And we thought this day would never come. It’s on DVD!! What were the distributors thinking to even put out a VHS version?
Murdza, our wait is over… The Gospel is spreading…
It was worth the wait, damn it!
Friends and family, you know what to do when the next great American tradition of gift-giving season is around…
There are a few things I can’t stop wondering about Steve Jobs…
1. What kind of car he drives…
2. What kind of cell phone he uses…
3. What kind of PDA he plays with…
4. What kind of mouse he used (before the “Mighty Mouse” )…
Well, today I finally found a site that gave me an insight to SJ Obsession #1. According to an ex-employee, he drives a Mercedes MB SL65, BMW Z8 and some sort of Volvo wagon. And none of his cars has license plates; posts on the site claims that since his license plates kept getting stolen, local law enforcement agencies struck a deal with him…. Nuts.
I am also happy to report that I also got my SJ Obsession #4 resolved. Just driving by his house would be like taking a peek at God’s house… Murdza, I will send you a picture of it if I don’t die snapping a shot of it first… Steve has rights too… So I don’t think I’d be publishing a picture of his house on the Internet for all to see.
Recent rumors of him jumping into the CA governor race is just silly. But I wouldn’t mind helping with his political campaigns if he did run. Seeing how he revived, reinvented Apple and made it relevant again, California sure could use a governor that can pull its current state of financial and educational slump out of the gutter.
The original lab that invented Unix at AT&T has officially been shut down. This very team started it all: FreeBSD, OpenBSD, HP HP-UX, Compaq Tru64, Linux (RedHat, Debian, Slackware, Gentoo… etc), SCO Unix, IBM AIX, Sun Microsystems Solaris, SGI IRIX and then of course, Mac OSX, all of which derived from the original Unix conceived at the Bell Labs.
And then there is Microsoft, DOS and then Windows (3.1 through XP), the legacy Mac OS, and let’s not forget OS/2. There are others that never made it to the mainstream, but who cares.
After looking at this large list of Unix operating systems v.s. the rest, it’s a no brainer that Apple decided to go with a Unix-based strategy to capitalize on its maturity and stability.
Came across this while reading old blogs from Gizmodo. Saft is an app that bundles a good collection of features that are currently missing in Safari. Just to name one I can’t live without — crash protection. Safari has serious issues with performance when opened for an extended period of time, and sometimes it crashes without warning. What crash protection in Saft does is it saves the current tabs and their URLs at the time Safari crashes and gives user the ability to retrieve those URLs upon relaunch.
Another cool feature is the ability to manually shuffle the tabs and rearrange the order; something that’s in existence in Firefox already.
Pimp My Safari has more stuff on improving features that Safari currently lacks.
Also, OpenDarwin keeps a webkit blog (the core technology in Safari) with interesting updates from time to time. This particular entry deals with memory leaks, which Safari is notoriously known for.
via [Gizmodo]
I don’t think I was able to keep a Windows machine up, un-rebooted, at work (or home) for more than a couple of weeks. There’s always some updates or patches out that needed the Windows to be restarted. Or the entire system just craps out for no reason anyway…
So this is why I love my Mac… It’s been up for 33 days!
I guess there’s still some work to be done with Tiger… Or maybe my hardware is getting old and unresponsive? Either way… this is messed up… Menu littered with two layers of text from two different apps…. I have only seen it a couple of times though… But that a couple of times too many. But I’ll take this over virus-ridden Windows any day!
Found this site, Apple Consultants Network, through MacSlash. I had no idea Apple maintains a site to help promote its certified consultants. It’s a win-win-win situation. Too bad the site isn’t more publicized to the consumers. Well, maybe to pro-sumers and corporate enterprises.
I have been using Applescript to help me make my blogging easier. Everything from image resize and image format changes are done via my tiny scripts through Tiger’s Automator. And let me tell ya… it’s a godsend not having to keep memory-hogging Photoshop open all the time. Sure, I could have used third-party software that takes up smaller memory foot prints. But why bother when Applescript is so readily available?
Here is a good article to get started on Applescripting. But if you are on Tiger, don’t bother; Automator is all you need.
At first there was an Internet, then came web pages. Then they evolve to blogs and eventually vlogs. Parallel to that, MP3 songs were blooming, then came iPod. Now the two equally important technologies can be merged to become one. Introducing vodcasting for the masses (by way of iTunes). In the near future, there won’t be much we can’t do with iTunes and our iPod. Unless, of course, Steve Jobs’ world domination plan is stopped before it bears any fruit.
It seems like more “types” businesses are affected by the popularity of iPod than we thought. I have been hearing a local FM radio station to urge listeners to give their iPods a break and listen to their station.
With the popularity of Podcasting, and on top of that, softwares that allow people to record radio shows as MP3s on their computers for enjoyment later, no wonder radio stations are sweating over their listener-ship. However, more innovative stations are turning this opportunity into gold. Take a popular show on NPR, This American Life; it offers downloadable paid Podcasts through iTunes and Audible.com. Some Most NPR shows, on the other hand, remain to be free for download. If iTunes is installed, those free shows can be subscribed to and be downloaded automatically as they become available.
As Corporate America continues to forge policies that are overwhelmingly corporate-friendly, local TV and radio stations are increasingly being consolidated by large corporations like Clear Channel, which very actively censors contents of almost every one of its local affiliates to make sure their broadcasts are in line with the parent company’s political stance (in case you are wondering, it’s a Republican-friendly company; what a surprise).
Since the mainstream media (a.k.a. mass media) in the United States are becoming more and more polarized (kinda like the political party lines), the only choice people had were underground radio shows, or more recently, web sites or blogs. Now that Podcasting is catching on, the biggest companies are only as big as the size of listener’s hard drive. A number of home-made Podcasts have already caught the attention of listeners. Technology continues to mature and is now more accessible to everyone than ever; we should expect far more varieties of ideas and imaginations mushroom over the next few years. –> (That is, before Clear Channel and other Republican, anti-innovation companies spend billions of dollars on lobbying lawmakers to make Podcasting illegal.)
I read about this before but didn’t really pay attention. This may not make carpal tunnel syndrome a thing of the past, but it could take porn surfing personal computing to a whole new level. Imagine how much more effecient it would be to fully utilize both hands to perform the same tasks on the computer? Dang it, I want want one.
It uses a camera as well as the tactile pad to track both motion and action of user’s hands. Forced feedback on the pad allows more precision and control on what’s going on. The company, Taciva of California, is trying to find someone to license the technology for the mass market. My feeling is, “WHAT? It’s not licensed yet?”
A couple of video demos can be found on the site.
Thanks to Brian for the site.
