Geek at Heart

Or at least I want to be.

 

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Remember when geek was chic? Yeah, I’m not referring to that.

I’m talking about a girl who used to balance chemical equations for fun and whose favorite noun is ‘beta.’

Yes L’s and G’s, that’s me. And though my technical knowledge is limited to pixel ratios and resolution, external hard drives, telephoto lenses, rendering and re-rendering, megabytes versus gigabytes and the newly learned tetraflops (did I lose you yet?) no, because in all actuality, these are the basics, ones I only know from my film major past and having a Dilbert reading, gastronomy loving, tech nerd for a father.

So what’s the point of all this?

APPLE IS RELEASING iOS7 TODAY AND YOUR WORLD IS ABOUT TO GET ROCKED.

When Apple released the first video for the software update, I’m not going to lie, I cried. Why? Maybe it was the subtly exhilarating piano music or John Ive’s soothing British accent. It definitely had something to do with the snowflakes on the animated weather app—I know that. But it also could have been my sentimental self, reminiscing about a company that didn’t monetize a whole fruit sect but just one type, the Macintosh, with its rainbow, half-bitten apple on the manila folder colored monitor, geometric shaped mouse and floppy disc drive to boot, and now having that memory juxtaposed against the new operating system’s Photoshop-esque screen layers and an updated Siri, all of which was unfathomable to a girl in the early 90’s, just trying to make it big with KidPix and Encarta. I’m such a sap.

Watch the video now (below) or click here for the HD version and see how your tear ducts hold up. 

If anything, this new operating system is inspiring and awe inducing. Can you wrap your head around the fact that syncing our phones today will literally (for lack of a better word) infect us all with the same software. Mind. Blowing.

Seven quick takeaways from iOS7:

First and foremost, for you social media whores, your camera now has built in photo filters and an option to take pictures in the correct aspect ratio for Instagram, so no more cropping or awkward white framing needed.

2. Your phone will now be smart enough to group your photos into events by location and dates, similar to your iPhoto, making #tbt’s s that much easier.

3. iTunes made its own version of Pandora Radio which you can purchase songs from directly.

4. (My favorite) Each app has gotten a makeover to a new simplistic design that is both so futuristic and so retro, like what Fashion Week tries to be, or Lady Gaga.

5. When you leave your phone in a cab (or when you tell your parents your phone was stolen) it’s now so much harder for someone to try to resell your device since deactivating Find My iPhone and erasing all memory will require your Apple ID and password. Can I get an Amen?

6. You can access the control panel right from the lock screen. No more going into folder after folder (i.e. Settings > WiFi > On). It’s all there all the time.

7. Safari web browser has been revamped and with that, no limitations on the number of open tabs. Also, the tabs page now looks like an old record store and picking the right page is easier than ever.

I’m excited and hopefully you are too. Now get to downloading, people.