We haven’t heard much from Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak since he was cut from Dancing With The Stars on ABC.  The latest about “Woz” is that he is joining the board of directors at TechForEducators.com.  TechForEducators sells software to teachers in the U.S.

“Woz inspired a generation of technologists, including myself,” stated TechForEducators.com President Matt Spergel. “The Apple II was an engineering tour de force and an amazing learning tool. We are deeply honoured to have Steve contributing his infectious optimism and creativity to our company.”

Wozniak is one of the founding sponsors for the Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose and the Tech Museum of Innovation so it is proven that education is near and dear to his interests.

[via MacWorld]

It has finally happened, Steve Wozniak has officially been eliminated from Dancing with the Stars. Woz survived about four weeks and performed in dances such as the ChaCha, the quick-step, and the samba. Woz has fractured a foot and a pulled hamstring to make it through the competition. Its been a rough ride.

Former Playboy cover model Holly Madison was also eliminated from the competition.

In the last dance, Wozniak and partner Karina Smirnoff did the Argentine tango. The dance is demonstrated in the below video. I think you’ll enjoy the beginning of the video where he rolls around with a Segway entourage.

We’re all rooting for Steve Wozniak on Dancing With The Stars. The man started off with a fractured foot and recently pulled a hamstring. But that did not stop him from doing the worm and the Samba dance on the last episode. Check out the video below.

Wozniak and Smirnoff were told on Tuesday that they would move forward to the next round. “I was more shocked than anytime in my life,” stated Wozniak. “Maybe except when I got served with divorce papers.”

The night before the last episode, Wozniak received a terrible score, 10 out of 30. That was the lowest that anyone received since the second season of the show. He had to dance off with another couple to avoid elimination. Wozniak credited his fans for motivating him to avoid having to deal with a second dance off.

Denise Richards was sent home as a result of the dance-off against Wozniak and Smirnoff.

One of the judges told Wozniak to get on his knees and beg for forgiveness because that was the worst Samba he had ever seen. What a jerk.

“I’m not sure why the judges almost always have the same scores within a small range. How do they all know what level of lowness or highness to score? All three judges had scored me incredibly low,” added Wozniak. “They tried to get me to back out because of embarrassment, saying the judges might give me 2’s. I said I don’t get embarrassed.”

Keep voting for Wozniak everyone. He his dancing his ass off.

[via CW]

Yesterday Steve Wozniak claimed that he was set up by the TV show Dancing With The Stars.  Woz said that if he was in the bottom two and would have to compete in a dance-off, it would be “an outright lie.”  He believes that having to dance off would help boost ratings.

It turns out that Woz was in the bottom two and won the dance-off.  This caused Belinda Carlisle, a former 80’s singer to get kicked off.

Even though Woz’s conspiracy theory ended up happening, he apologized anyway. “Yesterday, I wrote my suspicions of the secret ‘Dancing With The Stars’ audience vote tabulations. I wrote that the producers were liars, simply because I truly believed in that possibility, not because I had a shred of evidence. I hurt a lot of honest people,” stated Woz.

Woz decided to keep dancing even though he fractured his foot. I think he did a great job even though it must have been painful.

Below is Woz’s second dance:

[via CNET]

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak was told that he was like a Teletubby going mad at a gay parade when he did his first dancing on “Dancing with the Stars.”  And if that wasn’t rough enough, the poor guy just fractured his foot too.  This is the same reason why Jewel and Nancy O’Dell stepped down from the show, but this won’t stop him from continuing.  Karina Smirnoff, Woz’s dancing partner visited him at the Cedars-Sinai Hospital to find out that he has a removable cast.

Woz’s doctor told him that he can continue on the show as long as he wears the cast as much as he can.  Woz vows that his performance next week will be “wild and fast, and all-over and crazy and fun, just like the first one.”  With a partner like Smirnoff, I can see why he would want to keep going on.

[via CNET]

“Take that Bill Gates!”
“It was like watching a Teletubby going mad at a gay pride parade.”

An Apple PowerBook G4 17″ with 2GB of RAM and 160GB hard drive just sold on eBay for $800.  However, this is no ordinary laptop.  It used to be owned by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.

“In January of 2006, Snaggy and I travelled to Macworld to appear on David Pogue’s keynote show. We arrived in California a few days early, and spent that time at our friend Steve Wozniak’s house. Steve had just bought a new Powerbook, and was selling his old one, so we jumped at the chance to buy it from him, knowing that one, it would be awesome machine in great shape, and two, that it would have that little bit of history tied to it, in that it was once owned by the inventor of the Apple computer!” wrote the seller of the computer.

The computer even put a dent in the thing himself.  Nice job devaluing the product being sold by a company you cofounded, Woz!

[via TechE] [eBay Listing]

What does Steve “Woz” Wozniak have in common with Lil’ Kim (rapper), Steve-O (Jackass fame), Nancy O’Dell (Access Hollywood fame), Lawrence Taylor (NFL), Shawn Johnson (Olympic gymnast), Chuck Wicks (country music artist), Gilles Marini (Sex and the City), Denise Richards (actress), Belinda Carlisle (The Go-Gos), David Alan Grier (actor), Ty Murray (rodeo cowboy), and Jewel (singer)?  They will all be dancing on national TV.

Co-founder of Apple, Woz is one of thirteen competitors who will have to train for different styles of dance in order to challenge fellow contestants.  Woz started Apple with Steve Jobs in 1976.  When Woz started Apple, he was employed by HP at the time.  They were designing the Apple II around then.  Woz will be the second technology leader to have participated on the show.  Mark Cuban, founder of Broadcast.com and Dallas Mavericks owner was one of the contestants in the 5th season of the show.  Cuban was eliminated from the show on October 23, 2007 when he was partnered with Kym Johnson.

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs has been taking a beating in the press lately about not appearing for the last sponsored Macworld.  Jobs stated that he has a hormone imbalance which is causing him to have weight loss.  This was proved by “sophisticated blood tests” that he had from a doctor several weeks ago.

“The remedy for this nutritional problem is relatively simple and straightforward, and I’ve already begun treatment,” stated Jobs. “Just like I didn’t lose this much weight and body mass in a week or a month, my doctors expect it will take me until late this spring to regain it.”

Prior to Jobs’ health confession, it was believed that the CEO wasn’t going to show up due to political reasons.   Media and IT company IDG usually runs the annual annual Macworld conference.

The reason why so many people were concerned about Jobs’ health is because he has certain design standards that helped Apple gain traction again.  Some analysts were worried about Apple’s long-term strategy without Jobs as the head of the company while others believed that this is a good reason for Jobs not to be at Macworld.  Regardless investors were satisfied with hearing an update on Jobs’ health as the company’s stock rose above 4% after the letter was released.

“I will be the first one to step up and tell our board of directors if I can no longer continue to fulfill my duties as Apple’s CEO,” stated Jobs in the letter.

Apple’s other co-founder Steve Wozniak will be appearing at Macworld this year too.  He will be representing Axiotron.

Below is the full letter sent by Apple and Steve Jobs:

Dear Apple Community,

For the first time in a decade, I’m getting to spend the holiday season with my family, rather than intensely preparing for a Macworld keynote.

Unfortunately, my decision to have Phil deliver the Macworld keynote set off another flurry of rumors about my health, with some even publishing stories of me on my deathbed.

I’ve decided to share something very personal with the Apple community so that we can all relax and enjoy the show tomorrow.

As many of you know, I have been losing weight throughout 2008. The reason has been a mystery to me and my doctors. A few weeks ago, I decided that getting to the root cause of this and reversing it needed to become my #1 priority.

Fortunately, after further testing, my doctors think they have found the cause — a hormone imbalance that has been “robbing” me of the proteins my body needs to be healthy. Sophisticated blood tests have confirmed this diagnosis.

The remedy for this nutritional problem is relatively simple and straightforward, and I’ve already begun treatment. But, just like I didn’t lose this much weight and body mass in a week or a month, my doctors expect it will take me until late this Spring to regain it. I will continue as Apple’s CEO during my recovery.

I have given more than my all to Apple for the past 11 years now. I will be the first one to step up and tell our Board of Directors if I can no longer continue to fulfill my duties as Apple’s CEO. I hope the Apple community will support me in my recovery and know that I will always put what is best for Apple first.

So now I’ve said more than I wanted to say, and all that I am going to say, about this.

Steve