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Apple Events. It’s like having more than one Christmas each year. And according to my clock, it’s about time Apple comes out with new iPods.
Oh! What do we have here? Yes, it’s the yearly (pretty much, now) September event. I’m eagerly waiting for new iPod touches. I can only hope these will pack the same “S is for Speed” power Apple gave the iPhone 3GSes. A camera is pretty much a given at this point, as well. Anyway, I’m going to be close to an Apple store on Wednesday so if they become available on the 9th, I might be able to make a few videos about the new touches. Or just play with the new touches and let other people record stuff.
I though Apple would have to make a new series of ads after Microsoft’s “I’m a PC” ads. They were useless in making Vista seem better but they showed that Apple’s ads were missing some “real” humans.
And then this happened. I will never again doubt Apple’s ad agency. To all those working on “Get a Mac” ad, I salute you. You are all amazing.
Screw Obama vs McCain. The computer industry is where you’ll find the best attack ads.
I’m really hating iTunes right now. Not only because of Apple but because of other parties involved.
-Let’s start off with Apple. Wouldn’t you know that Canada has laws that forbid Apple to sell Apps with anything but a credit card. Apparently the same rule applies for the 2.0 upgrade… despite the fact I was able to give them $20 using a iTunes Card in January for that upgrade. I’m just glad I knew this before buying a $50 card…
Yeah, I actually didn’t know. Fun.
-Now for Nickelodeon and/or YTV. I’ll admit it. I love Avatar : The Last Airbender. I bought Seasons 1 and 2 on DVD… before they came on iTunes for about half the price. But that’s not why I’m annoyed. The series just ended on Nick in the States but the final episodes are rolling into Canada right now through YTV. Unfortunately, none of the latest episodes are available at iTunes Canada. Not even the ones that already aired. And I missed them. Fun.
-The Doctor has arrived in iTunes. You can download series 1 to 3 of the new Doctor Who. Well, you could if you lived in the States. Despite the fact that they fund the damn thing, neither CBC or BBC offer Who in Canada or the UK. So much for our tax dollars at work…
*sigh* And what do we get? American Gladiators. It seems that it’ll be joined soon by other MGM shows on iTunes Canada, with entries for Dead Like Me (which rocked) and In The Heat of The Night appreaing, although no shows are available as of yet. Well, at least we got something, right?
Hey Canada! Fed up about the included data in the iPhone 3G plans? Think the minutes are a joke? Prefer not paying extra for Caller ID? Here’s where to complain :
Apple’s iPhone feedback page and contact page
Be nice but state your distaste clearly. You can also sign the petition at ruinediphone.com.
Canadian Apple fans aren’t taking the Rogers iPhone plans standing down. Petitions have been started. Sites (with very eloquent names) have been launched. Contact info has been passed around. Is it working? Well…
I’m not a cellphone person. I rarely use the one I have, but there was one cell that got me interested in wireless phones : the iPhone. Well, so much for that!
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It’s that time of year again. The time where you start counting the days not as weekdays, but as days before or after the Keynote. Yes, it’s WWDC time and this year should be fun. With 3G iPhones, the App Store, iPhone launches across the globe (Canada included), a new .Mac service, movies coming to iTunes on both sides of the Atlantic and whatever else Steve might have hidden in a pocket, an envelope or on a Mac, I can’t wait to see what’s going to happen.
I’m sad. Apparently, my Exposé-induced crashes might be caused by the 3rd party RAM I added a while back. I had 2GB of RAM but now I’m back down to 1. Sure my Mac seems to work but Guitar Hero requires a minimum of 2 GB of RAM. And it was laggy with that!
Even back when I was using Tiger, my MacBook Pro was plagued with these odd crashes : My screen would freeze when I used Exposé but my mouse would still work and iTunes, for example, would keep playing. Other times, everything would stop and I’d get the spinning beach ball. They seemed to have stopped when I installed Leopard. Unfortuantely, they started to occur again and following a day when it happened three times, I called AppleCare. They recommended that I clear up my drive (my Mac HD had only 5 GB left) and if that doesn’t help, do an Archive & Install of Leopard. I freed up about 10 GBs but the crashes kept happening. I did the A&I about 2 weeks ago and it’s been all good… until now. I got the Exposé freeze three times this week. This last time (and the time before), I got it when working on one of those documents. You know, the kind you swear to all things holy that if you loose you would take it out on something / one. Fortunately, the worst I lost was a single sentence and I have various versions of said document in my Time Machine back up, on a separate drive and online. I’m going to call AppleCare when they open and see what I or they can do now.
Apparently, the format war is now over. Toshiba will no longer support HD DVD. Now that that’s done with, will Apple add support for Blu-Ray to Macs? They’ve been backing that format for a while but have yet to show it.
