Archive for October, 2008
Adobe CS4 Now Shipping
In: News
16 Oct 2008Adobe’s Jack Nack posted yesterday that CS4 is now shipping. Adobe released a beta Photoshop CS4 a few months ago and has been taking orders for the full suite for several weeks, but never announced an official release or ship date. Waiting to ship until Apple unveiled the new laptops makes sense to me. [...]
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Daemon, the book review
In: Books|Geek Finds
14 Oct 2008Tom Root lent me an uncopyedited not-for-sale manuscript of Daniel Suarez’s (aka Leinard Zeraus) Daemon. Techno thrillers are generally disappointing. Anyone who has seen Swordfish or Antitrust will understand. And by the second page of Daemon, I was already cringing on my couch. The writing is oh so painfully self-conscious. He uses brand names to [...]
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Apple Announcement: “Rumors are true, line forms to the left.”
In: News
14 Oct 2008Apple just launched their new line of MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops. The rumors were true: new production process & carved aluminum cases, glass track pads, multi-touch, glass displays. No Blu-Ray, though. In addition the new Books are thinner, faster, and stocked with new GPUs from NVidia. (Two video cards on the MBPros – really???) [...]
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David Byrne, Please Report to the App Store
In: Good Stuff
12 Oct 2008The Apple Blog reported this week on a new iPhone app, Bloom, designed by ambient virtuoso Brian Eno. TAB sums it up well: Developed by Peter Chilvers, in collaboration with Eno, the app is described as, “Part instrument, part composition and part artwork…” The idea is that anybody can play with Bloom and coax gentle [...]
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- Tags: apple, iphone, music
Deadline for XP extended through next summer
In: News
10 Oct 2008Engadget has a post about rumors having been confirmed of Microsoft once again extending the ability to legitimately downgrade Vista to XP. Which is what we’ve been doing. And is a good thing. ‘Cause we can’t find a good reason to move to Vista.
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Apple Event Announced
In: News
10 Oct 2008ARS Technica posted today that they recieved an invitation from Apple to attend a special event on Tuesday, October 14. Included with the invite was this teaser. The rumor mill has been in high gear lately, lots of speculation about new features and production process, and people are STILL holding out hope for a tablet [...]
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Bigger, Bigger, and yet bigger!
In: Geek Finds|News
10 Oct 2008Newegg.com, our favorite vendor for OEM harddrives, has finally started to sell the new 500 GB laptop drives. A couple of days ago they posted the new SAMSUNG Spinpoint M6 HM500LI 500GB 5400 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s and today appeared the Western Digital Scorpio Blue WD5000BEVT 500GB 5400 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s both for $149.99.
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- Tags: harddrives, hardware
Dreaming of Electric Sheep
In: Geek Finds
9 Oct 2008I have not run a screensaver in years. Usually I just set my LCD to go off after 30 minutes of inactivity. But that’s changed. I’m hooked on a really cool screensaver that makes beautiful ever-changing images Electric Sheep is a free, open source screen saver created by Scott Draves. It’s run by thousands of [...]
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- Tags: apple, linux, software, windows
IT in NYC Pt. 2: Me Want Food
In: Food
8 Oct 2008My guilt has caught up with me and a long overdue follow-up post about our latest trip to New York is finally here.
Rumor Mill Runs Wild
In: News
7 Oct 2008I sat down with a cup of coffee and Google Reader this morning (as I do), and found every geek, gadget, and design blog I subsribe to with a post about Apple’s “big announcement” coming next Tuesday. News to me; I had no idea there was something planned for the 14th. The bloggers are convinced [...]
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