These are pictures taken at the January 2009 Macworld Expo in San Francisco, California. I did not attend the unkeynote because I was at home watching Sponge Bob with my son, so there are no pictures from it. But there weren’t any big hardware announcements anyway.

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How’s this for irony? Steve Jobs didn’t give the keynote, and I was in the the Microsoft booth signing my new book, Reality Check.

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This is the first guy to get a book.

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And this is the first gal.

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Chris Pirillo mooching off a free copy. Krystyn Chong is the other person; she can teach your cat three tricks in less than an hour.

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Sheridan Jones of the Macintosh Business Unit of Microsoft. She put the whole deal together. And she’s so tall…

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that she took her shoes off for the picture so as not to tower over me.

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Jennifer, my BFF at Booq. This is a video of her explaining Booq products from last year’s Macworld.

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My old Tumi on the left. My new Booq Python Pack on the right. The reason that I’m switching is that the Python has a great system for carrying a digital SLR.

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PeachPit Press was nice enough to also sell Reality Check.

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And it ran a promotion involving wearing rabbit ears to win prizes.

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This is the Apple booth.

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The prize for biggest face at Macworld goes to Lynda.com, an online training company.

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Adam and Tonya Engst of TidBITs along with Jean Macdonald and Greg Scown from Smile on My Mac (creators of TextExpander).

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Ricardo Ettore, the creator Typeit4me. He told me some exciting news: He’s working on an iPhone app to provide text-expansion capabilities!

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Russell Brown, Jedi master of Photoshop.

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Someone trying Ocarina at the Smule booth. This is one of the coolest iPhone apps I’ve ever seen.

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Booths are getting more and more beautiful and “Japonesque.”

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Kerio is the provider of the Exchange server that I use.

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My buddies from iStockphoto were there too.

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This company gives a whole new meaning to tripods.

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Eye-Fi makes a SD card for your camera that wirelessly transfers your pictures to your computer.

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And you can also be Steve Jobs for a minute.

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iPhone app for flirting.

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Serving drinks in the True Flirt booth.

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Computer carts and mobile furniture from Anthro.

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Interesting name for a company.

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Never expected to see the New York Times there.

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This is the Solio solar-charger.

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Drobo makes a kick-ass network storage device.

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Acura had quite a presence.

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I forgot to look if this Acura had an iPod cable.

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At one booth there were sheets of leather.

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And a sewing machine to produce custom covers.

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The MacHEADS premiere was on Wednesday night.

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A scene from the 1984 commercial in the movie.

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On Thursday night another Mac movie premiered. This one is called “Welcome to Macintosh.”

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This is the panel of some of the people in the movie. That’s Woz and Andy Hertzfeld on the right.

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Woz with the two creators of the movie. (Photo by Nik Fletcher.)


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