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MLB Baseball’s Barry Bonds uses Apple PowerBook, iPhoto, iDVD to mark daughter’s graduation
Tuesday, June 14, 2005 - 09:14 PM EDT

"The highlight of my week was my daughter, Shikari, graduating eighth grade and going into high school. She looked so beautiful in her pink dress. I filmed the graduation and took many pictures. It was such a great day for a father to see his daughter grow up and achieve one of many accomplishments in her early life. After the ceremony, when I got home, I downloaded the pictures to my G4 laptop, prepared the photos in PhotoShop and created a photo album in iPhoto for my mother, daughter and me. After that, I got a little creative and made a DVD with iDVD," Barry Bonds writes in his online journal at BarryBonds.com.

Full article here.

MacDailyNews Take: Ahh, the beauty of the Apple Macintosh and iLife. It just works.

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Knight Ridder Newspapers: Apple's iDVD best choice for DVD creation - October 20, 2002

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Jun 14, 05 - 10:22 pm Comment from: Winston

Barry Bonds's PowerBook is juiced. Good for him.

Jun 14, 05 - 11:45 pm Comment from: windows user

oh man.. do i have to be bonds to afford a mac? jeez.

Jun 14, 05 - 11:59 pm Comment from: Carl Carlson

powerbook- an ibook on steroids

barry bonds- nah, too easy

Jun 15, 05 - 03:52 am Comment from: iPodder

Windows user: not surprised you STILL do not get it.

You do not need to have the MONEY of a Barry Bond to use successfully a Mac. You just need the average IQ of a baseball player.

Does that make it easier now for you to get the message?

PS
I see lots of Windows Bond fans now gasping: "WOW, he has a Mac. Either he is stupid or maybe we are stupid. I never have been able to get a DVD movie with my PC with countless tries"

Jun 15, 05 - 04:19 am Comment from: Hybrid

I see most people with an IQ somewhat over the average IQ of a baseball player now sighing 'yeah, yeah, so he's got a Mac. Now, let us calculate the odds for: do they pay him for using it and mentioning it so blatantly in his blog?'

Whoever thought of the 'famous person endorses product' concept must have gotten something right, even though I have to say that I use Macs DESPITE the fact that several very nasty people use them, too...

Jun 15, 05 - 06:00 am Comment from: Macrick

finally a reason to like Barry Bonds

Jun 15, 05 - 08:58 am Comment from: Wally Wallet

ipodder: "I see lots of Windows Bond fans now gasping: "WOW, he has a Mac. Either he is stupid or maybe we are stupid. I never have been able to get a DVD movie with my PC with countless tries""

Uh...I see lots of Windows Bond fans not even caring what computer he uses.
ipodder, do you buy stuff that a baseball player or other sports figure owns???

Note on his website he is not listening to an ipod in his workout. You gonna´ sell your three now???

And you really think he even writes his diary?

Jun 15, 05 - 08:59 am Comment from: Buffy

The announcers at the NBA finals were talking about who owns an iPod and who doesn't.

Now Apple just need to make a big splash before MS can get Longhorn out the door

Jun 15, 05 - 09:50 am Comment from: rorschach

Who friggin' cares about meat-headed sports "stars"? I'm surprised he could hold the camera and stand still at the same time.

Magic word: "Purpose" as in, "Professional athletes serve no useful purpose."

Jun 15, 05 - 10:00 am Comment from: skabeetle

Entertainment is a purpose... I sometimes use my Mac for entertainment also. Bonds is not a 'likeable' figure in sports so I'm very wary of an Apple-Bonds connection.

Jun 15, 05 - 10:43 am Comment from: iJuice

I wonder if Barry used iCal to schedule his "cream" applications, HGH and steriod injections, too? Maybe iSync to put it on his PDA.

Jun 15, 05 - 03:53 pm Comment from: iPodder

Wally: you give too much credit to Windows users IQ. It's the majority of population. The sample forcibly has lots of idiots.

Just statistics. 2% only in the world has Ph.D. Lots of Macs in faculties, not so many among Taco Bell workers.

Jun 15, 05 - 06:58 pm Comment from: iGuess

iJuice,

He's uses the iCheat widget to tie it all together.

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