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BoomBox your mac mini all the way to Cupertino and say "LAME!"

What to say about Apple's unveiling of thier new Mac Mini and Boombox and other products today? Let's start with the Mini:

Okay of course they were gonna be adding the new Intel processors into the new compact Mac. I didn't need a crystal ball to tell me that one. So is that cool? Uh, I guess, kinda. I'm not sure what I feel about the Intel chips until a few people have tested it out themselves with their own software. I don't need to be another Apple Guiene pig.

So what IS cool? Well I would have to say the Front Row o be able to view all the media shared in iTunes is cool. That includes video. Hey I'm happy about that. But no news on the ability to play video playlists in Front row yet which is what I want man. Maybe it's in there, only an update will tell.

But where is the cool TIVO function and EPG on this thing? I want to record episodes of Seinfeld and watch them when I get home. I guess I'll have to go with elgato for that, or just stick to my vlogs. Yeah I'll do that.

So the BOOMBOX. WTF was Steve smoking when he thought of this one. A BIG ASS SPEAKER for my iPod which doesn't have surround, or allow me to connect to my DVD player, playstation, whatever. Only my iPod. This thing reminds me of the days of rundmc with a big ass box walking down the street, but now there's an iPod sticking out. Great for watching vids on it. NOT! I mean for the same price I buy an entire home surround system with DVD player or a bunch of the Logitech portable speakers, that I can easily carry arround with me.

So I don't think I'll be buying any of these so called "FUN" products. Except the iPod leather holder does look pretty nice I have to admit, but I've seen another one that doubles as a wallet and you can actually watch the videos without taking it out of the case. Three strikes Apple.

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What is XOLO?


donkey-donkey
Originally uploaded by Mattie & Den.

Lots of people are wondering what the hell we are up to with XOLO.TV. Well all I can say officialy is that XOLO is a hairless mexican dog with a cool mohawk. That should give you an idea of what we are up to. :-)

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Me in highschool.


gabe & co.
Originally uploaded by setstatic.

It's amazing what you can discover on flickr I find. Here is a photo an old friend from highschool posted. We were in photography class together. That's me being sandwhiched in the middle. Yeah poor kid always geting picked on in Highschool. I guess that's why I found art as my outlet. It never picks on you, you pick on it. But it's still cool to find old frineds through old photos I feel. Flickr rocks!

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The New Apple iPod will be cool


There are rumors flying all over about what the new iPod will look like. Here are the rumors in a row:

  • It will be a full tuch screen display (see below)
  • It will also be a mobile phone( Apple hays patenetd MobileMe, and people are speculating Apple will be reselling mobile services. Obviously from Cingular as they are the biggest and Apple already has a relationship with them with the Rockr.
  • Apple is pissed with Motorola so they won't be building the phone if that happens.
  • Hopefully there will be some wireless connection with these suckers, like we've been waiting for 2 years since they hired wireless developers in the iPod team 2 years ago.
  • Have a look at the flash film by clicking to the right and you can decide for yourself.

Cheers!

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Digtial Lifestyle Day Roundup

Well, after being at the DLD in Munich this week, there has been lots of articles talking about my speech. Here is a list of a bunch, but I can't read them all as they are in differtent languages. :-)

FOCUS MAGAZINE (Germany)

„Es gibt ein geflügeltes Word unter TV-Bloggern: Jeder wird seine 15 Minuten Ruhm haben. Ich sage: Jeder wird für 15 Leute ein Star sein. Video-Blogs fangen dort an, wo die klassischen Medien keinen Zugriff haben, weil sie einfach nicht überall sein können.“
Did I say that?

Look Behind Screen:

Das erste Panel gehörte dann auch gleich zu den interessanteren. Vor allem die Beiträge von Loic le Meur und Gabe McIntyre waren cool. In beiden Vorträgen ging es um das Thema Blogs, bei Gabe im speziellen um Video Blogging ("Vlogging"). Mit seinem Videoblog Projekt XOLO.TV gehört Gabe zu den aktivsten in der Szene.

Lunch Over IP:

A few other things picked up today: a great website offering a tutorial on how to videoblog: freevlog.org; the video Gabe McIntyre took with his cell phone while he and a friend were being random-searched by the police in Amsterdam (it's in the archives of gabe.nl);

Cablogrammi di Massimo Russo:

Video, video, fortissimamente video
Tutti concordi sul fatto che il 2006 e il 2007 su internet, per i paesi dove la banda larga si è già diffusa, saranno gli anni del video. Quello prodotto o ritrasmesso dai giganti del settore (T-Online ad esempio in Germania ha da poco acquisito i diritti per il calcio della Bundesliga), e quello realizzato da soggetti poco più che amatoriali, come ha dimostrato il regista Gabe McIntyre con la sua Xolo.tv, un canale di distribuzione globale di video a costo zero, o come testimoniano siti quali Youtube.

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Gabe McIntyre from Xolo.TV - made a very visual and interactive presentation about Vloggging ie.Video Blogging and showed us lots of examples of how ordinary people equipped with just video enabled mobile phones have started to document their surroundings and even launch their own "TV" programs.

ODDQUANTRA

One of my favorite pull quotes - Gabe McIntyre, of xolo.tv. "Blogs are OK, but there is so much text, and I hate to read..."

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Vlogging "Apple's Video Podcasting" with iLife

Yesterday Apple annouced an new application in their iLife Suite. It's called iWeb. It makes it very easy for mac users to make blogs, podcasts, something they are calling photo casting, and even vlogs or what they call "video podcasting". What do I think about this.

Pro's: EXTREMELY EASY to make your vlogs, podcasts and blogs using Apple's new software. This is great for those of you who are trying to get into it, but haven't figured it all out with RSS enclosers and the like.

Con's:

1. It isn't remote. That means you have to have the program running on one computer all the time. If you re moving around and you want to update your podcast or blog from diffrent machines, ie.e school or office or home. Sorry not gonna work.

2. You HAVE to have a .Mac account to use this software. I can't publish this stuff to my own webserrver. Now if you are doing vlogs and podcasts, thet first 100mb with .Mac is gonna go fast.

3. Apple users only can use this. Sorry windows users.

Summary, if you wanna get started with vlogging and podcasting, this is a great solution, but if you want to continue, I don't see this as a viable option for you.

Apple's demo on video podcasing wit iWeb

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Cult of Mac Blog And My hairdo!

I sent a little while ago a message to Leander at the Cult of Mac site with some pics of my hair. He's posted it on his "Cult of Mac" Blog. A great blog for those of you looking for how crazed us Mac Geeks can be. And if you are in Amsterdam this evening and want to talk to a bunch of Mac Geeks, head over to the Balie, cause we are getting together to discuss the last Keynote from Mac World Expo. See you there!!!

Cult of Mac Blog - Mr Macintosh's Macworld Doo

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