Recently I found a great web application for the iPhone and iPod touch, it is called Floort. Floort is a application designed so that people can share their opinions with everyone else that goes on the site. When people go to see your “Floort” they can either say they agree, disagree, or that they are not sure. I have been using Floort for a coulpe of weeks now and I have really enjoyed it.
But even if you don’t have a iPhone you can still join in on the fun. Just go to Floort.com, sign up, and start telling the world how you feel about the topics that you love. Floort has also been on Apple’s list of staff picks a couple of time.
I would highly suggest this application! I have had a lot of fun with it in the past few weeks.
I’ll be honest, not a huge fan of Firefox, maybe it is the fanboys that try to shove it on everyone they meet, but I’m not a big fan, never have been. I respect what the fine people at Mozilla are doing and I applaud them for offering it for free, I enjoy splinter Mozilla/Firefox projects like Camino and I’m quite impressed with Flock.
That being said I decided that I’d check out the 3.0 version today and see if I could put their tagline “Can a browser really make the Web better?” to the test. And I’ve got to say, while I still don’t like the Firefox fanboys, I enjoy 3.0. I like the new interface, it seems much speedier than the previous versions and I hope that all of that new goodness trickles down the Flock sooner than later.
Will I make the switch over to Firefox full time? If I was still a PC user I most definitely would, I’d switch between that and Flock. On the Mac though I’m a big fan of Safari, sure it isn’t as customizable as Firefox but it is fast and I really enjoy using it, I use it 85% of the time, Flock around 10-15% and I’ll occasionally play around with Firefox. I’ve got it set up as my daughters default browser because it is so customizable and they use Linux at school and it is what she is familiar with.
While I might not have appreciated it fully in the past, my hat goes off to the people at Mozilla for putting out a great product like Firefox 3.0, great update and I’m sure more and more people will download and enjoy it, I’ll continue using my setup when I use the Mac but I’ll definitely use Firefox as my default when I run Windows or use my wife’s laptop. If you haven’t updates or haven’t tried Firefox yet, what are you waiting for?
Well the WWDC keynote by Steve Jobs was Monday and Apple really shocked quite a few fans, to say that release wise it was a bit of a downer for almost every excited little MacHead would be a pretty big understatement.
First, the much anticipated iPhone 2.0 firmware was announced and much to everyones surprise was not released that day, instead we will have to wait until the vague day of “early July”, some speculate it could be more late June but official word from the man was early July. Free for iPhone owners, $9.99 for Touch owners who want it.
Second, the new iPhone or iPhone 2, or iPhone 3G that like the firmware everyone thought would also be released that day was announced and will release July 11th. It was announced with a slightly new design, a different back material, 3G as expected, and assisted GPS (or aGPS), no front mounted camera, no lasers, no 32GB size, but at a lower price, $199/$299 (8GB/16GB), but that was met with the rise in data plan, old plan $20 unlimited data and 200 text messages, new plan $30 unlimited data and no included text messages (as of yet). The data increase wasn’t to be unexpected, but the omission of text messages was and the fact that if you live in a non-3G area (like a good part of the country) you still pay the 3G price. The $199/$299 price was ushered in by the “subsidization” of the phone and the fact that you won’t walk in and walk out and activate at home like the original (what I like to call iPhone Classic) but you will instead activate it at point of purchase with a 2 year contract. This little nugget was not widely accepted by the hacking community.
The gem of the entire WWDC keynote for me was not the 3G phone, I already knew that 2.0 was coming bringing 3rd party apps, granted I didn’t expect it to be delayed, but was the announcement of MobileMe. I used to have a .mac account, it was nice having that space and the connective service but it really wasn’t $99 worth of nice since you could get nearly everything that .mac offered for free minus the native interaction…but MobileMe kicks that up a notch and just became something that I could see actually paying $99 a year on. The fact that I can update something one place and have it auto update another place is phenomenal, if I go weeks without syncing my phone it isn’t going to be a problem when I don’t have a number or appointment that is sitting in iCal or Address Book…WOW!
And of course the little Mac that could the mini was once again neglected (not really unexpected).
For me personally, I’ll keep iPhone Classic and welcome the 2.0 applications and keep the old $20 data plan, but it will cost me a cool $99 for MobileMe. More to come on MobileMe when it releases in, yep you guessed it, early July.
Every MacHead in the world is waiting, in just a a few more days the man (you know who I’m talking about) will address the masses, what will be new? What will be updated? Will the Mac mini finally get a little iLove from Apple?
The only thing that we know for sure is that 3rd party applications will be coming and that the 2.0 firmware will be released. That’s it, well that and the fact that no matter what they release there will be a subset of MacFanBoys that will complain that the new 3G iPhone with GPS and full frontal video camera still won’t do MMS.
To be honest, I’m excited, but I’m not excited about rushing out and buying a new phone (not saying that I wont, just saying not planning on it), I’m excited about the 2.0 update and finally being able to expand the uses of my phone with 3rd party apps without fear of bricking it or ticking off my at&t overlords.
I don’t even have any applications that I’m overly looking forward to, I’m excited about the possibilities and the fact that I’ll finally be able to play games on this mini marvel that resides in my pocket.
I’m happy with my little iWorld as it is, like I said, I’m really hoping that the mini isn’t to far off with an update, but I’m not expecting it at WWDC next week.
Many are hoping for 3G, GPS, video chatting, 3rd party apps, 16 & 32GB, subsidized iPhones, newly redesigned MacBooks, word about 10.6.
No matter what Mr. Jobs announces, you will see people that are elated on Mac forums and you’ll see many people complaining that it wasn’t enough…me, I’m just happy to get third party apps anything else will be a bonus.
Have you ever wanted one of your friends to join something but they come back with the response of “Why should I?”. I have had this happen a lot, most of the time I am asking people to join Twitter or Facebook. I always like to ask people to join Twitter and Facebook because it is always much more fun with more people.
So to help show people why you should join these cool services, I have found some really good YouTube videos. The videos are called In Plain English. They have made a great one for Twitter that I am going to show to all of my friends, and hopefully they will join too. They do have a YouTube channel where you can check out all of their videos. Here is one of my personal favorites, Twitter in Plain English.
I just recently bought iCon: Steve Jobs off of Amazon for only a couple of dollars. iCon is a really good book for anyone who wants to know about Steve Jobs and what he did before Apple and Pixar. The book even tells you some very interesting facts about when he was very young and still in school. I have learned many things about Steve through this book and I’m only on the first couple of chapters!
This book also talks about the other people that made Apple possible. Mainly Steve Wozniak, they talk about him and Steve and how they became friends. Another interesting thing that you find out in this book is Steve’s earlier jobs before he even came close to starting Apple. I thought it was very interesting. I really like this book.
I would suggest this book to anyone who is interested in Apple as a company. And if you are interested in Steve Jobs and want to know a lot more about his life and how he came to “power” in Apple. Here is the link to Amazon to buy iCon: Steve Jobs.
I have been thinking about making some YouTube videos. I think that I could make some really good quality videos that could cover all of the things we do on this blog. Things like technology, gaming, gadgets, and computers. This would also give us a chance to make some good hardware reviews.
Thecreativeone has made some great videos and I would love to do what he does. Chris Pirillo is another guy that talks a lot of tech and he also does a lot of videos on YouTube. So, tell me what you think, should we give this a try and make some videos? I think it would be a lot of fun and it would give us some more publicity. Tell us what you think.
Guitar Hero 4 has been announced, and it will be coming out in Fall of this year! By the looks of the trailer, Guitar Hero 4 will be absolutly amazing. Some of the new features will be…
Make your own songs
Share the songs you made
Very realistic drums
Battle other bands
The new Guitar Hero has very realistic drums. They look kind of like the Rock Band drums but these look more like a real drum set. The Guitar Hero drum set will have two symbols, a bass drum, and three other drums.
This should be great for the two games, Rock Band and Guitar Hero because there will be competition. Competition between two companies usually means that the prices will go down. That is what I am hoping for, I would love to buy this new Guitar Hero game. The one thing I really want to know is the price. If the price drops a good amount past Rock Band, I would definitely buy Guitar Hero 4.
The new “make a song” addition to the game will open up so many opportunities and it will change music games like Rock Band and Guitar Hero forever. This will be a great feature and will probably be one of my favorite new features in Guitar Hero.
The next feature that they are adding is battling other bands. This should be great for any kind of party, and it will have add a whole new level of playing on to the game. The next feature, sharing your own songs will also be a great feature because if you make a song and no one can hear it or play it then what is the point right? I am wondering how they will give other people the songs. They could maybe make a virtual store for each “band” or let them give them out for free. I think that the store idea be realy cool but I’m not sure if a lot of people would pay money just to get home made songs.
I can’t wait until Guitar Hero 4 comes out, and when it does I would love to buy it. Here is the trailer, it should be a great game.
Everyone who uses a computer knows that there are two main operating systems, Mac OS X and Windows. The fight between the two has gone on for many years and will continue for a very long time. I have decided to write about the two sides and why they hate each other so much. This post will be based on the Mac side and the next will be the Windows side.
There are many reasons why Mac (or Apple) users hate Windows users or the operating system in general. The first reason which is also probably the biggest is viruses. Everyone knows that Windows will get more viruses than a Mac will. Windows users sometimes say that the only reason this is true is because Windows has more market share. I do believe this is a good point. But I would have to say that Apple is doing a better job with the viruses than Microsoft is.
Another reason why Mac users might hate Windows is Vista. Almost everyone in the computer industry knows that Vista was a Microsoft failure. I have a computer running Windows Vista, and I have to say that Vista is remarkably slower than XP was. Because people have been noticing this there have been a huge amount of people that have downgraded to XP. The Apple, Get a Mac ads have also displayed this Vista problem.
The last reason why I think Mac users hate Windows is Errors. Some of you might have seen the Get a Mac ad when PC has all of the errors on the cart. Well I have used Windows and I have gotten some crazy errors in my Windows days. This is a defiantly a big reason for some people who work in businesses, because they can’t have their computers have a fatal error in the middle of a job. Even normal casual computer users just thing these errors are annoying (I know I do). Even though Windows might have worse errors, Mac OS X has some errors too, so don’t think Mac OS X is the most amazing operating system is the best.
The big new game that just recently came out was Grand Theft Auto 4. The game supposedly sold 3.6 million copies the first day it came out, and 6 million copies in total up to this point. This adds up to $500 Million that Take-Two Interactive has earned. Take-Two Interactive is the publisher of the game and they exceeded their sales expectations for this game.
So far I have heard that it is a really good game. I haven’t played it but my friend bought it just a couple days after it came out. GTA IV came out for the Playstation 3 and the Xbox 360 on April 29th. Take-Two Interactive is probably very happy with this gigantic profit in the first week. I personaly am impressed because every other Grand Theft Auto game hasn’t done this well.
