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Post CES and MacWorld Blues

Now that CES and MacWorld are over, it’s time to look back.

CES is still a much larger event and yet it was eclipsed by Steve Jobs’ MacWorld Keynote. Once again, Apple stole CES’ thunder. I am still processing and formulating the information overloads from CES and MacWorld.

Let’s see.

MacWorld

  • Apple iPhone, AppleTV, and the new Airport Extreme base station. No real news about Mac OS X, Macs, and other softwares from Apple.
  • ModBook – A tablet Mac.
  • No GPS support on Mac OS X from Garmin
  • …to becontinued

CES

  • XBox 360 HD video and larger hard drive.
  • Something about Windows Vista and its variants.
  • Sling Media’s SlingCatcher.
  • Tons of other products, to be added later.

This will take a while for me to write something interesting regarding CES and MacWorld.

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Rants: Annoying Blog Entries

I use the “tag-surfer” feature on WordPress from time to time. It’s a great feature for finding out other blogs on WordPress.com based on keywords/tags. I surf a few tags and one of them is “tech”. In general I like reading other people’s opinions, and some other informations (links to interesting news, announcements, etc).

I easily get annoyed by three types of blog entries:

  1. SPAM BLOG
    No explanations needed.
  2. Flamebaits
    There are entries filled with FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubts), trolls, “controversial” contents, etc. They are just looking for attentions and page-hits Most of the time I’d get over it cause they are pointless and useless, just like the tabloid journalism.
  3. Unoriginal, Plagiaristic, Annoying, Stupid, Stolen blogs
    OK, OK! This is a rant, so nevermind the attempt to spell out Up Ass blogs.
    Anyway, there are entries which are basically a carbon copy of Digg.com, Slashdot.org, etc.
    Even better, a lot of time those entries aren’t even well thought out, because these so called “bloggers” just copied and paste the title and the entry without even reading the article. The best part is that they didn’t even read the articles or notice if they’re just fake news.
    Please cancel your WordPress blog and stop blogging forever! At least, learn how not to steal other people’s contents.

Anyway, this is a rant!

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Parallels Desktop for Mac build 3120 RC1 is Released

Parallels Desktop for Mac build 3120 RC1 is available for download
http://forums.parallels.com/thread7585.html

Additional details and download information is available on this page:
http://www.parallels.com/products/desktop/beta_testing/

I will update this post after I actually use it.

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Related News:
VMwareFusion Beta is Available for download.
http://www.vmware.com/products/beta/fusion/
Related Product:
Parallels Desktop for Mac

Parallels Desktop for Mac @Amazon.com

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Megadeth “United Abominations”: Two More New Song Titles are Revealed

Dave Mustaine has once again revealed two more song titles from the upcoming Megadeth album “United Abominations”. According Mustaine’s Megadeth Official Forums posting the titles are:

  • Sleepwalker
  • Burnt Ice

Other known and confirmed song titles from “United Abominations”:

  • United Abominations
  • Washington is Next
  • Gears of War
  • Blessed Are The Dead
  • Never Walk Alone
  • Amerikhastan
  • Out on The Tiles (cover of Led Zeppelin song)

“United Abominations” is tentatively scheduled for release in March 2007.

http://forums.megadeth.com/showthread.php?p=7594040 (free registration required)

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Look! It’s a Phone, It’s an iPod, It’s a MacPhone!

A short editorial

On January 9, 2006 Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, introduced the much rumored Apple iPhone during his annual keynote at MacWorld San Francisco. As written on Apple website: “Introducing iPhone. Apple reinvents the phone.”

For the last 3 years Apple has been rumored to have been working on a phone-like device. Apple and Motorola introduced Motorola ROKR, an iTunes-enabled phone on September 7, 2005 and somewhat closed a chapter on the rumor. Motorola has since then released other iTunes-enabled phones such as RAZR V3 and KRZR.

Apple iPhone is a different breed compared to any iTunes-enabled phones. Its appearance resembles more like an iPod than a phone. There are other smart phones with touch screen, but Apple strives to make its iPhone to be a class of its own. Underneath its shell, Apple iPhone runs a variant of Mac OS X. Its capabilities make Apple iPhone more like a Mac than a phone.

Steve Jobs on his keynote said that Apple would like to capture 1% of Mobile Phone market, or about 10 million units. Should Apple be able to reach that goal, they would be shipping an additional 10 million of Mac OS X. It is a surprise that Apple didn’t call it “MacPhone”.

Apple iPhone is tentatively scheduled for release in June 1007.

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2007/01/09iphone.html

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Apple TV, Apple iPhone, and New Airport Extreme 802.11n

Thanks to bad WiFi receptions, bandwidth hog and some other factor, I didn’t get to connect to the internet at MacWorld.

Ayway, two new products from Apple announced by Steve Jobs.

  1. Apple TV
    http://www.apple.com/appletv/
    Priced $299 (U.S.) and will ship in February.
    As expected, it has 40GB hard drive for local caching and storage.
    “It is a cool product, but not necessarily a must have product at this point. I will find out more before making any purchasing decision.”
  2. Apple iPhone
    http://www.apple.com/iphone/
    Tentatively scheduled for released in June 2006 (U.S.)
    GSM Quad Band (no 3G) and EDGE
    Cingular exclusive (for U.S.)
    $499 (4GB) and $599 (8GB) with 2 year contract.
    3.5 inch screen at 3:2 ratio (landscape)
    Operating System: OS X
    iPod capability
    Built-in 2.0 megapixels camera
    802.11b/g and Bluetooth 2.0+EDR
    “Yikes! It is basically a Mac. I’m surprised that it’s not called MacPhone. One thing that might stop me from getting this so called phone is the price with 2 year contract. Now I have to wait till June to spend my hard earned money.”

Apple also shows off the newly redesigned and updated Airport Extreme Base Station.
http://www.apple.com/airportextreme/
It now officially supports 802.11n protocol, offering up to five times the speed and twice the range compares to 802.11g protocol. It has one WAN port and three LAN port. It also has one USB 2.0 port that can be used for printer sharing or USB mass storage sharing.

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Microsoft Releases Updates for Mac Office (01.09.2006)

Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.3.3 Update

This update contains several improvements to enhance security and stability, including fixes for vulnerabilities that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer’s memory with malicious code. In addition, this update includes all of the improvements released in all previous Office 2004 updates.

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Microsoft Office v. X for Mac 10.1.9 Update

This update contains several improvements to enhance security and stability, including fixes for vulnerabilities that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer’s memory with malicious code. In addition, this update includes all of the improvements released in all previous Office v. X updates.