I’ll be opening my big mouth in public instead of on the Internet on Thursday, February 12, at the Mac User Group in Boulder, Colorado. That’s CoMUG for those in the know. I’m going to be showing off what’s new and cool in iPhoto and iMovie ’09, and I promise to do my best to be a little more compelling than Phil Schiller was when he demoed iLife ’09 during Macworld Expo in January.
You really can find anything you want to see, and even more that you wish you never had, at YouTube. There are some amazingly cool videos available, and some that make you want to push a wire brush through your ear and scrub the memories out of your head. Really. Actually, there are a few videos I wish I could scrub away right now.
Aside from the brain-scrubbing videos, YouTube rocks. It’s packed tight with entertainment, training, video blogs, promotional videos and more. You can’t ask for a better deal as a viewer: YouTube rocks.
Friends have been hounding me for years — actually, two seasons, but who’s counting — to watch The Big Bang Theory. Everyone kept telling me how amazingly funny the show is, how I’d be able to see my world played out in the characters, and how the geek and nerd factor would be right up my alley. Yes, they were all right, but it still took no end of cajoling on the part of my friend Lesa Snider King and the gifting of season one from the iTunes Store before I started watching.
It’s true: The Big Bang Theory totally rocks and I should have started watching it sooner. But that’s not the point. The point is that those guys at Apple are frakking smart and anyone that’s worried the little Cupertino-company-that-could will lose relevance now that Steve Jobs is on a medical leave of absence needs to take a big step back and look at the bigger picture. Continue reading
I’ve been mulling over this whole controversy over the Target ad showing a girl on a bullseye for several weeks, and I’m just not seeing the sexual exploitation thing other people are picking up on. Maybe she’s making a snow angel, like many people have suggested, or maybe she’s jumping in the air. But assuming the position for a big old sexing up? I’m just not seeing it.
I totally get and appreciate the importance of protecting people — and not just women or girls — from exploitation. No one deserves to be taken advantage of, and it’s up to all of us to protect those that can’t protect themselves. That’s all just part of being a community.
When Quark announced its Quark Dynamic Publishing Solution this week, the big news was that the company is moving deeper into the enterprise market, right? Wrong. Quark has been on this path for some time, and the whole Quark DPS thing is just another logical extension of that business plan. The real news for me was several paragraphs deep in Quark’s press release where they make a very clear statement about the future of QuarkXPress, the company’s flagship desktop publishing application.
Here’s what Quark CEO Ray Schiavone had to say:
