Macworld 2008 & windows seven.
So I tuned into macworld the other day, when i say I tuned in, i mean i just kept the macrumours live page open to watch the updates lol. pictures were cool too, ars had some too, but that crashed out quite often, probably because of the huge amount of users online. so i wont bore you with all the talk that jobs likes to do :p there was supposed to be a stream somewhere but i couldnt get it to work/load.
so heres a 60 second overview 
http://www.mahalo.com/The_Steve_Jobs_90_Minute_Keynote_in_60_Seconds
I think the new macbook is the sexiest thing EVER. (except for maybe the cute girl next door) but the price and limitations on it are so crappy that I can see only mac fanboys buying one.
for $3000 (yes thats £1500) you get a fixed non replacable battery, non upgradable 2GB of ram, a most-likely short lived HDD since its solid state, and the lack of an optical drive.
the pros being, its very fast, very small, and very good looking.
Its a shame this thing has more cons than pro’s.
I think the new airport thing with the hard drive is just an over priced NAS & combined router/switch type thing.
I have recently been thinking such a device would be useful. but i think id get more use out of a home built WHS. (which this just seems to be an expensive copy of).
I think the online movie rental thing is quite good, the only limiting thing with that is the download time, i guess the watch times are reasonable, you get around 30 days to watch it after you’ve downloaded it.
probably not very useful for people on dial-up as it would take longer than 30 days to download lol.
I lol’d at the fact that itouch users will have to pay $20 to upgrade too.
Ive always wanted to play with an apple TV simply because i wanted to find out how it works, it doesnt seem to have taken off very well.
There was no “one more thing” either, also i have no idea who randy newman is, but im betting he has a lot more results on google now lol. so that was pretty much it from macworld.
Apparently there is a build of windows 7 (a.k.a Vienna) floating around somewhere.
more info about windows 7: (for the uninformed) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7
a copy of M1 has been shipped to microsoft partners:
[quote]The current M1 drop is available to Microsoft partners in English only and has shipped in x86 and x64 versions. An interesting feature that has been highlighted by Microsoft is the ability of the M1 software to handle a heterogeneous graphics system consisting of multiple graphics cards from different vendors. A new version of the Media center is already integrated in this software, but supports PC speakers only at this time.[/quote]
http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/35641/118/
When i manage to get some screens of this, i may post them in teh gallery >.>
CES also happened this week but for some reason i didnt pay much attention to it, the only real big thing that came out in the news about it was when gizmodo managed to piss off 90% of the community by playing pranks and turning off TV’s etc. personally i’d agree that it did seem a bit childish tbh.
in unrelated news, the downloads section is still empty, mostly because i dont really have anything to put in it. I dont really make things lol. I guess i could use it to mirror popular file but usually those files require lots of space and bandwidth, which i dont have a lot of. lol. nevermind :p
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Tags: 2008, ads, ce, drive, hard drive, job, microsoft, mirror, ms, pe, post, software, space, support, tv, update, updates, upgrade, windows
Testing a new plugin
Well i thought it might be cool to have some sort of tagging for my posts..so i searched around and found [tag]UTW[/tag] (UltimateTagWarrior) which seems like it does what i want, so this post is to test that it works ok 
i still need to create a ‘tags’ page yet, which i plan on intergrating into my new layout when i start working on it 
Wow, this is a pretty short post , heh.
edit: so ok it seems like i have a lot of work to do, i need to somehow display the tags for each post, edit my htaccess file because they arnt working either, create a tag page/cloud and possibly create another style class for tag links.. lol, but it works, for the most part.
Tags: wordpress
Vista news & Site updates, etc..
Sep 3, 2006 Other, Site News, Tech
Well its been a busy week in the vista camp, Pre RC1 was released a week or so ago, and was restricted to 100,000 downloads, although im not sure that was a problem in the end because i dont think that many people downloaded it, ive added some screenshots of it in the galleries anyways.. also a few days ago, RC1 itself was released on connect, so im just waiting for a publicly available download, which should be monday or tuesday, there was so short a time in between the two releases i wonder why i downloaded it really lucky i didnt burn it to disc, there are two different versions of this build, an x86 build for 32bit processors, this will probably be the most commonly downloaded when its available, then theres the x64 version for 64bit processors which has a restriction on intalling unsigned drivers, (i believe you have to do it in safe mode) and with there not being many x64 signed drivers available, its probably wiser to wait for more drivers to be released / signed. the ISO info is as follows
x86
vista_5600.16384.060829-2230_x86fre_client-LR1CFRE_EN_DVD.iso
x64
vista_5600.16384.060829-2230_x64fre_client-LR1CxFRE_EN_DVD.iso
Beta testers on connect can download it from here: https://connect.microsoft.com/windows/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=2887
Screenshots of RC1 will follow shortly.
I was going to write about the apple rumours i heard the other day about a new iPod and new Mac, but thats old news now and probably not true since ive not heard anymore about it. maybe apple are just getting better at damage control :p Although i did read they secretly upgraded thier mac minis which is cool.
As i mentioned earlier ive added a few pre rc1 shots to the galleries, theyre not very big pics though, sorry about that ive also added ome new babe galleries which ive had on my hard drive for a while and jut havent uploaded until now, well, a few days ago.
Hmm what else..
sorry for any typos and letters missing, this damn keybaord is annoying, its been doing it all night >.< and this wordpress thing is annoying too, it just wont use the WYSIWYG editor, no matter what i try grr, so sorry about the layout...anyways i'll probably uh, upgrade soon >.>
plus, might have a new default theme soon 
P
I met a cute girl last night at a party, unfortunatly shes married and has a kid lol, although she only looked about 23, she had a really nice, persona.. well, whatever, i was going to say personality, but that sounds way to cliche these days. heh.
Also happy birthday to my lil sis xx
edit: forgot to say the downloads section is under construction too…
Just testing this new WLW thingy… (Windows Live Writer)
Just testing this new WLW thing, Windows Liver Writer, Bea, its a bit like wBloggar but made by MS to go with the other live thingies, i dont usually like things like this because they’re not portable, meaning you cant just blog from anywhere, if you come too dependant on it, which can be slightly annoying, thats why i prefer web based apps for most things
Also the default font its Times New Roman, which is teh ugleh 
oh well lol
Bold text italics underline strikethrough coloured!
hmm i still think i like the WP interface, this has the annoying paragrpah thing where you have to hold shift to make line breaks instead of paragraph breaks
this is a blockquote, ya rly
i also hate the way the cursor resets to the beggining of the post whenever you press a button, maybe thats a bug though.. >.<
the spell checking is a good idea i gess, although i dont see much use for it myself since i tend to use slang etc on my blog
hmmmm :p i wonder if this supports smilies… i’ll see when i upload
the views button is nice, although it failed to pick up the proper CSS file for my blog, so its missing its style in the preview
all the shortcuts work though, which is good now if only it would reset the styling when i start typing a new paragraph..
come to think of it it takes a while to import the blog too… also i see no use for the sidebar, it was annoying in the versions of office and its useless here too
anyways thats probably enough moaning, ima go inspect the prefs dialog..
oh yeah i added a few things to the galleries a few days ago too, enjoy lol.
EDIT: well the post looks ok, (this is after submittal) the blockquotes look odd tho, im sure they wernt that wide before..
i guess the sidebar does have a use after all, the recent posts are shown there which allow you to edit it, although it doesnt seem to list any posts not created by WLW. oh well
The insert map feature looks interesting too but i dont see me having a use for it, i dont travel anywhere lol, plus it wouldnt be too good for privacy would it
Site updates, Office 2007 Screenshots, Microsoft origami, NASA finds life in space….possibly
Ooooh site updates….ive added pics of the latest vista build (5308) to the galleries, also shots of 5270 because i was supposed to upload those a while ago, but i must have forgot..also added a few new pics to the babe galleries, a few new ones to the funny pics galleries, not many, but i found them on my hdd while i was clearing up, thats about it really, one thing i do need to do is get a posts permission plugin for wordpress.
Next up, Microsoft office 2007 screenshots!, this is only a beta refresh mind, so there arnt many.
The update will ship to 10,000 beta participants in the private Beta Place testing zone next week. It’s expected that the refresh will sport more UI enhancements and much more stability than the previous Beta 1 release last year. Microsoft is expected to release Office 2007 Beta 2 in Spring with a full retail release expected before year end.
Source: neowin.net
Also having being hyped all week, microsofts new project, “origami” was revealed this week..
Microsoft Corp. finally took the wraps off its mysterious Project Origami on Thursday, unveiling a computer that’s about the size of a large paperback book but runs a full version of the Windows XP operating system.
The ultracompact, wireless-enabled PC is everything a full computer or laptop is, minus the keyboard. Weighing about 2 1/2 pounds, the 1-inch thick device sports a 7-inch touch-sensitive screen that responds to a stylus or the tap of a finger.
Also this week NASA has a “big annoucement”, supposedly relating to finding life in space..
NASA is planning to make a huge announcement today, about possible life in our own solar system.
Exact details of what we can expect to hear have not been released. We do know that evidence has been found that could point to life relatively close to the earth.
Official word is expected this afternoon at 2 p.m. We’ll have complete coverage of today’s big news when it is released. Tune to News 13 for the complete story.
Source (Currently down due to heavy server load / maintenance.. )
Tags: beta, computer, funny, life, site, Tech, updates, windows, wordpress
CES & an interview with Steve balmer
Lots of cool tech stuff happening this week, as CES got under way, see lots of pics here, also read an article on Neowin at CES. Lots more coverage here too.
An interview with Steve Balmer! Steve talks about Windows Vista and Xbox 360, very informative interview
Site news: finally got the permalinks working! but only after a reinstall of wordpress >.< ah well, at least i backed up my database and all isworking now, although for the life of me i cant remember what plugin i used to format the length of my posts, so that why there a bit oddly lengthed atm. (i had to delete all my plugins for the reinstall, and had to download them all again, lol.)
CES & an interview with Steve balmer
Lots of cool tech stuff happening this week, as CES got under way, see lots of pics here, also read an article on Neowin at CES. Lots more coverage here too.
An interview with Steve Balmer! Steve talks about Windows Vista and Xbox 360, very informative interview
Site news: finally got the permalinks working! but only after a reinstall of wordpress >.< ah well, at least i backed up my database and all isworking now, although for the life of me i cant remember what plugin i used to format the length of my posts, so that why there a bit oddly lengthed atm. (i had to delete all my plugins for the reinstall, and had to download them all again, lol.)