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That’s right folks… The future is here! Remember Microsoft Surface? Well the fellows over at Sarcastic Gamer have put together a beautifully crafted parody of the Microsoft Surface promo video.
Check it out after the jump.
Kevin Rose, co-founder of Digg and Pownce broke his iPhone *tear* That’s what you get for owning a $700 cell phone. Maybe he should try and sell it on eBay “Own a piece of internet history, bid on Kevin Rose’s broken iPhone”… oh wait, he’s not that famous.
Valleywag is running a caption contest, check it out.
Walt Mossberg lays the smack down on Ubuntu.
I agree that Linux isn’t right for a lot of people, but some of his points are a bit off base. For instance his complaint about having to download codecs just to play an MP3 or a video, he states that these codecs are included in Windows and OS X, however, there are quite a few codecs for both operating systems that you have to manually download and install in order to play content encoded in that format. DivX and Xvid come to mind right off the bat, neither of those formats is supported natively in either Windows or OS X. Sure MP3 support is something you’d expect out of the box, but it’s not the end of the world.
Seeing as my fellow blogger Fred just made the switch to OS X, I thought I’d help him and other switchers out by posting a quick list of must have applications for OS X.
[ Internet ]
Firefox - Need I say anything else? My browser of choice no matter what OS you’re running.
Aduim - A feature rich Instant Messaging client, with a broad range of supported clients makes this a must have.
Tomato - A simple, easy to use BitTorrent client. I’m using it until the OS X version of uTorrent comes out
Cyberduck - A departure from the normal two paned view you might be used to in FTP programs, but still a robust program with support for FTP (File Transfer Protocol), FTP/TLS (FTP secured over SSL/TLS) and SFTP
[ Multimedia ]
VLC Player - Fast, stable and wide ranging codec support makes VLC a fantastic all around media player
Flip4Mac - Adds support for playing WMV files in QuickTime
LiquidCD - Excellent alternative to the native disc burning in OS X
Handbrake - It may not offer the widest range of options when ripping a DVD, but it’s straight forward and produces high quality rips with no hassle.
[ Misc ]
smcFanControl 2.1 - A must have for managing the fan speeds on your Macbook / Macbook Pro
Cashbox - Simple and easy to use software to keep track of your finances
Growl - Growl is a notification system for Mac OS X: it allows applications that support Growl to send you notifications.
I’m crossing into Fred’s territory with this post. After all he is the resident World of Warcraft fanboy, but according to Macenstein, Apple’s latest press conference is going to announce WoW for both the iPhone and iPod touch.
How did he come to this conclusion you might ask? Well, you can read the full story here. But the short and sweet version is that the little slogan Apple sent out as part of the invitation “Mum is no longer the word” is actually an anagram for “Lord, now the Grum is on me”.
Dear iPod,
Why you got to be hatin’? Ours has been such a torrid affair, and while I understand that you make a living being all closed format and crap, I need more, seriously, I just want to rock my Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) encoded songs… maybe a little Ogg Vorbis on the side. Where’s the love, iPod? Where is the love?!
I hate to do this do you, but I have have to install a third party boot loader on you. I just can’t live like this anymore. You see, Rockbox lets me play all sorts of codecs, even that accursed WMA, which I stupidly encoded so much of my music in when I was younger. Plus, I can even play Doom! Now that’s what I’m talking about. It actually gives me control over how I listen to my music, and with countless plug-ins I can do anything from install a Game Boy emulator to play some Pong.
It’s over iPod. Your firmware is dead to me, Rockbox is the one for me now.
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Those of you who actually came back, what brought you back? Those of you were are considering leaving at this very moment, what types of posts would bring you back on a regular basis?
Remember when Blackstone (NYSE: BX) was touted as “the biggest IPO since Google” and it’s been falling every since it’s debut, and VMWare (NYSE: VMW) turned out to be a the hot item instead? Good times those were. And now we can’t go a day without hearing some rumor of Facebook going public, or being bought out (which isn’t likely). Now there is an IPO I would cash in on, I missed out a Google being broke at the time, but that will not (hopefully) be the case if Facebook goes public.
Facebook is currently well on it’s way to 60 million users by the end of this year and has also recently received bona fide status as a social phenomenon in the form of a lawsuit by two of Mark Zuckerburg’s former classmates, claiming he stole their idea. They are suing him for fraud, copyright infringement and misappropriation of trade secrets… brilliant! Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss the twin brothers behind the lawsuit are the founders of the lesser known social networking site ConnectU.
Lawsuit aside, Facebook is paving the way for potentially amazing performance if/when it goes public. Another rival of Facebook, Classmates.com is readying for its own IPO which may be the push other social networking sites need to get them to go public.
John Kanzius of Erie, Pennsylvania has quite by accident stumbled upon what very well may be the next generation of clean energy. While working towards his already lofty goal of trying to cure cancer using radio waves, John happened to create a method with which one could ignite and burn salt water.
Last week, a Penn State University chemist named Rustum Roy held a demonstration proving that the science is sound, noting that the water doesn’t burn, though the radio frequencies weaken the bonds holding together the salt, releasing hydrogen which is ignited when exposed to the RF field. Mr. Kanzius and Dr. Roy say the question now is the efficiency of the energy, and are presenting the technology to the US Department of Defense and Department of Energy to investigate how useful the technology will be.
Still don’t believe it? Check out the video after the jump.
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It isn’t the greatest Lego video of all time, but it’s pretty funny.
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