Jeremy at Antipixel has posted (exterior) photos of the new Apple Store in Ginza, Tokyo. Notice in particular the line out the door, complete with a helpful clerk telling you where the line ends. Pretty neat shots, even if they aren’t from the inside.
Mac Eye for the Windows Guy: Five Mac Men, out to change the world one Windows guy at a time. Via Jane.
iPod users share audio ports with iPod-enabled passerby, envision wireless sharing via Bluetooth and Rendezvous in the future:
Sharing an iPod through its headphone jack is also a crude, low-tech version of what some predict is the real killer application of future iPods: transforming them into short-distance broadcasting devices by adding Bluetooth or similar radio technology, coupled with Rendezvous, an Apple-developed networking technology that allows devices to discover each other automatically
Hello All-
I currently have a lease on a one bedroom apt in downtown Boulder, and I’m looking for someone to take over for me.
2113 Walnut Street
1 bdrm corner apt, first floor in 5 unit building.
Includes washer/dryer, dishwasher, attached 1 car garage
Apartment comes completely furnished; queen size bed, dishes, pots, pans etc. Rent is 1175 per month/includes all utilities
If you or someone you know is interested in looking at this apartment, please email me directly. I can provide pictures in the near future. I’m looking to be out of my apartment sometime between now and january.
Thanks,
Mathias
Bill Gates, the George W. Bush of technology:
Why isn’t e-commerce a reality? Why isn’t managing your schedule digitally with friends and colleagues not a trivial thing to do?
E-commerce isn’t a reality? What’s Amazon then? And I do a pretty good job of managing my schedule digitally with my Mac, iCal and iChat….
While searching for KungTunes, an iTunes to web synchronizer, I came across Flexistentialist and was amazed by what I found when clicking the link from Google:
How awesome is that? Especially after doing log analyses yesterday and coming across referrer after referrer, whose sites don’t have archives or searches, and the homepage was listed as the referring page. Many links to Alternate were from 1 day past the threshold. Also, many blogger and MT archive links simply did not work in Safari, as they utilized JavaScript and for some reason kept sending me back to the homepage. Oh well. The cool thing about OpenAlernate is that each post also exists as an index-able page, so most search results and referrers don’t go to the homepage, but to each post’s specific comments/permalink page.
Anyway, just wanted to share in the coolness.
I find it odd that Microsoft is basically bashing Mac OS X and yet at the same time copying it and taking until 2006 to do it.
Weaksauce.
In addition to the underlying WinFS technology, Microsoft is also adding a new file system concept called Libraries, which will organize like collections of data in Longhorn, regardless of where they are physically stored in the system. For example, a Photos & Movies Library would collect links to every digital photo and digital video on your system.
“I should not care about location when I save,” says Microsoft VP Chris Jones. “Why can’t I just click on my computer and it shows me my documents? It is a computer. It should know what a document is, what I have edited and annotated, what I have searched for before, and what other places I have looked for documents. It is not just documents on my computer I am looking for. It is documents I care about.”
Now, is it just me or do “Libraries” sound like iTunes, iPhoto, iCal, New Finder, Playlists, etc…
Also, the usability/searchability comment is almost word for word what Steve already said a couple years ago.
Tai was always worried about something like this happening to us:
Over the summer, Cricket Media released Netflix Fanatic, a Mac OS X app that extended the features of the popular Netflix online DVD rental service. Netflix Fanatic enabled users to rearrange their movie queue and access a wide range of features without having to log onto the Netflix Web site.
Last month, the developer stopped sales and downloads of Netflix Fanatic. “Due to a dispute with my employer, I will no longer be developing or distributing Netflix Fanatic,” the developer said on his Web site. “If another company or individual takes up the reins or decides to develop a similar product, I will update this page with that information.”
What I wonder about this is whether Apple’s trying to roll this into a Sherlock channel so it can be distributed by them and streamlined into a more Apple-ish UI. Because that would rock ass. Boo-hoo for the developer, right? But the thing is, he signed something saying Apple could do that if it saw fit. Whether this is fair of Apple to do or not, I don’t know, but the guy always knew it was a possibility.
the feature hijacks random HTTP requests every eight hours and redirects users to a page advertising Belkin’s parental control software. There is an opt-out link but that failed to appease Net users who accused Belkin of creating a new mechanism for spam.
In response the negative user feedback, Belkin is to give users the option of disabling the feature.
I can hear the sales pitch now… “I got a good idea…” err. Not.
…That there are more people to hack it.
An independent software developer has created a program called MyTunes that lets users of Apple Computer’s iTunes for Windows grab song files from other people on a computer network.
How long did that take? Two weeks? Good work guys, and maybe Apple will remove the feature entirely in iTunes 5!
When you think “hip, happenin’ new nightclub,” what do you think? Warehouse district? Downtown? A 100-year old church converted into 4 floors of dancing heaven? No, dummy, you think of a mall, in particular, a mall in the suburbs, nestled in among the movie theaters, chain restaurants and Home Depots.
Yes, friends, a few of us related to Alternate got to go and witness the VIP night before the opening of Avalon, Denver’s – er- Lone Tree’s – newest nightclub.
Well, I guess it’s not that new, as a club used to be there before. And before that I think it was a roller-rink. And before that I seem to remember it being a giant JCrew store.
I think above anything, it was the lure of free wine, beer and well that drew us down there; we were all pretty wary of a 9,000 sq ft nightclub set in a stripmall. And maybe it’s just really easy to impress the Press (haha) and whoever the term VIP represents, but this place was nothing short of very boring. The DJ was awful and played a ridiculous mix of wannabe-hiphop to a crowd of admittedly beautiful but seemingly bored people. By the time the drinks ceased being free, we were headed back to the Big City to find someplace open to eat.
Next time you feel like driving 30 minutes on a freeway that has traffic at all times of night, drive west on 6th and end up at Colorado Mills Mall. I hear they have ice cream there.
I understand that both Blink 182 and The Cure are bands that make me a loser. I’m over it, you should be too.
Anyway, the latest Blink album, imaginatively titled “blink 182” includes a bizarre cameo. From Robert Smith:
Partially inspired by lifestyle changes—all three members became fathers recently—and side projects, this new untitled CD sports a spoken word piece, plus guest vocals by The Cure’s Robert Smith on “All of This.” “We don’t have any joke songs or anything like that on the record,” says bassist Hoppus. “On the other albums, we’d have 12 songs on them and two of them would be the joke songs.”
Does this seem just a little odd to anyone else? And I gotta say, the album is pretty good, for pop-punk. Is it Ned’s Atomic Dustbin? No. Is it over-produced? Yes. But the emotion is back, and the songs actually sound different from their other songs, unlike the last album which was basically a re-hashing of old riffs with new lyrics and slicker production.
Anyway, the Robert Smith cameo was one I was not expecting and it’s a relatively welcome clash of two worlds for me. Hits kinda closer to home in couple ways. I wonder if David Proulx is still hanging around them these days…
As we have common friends, I read Douglas Bowman’s weblog every few days. I have to say that I’m happy he’s switched back to Mac. As a designer/developer-ish kinda guy, I’m not surprised. MacOS X combines everything you need for most tasks involved in that kind of work in a very nice and fun-to-use package. So in an attempt to offer you some more fair and balanced look at how people move to the Mac and how they feel once they’re there (frustrations and all), check out that link. That’s the kind of post/comment combo I’m happier to see these days (check out my comment here for what I mean.)