Never one to shy away from an excuse to take centre stage and bask in the applause of the Fanbois, Steve Jobs and the iCrew today stepped up and introduced the next generation of Macbooks, Macbook Airs and Macbook Pros. The changes are largely cosmetic with some better-than modest speed bumps and an impressive new graphics card. Specs are as follows:
Read MoreThe Tokyo Game Show in Japan wrapped up last Sunday, leaving in its wake a a record 879 new titles and updates designed to please pretty much everyone. Nintendo is a perennial no-show at TGS, but that didn’t stop developers from debuting a slew of games for the DS. In fact, the number of DS games debuted topped the list of titles for any platform. Perhaps not surprisingly, the next strongest showing was for mobile phone games. Despite this year’s lame theme, “Ready for GAME time” (I guess the title…
Read MoreOn last week’s episode of Diggnation (166), Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht discussed the inarguably awesome iPhone / iPod Touch app “iHologram”. The app purportedly uses the devices’ accelerometers and “works by assuming a constant viewing angle (35-45 degrees), typical for when the device is placed on a tabletop…The 3d scene’s perspective is then warped using anamorphic perspective, making the object appear to jump off the screen.” It all sounds cool…and LOOKS VERY VERY COOL. But if you go to the iTunes App store looking for it, you’re going to…
Read MoreBy way of Boingboing.net, my attention has been drawn to an amusing ’80s manga by Mitsuru Sugaya about the birth of Apple. Not speaking Japanese, I managed to get some gist of the artist’s commentary (though not the comic dialogue itself) from the Babelfish version. I particularly enjoyed their rendition of Mitsuru’s descriptions of one of Woz’s teen pranks. (See if you can guess what it does…)
Read MoreMicrosoft’s new campaign is in the wild. The campaign, in which Seinfeld & Gates just sort of hang out and shoot the proverbial breeze, was created by ad agency juggernaut Crispin Porter + Bogusky. The ad takes a significantly different tack than the Mojave Experiment did, and is in fact very reminiscent of Seinfeld’s “Superman” ads for Amex. See for yourself here.
Read MoreIt’s not been 8 months since the January 15 release of the MacBook Air, the much-praised and equally maligned ultra-portable offering from Steve Jobs’ crew of catured alien computer designers from the future. The notebook was an historic first: a practical laptop that sported a large screen and a full keyboard, internet connectivity, and video conferencing capability, that measured a scant .16 inches thick (at its thinnest point) and weighed in at a feathery 3 pounds. The thing sold itself…all Jobs had to do was pull it out of an…
Read MoreFrom the “oh, crap” files: The Bloomberg Financial Newswire is experiencing a little “send all” remorse today after mistakenly releasing Steve Jobs’ obituary into the wild. The 17-page obit was apparently being updated when the author mistook the “Save” button for the “Freak out shareholders” key and accidentally published the document across the entire newswire. A retraction was published almost immediately, but not before rgbFilter was able to get its hands on a copy of the obituary, which you can see below.
Read MoreSome time ago Nvidia acquired PhysX, a company that made dedicated hardware to vastly speed up rendering of physics calculations which includes everything from water pouring out of a tube demos to complex interactions between hard and soft bodies to name but a few. Now, it’s being reported that the latest version of the Nvidia drivers (177.79) which are due out August 12th, will have PhysX support built into them. Most models Nvidia cards in the 8000 and 9000 series, as well as the latest generation 260 and 280 will…
Read MoreAre you rich and wanna flaunt it? If so, download “I Am Rich”, quite possibly the awesomest app ever. You see, what “I Am Rich” does for you, the everyday Rich person, is flaunt your richness by adding a fancy red jewel to your iphone that just declares “I AM RICH!” and absolutely nothing else. The application costs a mere $999.99, a pittance to be able to declare to the world that you are one of the elite few who can afford such unnecessary contrivances. At least, that’s what you…
Read MoreTomorrow Bell will unveil its new branding with a 60-second television ad during the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Summer Olympics.“This is a significant rebrand from the basement up,” said Rick Seifeddine, senior vice-president, brand strategy for Bell during a conference call on Wednesday. In anticipation of the launch, Bell has been teasing the public in its major English-language markets since last week with outdoor media executions showing only the letters “er” with portions of larger blue letters at the edges. The number of executions increased over time, appearing in…
Read More“For a limited time, Microsoft is offering free online multiplayer on Xbox 360/Games for Windows titles that offer LIVE cross-platform play. This promotion won’t last, so we can encourage everyone to take advantage of it while they can.” That’s the official quote from Microsoft regarding Xbox Live playability from your PC with others on 360 consoles. The promotion covers all titles that include Xbox 360/Games for Windows cross-platform play, and allows 360 users with an Xbox Live silver membership to play online free of charge. A paid Gold-level membership is…
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