the mini Blog

The new version of iTunes has a lot of new features, you can find a good walkthrough of the main features at TUAW. These are the main enhancements:

TV Shows are available in h.264, in 640 x 480 which is up from 320 x 240.
You can update your iPod from right inside iTunes now, you don’t [...]

So no 6G iPod with real video capabilities, but an updated ‘version 2′ iPod, if you may call it that. So what’s new? Well for starters, there is a new 80GB model, which has the same size as the 60GB. The battery life has been bumped upto 20 hours of music, and 6 and a [...]

This is more ‘realistic’ than the simple screenshots we last heard about eariler. Not only does this show actual cursor movement and the use of the interface, but it shows us that legendary about box; though even that may not add up to much as that can easily be modified using a .plist file. I [...]

The shorts for Friday June 30th 2006.

DocCRP’s Wii and PS3 comparison images. Looking small! (above) [link]
Beneath the Wii’s mysterious flap — SD Slot and Sync button [link]
Mac OS X 10.4.7 now available for download via Software Update [link] and re-release for Intel Macs [link]
Get iClip free only today from MacZot [link]

A FAQ section on Nintendo’s Japanese website, states that the new Opera browser for the DS will not have support for flash, video, sound and PDF content. Users will be able to bookmark pages, but not save them (eg. for offline use). This may not compare to the PSP which does support flash - though [...]

Ah, another IE 7 beta version for the public to test and scrutinise.
Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) Beta 3 has been designed to make everyday tasks easier, provide dynamic security protection and improve the development platform and manageability. End user improvements include a streamlined interface, tabbed browsing, printing advances, improved search functionality, instant feeds (RSS), dynamic [...]

The shorts for Thursday June 29, 2006.

LAPD to trial GPS darts, like in the moves (above) [link]
Apple replacing some MacBook’s with the colour defect [link]
MacWorld’s 23 things we want in Leopard [link]

The Shorts for June 28th 2006:

Rubik’s Cube Solving Robot with video (above) [link]
8 Invaluable Wordpress Plugins analysed [link]
DIY: Build your own pong game [link]

Two pictures have cropped up on a blogspot blog, apparently showing screenshots of Apple’s next Mac OS X version, named ‘Leopard’. The first picture (above) shows Finder with tabs, as well as IE 7 running. The ‘About this Mac’ screen also shows a listing for Windows, and spec is “XP with Service Pack 2″. The [...]

Today’s short links are:

Green fliud found oozing from the backside of a number of G5’s (above) [link]
600 PowerMac G5’s used to digitally re-encode and master the Ultimate DVD Collection of James Bond [link]
Hilarious recording of an AOL user trying to cancel the account which he doesn’t use, but the rep tries to say that he [...]