Posted on December 29th, 2006 by weldon
Apple has just announced that they will carry full-length video downloads of college bowl games on the iTunes Music Store this year. You can already subscribe to season passes from ESPN College Football and Fox Sports that include pre-game analysis, player interviews, and future game coverage and highlight reels. I think the idea is outstanding. [...]
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Posted on December 27th, 2006 by weldon
I’ve been thinking about what Jobs might have to show us at MWSF in just under two weeks now, and I’ve made my own list of features that the iTV would need to have to make it a killer product.
Compatibility with MPEG-2, H.264 and VC-1. That includes all the variants of those codecs from video [...]
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Posted on December 23rd, 2006 by weldon
There’s been a lot of talk recently about various software bargain schemes and the associated web sites that have popped up recently. MacSanta, MacHeist, MacAppaDay, MacZot! are all examples. I think what we need is a common tag that all independent Mac developers can use so that people can more easily find blog posts, reviews, [...]
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Posted on December 12th, 2006 by weldon
I ran across this thought experiment on David Pogue’s blog site. Below is my answer to what would happen if you had a plane on a giant treadmill for a runway. Basically it comes down to how you interpret the movement of the treadmill as the problem is stated.
I think that the plane could take [...]
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Posted on December 6th, 2006 by weldon
There’s been a bunch of inventive and off-beat marketing schemes in the Mac software market recently. MacAppaDay is giving away 5,000 copies of one application every day in December. Mac Heist is creating a riddle / puzzle game to unlock a free copy of a few applications each week. MacZot! is promoting an app at [...]
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