If you’d like to see the ad without waiting for the Superbowl, head over to: http://pepsilaw.cjb.net/
It is great! Sticks it right to the RIAA! (of course the RIAA is probably getting a cut from every iTunes sale, but it is the PR of the thing)
Ok so it’s not beethoven, but I don’t know how to play any instruments hehe.
However, I, me, myself, me the geek, created this little tune in Garage Band using the m audio 49 key keyboard. Ok, so it has no rhythm, so it has no theme, but I made it, and that is what Apple is all about 
To all of the folks at JPL and NASA, Congratulations!
It was a little more than 20 years ago that I got my first Macintosh, a graduation present from my grandfather. I’m still here, many, many Macs later, and still my favorite computer.
Happy Birthday, Macintosh!
Here is a QuickTime Movie of the snow and ice around my home. You’ll need QuickTime 6 to watch it.
Well the freezing rain turned my four inches of snow into one solid sheet of ice! Holy smokes! I’m not going anywhere today!
- 4GB, 1000 songs, 0.5 inches, $249 blue, gold, pink, green, white
- Introducing second member of iPod family – iPod mini
- “We want to go after high end flash market”
- New ipod ad
- New in your head headphones for $39
- 10gb iPod is now 15gb for same $299 price.
- 730,000 iPods sold last quarter. All MP3 players – Oct-Nov 31% market share.
- Frodo digs Macs!
- $99 USB keyboard
- Jampack $99 100s more instruments and 2000 more loops
- iLife 2004 – $49. Free with every new Mac. In stores Jan 16th.
- GarageBand – MIDI play via the Mac. Now I want a midi keyboard! GarageBand rocks.
- GarageBand – New pro music tool for everyone. Turns mac into musical instrument and recording studio. Digitally mix 64 tracks – 1000 loops, vintage ams (plug electric guitar into mac and use digital amp) Software instruments. Pre-recorded loops. Live recording. John Mayer to demo.
- iMovie 4 – Sharing auto compresses for the web, copies to .mac and makes an album page for you.
- iMovie 4 – Trim clips in timeline – Alignment guides – new and enhanced titles – import from iSight – sharing movies. NICE clip image title. NICE clip video titles. Star Wars title.
- iPhoto 4 – Rendevouz photo sharing – Like iTunes, photos share via albums.
- iPhoto 4 – Slideshows can use iTunes playlists, new transitions
- iPhoto 4 – You can edit while watching a slideshow! Rotate, delete, rate
- iPhoto 4 – Supports up to 25,000 photos with zero wait. Time based organization, smart albums! Fast preview and rating, enhanced slide shows, rendevouz photo sharing
- iTunes – current version
- iLife ’04 – “Like MS Office for the rest of your life”
- Starting Feb 1, Apple and Pepsi will give away 100,000 tunes. The cap will have a code for a free song. Pepsi is running a superbowl add. Runs for 60 days.
- ITMS – Adding 12,000 Classical tracks. Tops to 500,000 total songs available.
ITMS – Adding Billboard charts - iTunes – 30 million songs sold. ITMS has 70% market share. Top spender on ITMS has spent $29,500.
- xserve raid – 3u, 3.5 terrabytes storage, RAID set slices, on the fly raid expansion – no repartitioning. Qualified fibre channel switches and virtualization “thing-a-mob-bobs” Certified on XP Pro and Linux now as well as OS X
- G5 xserve – two air vents, single and dual g5s. ECC/DDR RAM/8GB. 3 independent SATA channels – shipping in Feb. includes compute node model
- G5 – Virginia Tech – we had to piss off other customers to deliver machines – third ranked super computer for $5m.
- Office 2004 – Word Notebook view rips off Circus Ponies Notebook to take notes in word format. Excel page layout view lets you live edit what the printed version would be. Project Center integrated through all Office apps. Lets you make projects of files, contacts, events. yawn
- Final Cut Express 2 – Based on FC 4 – realtime effects – optimized for G5. $299/$99 upgrade-available today
- 20th Anniversary poster from the commercial
- “A great Mac Year”
- Plays 1984 to celebrate 20th anniversary
- 60,000 viewers from 100 countries
- Jobs on Stage
3:33pm – 3.5 inches
I picked up this really cool Haunted Mansion Mirror at Disneyland. It is light sensitive and shows the hitch hiking ghosts when activated.
If you have QuickTime 6, you can see it in action!
I got home this afternoon from LA, had a really nice date and am now home in my 43 degree house. It is so cold, I sat in my chair and my vinyl floor mat cracked. No fat jokes. Oh yeah, comments are off due to spam hehe.
Anyway, had a really nice day, didn’t need the chains, but felt safer knowing I had them.
