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You may recall I got bought a very nice Apple ‘Think Different’ neon sign a while back. It’s been left in the cupboard gathering dust, as I really didn’t know where to put it! Well, I finally dusted it down the other day, and gave it a new place in my Mac setup. I think you’ll agree, it looks great! One day I will own a shop with that sign in it!

I really enjoy my little workspace now, especially when it’s all lit up at night. Next stop, to get cracking with that coding book. I will understand it one day. Would be great to make a nice iPad app, as that market will be less saturated to begin with.

After weeks of rumours it seems Apple have finally come out and officially announced it will be staging an event on Wednesday Jan 27th at 10am PST. It will take place at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, in San Francisco. For us UK peeps this will be at 6pm, so make sure you get home from work sharpish! The event has been labeled ‘Come see our latest creation’. This is the biggest indicator yet that Apple will be showing it’s iSlate Tablet device, the first new product since the iPhone debuted at Macworld 2007. So what can we expect? Well so far the strongest rumours suggest…

• 10-inch Touch Sensitive Display
• Runs custom ‘Tablet OS’ a mixture of iPhone OS and Mac OS X
• Tablet Apps on AppStore – Custom made for bigger screen
• Subscription based Digital Content such as the New York Times delivered to Tablet
• SIM Card Slot for 3G Mobile Broadband Connectivity

Steve Jobs himself is supposedly ‘very happy’ with the device, this after he actually dismissed Tablet PCs in 2008 claiming they were ‘only good for browsing the web on the can’ Does this mean Apple have something special on the cards? Are all them patents purporting ways of giving touchscreen keyboards more tactile feedback going to come to fruition? I certainly hope so.

Just a quick post to show everyone this very cool sign my friend Steven bought me a couple of weeks back. He got it from eBay and cost about £10 I think. Once lit up it looks very nice indeed. I just have to find somewhere to hang it up now!

Apple’s stock (AAPL) suffered one of the biggest daily falls it’s ever had today when it dropped 23.69 to just 104.55. The stock has been steady at around the 160 mark for the past four months but analyst’s cited the ‘credit crunch’ as a reason for the big drop as it sees Apple struggling to keep it’s high margins in the face of decreased consumer demand. As you can see from the picture, Apple is not the only major company to suffer a severe drop as Google also decreased by 35.99. Thanks to my iPhone and MacBook’s iSight for the picture.

Apple's stock suffers serious hit

Update: Apple stock is continiuing to drop, but not as much as Google’s. I think now is the time to get yourself some Apple shares!

Will it drop below 100?

Update 2: Apple’s stock seems to have stabilised now, while Google continues to plummet.

Apple stock seems to have stabilised