Apple-Nokia Morph vs Prada...

I love what Apple does. And that includes the latest discovered patent for ipod nano-like device, but exacted as a multi-touch screen device, instead of touch wheel.... i love the whole idea of finger being new mouse, screen being new keyboard, and device itself being... a new screen. just a step away from Nokia ideas from couple of years back, with having entire device (Nokia Morph, was it?) a one, big, flexible screen..,

It's actually quite interesting, then again nothing knew, that one giant came up with an idea, but another one got to actually execute it...

Very soon we won't be limited to choice of one (HP), five (from Dell) or even like a thousand (from Apple) of colors for our everyday use device. We will be able to change color, pattern, design as often, as we wish. And I am not talking of plastic, tacky clip-ons... I'm talking about complete transformation of our glossy-like, touch sensitive, flexible and totally adjustable computer... We make it go with anything we wear... Isn't that where it's all going anyway? more and more gorgeous gadgets (hint: Apple ;) which we could show off. Time to take them out of our pockets, and wear them... on us. on our clothing...

After all, didn't white iPod headphones, became the very first recognizable, actually usable, fashion statement? (with a bit of clever marketing behind of course...)

What's going to be next?

new all-screen iPod nano? Apple Tablet ? Maybe. HP Pavilon XYZ5000+ ? Dell (for people-renting-a-) Studio (-apartment...) 21(for inches)21(for price)? Doubly...

Windows 7 build 7600 goes RTM!

Finally, Windows 7 has been signed out as RTM, according to official Windows Team blog.

It's hard to say that it comes as surprise, that latest build 7600 becomes RTM (after they increased build number from 72xx), but at least now we know for sure.

Funnily enough, just few hours ago I installed build 7600 via Boot Camp on my MacBook. Didn't really get a chance to play around with this yet, but now I know I definitely should :)

Apple Mac OS! Brace yourself! :)

Disappointing Google announcement...

This is this huge, amazing, Google Earth announcement? THIS??? Moon?? Really?

I feel disappointed. Even more. Betrayed. They promise big announcement. Turns out to be version 5... the only real changes are bit improvements to ocean view and... Moon map. Very useful. Would be nice if they at least show live traffic conditions or whether cast for Moon, but no...

To be honest, after their announcement of web OS, based on Chrome, after mentioned improvements coming to Google Apps I was expecting big announcement to be migration of version 5 of Google Earth entirely to web. Especially with Google Earth plugin available for quite a while now. At least. I think that would be semi-big. Not adding Moon for crying out loud...

There is another update that have seen day light today, and it's Service Pack 2 for Office 2008 (for Mac). Now that's impressive. Huge performance improvements. Now, I know, I am being very pro-Microsoft recently. Weird, but they really seem to be doing good job recently, at least in software department...

Google, you can do much better than that... or can u?

Snow Leopard less and less fancy...

I found it very intriguing, that while Windows 7 with it's release scheduled for late October just hit RTM (or did it? :> ) at the same time, when Apple is still straggling with yet another Snow Leopard builds, after promise that it's going to be completed a month before Microsoft...

And to be very honest, I am still not sure weather Snow Leopard will be able to compete with Windows 7... I never realized, that majority of most useful "new" features, like Mail support for Exchange, CalDAV etc. are already available in MacOS 10.5... I also noticed, that in the latest build of Snow Leopard, 10A411, QuickTime playing HD movie is using much more (about 40% (!!!), up from about 6%) CPU... boooooo!

I decided to switch back to 10.5.8 for now. The day Snow Leopard appears in store, I'll be first one there. But I won't hesitate to visit shop next door a month later, when Windows 7 hits the shelves either.... And to be very honest, watching the way both OS's are going at the moment, more and more often I am considering choice of PC for my next laptop... (no, not $400 model :) time will tell!

Somewhere, deep deep in my heart, but far away from my head, there's hope that Apple will pull out a big surprise from their sleeve (or should I say Steve? ;) which will be sooo big, that we all forget about new Windows :D

In the meantime I visited local PC World store (there's no dedicated Apple stores in Ireland :( ) and here's what I found. Must be the only MacBook Pro 13" with GeForce 9600 in the world :) and that's for just €0.99 more than the 9400 model from Apple themselves :)