According to cnet, apple will announce upgrade fees for three of their iapps (imovie, idvd, iphoto) on macworld. It reminded me of a post on some blog (can’t remember which one) claiming that apple makes enough money in hardware that they can give its software away for free. Some might consider this another step towards an x86-port of macosx, with apple trying to open new sources of income (don’t forget the windows-compatible ipod!), but i won’t believe that until steve jobs himself announces it.
It’s semi-ruggedized, baby!
Notebooky.cz did some rough tests on a gericom notebook as mentioned here @theregister. That alone isn’t very interesting, but – that’s the same as my notebook! Looks as if it’s tougher than i thought, but i highly doubt that i’ll try the same with mine.
Add another M to MMORPG for going mobile
Great article on the future of mobile gaming @thefeature. And of course it’s supposed to be multiplayer. I especially like the sentence “it’s depressing, a technology tragedy.”. I share this feeling about several techological issues, s’ppose i should keep that sentence in mind.
Software radio
Software radio. I don’t know why nobody came up with something like that earlier, it just seems so obvious – i’m really looking forward to this technology and hope it’ll evolve fast, but i fear that device manufacturers seeking proprietary hardware in their struggle for monopoly will manage to destroy most of its value. Let’s hope i’m too pessimistic.
Mozart in a tin can
Sony’s working on artificial intelligence technology capable of composing music. Considering the imho steady decrease of innovation and quality in the music business and the threats of modern drm-systems, this sounds really interesting. Don’t purchase music, just buy this program and enjoy countless hours of “original” music. On the other hand i fear tv-shows featuring competing software programs in their struggle for a contract with some major record label.
A small improvement
I know that the scripts powering this site are far from being perfect, but today i added a feature that really missed: permalinks! You can get the link to one specific entry by clicking on its title. Best thing was it took less than five minutes to code. I really don’t know why i didn’t come up with it earlier. I hope to include some rss-feed next, let’s see if it takes me less than a month to start with the work this time…
The Tablet Diaries
I stumbled across a series of interesting articles @pdantic called the tablet diaries (part 1 and part 2 are already up). I can’t remember how i got there exactly, but i think via tabletpctalk. And yes, i know i ripped off their title, but i really like it and couldn’t come up with anything better.
Smartphone round-up
Pocketpcthoughts pointed me to an article by james miller @pdastreet on existing smartphones. Furthermore they show off two shiny new wince smartphones that will be available soon, but only in korea @ppctoughts. We never get the really cool toys!
First hand impressions of SmartDisplays
Gizmodo pointed me to an article on smart displays @ny times circuits section.
That reminded me of an older article on smart displays @the feature. I really like the idea behind them (although i think i’m rather the tablet-type), but with all the shortcomings mentioned in those two articles i highly doubt i’ll be an early adopter.
Most stylish PDA ever?
Gizmodo mentions that dan gillmore predicts a pda from apple in 2003. I don’t think that this is gonna happen and consider those predictions nothing more than wild dreams (although i would love one, too). But the last sentence really caught my attention: “…, expect Apple to come out with the best designed and most stylish PDA ever.”
My first thought was that it’s simply impossible to beat the palm v design, but then i tried to imagine how great it would be if apple managed to create a better design anyway. That would be an eyecatcher! Now my desire for an apple pda is greater than ever.
