Aug 6 2007
I’m not entirely sure why you’d want to, but, with Pawn Software’s Startrail, you can have your mouse leave a trail of stars wherever it travels on your screen. It sort of looks like Tinkerbell from the old Wonderful World of Disney show.
Version 1.3 brings new color settings, bursts size settings and the possibility to keep the trail continuous. Startrail is free.
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Jun 26 2006
Hollywood has been awash in power couples lately, from the ill-fated Bennifer 1, to the more reproductive Bennifer 2, to the even more fabulous Brangelina. Now comes Premier’s Power List 2006 with the newest power couple: SteJohn…. er, JohSteve… um… Lobseter Thermador in a White Wine Sauce with Shallots and Gravy and Spam…? Jobsseter!
Yes, Pixar’s wunderkind Steve Jobs and John Lasseter have been named the number one power to be reckoned with in Hollywood this year, according to a poll on Premiere Magazine’s website. Referring to the Disney/Pixar merger, and the cheers going up from Disney stockholders everywhere, Premiere (the magazine, not the video editing software) opinions:
The combination of Jobs, master of marketing and R&D, and Lasseter, whose task is to ramp up output while keeping intact the mix of story, heart, and unmatched computer technology, should put this pair of northern California innovators in the pole position for the coming industry cycle.
Sure, but how long do you think it will be before we see a Cars-themed iPod?
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Feb 5 2006
In a Newsweek article, the 74 years old chairman of News Corp., Keith Rupert Murdoch, was quoted as saying:
We’re not knocked out by iPod so far. We’ve talked to them, to Google and others. But how many people really want to get video on a tiny screen when they already have TiVo or a similar service from their cable company or DirecTV? How many will want to pay $1.99 on Monday morning if they missed “Desperate Housewives” the night before? What’s been announced so far with iPod and Disney and NBC is very small-time at the moment.
Okay, so what does Murdoch have planned for mobile media? The interview goes on:
There are so many things you can do, particularly in other parts of the world, where mobile-telephone service is a lot more developed. We’re downloading minute segments–original “mobisodes”–of the Fox hit “24.” Soon we’ll be downloading the funniest joke of the week in “Family Guy.” People will be sitting in bars and holding up their phones and laughing. It’ll be a pretty serious piece of revenue for us someday, probably. We’ll be into all these things, some quite original and some of what others are doing.
So, I guess, we won’t be seeing Simpsons episodes on the iTunes Music Store any time soon. But if Murdoch is right, we really don’t want them anyway…hmm…I thought I did.
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