Apparently Justin Long (of Dodgeball fame) is no longer a part of Apple’s Mac/PC commercials. Slashdot is reporting it, as is Wired’s Cult of Mac blog.
Posts Tagged ‘tech’
I’m a PC. I’m a Mac. (No, I’m not.)
Posted by eric on November 11, 2006
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what’s “yours” isn’t necessarily really “yours”
Posted by eric on October 28, 2005
Declaration of InDRMpendence (ZDNet)
Every day, I get the ZDNet Tech Update Today email. Usually I just glance over it. But today’s had an interesting article about Motorola’s ROKR and how it’s actually not doing all that well. At the bottom, was a link to this “declaration,” a previous article by the same author. I was already familiar with the situation he mentioned at the top, about the difficulty of playing digitally-purchased music on a home stereo, having read that article a few months ago. As much as everyone sings the praises of iTunes et al, it’s not necessarily all it’s cracked up to be.
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the digital switch
Posted by eric on October 23, 2005
Senate Looks to Spend $3B on Digital TV
The digital conversion date keeps getting pushed back. I think everyone was supposed to start broadcasting DTV next year. Now, analog signals will be switched off at the end of 2008/early 2009. Of course, everyone will need a digital TV (or conversion box) to get the signals. And Congress doesn’t want anyone to be unable to watch TV. So they want to help people afford the converters. To the tune of $3B. Your tax dollars at work.
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interesting…
Posted by eric on October 12, 2005
The Washington Post has an editorial about a proposed exception to campaign financing laws for Internet ad spending. Basically, it would consider the Internet to *not* be a method of “public communication.” Right now, it’s the subject of a House hearing. Interesting.
(via Slashdot)
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P2P gets pumped with $$$
Posted by eric on September 29, 2005
BitTorrent gets US$8.75 million in VC money
They’re trying to make BT a more common way of distributing legal content. Like paid content. It could work, I guess. You pay for access to a torrent on a closed tracker, get your stuff. There are plenty of closed trackers that work. The article questions whether people would want to let their upstream bandwidth when you’re already paying for something. A valid point, but many people have more upstream than they know what to do with. But with BT, once a torrent was cooking, you’d probably be maximizing your bandwidth pretty well.
Of course, there’s still the issue of what happens to the content after you grab it, but that’s no different than any other distribution method.
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in the works
Posted by eric on September 26, 2005
There’s a new version of Gallery out there now. Two, actually: 1.5.1 and 2.0. (Gallery is what runs my photo gallery). I may upgrade to 2.0 soon — I need to take a closer look at it first, and check a few things out.
I also have a new version of the site in the works. I’m playing with some DHTML and RSS, and I have a few other ideas. I came up with an idea last night, and am now in the process of fleshing one of those ideas out. It may look good, or it may look flat-out awful. We’ll see.
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Snapfish is gobbled up.
Posted by eric on March 23, 2005
Just got an email from Snapfish saying they’ve been acquired by HP. I’ve never really used any of the online photo services, I was only registered so I could view other people’s photos. I’m registered with Ofoto for the same reason. But anyway. Here’s their press release.
(and half of the fun of this post was the subject line. Ha.)
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does this count as meta-blogging?
Posted by eric on February 20, 2005
I was reading the wires at work when I found this article about the founders of Six Apart, who are the makers of Movable Type, which I’m using to post this right now. It’s a good read.
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Dreamhost just rocks.
Posted by eric on January 6, 2005
So I switched over to Dreamhost back in October, and I’ve been pretty happy with them so far. I got a good deal for the first year, and at the same price per month after that, I was getting more space than my old host. Well, they’ve one-upped themselves now. Last month, they ran a triple-bandwidth sale. Now it’s a triple-disk space sale, too. And because they’re so cool, all the current customers get the triple goods too. Not a bad deal. If you’re interested, do me a favor and follow my referral link, because it would be nice of you.
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this looks cool…
Posted by eric on December 9, 2004
IndyJunior lets you do a Flash map of various places you’ve been. Would be neat integrated with my travel section.
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