Sir Colbert... Rise!

Colbert Interviews Paul McCartney

Epic isn't even describing this.

Race to Witch Mountain

I was discussing this movie with friends and family a month or so ago. But the more I look into it the more I enjoy it. Scrap that. I LOVE it!

Michael Dell should shut his mouth

Michael Dell is such a cowboy. He even surpasses me. He should have learn his lesson by now. But boy oh boy, ain't he a slow learner!

Michael Dell to Vladimir Putin:

Russia has technical and scientific prowess but how can we help you to expand IT in Russia?

Vladimir Putin to Michael Dell:

We don't need help. We are not invalids. We don't have limited mental capacity. Russian scientists were rightly respected not for their hardware, but for their software. Any old fool can build a PC outfit.

Read the full story here.

AT&T loves iPhone at last

For much of last year, AT&T (T) Mobility’s websites seemed to be promoting every cell phone in their arsenal except for the iPhone — as if the company wasn’t sure the revenue coming in from iPhone users was worth the steep bounty it was paying Apple (AAPL) for each sale.

No more.

Today when you visit its website, a promo for the iPhone 3G (”Now Available Online!”) is often the first thing that pops up — and based on the fourth quarter results the company released Wednesday, you can see why...

...Q4 revenues were up 2.4% (to $31.1 billion) in a tough economic climate thanks to results in the wireless division that CEO Randall Stephenson attributed largely to the iPhone.

Read the whole story here.

This clearly showcases how stupid some people are. AT&T could not figure how much of a God-send iPhone was until now?

/spit

Old AppleSeedGreece YouTube channel

Most people missed that... Here is is in all its glory!

Also, you can watch in here the explicit version of Get a Mac - Surgery.

Mother Russia will switch to Linux?

Hell yes!

A free online alternative to the Windows operating system is set to be introduced in schools in three Russian regions by 2009. If the pilot project proves successful, all schools across the country will make the switch a year later.

Read the rest here and here.

Now, if only our greek government would have the BALLS to do such a thing, it would be AWESOME! Yeah, right. Perhaps in the next 20 years or so... Whatever. Greek open source computing is an oxymoron.

100 Hottest women of 2009

Our goal with making this list was to avoid the cliche as much as possible, while still picking out the hottest women in the world. While you’ll still see lots of familiar names (that’s inevitable with a list this size) you’ll also hopefully find a few dozen women you’ve never heard of who might become favorites. Onto the list, enjoy!

See and enjoy.

Cut Jobs some slack

The SEC, and the press, is acting like this is Watergate, Cramer said during Monday’s Mad Money. Who knew what and when? Maybe Jobs should be given the benefit of the doubt here. Rather than assume there was a conspiracy to conceal his condition, why not believe he merely got sicker over time? What if the shock of Jobs’ situation took a while for him to digest? What if he was looking for a second opinion? Don’t these possibilities seem more likely? And even if there were a conspiracy to hide Jobs’ health concerns, aren’t there more important things for the SEC to worry about given the current state of Wall Street?

Read the rest and watch the video here.

/bow

Mac pirate buffoons take care

You are making us look damn stupid by now with your Apple's iWork '09 and Adobe's CS4 pirating.

I bet that most of you came from the Windows world, eh?

Mystery virus hits 15 million PCs

More than 3,000 British organisations - including hospitals, the Ministry of Defence, councils, and what are described as "well-known firms" - have been hit. They and the hundreds of thousands of other victim organisations in countries such as the US, Russia, China and India are now bracing themselves for the virus to be triggered and do whatever malicious work it has been designed to do.

Read there rest here.

Paul Thurrott the Windows Guru

There is a lot to like about Windows 7 for the consumer. For the enterprise, not so much. While Microsoft has added some fancy new features aimed at the enterprise (see box, below) it seems to have treated the enterprise's needs as an afterthought, contends Windows guru Paul Thurrott in an interview with Microsoft Subnet. Thurrott is editor of the SuperSite for Windows website and author of Windows Vista Secrets SP1 edition. Considering that the bulk of Microsoft's customers are businesses, its neglect here could be described as not smart.

Don't get him wrong, there are cool, eye-popping features in Windows 7 for the enterprise –- unfortunately some are randomly tied to Windows Server 2008 R2 -– which is also in beta. If you want to yank out the VPN and let Windows handle a secure connection to the server (a new feature called DirectAccess), you can. But only if all of your clients and servers are using the latest operating systems from Microsoft. That's a shame in this economy when expensive, large-scale upgrades of the entire operating system infrastructure are not going to fly. (To be fair, enterprises that have opted for Microsoft's Software Assurance deal should be covered for the license fees of an upgrade from WS2008 to R2, but that won't cover the cost of man hours).

Read the rest here.

PC Magazine "Happy Birthday Mac"

25 years of Mac.

Mac made me what I am.

Point Counterpoint: PC vs Mac.

Twenty-five years in and Mac users still have some fundamental disagreements with PC users. Mac fanatic Joel Santo Domingo and unapologetic Windows enthusiast Jeremy Kaplan debate why they prefer one over the other.

Some interesting reads and the internet is full with such articles.

Here is wishing a long and happy life to our lovely Mac friend and its culture.

Sylvester Stallone @ 62 years old

OMG.

He is ready for the Expendables no shit!

Intel's Boss is going bye bye

Intel Corp Chairman Craig Barrett, the courtly former academic credited with building the company into the world's foremost chip maker, will retire in May after 35 years at the firm.

Read the rest here.

Don't get any negative vibes about this. He is 69 years old for crying out loud. Let him be. Live and let die.

M$ Flight Simulator crashes

Redmond, Washington-based ACES Studio, the Microsoft-owned internal group behind the venerable Microsoft Flight Simulator series, has been heavily affected by Microsoft's ongoing job cuts.

Read the rest here.

Intel shuts down

Amidst a bevy of bad news in the PC market, Intel Corp. took two corrective steps this week, aggressively slashing prices on chips on Monday and announcing today that it will close four chip plants and cut as many as 6,000 jobs.

Read the rest here.

I hate remixes

The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c

Stephen's Remix Challenge

Colbert at Christmas
Colbert Christmas DVD

Green Screen
Bill O'Reilly Interview

Anti-Linux = Ooops

The business world sees companies moving forward, Red Hat and Novell, and companies sliding backwards, Sun and Microsoft. It's not how much money you're making or how big your market share is today, it's which way your numbers are trending and what's happening with its rate of change-the delta-that tells you what tomorrow is going to bring to your business.

Read the rest here.

Windows 7 versus XP

/rant on

I have been reading cheering "reviews" of Windows 7 beta for sometime now. However, based on my knowledge about the crappy M$ and their way of doing things, or should I say NOT doing things, I kept on going reminding to everyone to NOT get their hopes high. Or at least wait and see.

Still, SO many people are SO excited about Windows 7. I guess after using the shit that Vista actually is you can only hope that M$ cannot perform any worst in the future. And perhaps you may well be right. Once you hit the lowest point in anything you can only go up. Common knowledge. But still.

/rant off

Windows XP is the OS that simply will not die, and for good reason: It's mature, stable, and - - most important -- fast as the wind on today's hardware. In fact, Windows XP outpaced its younger siblings by a factor of two during multiprocess workload testing -- concurrent database, workflow, and multimedia tasks on our dual-core test bed and by up to 66 percent on our quad-core test bed.

Read the rest here.

You can also, read here about a very interesting series of articles (M$ vs Apple and such) here.

When Windows 7 arrives, it won't carry a long set of new features dreamed up inside Microsoft as Longhorn intended to do, but will instead aspire to meet the demands of users, particularly those who were disappointed by Vista. Microsoft is primarily focusing on making Windows 7 faster and easier to use, according to the company's early marketing.

Previous features associated with Windows 7, including a "componentized" new architecture and the new "MinWin" kernel that Microsoft began talking about back in 2003, are now being pushed off into the distant future along with the relational database WinFS concept from Vista. Instead, Windows 7 will simply repackage today's Vista so that people will buy it without complaining. That means an interface refresh, reduced layers of nagging message popups, and basic performance enhancements.

Unlike Apple, Microsoft doesn't have to convince users to buy its operating system; that happens automatically when they purchase a new PC. Microsoft only has to keep users from removing Windows 7 and backing down to Windows XP, which typically runs faster on the same hardware due to its lack of a sophisticated graphics compositing engine and the overhead it demands.

Apple debuted its Quartz Graphics system in 2001, making translucency and shadows a differentiating feature for Macs. But when Vista brought similar graphics technology to the PC in 2007, users complained that the system demanded too much RAM and ate up too many processor cycles. In addition to Vista's higher demand for processing power Windows 7 will continue to use Vista's kernel too, which will carry forward the hardware driver issues that irritated many users and sent them back to the familiarity of XP.

Microsoft has to herd more PC users into the latest version of Windows, not only so it can collect upgrade fees, but also so it can actively leverage its monopoly position to prevent competition in media players, browsers, search services, and other new emerging markets. If PC users stick with XP, they're also likely to stick with Google, Firefox, QuickTime, and other competing products rather than moving to Windows Live and the next version of Internet Explorer with Silverlight.

Speaking of Open Source

What a nice hit below the belt by MSNBC (yeap those M$ people) to Linux people here.

Linux is great. It's a free, open-source operating system (OS) based on work done by Linus Torvalds in the early '90s. Again, it's free, powerful and easy to ...

Oh wait, it's a pain to use.

So says someone who is using Windows. The MOST schizophrenic OS and applications platform of all times. BAH!

And while you are there take a good look at another gem by MSNBC.

MacBook Air? No amount of breathless advertising sufficiently obscures the fact that you paid a premium for an elegantly designed, under-featured, overpriced laptop without an optical drive.

AHA! That's why I guess EVERY single company that is designing such laptops trying to kick Apple's ass while still not being able to do so. Yes, I'm talking about Sony, HP, Dell, et al who are yet to beat Apple's "overpriced laptop". Their best hope? Dell's Adamo coming HOPEFULLY sometime in first half of 2009. I guess being a PC is such a fascinating experience. NOT.

Congrats to AMD

In an earnings call today, AMD announced its ninth consecutive quarterly loss, this time to the tune of $1.424 billion. This is actually a smaller net loss than the $1.772 billion loss that the company posted in the fourth quarter of 2007, and that's an achievement, given the deteriorating conditions in its core PC market.

Read the rest here.

But I don't feel bad for them. That's what any company gets when sleeping with the Devil aka Micro$oft.

They were in the beds with them for such a long time in order to crash Intel but boy oh boy Intel went in bed with Apple. Plus AMD totally messed up by blindly believing in Micro$oft's holy cow aka Windows Gaming.

WTF AMD? WAKE UP! Micro$oft already sleeping inside their console XBOX 360 BS.

If you want to save your company Mr.Hector Ruiz you can always sleep with Linux people. FULLY commit to the Open Source community and you will win in the next couple years. Bring some Windows Game Developers in your Linux platform and you are ready to kick ass. You can easily capture the NetBook, NoteBook, Desktop AND Server markets back in NO time.

But I guess sleeping with M$ has its secret happy for life sauce ingredient.

Obama is Open SourceMan

Or at least he seems to play his cards extremely well. He is asking around about Open Source solutions and perhaps one day he would mandate such solutions for his country. Here is wishing that he will do that sooner than later!

Mr McNealy told the BBC he [edit: Obama] wants to ensure the government does not get "locked in" to one specific vendor or company.

The government ought to mandate open source products based on open source reference implementations to improve security, get higher quality software, lower costs, higher reliability - all the benefits that come with open software.

Read the rest here.

Micro$oft blames NetBooks

The decline in OEM revenue reflects an 11 percentage point decrease in the OEM premium mix to 64%, primarily driven by growth of licenses related to sales of netbook PCs, as well as changes in the geographic and product mixes. Revenue from commercial and retail licensing of Windows operating systems increased $113 million or 19%. Based on our estimates, total worldwide PC shipments from all sources was approximately flat, driven by increased demand in emerging markets, offset by decreased demand in mature markets.

muahahahaha. roflmao.

Steve Ballmer's memo to M$ employess

From: Steve Ballmer
Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 6:07 AM
To: Microsoft - All Employees (QBDG)
Subject: Realigning Resources and Reducing Costs

In response to the realities of a deteriorating economy, we’re taking important steps to realign Microsoft’s business. I want to tell you about what we’re doing and why.

Today we announced second quarter revenue of $16.6 billion. This number is an increase of just 2 percent compared with the second quarter of last year and it is approximately $900 million below our earlier expectations.

The fact that we are growing at all during the worst recession in two generations reflects our strong business fundamentals and is a testament to your hard work. Our products provide great value to our customers. Our financial position is solid. We have made long-term investments that continue to pay off.

But it is also clear that we are not immune to the effects of the economy. Consumers and businesses have reined in spending, which is affecting PC shipments and IT expenditures.

Our response to this environment must combine a commitment to long-term investments in innovation with prompt action to reduce our costs.

During the second quarter we started down the right path. As the economy deteriorated, we acted quickly. As a result, we reduced operating expenses during the quarter by $600 million. I appreciate the agility you have shown in enabling us to achieve this result.

Now we need to do more. We must make adjustments to ensure that our investments are tightly aligned with current and future revenue opportunities. The current environment requires that we continue to increase our efficiency.

As part of the process of adjustments, we will eliminate up to 5,000 positions in R&D, marketing, sales, finance, LCA, HR, and IT over the next 18 months, of which 1,400 will occur today. We’ll also open new positions to support key investment areas during this same period of time. Our net headcount in these functions will decline by 2,000 to 3,000 over the next 18 months. In addition, our workforce in support, consulting, operations, billing, manufacturing, and data center operations will continue to change in direct response to customer needs.

Our leaders all have specific goals to manage costs prudently and thoughtfully. They have the flexibility to adjust the size of their teams so they are appropriately matched to revenue potential, to add headcount where they need to increase investments in order to ensure future success, and to drive efficiency.

To increase efficiency, we’re taking a series of aggressive steps. We’ll cut travel expenditures 20 percent and make significant reductions in spending on vendors and contingent staff. We’ve scaled back Puget Sound campus expansion and reduced marketing budgets. We’ll also reduce costs by eliminating merit increases for FY10 that would have taken effect in September of this calendar year.

Each of these steps will be difficult. Our priority remains doing right by our customers and our employees. For employees who are directly affected, I know this will be a difficult time for you and I want to assure you that we will provide help and support during this transition. We have established an outplacement center in the Puget Sound region and we’ll provide outplacement services in many other locations to help you find new jobs. Some of you may find jobs internally. For those who don’t, we will also offer severance pay and other benefits.

The decision to eliminate jobs is a very difficult one. Our people are the foundation of everything we have achieved and we place the highest value on the commitment and hard work that you have dedicated to building this company. But we believe these job eliminations are crucial to our ability to adjust the company’s cost structure so that we have the resources to drive future profitable growth. I encourage you to attend tomorrow’s Town Hall at 9am PST in Cafe 34 or watch the webcast.

While this is the most challenging economic climate we have ever faced, I want to reiterate my confidence in the strength of our competitive position and soundness of our approach.

With these changes in place, I feel confident that we will have the resources we need to continue to invest in long-term computing trends that offer the greatest opportunity to deliver value to our customers and shareholders, benefit to society, and growth for Microsoft.

With our approach to investing for the long term and managing our expenses, I know Microsoft will emerge an even stronger industry leader than it is today.

Thank you for your continued commitment and hard work.

Steve

FUD, lies, BS, greed, etc. straight from the top head of Micro$oft.

Things are going to get worse before they will go to hell for you. Enjoy.

Oh, boy. Apple is doomed.

NOT.

But Microsoft on the other hand is going to lay off 5000 people...

Microsoft rushed out the news Thursday morning that it will lay off up to 5,000 of its 94,000 employees over the next 18 months, including 1,400 people Thursday. The layoffs span across research, sales, finance and technology roles, the company said.

Sony is also on a downfall...

Sony, the Japanese electronics company, said Thursday that it expected to post a record annual operating loss of nearly $3 billion because of the rapid deterioration of the global economy. It also announced a major restructuring that will include layoffs and factory closings.

Last, bad news are in for Nokia as well...

Nokia Corp., the world's largest maker of mobile phones, on Thursday posted a 69% drop in fourth-quarter profit as demand for its phones waned during the key holiday season, particularly in emerging markets like China.

Of course there are other tons of more interesting bad news out there economic wise and YET people go against Apple and how Apple is doomed and all that crap. I guess its clear as of now that everything is pure FUD and envy that does that to those people.

Apple's Q1 results

So much for Apple is going down. Apple is dead with a sick Steve Jobs. Apple isn't selling because of bad economy. Apple sucks. Apple is doomed. Apple is dying along with Steve Jobs. Apple needs to offer NetBooks. Apple needs to cut prices by at least half. AND ALL THAT JUNK THAT WE ALL READ in the past 6 months and we will continue to read in the years ahead.

However, reality is a bitch as they say. To Apple naysayers of course ;)

Apple’s profits in the three months that ended Dec. 27 was $1.6 billion, or $1.78 per share, on sales of $10.2 billion. Net income was flat but earnings per share edged up 1.1% from $1.76 last year on sales of $9.6 billion. The figures far outstripped Wall Street’s estimates for earnings of just $1.3 billion, or $1.39 per share, on sales of $9.7 billion.

Read the rest here.

"Even in these economically challenging times, we are incredibly pleased to report our best quarterly revenue and earnings in Apple history—surpassing $10 billion in quarterly revenue for the first time ever,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO.

Straight from Apple here.

BSODs of Windows 7

hehe

This week's Photoshop Contest called for redesigned Windows 7 BSODs, and we got a nice mix of legit redesigns and ludicrous inanity. I prefer the latter, but a classy redesign would also be appreciated.

muahahahaha.com @ especially on this one.

100 million credit & debit accounts into the black market

The actual source of the breach, however, wasn't discovered until last week. One of the systems in the payment processing chain had been infected with an unidentified bit of malware designed to track and report the magnetic information stored on the back of a credit card as that data was sent through the processing, err, process.

And I'm pretty sure that they are using software solutions from Micro$oft. Malware they say. Yeap. Just take a look at your software suppliers as well as your hardware ones. Malware=Micro$oft and their partners.

Damn sheep.

iLife '09

Why bother? Because its awesome!

It often escapes people that Macs contain awesome pre-installed applications, a good reason of many to go Mac. Actually, to be honest, it often escapes Mac users too, that awesome applications are pre-installed on their Macs. I know this because I teach people how to use them. You should see their faces when the power is revealed.

Totally true. Happening to me every single time I talk to old Mac users or switchers.

Netbooks!?

Why the hell should I even consider one when I can have a normal kick ass MacBook for JUST $999? Are you crazy or are you crazy? Get your NetBooks aka CrapBooks out of my face.

Here is a REAL MacBook 13.3" white with
Intel Core 2 Duo 2 GHz
2 GB DD2 RAM
120 GB SATA HD
SuperDrive
AND
NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics

Damn sheep and their el cheapo asses can talk to the hand.

Besides, anyone in their right mind can always get a second hand MacBook with the same money (give or take $100) that you can buy your slow-as-a-retarded-snail craptastic computer with less capabilities than an iPhone or an iPod Touch.

UPDATE:
Its live in Apple UK as well! Pure kick ass ;)

Bionic Student

What happens when a student saves his life but not his hand? i-LIMB happens. That's what!

"It's so sensitive I can grip a bottle of water or a paper cup without crushing it, and even swing a racket. All I have to so is imagine picking something up or gripping it and the fingers and thumb move automatically."



Read the rest here.

Top Ten daily babes of 2008?

Nah. Just plain old hooters I say!

Take a look. Or two. You know you want to ;)

Cactus OVERLOAD

Loving it. FOR LIFE!







That's how I rock and roll...

iWork '09 loves you back

iWork '09: Serial number not required for installation of retail boxes.

iWork '09 retail boxes no longer come with a serial number. Install iWork '09 from the enclosed disc and you're ready to go.

Apple is about to make a billion faces melt. No activation? No serial? No copy protection? Apple went crazy. Somebody stop them!

Change has come?

Welcome to the White House it reads.

A short time ago, Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th president of the United States and his new administration officially came to life. One of the first changes is the White House's new website, which will serve as a place for the President and his administration to connect with the rest of the nation and the world.

Change has come to America. Revitalizing the economy. Welcome to the whitehouse.gov. A new era of public service.

Strong titles. Here is wishing that their actions will be MUCH MORE stronger.

Read more here.

I applaud this effort which makes our president's web site look like the bottom of an old rotten trash can.

Max Pain

Although most people tend to like it and depending on the case it may look kinda sexy, still you must take a very good look on the "art" of body piercing.

Bruce Springsteen gives the golden finger to Bush

We're going through something that we haven't gone through in my life. Foreign policy, domestic policy – driven to its breaking point. Everything got broken.

Read the rest here.

At least if you cannot be Bruce Springsteen you can always try to be the next USA President. That worked for a certain man ;)

Woz says: Leave Jobs alone

Interesting stuff. Thanks Woz!

I love you, Movie

Hulk, Manhood and Rock 'n' Roll. HELL YES!

Thumbs up!

Sheep, patch your systems

Cause this is getting ridiculous.

The number of Downadup infections [is] skyrocketing," Toni Koivunen, an F-Secure researcher, said in an entry to the company's Security Lab blog. "From an estimated 2.4 million infected machines to over 8.9 million during the last four days. That's just amazing.

You are damn sheep beyond any mortal belief. WAKE UP.

Ahahahahahaha

People are stupid. End of story.

Crank 2 High Voltage

<3 Crank <3

Walt Mossberg on Steve Jobs's Health, Apple

Walt Mossberg discusses how Apple CEO Steve Jobs's current health situation will affect the company. Courtesy of Fox Business News.

A sound of thunder

I didn’t want to write this column. I live as Windows-free an existence as most people can these days. Of course I have to run Windows as part of my job, in order to make sure that Samba, the software I write, will interoperate correctly with all the multiple Windows versions out there. I also have to install some Windows applications using the Open Source Wine project, which emulates Windows on Linux well enough that some binary Windows applications will install and run straight off the DVD. Like most people, there are some Windows applications I just can’t do without, although in this case it’s my three-year-old son who finds an amazing amount of joy in his toddler games, none of which have yet been ported to Linux. Wine works amazingly well these days for this sort of thing, well enough that my wife no longer complains about the computer “being hard to use”.

Read the rest here.

Interesting read. But he simply doesn't know you as well as I do. Sheep. The majority of you will still upgrade to Windows 7 and even worst will be cheer leading about it.

Damn sheep. If only most professionals would be able to spot you easily as I do.

Worm infects 1.1M Windows PCs in 24 hours

The computer worm that exploits a months-old Windows bug has infected more than a million PCs in the past 24 hours, a security company said today.

Early Wednesday, Helsinki, Finland-based security firm F-Secure Corp. estimated that 3.5 million PCs have been compromised by the "Downadup" worm, an increase of more than 1.1 million since Tuesday.

Read the rest here.

The Matrix has you

You think that's air you are breathing now?

Driving through the countryside south of Hanover, it would be easy to miss the GEO600 experiment. From the outside, it doesn't look much: in the corner of a field stands an assortment of boxy temporary buildings, from which two long trenches emerge, at a right angle to each other, covered with corrugated iron. Underneath the metal sheets, however, lies a detector that stretches for 600 metres.

For the past seven years, this German set-up has been looking for gravitational waves - ripples in space-time thrown off by super-dense astronomical objects such as neutron stars and black holes. GEO600 has not detected any gravitational waves so far, but it might inadvertently have made the most important discovery in physics for half a century.

Read the rest here.

Air Jordan 2009

Interesting, no? ;)

I look forward to this summer

Apple CEO Steve Jobs today sent the following email to all Apple employees:

Team,

I am sure all of you saw my letter last week sharing something very personal with the Apple community. Unfortunately, the curiosity over my personal health continues to be a distraction not only for me and my family, but everyone else at Apple as well. In addition, during the past week I have learned that my health-related issues are more complex than I originally thought.

In order to take myself out of the limelight and focus on my health, and to allow everyone at Apple to focus on delivering extraordinary products, I have decided to take a medical leave of absence until the end of June.

I have asked Tim Cook to be responsible for Apple’s day to day operations, and I know he and the rest of the executive management team will do a great job. As CEO, I plan to remain involved in major strategic decisions while I am out. Our board of directors fully supports this plan.

I look forward to seeing all of you this summer.

Steve

May The Force be with you my Master.

Street Fighter IV

Apple + LG = L4E

Interesting deal. Lets see its labors sooner than later :)

The contract between the two companies is for five years and calls for LG to receive an advance payment of $500 million sometime this month, the South Korean company said in a regulatory filing Monday.

LG is Philips as well so this is getting A LOT more interesting by the day. More info please. Stay tuned!

Killer Asteroid

Apophis, a near-Earth asteroid named after an evil demon in Egyptian mythology, may collide with Earth in April 2029, plunging into the Pacific, and creating a tsunami that would “ablates the entire coastline, wiping it clean of all traces of civilization.”

In case that we will not die in 2012, we have something else to look up for... Apophis!

Huckabee

You may know him or not. You may hate it him or not. You may this and that. But here he is in his all might and glory.



Nice. I like.

The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain

Those who know me, know very well the fact that I love this and I cannot hold myself any longer from posting it:



Enjoy some more!



Hardcore as hardcore can get :D

Rock on!

Last Scenario

Telefteo Senario - Anasa



Its nice to know that even in such harsh times there are still people rocking on, non stop, here in Greece!

/salute

Windows 7 round 3

As I wrote in the past (at least couple times), Windows 7 is basically the new Windows Vista Service Pack.

Even after people using its betas left and right you get enigmatic reviews and comments. I will quote again the super crazy Micro$oft lover.

Final thoughts:

At this point in time, Windows 7 is an enigma. Many are excited about testing this next version of Windows, and I'm sure millions of people will do just that when Microsoft makes the Beta available publicly in January. But in use, Windows 7 is fairly unexceptional in the sense that, yes, it has some nice improvements over Windows Vista, but, no, none of them are particularly major changes. In this sense, Windows 7 is much like your typical Microsoft Office release, a nicely tweaked version of the previous release. (Cue the obvious Steven Sinofsky anecdote here, I guess.) That said, Windows Vista is clearly in need of a spit-shine, not to mention a public execution, and Windows 7 will provide Microsoft with a way to do both.

Read more to his Windows 7 review and his Windows 7 notes.

In any case, if you ask me, the new name of Windows should be Windows Fixta and should be free for ALL the Windows Vista suckers (excuse me, customers) out there. But then again all of you are a bunch of foolish sheep that will fork out your hard earned cash and time at Micro$oft in order to buy, install and maintain this Windows Fixta travesty.

Meanwhile other smarter people than you, will keep buying Macs, convert their Wintel/AMD boxes into Hackintoshes and even smarter ones convert them into Linux boxes.

Wake up damned sheep and demand to get a free copy of Windows 7 IF you already own Vista. WAKE UP! You can do it. Besides some of the Vista sheep will be able to get a free copy. Why not all of you?

Everyday Normal Guy

Those who know me and watched some of my video edits already know how much I love the Everyday Normal Guy videos and of course its brilliant creator and protagonist Jon Lajoie.

Well, he is back once again and this time he is not alone! ;)

Everyday Normal Crew (Jon Lajoie) - watch more funny videos

Everyday Normal Crew :D

MacWorld 2009 Keynote is over

UPDATE:
Watch the Keynote here.

So, what is new?

Well, the MUST have applications for every single Mac user out there.

iLife 09
iWork 09

To make things easier for the new Mac users Apple has the iLife 09 Up-To-Date program.

For the not so new Mac users I guess its the Mac Box Set.

For the pro/advanced people out there, be it Mac or Windows customers, Apple has the new unibody MacBook Pro 17" ready and waiting.

To complete the pro/advanced offerings, Apple has the new iWork.com product in beta.

For me however the one and only superb story of the keynote was the DRM free offerings in the iTunes Store from all the major music labels and the two-hit combination with iPhone 3G that we got.

That my friends is the start of a new era of how we consume music. Next stop? Hopefully videos! ;)

At long last Mr. Steve Jobs got his wish come true.

Obectified

Objectified trailer ( click here for better quality ):
It’s impossible to cram a full film’s worth of people, ideas, and images into a 90-second trailer… so think of this as a small taste:



About the trailer: the voices belong to Jonathan Ive, Andrew Blauvelt, Marc Newson, and Karim Rashid. The song is “I Like Van Halen Because My Sister Says They Are Cool” by our friends El Ten Eleven, from their new record These Promises Are Being Videotaped [get it on iTunes]. And the font used in the trailer is… Akzidenz Grotesk! [Shout out to Paula Scher!]

Can't wait to absorb every single frame of it ;)

What can I say?

Roxio Toast 10
FileMaker 10
Google's Picasa ( beta )

All those just released for my lovely Apple platform. More to come in the days ahead. Also, remember:
Even small talk can be pretty BIG.

Go Apple. Go Apple. GO!

Letter from Apple CEO Steve Jobs

The original can be found here.

Dear Apple Community,

For the first time in a decade, I’m getting to spend the holiday season with my family, rather than intensely preparing for a Macworld keynote.

Unfortunately, my decision to have Phil deliver the Macworld keynote set off another flurry of rumors about my health, with some even publishing stories of me on my deathbed.

I’ve decided to share something very personal with the Apple community so that we can all relax and enjoy the show tomorrow.

As many of you know, I have been losing weight throughout 2008. The reason has been a mystery to me and my doctors. A few weeks ago, I decided that getting to the root cause of this and reversing it needed to become my #1 priority.

Fortunately, after further testing, my doctors think they have found the cause—a hormone imbalance that has been “robbing” me of the proteins my body needs to be healthy. Sophisticated blood tests have confirmed this diagnosis.

The remedy for this nutritional problem is relatively simple and straightforward, and I’ve already begun treatment. But, just like I didn’t lose this much weight and body mass in a week or a month, my doctors expect it will take me until late this Spring to regain it. I will continue as Apple’s CEO during my recovery.

I have given more than my all to Apple for the past 11 years now. I will be the first one to step up and tell our Board of Directors if I can no longer continue to fulfill my duties as Apple’s CEO. I hope the Apple community will support me in my recovery and know that I will always put what is best for Apple first.

So now I’ve said more than I wanted to say, and all that I am going to say, about this.

Steve

And with that here is wishing our favorite CEO only the best and at least that. Take care Mr Steve Jobs.

Cellphone trends 2009 by David Pogue

The Master strikes back!



If we will see half of that stuff here in Greece in 2009 I will be happy...

Happy New Year

I present you the following amazing piece of music.

Fever (Steve Hillage Mix) - Stereo MCs

Love it or hate it. I love it ;)