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This week’s panel : Bart Busschots, Stu Helm, Gazmaz, Oliver Haslam and Michael King
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Today the Apple community shouts a big hurrah to the news that the previously rumoured January 27th event, something every blog and podcast, including this one, have been speculating about for the past month or so, is now in fact a real thing!
ArsTechnica seem to be the first of the mainstream tech-blogs to publish the story, followed by Engadget and Gizmodo soon after. All confirm the event shall take place at 10:00am in the Yerba Buena Centre for the Arts and Theatre, San Francisco. Known as the regular location for previous iPod/iTunes events in September, and with no Macworld Expo keynote from Apple this year, it seems like a good place for Apple to show their “latest creation” to the world in a month that has introduced us to the Mac Mini, iPhone and MacBook Air in previous years. (more…)
As one of the more public Mac users, I have a lot of experience evangelizing for Apple and the Macintosh among my school community. I have come to realize that when I get into a conversation with a Windows user, they almost always end in one of three ways.
- I convince them and they agree with me that Macs have value and are worthwhile, and sometimes they even look into drinking the koolaid.
- They sort of grumble and walk away, realizing that I have beaten them, but refusing to admit it. This is generally the most common.
What is unfortunate is that the following response is becoming more and more common:
- “Macs are overpriced and not worth what Apple charges because I can get any software for free.”
This, of course, means that he pirates software. I hate pirates. They ruin everything for everyone else.
They make small developers struggle because people aren’t paying them, they make large companies (*cough* Adobe *cough*) keep their prices high, and they perpetuate DRM and license enforcement (*cough* Microsoft *cough* RIAA *cough* MPAA *cough*). Their stealing (yes, that’s right, folks. Software and media piracy is STEALING) ruins the experience for everyone else. (more…)
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This week’s panel : Stu Helm, Keaton Brandt, Gazmaz, Paul Shadwell, Oliver Haslam and special guest George Starcher
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This week’s panel : Stu Helm, Keaton Brandt, Oli Williamson and Matt Hillyer
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A great many years ago I started creating a Christmas DVD with slideshows and videos of the past year for my family. Creating the content and making it look good isn’t that big of a problem, since that’s what I got iLife (and FinalCut Express) for. However creating the labels and covers for the DVD has been a very different challenge.
Back in 2005 when I started with those DVDs in earnest, I was using LightScribe to print those DVD labels. I got a bit of software with my DVD-Writer that made creating the DVD labels bearable, however those labels didn’t have that much contrast and thus despite looking good, they weren’t right for me. In 2008 I purchased a Canon printer that was able to print directly on DVD and again I got a bit of software that made creating the labels ok, but amazingly it didn’t work all that well with the printer.
Creating DVD covers ended up as a task for Pages and a ruler to measure an existing cover to get things just about right. Those cover were only limited by my lack of creativity. For Christmas 2009 I ended up getting a copy of DiscLabel from SmileOnMyMac and let me tell you, creating beautiful and stunning DVD labels and covers was a breeze.
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The “Get a Mac” ad campaign (sometimes known as the ‘Mac vs. PC ads’) shown in the U.S has, last month, been named AdWeek’s “campaign of the decade”. In light of this, I have now found an excuse to unveil my personal distaste for Apple’s latest Mac campaign and the people who love it.
Now before I begin, I cannot, and will not deny how successful these advertisements have been for Apple. The fundamental reason why I believe this to be the case has been worded perfectly by AdWeek themselves:
“That series of 60-plus ads brought some humanity into the equation by turning the machines into live-action cartoons. In so doing, the comic spots offer transparent understanding of the aspirations of its audience and how people identify—and connect emotionally—with technology.” (more…)
