I’m posting the Wal-Mart Black Friday ad. CNN has started posting some of the deals from the ad, and despite Wal-Mart previously threatening some web sites… they appear to have changed their tune after receiving a lot of complaints about the anti-first-amendment policy. Note: I’m far from a Wal-Mart basher, actually, I’m a shareholder… they […]
With all the Black Friday deals now seven days (plus a few hours) and counting… I’ve had another letdown… not one retailer is pushing an EDTV. Now, you might think I’m crazy for wanting an EDTV when HDTVs are so cheap, but there are a few reasons. For those that don’t know, EDTV represents TVs […]
If you were thinking about buying a Zune 30 (now that it has second-generation firmware), Microsoft has put in very tiny print that you won’t be able to use component video-out with it. Only the Zune 80 can use component video… despite both using the same second-generation dock.Here’s the straight talk from Microsoft: “If you […]
Safari for Windows has been updated to 3.0.4 (still in beta on PC side, but Mac is finally final on 10.4.11… 10.5 of course also being final). You can download it from Safari’s web site or by running Apple Software Update. In all the fury of Apple’s updates today (there were plenty to go around), […]
In addition to security updates, and Zune 2.0, Microsoft’s latest Patch Tuesday dropped an unexpected gift: An updated Xbox 360 controler driver for Windows. The driver is dated 11/12, but the info on the driver still points back to the older August update… in other words, we don’t know what Microsoft changed. But, you can […]
iPod touch software update 1.1.2 adds one disabled feature that is present on iPhone, but not on iPod touch. You can now add calendar events on the device, and iTunes will sync that back to iCal/Outlook on your Mac/PC. iPod touch could always do this, in fact, once jailbroken, it was found to be a […]
About this time, over in Cupertino, the team that handles the keynote gets together… actually it starts anywhere from 90 to 60 days from the day of the big show. Now, lots of people will tell you what is coming to Macworld Expo the week/day/hour before the big show… I’m going to lay out the […]
As many have pointed out, Java 6 SE is missing from Mac OS X Leopard. Apple had committed to Java 6 SE, and even seeded a preview for Tiger, to give developers a head start. Now, Leopard is out, Java 6 SE is missing, and there is silence from Cupertino. I am not suggesting that […]
A lot of people are complaining about features in Mac OS X Leopard being buggy. And, they do have a point… some features are buggy. However, I think people are missing an important point: The vast majority of issues are surrounding features that were not in Mac OS X Tiger. For example, there are significant […]
Great news for fans of Goldeneye, the amazing independent port of it to Valve’s Source engine is alive and well, after a hiatus since its beta release. For those that haven’t yet played it, Goldeneye: Source aims to re-create and enhance the genre-defining Nintendo 64 game, Goldeney, created by Rare back in 1997. The beta […]