Six years ago to the date, as we all know, two planes of American hit the two highest towers of the World Trade Center in New York. The world has not become a better place yet. Six years after I mean.
Monthly Archive: September 2007
Sep
11
Sep
10
Squeak, with Aero built-in.
Alright. I know what you’re asking right now: What is Squeak? It is not easily explained. At the end of the day, it is a development environment. Anything in Squeak is entirely coded in Smalltalk, even Squeak itself is written in Smalltalk. To be able to program in Squeak, you will require the virtual machine …
Sep
09
Microsoft goes against itself. Must. Not. Laugh.
Seriously. Microsoft has launched a new “Get The Facts” campaign, which, after reading twice, indeed attacks itself. Target of this campaign is their Windows XP system, which still many hundreds of million people use. To cut it short: XP is really really evil, and Vista cures world hunger, as Paul Krill notes. According to research …
Sep
08
Movie rentals in iTunes might be real
The possibility of iTunes allowing its users to rent movies from within the store has been rumored. However, Steve Jobs and thus Apple have yet to confirm this feature. Maybe at the Macworld. Maybe at the next WWDC. But it can’t be too far off, if they indeed introduce a groundbreaking service like this. Inside …
Sep
07
Guess: Leopard releases October 27
Apple and its fellow Developer Connection Premium members are pretty big at it. They are testing the latest Leopard seeds for mistakes, bugs, and crashes. Over the last few weeks, Apple has seeded new builds more quickly to developers and testers, which usually is a sign that the system nears its completion. Mac OS X …
Sep
06
Banned until 31/12/9999
Not me. Phew. But some really, really… REALLY stupid guy is. From XBox Live. I hereby nominate him for the Darwin award. Why? Let’s see… So this guy somehow, some way, gets his hands on Halo 3 Epsilon, which is supposed to be pretty amazing, and, please note: it has not been released yet. Apparently …
Sep
05
Touch me
Well I’m not gonna do a detailed listing or something. Others already do that. The new iPod touch is what interested me the most today. In a nutshell? It’s an iPhone without the phone, and this is what it looks like: It can do pretty much everything the iPhone can, but it has no phone. …
Sep
05
Jobsnote Live Coverage
Gizmodo is one of the many sites that do the Live Coverage of the Jobsnote today. Jason Chen is one of the reporters and has recently arrived at the scene. Gizmodo Live Coverage
Sep
04
Jobsnote approaching
As the saying amongst us Apple people goes: After the Jobsnote is before the Jobsnote. Well, we are shortly before a Jobsnote. Tomorrow there is one, at 6 PM my time, here in Ireland. Your Steveness will finally take off the wraps of the new iPod, which is highly expected to debut tomorrow. The iPod …
Sep
03
Go with the (Cover) Flow
Today, I have installed an unveiled a new thing I have been working on for some time. It is a Javascript based Cover Flow concept, which allows you to browse any content visually, like in iTunes. It is customizable in many ways, in terms of how many items there should be in the flow, which …
