I just checked out the new Dutch CC CD/DVD released under the Creative Commons license. While I was there I found a great piece of music done by Monokai. It’s kind of old C64 game like music, you like it or hate it. I went to check out Monokai’s website and I’ve spent a good 30 minutes playing with it.
The website is filled with music, photo’s and electronic games, and is fun to play with. Go check it out! Nice quality!
Want to see how the iPhone works? Check out the iPone demo page at apple.com/iphone
I have been watching the Macworld 2007 keynote address for the last 2 hours and all I can say is:…
Jup, nothing. I am absolutely amazed by the way Apple has not only reinvented the phone (look ma, no keys!) but also the ipod (look ma, coverflow!), and maybe the most overlooked, but they reinvented the mouse!!!
A couple of months ago, I was amazed at this new userinterface Jeff Han presented . It was touchscreen based, and very intuitive. He amazed the crowds with it. At the time me and my collegues guessed that he must have had several computers working in parallel to be able to facilitate this. Now, Apple actually integrated it into the phone!
If you think a phone without keys sucks, and you think your blackberry is a great device, please take a look at the keynote presentation, I think you will want one of these. If you are too busy to sit for 2 hours watching this amazing device, or even too busy to watch the shortened version (on the same page, as the keynote, above), I’ll list some of the highlights:
My list could go on and on, but these are probably the highlights you were looking for. I’ve seen Steve using the iPhone, and the userinterface is a dream. If you own a Microsoft mouse with the “heavy scrollwheel” you will know what I mean when the iPhone scrolls through the lists by giving it a swing. Amazing to look at. The Core animation of OSX is in the phone, so everything tilts, swoops and zooms like on your desktop and it is really, really nice too look at.
My guess is that by doing this and patenting it, the next step Apple will take is reinvent the desktop userinterface. Have your screen built into your desk, throw your keyboard away and touch the screen! It has been done before, but after you’ve seen the keynote you will agree with me that Apple can do it right this time.
It has been quite some time since I have been amazed by a product like this, although it will be a while before I own one because I’m afraid it will get stolen because of it’s good looks. I’m afraid it will even push the iPod out of the market a little, and Zune will be dead and gone when the iPhone hits the market…
Go and see the Macworld 2007 keynote address, and see his Steveness improvise when his “Clicker’s not working” just before he announces “Apple Computer Inc” is now going to be called just “Apple Inc”. Maybe Apple should ship this keynote on DVD. Seriously. Even if the only reason is seeing John Mayer perform “Gravity” live and unplugged at the end.
I’ll hold on to my Google and Apple shares for a while I guess…
In het laatste verslag van de Dakar rally op RTL7 was in de uitslag van de motoren Miriam Pol (warning audio ahead) van de lijst gevallen. Er werd ook geen woord aan gewijd in het verslag. Voor de mensen die bang zijn dat ze uit de race is: Nee dat is ze niet, Miriam staat 97e op dit moment en heeft zo te zien ook een sponsor gevonden in JB Trading als ik de laatste beelden van haar shirt en de banners op de site mag geloven. Geen vraagtekens meer op de motor (en bankrekening).
Uitslagen voor de motorfietsen (de enige echte Dakar helden in mijn ogen) kun je vinden op www.dakar.com/2007/DAK/LIVE/us/200/classement/CGM.html.
Een ander intressant team om te volgen is Tim Coronel en vriendin Gaby Uljee. De ultieme relatietest, je vriendin kaart laten lezen in een woestijn, tijdens een race naar Dakar. Als je InternetExplorer gebruikt, kun je ze volgen op www.coroneldakar.com. Helaas hebben de sitebouwers van dakarsport geen Firefox op hun PC, want ik kan de site hier niet lezen.
Hi, I just discovered oypo.nl, an online service for photographers to sell prints of their photographs. It’s a simple concept, where a photographer uploads images, and the website sells prints of these images to anybody who orders them. Part of the commision is going back to the photographer, and to some extent the photographer can decide how expensive his photograps are to the public.Because opening an account is free, and because I think my photo’s are WAY better than most of the material on oypo.nl, I decided to open an account just for fun. If you like to buy my photographs, take a look at them at
The resolution of he shots should give good to very good results on near poster format, and I try to keep the choice simple by only uploading the interesting ones. Have fun!
As a Mac user, I have absolutely no problem editting, moving and viewing large video, audio and image files. There was one thing I missed though, and that is a tool which is able to quickly view a large JPG (like OSX’s own preview) but then skip to the next image in the directory when selecting “next”. Today I have found just that tool, and it is a dream to work with. It called Xee (not to be confused with the rather lame Xsee).
Xee loads jpg’s blindingly fast from my remote fileserver. Then, using just the keyboard, I can easily zoom in, out, skip to the next or previous file in the directory, fit the image to screen, etc. After testing about 20 or so image viewers, It is absolutely the best image viewer I have found.
During the search for Xee, I also encountered the OSX Power Tools page, which is a list of very handy utilities for the Mac, and from what I can see all of them are free to use (check license to be sure).
Hi, do you also think Windows Vista gets too much credit for stealing Apple’s Mac OSX, a.k.a. Tiger? Here’s a funny little movie on nytimes.com with proof that Windows is “not” an OSX ripoff. Very funny.
I recieved my Airport Express last tuesday and had it installed as a wireless audio connection for my stereo in a couple of minutes as follows:
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The Ati installer just crashes because there is already an old version of the driver on the system. Any normal manufacturer would be able to upgrade the driver, no? No. This is a windows system, and even with the slightest sign of problenms, you end up digging forums where people have found how to edit the registry to get things done. And then it will still not work. Windows is so full of crap, I even found a driver cleaner tool. And no, that also did not work.
I can not wait to replace my shoddy PC laptop with an iBook or macbook pro. Mind you, this is an Acer Ferrari 3000 laptop I’m typing this on, which should be a decent laptop. But the Windows way just screws it all up.
Every 10 hours of PC, I spend 2 to 4 fixing problems or upgrading drivers. Every 10 hours of Mac, I spend 0 hours updating drivers and 0 hours fixing things. I see an easy winner here in the productivity departement….
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