US National Pigs in a Blanket Day

Aug2006 29

3 New Mac Ads

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{mosimage}Apple released three new Mac Ads, which were shown on American TV during the 58th Emmy Awards.


Check out the Accident, Angel / Devil and Trust Mac.

Aug2006 27

RemoteBuddyI was surfing the net looking for code on how I might write an app that takes advantage of Apple's Remote that ships with all new Macs. I stumbled across RemoteBuddy and the rest is history.

RemoteBuddy gives you the ability to control the rest of your computer via the Apple remote control. It also includes a creation kit for making new "behaviours" ie. your own customed remote features for any app or part of the Mac. I gotta say, I'm excited. My mate, Oddbod said, "RemoteBuddy is buddy brilliant!"

I can't wait to start making my own customized Action Pack.

Aug2006 20

{mosimage}Check out Redcape Cinema's 40 minute movie called Wonder Woman: Balance of Power.



Whilst not as good as Grayson (Best Fan Film/Trailer Ever), it has some interesting techniques and rather good special effects. The film was created to be used as a showcase for the filmmaker and it's talents.


Woman Woman, Chloe Sullivan, Clark Kent and Lex Luthor ... See it for yourself here.

Aug2006 18

Happy 5th Birthday Haiku

The Haiku OS project turns 5 today. Back in August 2001, Michael Phipps "founded" the open source replacement for BeOS, called OpenBeOS, on the mailing list.

In 2004, the name was changed, in order to avoid infringing on Palm's trademarks (now owners of BeOS). The new name was influenced by an official community vote and was then revealed at WalterCon, the US-based Haiku annual conference.

Five years on and Haiku now boots on real hardware to an accelerated desktop. It can run many R5 applications, has a network stack in post-alpha (soon to be beta), and can performed tasks via USB that R5 could only dream of. It's stability increases week by week and should be capable of replacing R5 and going beyond in the not too distant future.

Aug2006 16

{mosimage}"Google has said it intends to crack down on the use of its name as a generic verb, in phrases such as "to google someone."



The Internet search giant said such phrases were potentially damaging to its brand.



"We think it's important to make the distinction between using the word 'Google' to describe using Google to search the Internet and using the word 'google' to generally describe searching the Internet. It has some serious trademark issues," a representative for the search company said."


Personally, I think they should pull their head in. People using the word google as a verb / term, is a compliment and goes to show how far reaching their search technology has been. Quite frankly, behaviour like this from Google, could be signs that they aren't the "cool" company we were lead to believe.



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