More to come when I get a chance, but basically.
Shure in-earphones - great but expensive.
Bose SoundDock - rocks!
PWX laptop ball things - interesting.
Apple - everythings great, Aperture, new iPods, everything.
Quark - Jonathan Ferman demoing Quark 7 was very helpful.
Ok, so I never got round to updating this. Sorry.
Open Mic Night will be every 1st and 3rd Wednesday from July at The Fawcett Inn, Fawcett Road, Portsmouth, UK!
MacExpo UK 05
2 years, 8 months old - Saturday, October 29th, 2005 late morning
Tags: apple, design, Entertainment, quark, quarkxpress, Software, Static Images, Technology
Cassetteboy wrongs more rights with Dead Horse. Samples on the site.
The anti-evil-doer plugin, Bad Behavior has been updated to 1.2.3. If you have any one anti-spam plugin for WordPress, make it this.
Ive just made my new Pompeyblogs design-in-progress active. So thats 2 designs in progress now.
Relatively minor update this: Aperture (basically iPhoto Pro, we might need to get this), updated PowerBooks and updated G5s. People bitch about blah blah, nothing special blah blah, etc etc, but I should think its pretty gratifying to Apple that its consumers are expecting such big things from them, and so are slightly disappointed when Apple dont announce the moon on a stick (or maybe a quad G5 on a stick with integral phone and PDA).
Ive just started a last.fm account for our work jukebox and also for myself. Basically it shows you what music you've recently played and gives varying statistics.
As per my zero-tolerance on comments (look under the comments form) Ive removed the 2 comments and Im ignoring the email. Its not the first time this has happened and I dont want to fan the flames so thats it. Who know why this individual chose to be a twat.
You are flashy, but lack substance. You like playing, but often you are annoying. Grow up. Which File Extension are You? [Via]
Tim is back blogging, go have a look see.
So, all the rumours of a ViPod (or Video iPod) were sort of right, MacRumors even managed to snag a pic ahead of time. There was also some other neat stuff like Front Row, an updated iMac and iTunes 6.
The new iPod seems cools, with video playback and a larger screen, but I wont be dumping my PSP in favour of the new iPod just because of the video capabilities any time soon. I still need to get a 1gig memory card for my PSP if I really want to watch movies on the move, the free Spiderman 2 UMD gives a nice taster and Ive got plenty of Family Guy, Mighty Boosh or Nighty Night episodes Id like to have on-the-move. Buy a new iPod for it though? I dont think so. The new iPod feels like Apple have effectively upgraded the iPod screen and thought, “Hmm, we can play video on this too”, so they added that. Not a bad idea in my opinion.
The new iMac follows the exemplary design traditions of the iMac family and adds Front Row and a built-in iSight camera and no doubt some under-the-hood updates, processor and such. Front Row looks like its basically a media centre interface for the Mac with easy access to iTunes, iPhoto and Movies and funky remote. I would really like to be able to download the Front Row software and maybe even buy the remote, though Im not too sure how it works, maybe irda, no idea. the addition of iSight as standard should hopefully spur some more 3rd party video conferencing apps and what not, though I confess I dont have an iSight, Id like one, but I suspect like many others I dont know anyone with one.
I am currently downloading and installing iTunes 6 so Ive yet to see if there’s any interface tweaks (I doubt it) but the video purchasing of music videos and TV shows seems like a VERY good progression. Hopefully there will be some UK TV shows up pretty smartish to have a play with, but I suspect I wont be dumping UKNova for a while yet.
All in all, not a bad set of announcements, Im looking forward to playing with some of these at the UK Mac Expo at the end of this month. I expect a stream of the show on the Quicktime site at some point soon. Here it is.
Nee Naw - Blog of a Dispatcher in the London Ambulance Service's Control Room and Random Acts Of Reality, two very interesting emergency sevices related blogs.