An Apple A Day Gallery – 2007.11.04
Mac OS X Leopard: Exposé
Exposé was first introduced in Mac OS X Tiger 10.4, a great addition to desktop computing. In Mac OS X Leopard, Exposé works well with Spaces.
Mac OS X Leopard: Front Row
An Apple A Day Gallery – 2007.11.03
Mac OS X Leopard: Front Row
Front Row is now available on any Macs. Front Row can be activated by using Apple Remote, launching the Front Row.app, or by using the default keystroke Command-Esc.
Previously Front Row only available on Macs with Apple Remote and IR receiver support. Kudos to Andrew Escobar for providing Front Row Enabler; to install Front Row for Mac OS X Tiger (10.4.x) on older Macs without Apple Remote and IR receiver support.
Lars Ulrich for Mayor of San Francisco?
The Examiner says that Lars Ulrich of Metallica fame, has the odds of 1000-1 to become the next San Francisco Mayor. Not sure if this is a joke or something serious.
I for one think that Lars Ulrich should run for Mayor of San Francisco. Should he won, he then had to quit Metallica. This is good because only then Metallica can get a better drummer.
Metallica is currently recording the follow up to “St. Anger” with Rick Rubin as producer. The new recording is tentatively scheduled for February 2008 release.
South Park: Season 11 Episode 8 – “Le Petit Tourette”
South Park: Season 11 Episode 8 – “Le Petit Tourette”
Original Air Date: 2007-10-03
Note:
- This episode is the premiere of the second half of Season 11.
- This episode parodies and makes fun of Dateline NBC’s “To Catch a Predator” with Chris Hansen.
- More information about Tourette syndrome (Wikipedia)
- This episode is filled with profanities (swear words) with exception of the “F-word” which was bleeped.
- All Season 11 episodes will be available uncensored @ iTunes Store.
From South Park Studios: (announced on September 30th, 2007)
Cartman discovers the joys of having Tourette’s syndrome. Drunk with the power of saying whatever he wants without getting in trouble for it, he lines up National TV Coverage to take advantage of his new life with no filters.
South Park Season 11 Episode 8 on:
- iTunes Store – UNCENSORED (available on Saturday – October 6th, 2007)
- Amazon Unbox (available on Saturday – October 6th, 2007)
South Park Studios and Comedy Central would like to remind you if you are looking for South Park episode, you can get it at iTunes Store or Amazon Unbox instead of downloading the AVI or RM files off torrents from site likes mrtwig.net. Another reminder from the Good Ol’ Comedy Central that asks everyone to stay away from southparkfiles.com, because southparkfiles.com has every single South Park episode made available in one form or another.
Remember downloading TV episodes off torrents is generally frowned upon by the TV networks. It’d be very very very wrong to download South Park episodes off torrent sites such as mrtwig.net where you can find high quality South Park episodes in AVI and RM. Please forget that you can find high quality South Park episode links at mrtwig.net because Comedy Central would like you to purchase them.
South Park – The Complete Tenth Season
The tenth season of South Park includes the instant classic and Emmy Winning “Make Love, Not Warcraft” – one of the most ridiculous South Park episodes ever.
Megadeth: “Never Walk Alone” Video Premieres at Megadeth’s MySpace
Megadeth premieres “Never Walk Alone” video on Megadeth’s MySpace.
The video was shot on August 22nd, 2007 at Cheyenne Studio in Castaic, California. The band, the crews, and everybody else spent a whole day shooting the video in a studio with green-screen backdrop.
“Never Walk Alone” is the second video from Megadeth’s “United Abominations“. The first video “Set Me Free (A Tout Lé Monde)” is available for viewing at Megadeth.com (close to the bottom of the page).
Buy United Abominations @ Amazon
Amazon MP3 BETA Offers DRM-Free Music
Amazon has taken its new music service to public beta.
Introducing Amazon MP3, a la carte DRM-free MP3 digital music downloads.
Most DRM-free MP3 tracks are priced ¢89, and most albums are priced from $5.99 to $9.99. Tracks are encoded in 256kbps MP3. Amazon recommends installing Amazon MP3 Downloader, that will automatically add any purchased song to iTunes or Windows Media Player.
Unlike Amazon Unbox, Amazon MP3 service is compatible with Mac and Windows (haven’t tried it on Linux).
At first, it seems that Amazon MP3 is a worthy competitor to Apple iTunes Store. Looking ahead and beyond, this is a victory over the dreaded DRM. It is interesting how Universal Music Group purposely excludes Apple iTunes Store from its DRM-free offerings. Eventually, it won’t matter anymore, because DRM-free MP3s will work in any music players. Be it an iPod, Creative Zen, SanDisk Sansa, or even Zune.
I can play the MP3 I purchased from Amazon MP3 on my iPhone.
Support DRM-free music service!
Apple’s “Mum Is No Longer The Word” Special Event
Thanks to my insomniac life, I’m up hitting the refresh buttons on Apple’s “Mum Is No Longer The Word” special event coverage.
- Apple UK Store is closed for product updates!
- 8GB iPhone, O2 as carrier in The UK, £269 (including VAT)
- Will arrive in the UK on November 9th, 2007
- GPRS and EDGE, no 3G – US Customers rejoices!
- Visual Voicemail and Unlimited data with £35, 45, 55 plans
- From Endgadget:
10:16 – Steve gets back on stage for Q&A. We ask: Why not 3G networks?Steve: “The 3G chipsets are real power hogs. Handset battery life cuts power to 2-3 hours.” Yeah yeah, we’ve heard it before. “Our phone has a talk time of 8 hours and that’s really important when you want to use your phone for internet and music. 3G needs to get back up to 5+ hours, something we think well see later next year” - Free HotSpots provided by Cloud in The UK
- From Slashgear:
“The contract for the phone will be 18 months, and unlimited data usage actually means 1400 web pages per day.” - …