Wednesday, July 19, 2006 at 10:29AM Geek Cruises - MacMania 4.5 - Top Page
If any of the organisers of next years MacMania cruise are listening, how about a few sessions on ScreenCasting or Podcasting next year. I'll happily offer my services at very reasonable rates, heck I'll even do some live screencasts from the ship :-)
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Wednesday, July 19, 2006 at 9:40AM Windows 3.1 Add Font Dialog Still In Vista - Bink.nu Forums
Chris Pirillo makes the observation....
.....I wish more people would look past Vista’s translucent veneer to see that it’s nothing more than lipstick on a pig.
Windows Vista: Lipstick on a Pig ~ Chris Pirillo
Oh dear :-( I have to admit that before I switched over to the Mac I used to get really fired up about new Windows releases, heck, I was a beta tester for Windows NT. But I really can't get any enthusiasm going for Vista, it's turning out to be a major embarrasment for MS. I'm sure it will sell oodles of copies on new machines but who is going to want to upgrade their existing setup?Tuesday, July 18, 2006 at 3:28PM "The huge rise of autism in Britain is linked to old iPod batteries, mobile phones and other products of the electronic age, a leading scientist claimed this weekend," The Express On Sunday reports via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge.
MacDailyNews | Scientist links ‘toxic iPods’ to huge rise of autism in UK
Eh! Why single out iPod batteries FFS!!!!
Nice response MacDailyNews....
MacDailyNews Take: In related news, a man tipped over while canoeing this past Saturday on the Hudson River. The man swam safely to shore, but the canoe sank and was lost. The man has been an Apple iPod owner since 2004.
MacDailyNews | Scientist links ‘toxic iPods’ to huge rise of autism in UK
Tuesday, July 18, 2006 at 8:17AM Engadget has more on the rumored Microsoft portable media player.The reactions in the comment area on Engadget are pretty interesting.Looks like the readers are focusing on hard drive space. I think that’s the wrong place to look.
At Gnomedex I was going around asking people how many megs they had stored on their iPod. Average answer was around 8GBs. So, having only 30 isn’t necessarily a deal killer.Second, it’ll be interesting to see if Microsoft has a wifi exclusive for very long. If Apple lets Microsoft have that for more than a month you’ll see people saying that Apple is dying again.
I’d take a 30GB player with Wifi over a 60GB player without any day of the week. Why? Cause I hate wires. But, with Wifi I could listen to streaming audio or video again. And, Microsoft is more willing to bring me a subscription music service than Apple seems to be. I’d rather have a player that gives me a choice on that account.
As for not working with “Plays for Sure.” Well, this is cause that program had no teeth. I heard that players were released that wouldn’t play for sure and that made that program unusable.....
Scobleizer - Tech Geek Blogger » Reading the Microsoft portable media player tea leaves
I had mixed feeings when Scoble left Microsoft as I enjoyed reading what was going on within the Microsoft space as relayed by an insider. I felt that we'ed lose access to informaton we couldn't get anywhere else.
But Scoble being unleashed is good and the scope and range of his blog has been refreshing of late. It's noticible that he's still loyal to Microsoft especially after leaving but is this post a sign that we might get some juicy "microsoft" snippets as time marches on!
And as regards disk space, I bet the majority of people at Gnomedex didn't have fifth generation iPods - once you start hosting video files on your iPod 30GB isn't that much!
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Tuesday, July 18, 2006 at 8:00AM With three weeks until Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, Think Secret has learned exclusively that CEO Steve Jobs will use his keynote address to announce the debut of movie rentals through the iTunes Music Store. While the announcement will undoubtedly be billed as a further extension of iTunes' dominance in digital media downloads, it represents a coup for the movie industry, which will have succeeded in standing its ground against Apple's pressures to offer consumers the option of owning movie downloads.......
Think Secret - WWDC surprise: Apple to announce iTunes movie rentals
Nah, Can't see it myself. Apple seem to have set patterns for announcing products at different types of events and the WWDC just doesn't seem like the sort of event they'd announce this. I'm expecting some Mac Pro and Cinema Display announcements and the usual progress statement. We'll see - less than 3 weeks to go.
Expect the rumour machine to go into overdrive any time now!
