I think I need a new jacket… and it looks like this one would do nicely.
I saw the original Burton iPod jacket…and didn’t think it was really worth the money..this one looks like it might actually be worth the asking price..since it does include the bluetooth stuff for your phone, making it work with 2 things that I always have with me…dunno if I’d pay the full $500.00 for it…but.. maybe when it goes on clearance sale…
Even the Linux guys… or more specifically… THE Linux guy… Linus himself has switched… sort of… according to this article, he’s running on a dual 2.0 Ghz G5 system…
Of course..in the article he claims he only runs Linux on it…but I think he’s running OSX…and just doesn’t want to tell the Linux world he’s abandoning it for a lickable GUI…
Apple announced yesterday (press release here), that iTMS downloads have passed the 300 million mark. Which means the iTMS is selling songs faster then analysts were predicting for this year. Apparently, there doesn’t seem to have been the predicted post-holiday slowdown. Which makes sense, since so many people bought iPods for the holidays..they need to fill ’em up now!
Apple CEO Steve Jobs has has finished at the top of the Forbes CEO Approval Tracker for the 20th straight month with an approval rating of 95 percent for February. Behind Jobs were: IBM’s Samuel Palmisano (58%), Dell’s Kevin Rollins (41%) Sun’s Scott G McNealy (39%), and Hewlett-Packard’s Robert P. Wayman (17%).
(story originally posted on MacMinute)
so, the odds of winning a free song in the Pepsi/iTunes promotion are listed at one in three. Since its started, I’ve bought probably about 9 or 10 yellow top bottles (no 7-11 in my area has the fountain cups yet)….
and won… one song…
so…. to win one $.99 song…I’ve spent about $12.00 or so…. I think I’d be better off just buying an album from the iTMS…
Ever had the desire to make your own iPod tv commercial? well, now you can.. and you don’t even need to go out and hire any dancers.. just get yourself one of these, and then grab your video camera and go nuts…
Just think…you can make your iPod dancer pull its own head of and dance around while singing to it…just like Jack Skellington!
Micro$oft has been pushing their pathetic little ‘plays for sure’ campaign (to try and convince people to buy a WMA compatible MP3 player), with little to no success.. turns out… they can’t even convince their own employees to go out and buy WMA compatible devices…. according to Wired, an estimated 80% of Micro$oft’s employees are sporting iPods around the corporate campus…gotta love it when even M$ employees won’t support M$’s stuff
This morning Apple revised their powerbook line…see the release here. The biggest things to note, are the inclusion of Bluetooth 2.0, making Apple the first laptop manufacturer to include the new standard as standard equipment, and the cool new ‘if you drop it we’ll try and save the hard drive’ feature, which uses some kind of super high tech gizmo thingie to determine if your powerbook is going to fast, and if so, it stops the HD from spinning, which should help minimize HD damage when your fast moving powerbook comes to a sudden halt.
Now…all thats left (if you don’t count the eMac) is for Apple to update the PowerMacs….
Oh.. and what’s with the non-tuesday release? up until today, almost all of the hardware announcements I can remember, were released on Tuesdays…
Apple announced today that the iTunes Music Store has sold 250 MILLION songs..thats a quarter of a billion.. so much for all the smack talk from companies like napster and buymusic.com about how no one will want to buy from Apple.
So, Apple is selling over a million songs a day…and Naptser is taking what 6 months for that many? (I’m guessing… notice how none of the Windows Media Player based stores actually release regular updates on their sales, perhaps they’re trying to avoid the embarrassment of taking months to sell what Apple sells in a few hours?)
Since Pepsi screwed up their last free song promotion with the iTunes Music Store (you remember, huge parts of the country didn’t get any bottles printed with the promotional caps until the week the promotion was scheduled to end. Parts of the country didn’t get their bottles until AFTER the promotion had ended….resulting in a whopping 5% redemption rate)
This time around (the promotion is apparently going to be announced at SuperBowl again), Pepsi has doubled the number of winnable songs…added Mountain Dew to the list of drinks that will have the codes attached (hopefully,they remember that mountain dew is clear…and come up with a better way to prevent people just looking through the bottle to see if the bottle was a winner, before buying it). And… one iPod mini is going to be given away each hour once the promo starts.
So.. prepare to force your kidneys into early retirement… and feel free to send any unwanted song codes my way =)