technology roundup
Grab bag in lieu of posting - fear not, I’ll be back soon.
- One of my predictions came true - the iPod Games Store. Now something for the Mac, please.
- iTunes 7 got a darker, more sober makeover with a “black glass” highlighting that matches what we’ve seen in Front Row and iTV. I guess this is the new “Apple consumer media” look.
- What’s that USB port on the iTV for? iDVR, I hope.
- Note to Microsoft’s J. Allard: Brown? Really? I didn’t know that those UPS bar code scanner pads were so hip with da youts that they want that look in their imitation iPods.
- Alexander Probst, writing at Roger Black’s new group blog, has pronounced that Zinio-style e-magazines are the future of the Web. He is, of course, writing from the year 1994. And ow, white serif type on a red background? Are you guys trying to kill my retinas? (Attribution corrected - thanks, Rob Hunter)
- News to me: those Videotron digital cable decoders have shrunk from 1U-rack-server size to a weensy thing about the size of a box of chocolates. So how come there’s still never anything good on? Doesn’t Moore’s Law apply to television programs as well?
- Wired: Reason 3 and MOTU Digital Performer 5. Tired: Logic Express 7. Expired: My demo license of Live 5.2. Cute kid, great interface, it coulda been a contender, but it’s still more of a live looping performance tool and not entirely DAW-like yet.
developing…
September 15, 2006 6:06 PM
