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
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.
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
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.
