Tom Morris



2006.09.13

  No. 329 

James has found the new keyboard view for Grazr - it works in both outline and slider views for 1.0 RC1. Grazr is the not-so-secret sauce that makes all the magic happen. 2006-09-13T11:16:25ZUntitled entry permalink

I bet you didn't know this. I bet you didn't know, but LonelyGirl15 is actually Madge Weinstein. 2006-09-13T10:52:22ZUntitled entry permalink

Mandatory snark: Google are celebrating "freedom to read". I wonder whether the Chinese Google users are going to be able to read banned books. 2006-09-13T10:48:12ZUntitled entry permalink

iPod/iTunes Redux 2006-09-13T09:01:58ZPermalink

Wow. So I bought on the day of an Apple upgrade and I didn't get fucked (instead, I enjoyed the enormous discount that buying in greens gives you - and $50 off). Beyond cranking the top level hard drive up by 20 gigs, about the most interesting thing that's happened to the iStack on this side of the Atlantic (I'm back in Britain now) is that we can buy games in the music store.

They sell a games pack - £35.91 for nine games - Vortex, Tetris, Pac-Man, Cubis 2, Zuma, Texas Hold 'em, Mahjong, Mini Golf and Bejeweled. Each game is £3.99 - which means you can buy just the ones you like. They have video previews for the games too.

That, and we've got some new nano plastic porn to ogle in the Apple Store.

Oh, and the new iTunes has a download manager which doesn't suck too much. There were huge usability problems with the old iTunes.

One of those usability problems was that if you had the podcast information window open, all right click operations wouldn't work (meaning you had to close the window in order to hit sync on the iPod etc.) - that's been fixed.

Basically, beyond the fluff of movies (I mean, come on, be serious - the iPod video is great, but not for movies), they seem to have fixed all of my major problems with iTunes and given it a UI overhaul. I'm not sure whether I like the new UI (it's very Web 2.0 what with mirrored graphics and so on), but it's a good change. It's certainly mostly usable.

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