Microsoft does a great job packaging its numerous award-winning products, right? Well, this humerous video will help you imagine what a newly redesigned MS Ipod (Professional?) might look like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAGr3mVVUwE&search=microsoft%20ipod
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Entries from February 2006
Microsoft Ipod
February 28th, 2006 · No Comments
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Goodbye Jeeves. Not that anyone will miss you…
February 28th, 2006 · No Comments
Thats right. Ask.com relaunched yesterday sans their butler mascot. Jeeves is no more.
Read more about it here. Not that I expect you will, cause I didn’t. I did feel, however, that it was significant enough to note that AskJeeves no longer exists and is simply now Ask.com.
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Apple Announced New Products Today
February 28th, 2006 · No Comments
Here is a transcript w/ pictures of the entire keynote summarized over at Engadget.
The gist of it:
New Mac Mini with 2 different versions
“We have two models, 1.5GHz Intel Core Solo, 512MB RAM, 60GB hard drive, Combo Drive. $599. Second model is 1.67GHz Core Duo, 512MB RAM, 80GB drive Super Drive. $799″ - Steve Jobs
Some new [...]
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Why Windows Vista Won’t Suck
February 28th, 2006 · No Comments
Extremetech has an excellent article that goes past the marketing hype you hear about the new upcoming Windows Vista and outlines a whole slew of changes that are coming with the new OS from Microsoft. The article is about 10 pages long but I strongly strongly recommend you read it. It is very informative and [...]
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What happens when you mix the internet, dumb politicians, and kids?
February 28th, 2006 · No Comments
Wired news will enlighten you.
Clip from Wired article:
“In recent weeks newspapers from the San Francisco Chronicle to the Rutland Herald have pressed out stories — often on the front page — with headlines like “Online Danger Zone” and “The Trouble With MySpace.” An NBC Dateline show in January colored MySpace “a cyber secret teenagers keep [...]
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Retail Secrets: Best Buy Wall Numbers
February 27th, 2006 · No Comments
I ran across this last week:
“You ever noticed the big weird numbers on the wall at Best Buy? They’re usually just to the right of the exit, by the registers. They’re yellow. Of course they look like goofy price tags. And they’re just up there on the wall, for everyone to see.”
Read more.
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This week’s video wrap-up
February 27th, 2006 · No Comments
I’ve ran across a number of very amusing videos in the past week. I thought I’d share:
For all of your Battlefield 2 fans, here is how to ride the UAV.
Apparently this kid just wants his change back.
This is somewhat old(2003) but its still funny. Its a parody of the mac switch ads.
And who doesn’t like [...]
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Handmade magnetic wooly Katamari
February 27th, 2006 · No Comments
I came across this courtesy of BoingBoing:
“Laine, a crafty crafter, has made a Katamari (the ball that picks up random oddments in the wonderfully weird games Katamari Damacy and We Love Katamari out of wool and stuffing, with a powerful magnet inside that allows it to actually pick up (ferrous) oddments in the real [...]
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Google Music Search
February 23rd, 2006 · No Comments
I just ran across this today. Apparently this has been around since sometime in december, though, I have no idea how it wasn’t floated around the usual tech news sites.
Anywho, point your firefox tab here: http://www.google.com/musicsearch
Allows you to search for Artists, Albums, Song Lyrics etc etc
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Heads up: Apple due to make new product announcement next week
February 22nd, 2006 · No Comments
Almost all the apple rumor sites, slashdot, digg & ars technica are covering this. Previous leaks say that this is the big announcement that’s been due for this month. Red iPod for AIDS money? New touch-screen video iPod? New iBooks?
For more detailed info, read here.
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