiniPad: $599/$729
64Gb MaxiPad: $699/$829

There’s no optical or hard drives and though the iPad supports 720p resolution and can output to a TV with special cables, neither the screen nor the cables support 720p resolutions! WTF?! Want a USB port or connect a SD card to it? Get a special dongle! Brilliant! No USB ports, media card slots or keyboard/keypad here either!

And just in case you thought the iPad name itself was a joke (women are apple-d or appalled at this name for obvious reasons) let me show you that this whole disgusting name problem could have been avoided. See, MADTV came up with the iPad name on one of their shows and if you click the video below you’ll see the skit they did FIVE YEARS AGO in all it’s gorey.

Here are some interesting articles flooding the Net about Apple’s (still can’t believe the name or horrid “capabilities") iPad: