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Wednesday, January 9, 2008

New York City Tour of Rich & Famous Creates Jackie O Sightseeing Bus Tour

NEW
YORK, NY, January 9, 2008 - Michael DeMaria, an attorney from New
Haven, Connecticut wanted to provide his wife Dana, a lifelong fan of
Jackie Onassis, with a 40th birthday surprise party she’d never
forget. Michael hired a private mini-bus with fully stocked bar,
invited 4 couples and contacted Rich & Famous Tours of New York
City to provide a special "niche" tour around the Big Apple with a
twist: viewing sites having to do with the late First Lady.

Rich
& Famous Tours Co-Founder and guide Jim Dykes thoroughly researched
the late Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy's life and included dozens of Big
Apple sites such as Jackie's former home address at 1040 Fifth Avenue
on Central Park, as well as 740 Park Avenue, the elegant building she
was raised in which was recently the subject of a best-selling book by
Michael Gross, 740 Park, The Story of the World's Richest Apartment
Building. Also featured in the tour were the various churches in
Jackie's life including St. Thomas More, St. Patrick's Cathedral and
the church of her christening and her funeral, St. Ignatious on Park
Avenue. Also included in the tour were schools, shops and hotels such
as the Carlyle where Jackie signed her pre-nup with Onassis' attorney
and JFK allegedly had his extra-marital romps and the Waldorf where
Jackie was crowned "deb of the year" in 1947.

7 Arrested in Craigslist Porsche Scam on Long Island

Police say seven people have been arrested on Long Island in
connection with a robbery scam that used Craigslist advertisements for
a Porsche as bait.

In two cases, people who showed up looking for a bargain were beaten and robbed.

Nassau County police say a 17-year-old Queens girl placed both ads. Her alleged accomplices range in age from 16 to 19.

The robberies took place in Baldwin on Dec. 6 and in Freeport on Nov. 26.

In the Freeport robbery, a couple drove from Pennsylvania to buy a
2006 Porsche. When they got out of their car, three or four men
attacked them, stealing a cell phone and several thousand dollars.

Javits Center, NYC

Tonylimo's takes you through the outside of the Jacob Javits Center in NY'S westside on 11ave.

Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Apple ships new Mac Pro, Xserve ahead of Macworld

Apple got a little business out of the way before next week's
Macworld extravaganza, announcing new versions of the Mac Pro and
Xserve to go along with new Intel chips.

These systems are very high-end computers, designed for heavy work
rather than organizing photos of your latest trip to St. Louis. Both
the Mac Pro and the Xserve are available with two of Intel's Xeon 5400 series quad-core processors, and come with loads of memory and other performance-oriented features, like RAID hard drives.

Apple's Mac business has expanded quite a bit
over the past year or so, but creative professionals are still the base
of that support and these are two products were designed for them,
according to David Moody, vice president of Mac product marketing. Very
few businesses have standardized on Mac OS X Server in the server room,
and therefore the market for the Xserve is somewhat limited. Still,
smaller shops that want to have a Mac OS X environment front to back,
as well as educational customers, are key Xserve customers.

The Mac Pro is a little different, as it represents the most powerful
computer Apple can put together, and is a favorite of graphics
professionals that need tons of horsepower. It's also one of the few
Apple products for which there are dozens of configuration options;
most other Mac products have just three or four choices for
combinations of processor, memory, and storage.

Tonylimo Show # 9

Tony takes you to JKF,NYC

Monday, January 7, 2008

Dell (and Others) Trying to Catch Up with Apple's Style

With CES right around the corner, the Wall Street Journal
looks at a growing focus amongst PC manufacturers: design. With
increasing competition and the clear appeal of Apple's industrial
design, PC manufacturers are increasingly focusing on the physical
designs for their upcoming computers. This is a sharp turn-around from
the corporate attitude only a few years ago:

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