Big Apple Announcement Today At 1PM EST
September 12, 2006 | 4 Comments
I love big Apple announcement days! All the predictions and conjecture are often more entertaining than whatever they announce. We know that Jobs is announcing the new movie plan he has negotiated, including two price points at $9.99 and $14.99. Possible additional contenders to be announced today include:
- iTunes version 7
- airVideo (airTunes equivalent for video)
- new bigger screen iPods
- a Mac Media (similar to media PCs)
Personally, I think we’ll get the first two. A new iTunes version seems natural to go with the delivery of movies. Jobs has also talked extensively about how people are not going to watch feature length movies on tiny iPod screens. This is why I think an “airVideo” would enable playing video on your regular TV, thus accomplishing the goal of putting downloadable video content on a bigger screen.
A new series of iPods seems a bit odd to me. People are still happy with the current ones and if a bigger screen means a bigger form factor, most people won’t be impressed. Other options seem more approopriate right now.
A Mac for your entertainment center has always seemed natural since the initial release of the Mac Minis. Apple has repeatedly been surrounded with rumors related to this, but they have never been true. This has always been a long shot, I don’t think the odds have changed. Especially since they retooled the Mac Minis for Intel Core Duo so recently…
Whatever happens, I’m sure Apple will have new fun toys to covet!
Tags: airvideo, apple, core duo, digital movies, intel, ipod, itunes, mac, mac media, steve jobs
Uno - A Prettier, Unified OSX
August 20, 2006 | 1 Comment
Without a doubt I think Mac OS X is by far the most modern and attractive looking OS in existence. Seeing it side by side with Windows XP every day shows how far ahead it was. Imagine my surprise upon discovering Uno’s ability to make it even better.
Uno applies skins across many of the OSX applications, allowing you to replace the brushed metal look with more of the iTunes/iLife look. Matt has often complained about the brushed metal look, I have always been indifferent. Until now. Wow. Safari, iChat, Finder and more all have new life breathed into them by just simply replacing the brushed metal with gradients.
Install this application, you won’t be sorry.
Tags: apple, application, brushed metal, finder, gradient, ichat, iLife, itunes, macintosh, os x, osx, safari, skin, skinning, uno
Aquaman is Lame, TV Pilot is Not
August 8, 2006 | 1 Comment
I was as surprised as you may be, but the Aquaman pilot for the show that is unlikely to ever be made was pretty good. It turns out I’m not alone in my opinion here as the Aquaman Pilot has hung around the top sales charts on iTunes for weeks. I think The CW is missing out on a potential hit. I’m left wondering how this show would be cancelled over 7th Heaven…
OK, now on to the Aquaman bashing that is almost too easy to take part in… When I found out my good friend Keith was a life long Aquaman fan, I decided I might as well dig up all the hilarity that is Aquaman bashing.
First of all is Seanbaby.com’s profile on Aquaman as a member of The Super Friends. Here are a few tidbits from this must read page:
Aqua Man does things like send a school of little fish against a submarine. There are rare times when he remembers he can call something tough like a whale or a shark — usually when they’re in some freshwater lake or a swimming pool. And you don’t have to be a marine biologist to know that’s fucked up.
Plus, Aquaman forgets he has powers all the time. He’ll be going for a swim, and for no reason, a disgruntled octopus will try to kill him. I guess they hate him as much as we do.
When they first formed the Super Friends, they had a good time making office pools on how long it would take until they had to rescue Aquaman again. Now it’s just part of the day’s scheduled events. Their day goes breakfast, arts and crafts, Earth Science, Batman’s Bat-Tips, Lunch, free time, rescue Aquaman, lecture Aquaman, crisis prevention, song practice, rescue Aquaman, punch Aquaman, dinner.
OK, if you enjoyed any of those quips, go read the whole thing, it rules.
Even Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim got in on using Aquaman as the butt of their jokes, check out these two quick clips on YouTube [1] & [2].
Finally, I remembered this fantastic clip from the under appreciated Dr Katz series. In this one a guy is talking with Dr. Katz about how lame it would be to have Aquaman’s limited powers. Classic.
OK, that’s enough, if Keith stumbled upon this he may be tearing by this point so I should let up, cause we all know if his brothers find this he’ll never live it down. Maybe I’ll look up Hawkman parodies next…
Tags: adult swim, aquaman, aquaman pilot, cartoon network, comics, cw, dc, dr katz, hawkman, itunes, lame, parody, pilot, seanbaby, the cw, videos