wp7 app marketplace, new apple stuff, IE9 nearing release
Aug 6, 2010 Tech
So app stores for mobiles seem to be the way to go now days, all the platforms seem to have them, Apple, Android, and Now MS are creating one, well, MS have always had a marketplace of sorts for the WM5/6 series of phone OS’s, but this one seems more intergrated because theyre adding it directly into the zune app. I guess they want a repeat of apples success. which has been oddly successful, despite the restrictions, but I guess its easy to make money when you market to the masses.
Speaking of apple stuff there have been rumours of new stuff coming out, like the iphone 5 (lol), new ipads and new ipods with touch screens. tbh, i dont know why they havent retired thier line of ipods, iphones do the same thing but add calling. ive yet to play with an ipad, might go to an apple store one time to have a play. apple stuff is generally nice looking 
Meanwhile in the world of MS, they just rolled out their newer version of hotmail. which is a lot faster. but also adds some useless option i wont use and adds some other stuff which means more clicks. meh. it seems like you can fit more emails on a page though which is good. and i like the speed, and the fact it doesnt load msn program >.< that pissed me off with the last version, although, I guess thats still a possibility for this version, it could be added, which will be annoying lol, but i’ll most likely be uninstalling it soon anyways, its gotten way to bloated for me. (3 processes for 1 chat client, wtf?!).
Also new from microsoft, well, not yet, IE9, nearing release in sept. I havent had a chance to try out any of the previews yet. But I really hope it matches the speed of opera and chrome because IE7 & 8 are slow as hell. not as slow as firefox, but still pretty slow :p
Yes I know I havent updated this blog in a while, I just havent got round to it, I hope to be mre frequent in the future, but you never know
Tags: apple, hotmail, ie9, ipad, ipod, live, mail, marketplace, ms, wp7, wp7s, zune
Valve cancels e3 event, MS shows off new goodies
Jun 15, 2010 Tech
So i watched the E3 MS event the other day on the live stream, it was pretty good, the graphics looked /quite nice on some of the games they showed.
They showed a fair bit of stuff on the kinect (natal) too, i was actually pretty impressed with it, more than i thought i would be. it seems very responsive. now all we need is someone to create a minority report interface using this tech and that’d be lulz. nice that its powered by USB for the new consoles too, it needs its own power pack for older consoles though.
they showed off their new xbox 360 too, I dont think it has a new name yet, a lot of people have been calling it the slim, even though it doesnt really look all that slim to me. smaller, yes, but not ‘slim’, but at least the power situation seems to be a bit better. wifi n built in too.
I didnt know valve were penned for an event a couple of hours after the MS one. i would have watched it otherwise, but it seems it was cancelled completely anyways. sucky :p
pretty short post, but thats all for now
Vista SP1 RTM available, Yahoo to reject microsoft bid.
Feb 10, 2008 Tech
So Vista SP1 RTM has been released on Connect, and Windows Update apparently. Its quite likely that it’ll be available/leaked on torrent/http link if it isnt already. I should reinstall vista sometime and test it out.
update:
“Customers who visit Windows Update can choose to install Service Pack 1. If Windows Update determines that the system has one of the drivers we know to be problematic, then Windows Update will not offer SP1. Since we know that some customers may want to update to SP1 anyhow, the download center will allow anyone who wants to install SP1 to do so.”
Im not sure if i have “the driver”, but I’m getting it from another source anyway 
in other news, yahoo is planning to reject the bid from microsoft, calling it a “hostile takeover bid”. I lol @ that. tbh, i dont see yahoo lasting much longer, the only dominant thing they own right now is flickr, and they cant survive on that forever. I dont know anyone who uses thier webmail. and there isnt really anything special about thier homepage either imo. Since Yahoo messenger compatibility has now been added to wlm, there isnt really any reason to use the Messaging client. I dont think many people use Yahoo ! widgets any more but who knows. I guess only time will tell.
Tags: bid, microsoft, ms, sp1, update, vista, windows, yahoo
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
Dangerously cheesy
Jul 20, 2005 life
Just read this…
I was eating a bag of Cheetos the other day, when I noticed the claim that they are “dangerously cheesy.” I chewed carefully, trying to figure out exactly what was so dangerous about the cheese flavor. I don’t know if you’ve ever tried a 2002 French-aged Roquefort, but that’s some dangerous cheese flavor. That cheese tastes like it was ripened in the asscrack of a mule.
I made the following prank call to Frito-Lay to try to clarify what they meant.
FRITO-LAY: Thank you for calling Frito-Lay, this is Alice. How may I help you?
JOHN HARGRAVE: Hi. I was eating a bag of your Puffed Cheetos the other day, and I noticed that you say they are “dangerously cheesy.”
FL: Uh-huh.
JH: I have a six-year-old daughter, and I’m worried about her eating something dangerous.
FL: [Chuckle] That’s, uh, that’s an advertisement. Our marketing department thought it was catchy. Cheetos are not threatening, or dangerous, at all.
JH: Do they contain shards of glass?
FL: No. By “dangerously cheesy,” we just mean they are very cheesy.
JH: Do Cheetos cause cancer?
FL: No. Rest assured, you have nothing to worry about.
JH: Will they explode in your mouth?
FL: No.
JH: So they don’t explode with cheesy flavor?
FL: [Pause] Is there anything else I can help you with today? Read the rest of this entry »