Stories of the Week
I've posted this week Stories of the Week for January 21st, 2007. Check them out here
I've posted this week Stories of the Week for January 21st, 2007. Check them out here
Just a conversation that somebody and I had a few minutes ago...
[10:05:12 PM] Wayne: I don't know, only you can determine where you might like to go, although where you end up, is where you're supposed to end up...
[10:07:19 PM] Wayne: you don't have a choice in where you end up, the big things in life are set for you, it's the little thing that you can control
[10:07:29 PM] Sarah: yea
[10:07:29 PM] Wayne: but the little things ultimately control the big things
[10:07:33 PM] Sarah: yea
[10:07:47 PM] Wayne: so the choices you make, you make them because you're supposed to make them
[10:08:00 PM] Wayne: not because you want to necessarily make them, although sometimes you do
[10:08:44 PM] Sarah: but i dont no nearly as much as u
[10:09:11 PM] Wayne: oh, but you'll learn
[10:10:13 PM] Sarah: yea
[10:10:16 PM] Sarah: i hope
[10:11:56 PM] Wayne: oh you will... you learn whether or not you realize it...
[10:12:02 PM] Wayne: with everything you experience, you learn
[10:12:30 PM] Wayne: you learn what works, what doesn't, you learn how two things fit together, how things don't
[10:13:00 PM] Wayne: you learn all of the lessons of life... the good, the bad, and the indifferent
MacWorld San Francisco
Mac, over Half of all Macs Sold are new Mac owners
over 2 billion songs sold
350 TV Shows, 1.3 million sold
Paramount Videos added to iTunes, over 100 Movies to over 250 movies offered now, over the next week
new ads for ipods
Apple TV (iTV)
wirelessly trasmit content to tv
Looks the same as back in September
Can use Video, TV shows, Podcasts, Music, or Photos
720p HD Video
40GB Hard Drive, 50 hours of video
802.11B+G, Draft N
intelProcessor
Auto-Sync from One PC
Stream Content from up to 5 pc
Sync directly with iTunes
Can use apple remote
Heroes TV Show
Shipping February, taking orders now
$299
Jobs has been Looking forward to this day for 2 1/2 Years
Widescreen iPod with Touch Controls
Revolutionary Mobile Phone
Breakthrough Internet Communications Device
All in one Device called iPhone
so I just realized I'm like a kid on Christmas eve, awaiting all of the presents Santa Jobs will present tomorrow at Mac World Expo: SF... I'll give a recap tomorrow
So I was just watching the stream of the Keynote from Microsoft's Bill Gates from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas... Here are the notes
Vista
- Searching across all vista computers
- Plug Xbox controllers into Vista PC, and play games
- Live Search, 3D fly through
Office 2007
- New layout, with ribbons, more features available for users
- Simultaneous Release of Office 2007 & Vista
Media Center in Vista
- Watch & record HD Television
- Sports Lounge - Microsoft & Fox Sports
Photos
- 2 Billion photos taken last year
- Photo gallery ~ edit and manage photos & videos.
- DVD Maker - built in
Ultimate ~ Flagship Edition
- Extras
- Group Shot
- Allows the combonation of several pictures to be made
into one.
- Dream Scene
- Full motion Desktop
- Set Video as Desktop Background
1.5 million devices supported in Vista
- Baackup
- Video
- DVD
Software
- Gadgets
- Search API
- Visulization, DirectX 10
- Windows Presentation Foundation
Touch Screens
Media Center
Vista PCs
Ultra Mobile
- Medion
-
Laptops
- Toshiba
- Acer
Gaming
- Voodoo
- Alienware
- Dell
Entertainment
- Dell
- Monoreal
- Sony
Windows Home Server
- Homes, Multiple PCs, xboxs
Storage available at all times
2nd Half 2007
HP Media Smart Server
Automated Backup
- Remote connectivity
- no need to talk about volumes
- Quite a bit of expandability
- Move data around in order to remedy drive issues
- Terabytes on the device
- AMD, Intel
- Great Simplicity
Connected Entertainment
- Entertainment, whenever, whereever they want
- community, share content & ideas
- Needs HW/ SW & Service
URGE
- continuing to be commited to it. 350 Partners around the
world.
- Zune Media Player
- Ship & Sell 1 million copies of zune
Mobility & Mobile Phones
- Calls
- Emails
- IM
Movies
Tv
Music
Connected Entertianment on the Phone
BlackJAck
Treo
Dash
Q
driving for Windows Mobile
- outsells blackberry
Gaming
- 200 Million Gamers
- #1 Gaming Platform
- More Powerful with DirectX 10
- Easier to use, simple
- Safer with family settings
- Hardcore Gamers, Casual Gamers
- Growing Market
- Desktop, on the Go
- Xbox 360
10.4 million
37 countries
160 HD Games
- Gears of War: 2.7 million copies, Halo Like franchise.
- 300+ Titles end of the year...
- GTA 4, Mass Affect, DDR, Guitar Hero.
- Halo 3.
Xbox Live
- 5 Million Members
- Expand Community
- Take it to a whole new level
- Windows/Windows Vista, Bring Windows to Xbox 360
Live on Windows (Xbox live)
- Just like Xbox 360 Live, compatabile with Vista
- Applies to both Hard Core Games and Casual Games
- Live on the Live Service,Summer '07
- 3 Billion hours of gaming
TV & Movies
- HDTVs were the thing to buy
- 4 Ways to get HD Movies
- HD-DVD Player, xbox 360.
- HD-DVD Format top selling
The Keynote is at 9am PST on Tuesday, January 9th, in SanFrancisco... this is an hour earlier than normal...
Ok, here are the rumors thus far:
Rumor 1: An Apple iPhone
Specifications 1: Kevin Rose
- January launch date on all carriers
- Extremely small form factor
- Two batteries
- Two Models: 4GB for $249, 8GB for $449
- Slide-out keyboard.
- Possibly touchscreen
Specifications 2:
- Two Models: 4Gb for $599, 8GB for $649
- Wider than the iPod nano, yet thinner than the iPod Video
- Made of Metal
- Muliple Colors, but at least black, white, silver
- Claims Cingular is likely US carrier.
- Virtual Clickwheel
- Full screen LCD (3.5 inch)
Specifications 3:
- 3-megapixel Camera.
- 2.2 inch display
- Complete iTunes/iPod integration.
- Strictly GSM/EDGE
- Apple asking carriers to not subsidize the price of the phone
Rumor 2: True video iPod
There are too many to list.... however here's the basics
- Full Screen
- Touch Screen, on screen scroll wheel
- Larger Capacticy? I don't see why not, with the increase of storage capacities...
100GB would be my guess is that it would have this one...
Rumor 3: Increase in .MAC storage
There's a video floating out there, here. I'm not sure if this is true or not... we'll see...
Rumor 4: Mac Pro Upgrade
Possible update of the MacPros to include the Intel Quad Core processors... meaning 8 cores for processing with the MacPro.
Rumor 5: Mac Mini upgrade
- Possible upgrade to the Core 2 Duo, versus the Core Duo it currently has
Rumor 6: Blu-Ray addition
- Possibility of adding Blu-ray support to the Mac Lineup
Rumor 7: New iSight Camera
- Apple stopped selling the iSight camera, and the only way to get it is in the laptops... so a new one?
Rumor 8: New Displays
- Possible refresh of the displays, including 32" display or possibly 37" display.
- Rumored 50" display.
Rumor 9: Thin 12" MacBook Pro
- There used to be a 12" powerbook model, but that was dropped, so could they be replacing it with a 12" macbook pro?
Rumor 10: Mac Tablet
- Least likely, since Steve Jobs doens't like the idea of a Tablet
Releases we'll most likely see:
iLife '07
iWork '07
- Which might include a spreadsheet application
More Information released
iTV (name will be changed) But this is Apple's Wireless streaming devices...
- Small Hard drive for cache
- HDMI connector
- RCA audio
- Component Output
- 802.11n Wireless
- No power brick, internal power
- USB 2.0
- Ethernet
- Digital Audio output
- Works with the Apple Remote
- Front Row-like interface
- Works with iTunes PC and Mac
- $299
Next version of their operating system OS X: Leopard
- Includes TimeMachine, a new feature that allows automatic backup of files.
I've posted this week Stories of the Week for January 7th, 2007. Check them out here
So I went out and bought the HD-DVD xbox 360 Drive, the drivers work, so that means that I can read the HD-DVD Discs... I wanted to purchase the Intervideo WinDVD Software, but they're having issues, luckily their free-trial will allow me to do use the HD-DVD Player while I wait for them to return on the 4th..... so I'll let you guys know how it looks on my computer.