Tiger Direct are suing Apple over the use of ‘Tiger’.
Tiger Direct claim that Apple’s use of Tiger is “causing confusion, mistake and deception among the general purchasing public.” and ” has changed internet search results, directly impacting its ability to market product to its customers”.
Well instead of whinging maybe they should just sell Tiger.
Methinks Tiger Direct won’t win over Tiger.
Russell Crowe got our hopes up in this article: iTunes music store set to open. Today is Friday and it’s not open. But here’s some other articles stating that it will open in mid june.
iTunes Australia ready to launch?
Still no Australian iTunes Music Store
iTunes Australia – the Crowe let it out of the bag…
While they seem to be agreed of the month it’s opening, the cost per track seems to be up for grabs with 99 cents per track through to $1.80.
There’s a quote from someone that is getting used a lot in these article stating that if it’s $1.80 per track, or too expensive they’ll stick to Big W for $17. Well yeah that makes sense, I’d buy all my cds from Big W too if I could always find what I wanted. Big W is great for top 40 stuff, which 90% of is crap and quite frankly $17 is too expensive for crap.
Unrelated but Appley side note for aussie readers who saw the late night channel 10 news bit on the Nokia phone that will apparantley give the iPod a run for it’s money even though it’s over $1000 and only holds 3,000 songs. WTF? How much did Nokia pay for that advertorial?
I can’t believe it’s a Full size stuffed Tiger – Only $149 with the purchase of a new CPU or Tiger OS X!. So what are they gonna offer for MS’s Longhorn?
Succint article on: The Difficulty with Originality
Li’l Brudder vs. Li’l Brudder
John Gruber’s: Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Adobe’s ‘FAQ’ Regarding Their Acquisition of Macromedia
Howl’s Moving Castle trailers. Same guys who did Spirited Away.
Adobe buying Macromedia:
Macromedia + Adobe
Adobe snaps up Macromedia
Adobe and Macromedia
Adobe Buys Macromedia
Adobe now becomes your one stop graphics giant, no more mix ‘n’ match apps.
Update: Adobe, ‘Rich Internet Applications’ and Standards
Suggested company names: Macrobe, Macrobedia, Adobemedia (boring), Macdobe (comes with fries).
Update: Love Dave Shea’s article title: Macrodobia
Got GarageBand?
Like the Nine Inch Nails?
I haven’t played with it yet, but how cool is that? Far cooler than this and this that’s for sure.
I found this while trying to find some reference photos of a doctor’s medical bag.
Marvel® image licensing available through Corbis. That’s kinda weird/cool and I’m not sure why or which one it is yet. But hey, one of the 2 companies saw an opportunity and are taking it.
More on this when I have far less work to do and feel as though I can construct coherent sentences later.
Ok you mac freaks, Tiger is coming!
Grrrr!
I’m working on some print styles for a site, which invovles hiding or showing a version of the header for print or screen. Not a problem, I says. I’ll just use the handy media=print and show the correct header. Gecko family, IE and Opera all pass with flying colours. Okay, now it’s your turn Safari. No header.
Huh?
After trying everything I could possibly think of, I turn to Google and find this: Re: CSS (display: none;)
Noooo!
Further googling came up with this: Print media oddity.
It basically involves positioning what you don’t want to show on screen waaaaaayyyy off screen until you print. It’s not how I’d like to get around it, but I don’t have time right now to find a better remedy.
You have been warned.
Work has decided that yes, we need another designer, but no, we can’t afford one. Solution: hire a graduate. But do we want to PAY to put an ad in at seek? No. Solution: go to closest uni. People applied, I set some a task, some did the task. I tell work which 2 I’d like to interview approx. 2 weeks ago. Work are trying to figure out if we can hire a junior designer. GRRRRR!!!!
TAFE term ends this week, so it’s back to 5 day working weeks again for the next 2 weeks. Shit hey.
Oh well, it’s friday and I haven’t blogged in quite some time due to large workloads (see above bitching) resulting in less time. But here are some quick amusing links:
This is me with a South Park twist. There really isn’t any difference between this and me in the real world.
Working on weekends = not cool.
Getting paid extra to work on weekends = not highly cool. See previous point.
What if… = very cool.
Hacking your CSS to accommodate Internet Explorer = not cool at fucking all!
Getting Unstuck = cool.
Brain dead-ness = not very cool. But it helps drown out hysterical, whingy, control freak co-workers.
Forgetting to buy decent green tea leaves for work = not cool.
www.zefrank.com = coollishly funny.
sleep = cool indeed.
iPod Stuffs:
New iPod mini and iPod Photo range. Checkout that battery life! Nice. I’m glad the colours in the mini are more vibrant, however … (see colour point in next paragraph).
This wallet for iPods is one of those things I would buy if it came in any decent colours, like, black, purple, turquoise/cereluan blue or rasberry red.
Tim Burton Fonts. I think you’ll find the first font very Smashing Pumpkins-esque also.
The Matt Groening Apple Guide. I don’t know about y’all, but I love Life in Hell (the comic strip by Groening). I think it was Juice magazine in Australia that I was buying as a 14 – 17ish teen, not only to read about your rock stars, but to read the Life in Hell comic strip. Being 14 -17ish I also found it necessary to cut out and stick appropriate ones on my folder. Seeing Matt and Apple join forces certainly makes you feel fuzzy inside.
TAFE:
I’m doing a statement of attainment or something like that at TAFE in fine arts. It’s one day a week and all I do is draw. There are of course (pardon the pun) pros ‘n’ cons.
PRO: less time at work
CON: 20% less pay
PRO: I’m not doing any coding, boring client work or duking it out with bad co-workers
CON: 30% more work
PRO: I’m drawing all day
CON: I lug arround heavy shit to the top of un-airconditioned rooms
PRO: I’m eligible for student discounts on yoga classes
CON: I’m not eligible for student discounts on travel
Just a quick link, I’m working half days as I am doing some life drawing classes in the mornings this week. I waltz into work at 2pm and there’s a tonne of work sitting in my email. Sigh!
I like Adam Polselli’s 2005 Color Forecast. I love the purple palette, we can only hope that designers choose purple this year.
Yep, that time of year again, time for a Mac conference. Steve Jobs unveiled the iPod shuffle, the Mac mini and iWork.
Lucie’s quick takes on these:
iPod shuffle is the size of a pack o’ gum, has no screen but can run on 2 AAA batteries when the internal one is drained, and has a flash based memory unlike the iPod. Love the battery thing, would be nice to see that incorporated to the rest of the iPod family. With the $150 price tag surely this baby will catch the eye of even the most cynical anti-iPodders.
What do you do with excess igloo shaped iMacs? Crush it into a small rectangle, trim off the monitor and keyboard, finish it off with that famous Apple styin’, and voila! Mac mini. This ‘puter is BYO mouse, keyboard and monitor/tv. It’s also the cheapest Mac ever! So if you’re a Windows iPodder, you might want to take a longer walk on the Apple side.
iWork is Keynote (slideshow program), and Pages (word processor). It’s cheap and Pages imports and exports Word docs. This is very good and means that you don’t need to fork out a lot of cash to create and view Word docs. Yay!
Side note: I like the new graphics on the iWork and iLife boxes.
I came across this article about bikram yoga: Health fears over cult-like
hot yoga.
I’ve actually started taking these classes so I was interested to see what these concerns are. I really haven’t seen any specifics in this article except for it’s apparent cult-likeness
. I think calling a style of yoga cult-like because it claims to detox your body is a tad far fetched even if it doesn’t detox.
There’s a blurb about how exercising in that heat is bad, but they don’t say what these bad things are. Dehydration is of course the most obvious, but you are suppose to have had quite a bit of water before you go, and are to take a bottle of water in with you to the class so that this doesn’t happen.
Then they say that asthmatics, people with heart conditions etc, shouldn’t be exercising in a 37°C heated room. DERRR!
And no, I can’t say that I look to yoga for intense aerobic or cardiovascular exercise. I don’t want that, that’s one of the reasons I’m doing yoga.
Well no one said it was for everybody. I’ve gotta say so far I’ve had more stamina from it, (I can run for trains a lot longer now), it’s good to loosen up the muscles after cramping oneself into very bad work chair, and of course the sense calm that comes from being told to only think of your breathing for 90 minutes.
Merry New Year to you!
Semi-Permanent 05 is boasting Ashley Wood as one of it’s speakers.
iStories you can download to your pod to read on train or what have you. I have only taken a quick scroll, but there is certainly some weird stuff there. You use ’em with this app. I dare say Pod2Go looks slightly more informative.
Tetris on your iPod not sure whether I’m gonna attempt to install Linux on the pod. I have limited geek-literacy. But I love tetris. Now I’m torn!
I like Illustration Friday. It’s a simple and nifty little idea to help you get scribbling.
Yep you can buy a set of 6 socks for your iPod for 48 of your bucks. I suppose this seems like more value in comparison to iPod skins which are generally this amount and upwards. Oh and they’re colourful, the same colours that the iPod mini comes in, which kinda sucks if you bought a mini. I mean wouldn’t you want to deck your pod out in some other colour? Like purple or something? Although I suspect that’s what the colour on the end is suppose to be.
Link to one of those more expensive but cool iPod skins I was referring to: MacSkinz – Artist Series. They’d be even cooler if there was more variety in subject matter. Frank Kozik’s bunnies are cool though.
But if you did spend 48 bucks on 6 six socks you might not need to buy the iCleaner iPod Scratch Remover – Pro Kit.
Very unrelated aside: this is highly amusing.
Blogging time has been non existent to scant of late, but here are some interesting links:
Web Design in 2005 is worth a look indeed. I’m not however looking forward to a wash of brown.
Donald Trump, Art Director: Not The Real Thing is a good read.
The 6 Myths Of Creativity. No one ever suspects the accountant!
And happy belated birthday to the Xplane Xblog.
The lesson clients need to learn
I so need this as an A1 poster for me at work. It should also come with a pointing implement so I can tap the sign whenever I’m asked to to deliver all 3.
These could so be used in fortune cookies for designers.
Me ‘n my iPod had a bit of a crisis on Tuesday. Luckily a bit of help from Mat from the The Little App Factory and their glorious app iPodRip 3.7 came to my rescue.
Software update on my mac comes up informing me of a firmware update for June 04 G5’s and an iPod update. I studiously downloaded and installed these and everything seemed hunky dory. I reconnected my beloved iPod and iTunes starts up, only this time I get an unfortunate dialogue box saying something to the effect of the pod is corrupt, reformat it. Huh? I go, the Finder recognises it just fine. I restart hoping it was a lost gremlin in the works. Nope, reformat your pod and lose all your music. NOOOOO!!
You see I haven’t made recent backup of all my music on my pod, and I don’t want to loose about 10GB of music. BING! I had a light bulb moment. I have iPodRip, I can get all the music from pod using that and back up to my hard drive. I launch iPodRip. AARGGHHH!! It unexpectedley quit everytime I launch it.
Hmmm… no, not good. I look at the Apple discussion forums to see if this behaviour has coincided with my updates but couldn’t find anything. I checkout The Little App Factory site. Nope nothing there, well I’ll fill out the support form, you never know. I figure, they’re a small company probably based in the US so I won’t hear anything till tommorrowish. I can wait. 5 mins later I gets email.
How’s that for response time!
After some concise ‘n helpful goings back ‘n forth, Mat sends me a different version of iPodRip that will enable me to back up my music to my hard drive.
Fan-fucking-tastic! Pod has been reformatted and all musiced up.
Any how, iPodRip is essential for pod owners and has been included in Allume System’s The Big Mix also.
It has been a while since I have blogged due to work loads. So here’s a quickie.
It’s black with a red click wheel and it’s gorgeous and I want one.
It’s in colour, you can browse your photos. It even comes with an AV cable to connect it to a tv and bore every one to death with a happy snap slide show, just like Patty and Selma. And I want one of these too.
This is a nice Little App for pod owners. Link thieved from The Slippery Truffle. More specifically, this entry, with some entertaining and informative pod stuff.
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